THE CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
I’ve got to admit, it’s getting better. I still feel like I’m walking around with an earhorn looking for an A record — no way there’ll be 30 by year’s end, which is my time-honored test — but at least the B plusses are starting to appear with some regularity.
THC CHRISTGOU COflSUIDCR GUIDC
Robert Christgau
I’ve got to admit, it’s getting better.
I still feel like I’m walking around with an earhorn looking for an A record — no way there’ll be 30 by year’s end, which is my time-honored test — but at least the B plusses are starting to appear with some regularity. That area of marginal success is the real indication of the music’s cultural strength, comprising as if does ambitious failures and oddities and solid if upenlightening professional efforts.
Felix Cavaliere: “Destiny” (Bearsville). The reason “Greatest Hits” is the Rascals album to own is the reason this runs down a groove so pleasant that you tend to forget it’s there.
C plus.