Robert Christgau

[Nikola]

What do you think about the "Dean of American Rock Critics"?

 

I think he's a great critic and his capsule reviews are quite entertaining sometimes. :D

He's eloquent and insightful and we have similar taste so I like finding out what he thinks about my favorite artists.

 

Example

Dirty Mind [Warner Bros., 1980]

After going gold in 1979 as an utterly uncrossedover falsetto love man, he takes care of the songwriting, transmutes the persona, revs up the guitar, muscles into the vocals, leans down hard on a rock-steady, funk-tinged four-four, and conceptualizes--about sex, mostly. Thus he becomes the first commercially viable artist in a decade to claim the visionary high ground of Lennon and Dylan and Hendrix (and Jim Morrison), whose rebel turf has been ceded to such marginal heroes-by-fiat as Patti Smith and John Rotten-Lydon. Brashly lubricious where the typical love man plays the lead in "He's So Shy," he specializes here in full-fledged fuckbook fantasies--the kid sleeps with his sister and digs it, sleeps with his girlfriend's boyfriend and doesn't, stops a wedding by gamahuching the bride on her way to church. Mick Jagger should fold up his penis and go home. A

[Brent]

He writes reviews for RS, doesn't he?

 

Regardless, RS's reviews are negligible anymore. They've lost relevance.

[Nikola]

No, I don't think so. Wikipedia lists his and RS's reviews separately.

 

I agree with your view on the RS.