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>Music critic Robert Christgau, whose acerbic wit and eclectic taste helped establish rock music criticism, died Tuesday at the age of 77. His wife, Carola Dibbell, confirmed that Christgau suffered a stroke Tuesday night before being taken to Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan, where he was pronounced dead.
>Dubbed the "Dean of American Rock Critics," Christgau was the chief music critic of the Village Voice for 37 years, where his terse capsule reviews advised thousands of music listeners every week.
>Christgau was known for his controversial opinions and expansive tastes; he famously skewered legendary bands such as King Crimson and Black Sabbath, while embracing incipient genres such as hip-hop and electronic music later in life.

nytimes.com/2019/07/16/us/robert-christgau-dead.html

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NOOOOOOOO
MODS STICKY NOW!!!!!!

i hope they put a bomb on his headstone

>the failing new york times

not clicking that, libtard

Made me check wishing it was true

If only it was real so we could play Iron Maiden at his funeral as one last big fuck you.

Fake News

Why are mealfags so touchy?

manchildren, or (usually) actual children

As much as I hate Christgau he still isn't as bad as reading all of the self-indulgent purple prose dogshit that people on RYM write.

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He created that inane "my stream of consciousness can be a valid criticism of an album" style, they just copy it.

>christgau? yikes!

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Huh, just yesterday I was thinking about how much of a hack this guy is

>being butthurt to the point where you write a fake obituary
Fuck off

Master of Puppets [Elektra, 1986]
I feel at a generational disadvantage with this music not because my weary bones can't take its power and speed but because I was born too early to have had my dendrites rewired by progressive radio. The momentum of this band can be impressive and as with most fast metal (as well as some sludge metal) they seem to have acceptable political motivations--antiwar, anticonformity, even anticoke. Fine. Problem is, the revolutionary heroes I envision aren't male chauvinists too naive to know better--they're not Arnold Schwarzeneggar as Conan the Barbarian, all flowing hair and huge pecs. That's the image Metallica calls up and I feel no more obliged to summon their strength of my own free will than I would the 1812 Overture's. B-

did any of you shitwits even open the link?

His wife is likely to die before him because she apparently had a cancer scare last year.

based. fucking finally lol

Accept

Distinctions Not Cost-Effective [1980s]: While on summer vacation in 1983, I found myself walking behind two teenagers blasting these Swedish metalleers from a boombox. I found myself enthralled for about 30 seconds. I must have been in a really good mood that day.

>Accept is a German heavy metal band from the town of Solingen, formed in 1976 by guitarist Wolf Hoffmann and former members Udo Dirkschneider (vocals) and Peter Baltes (bass). Their beginnings can be traced back to the late 1960s, when the band got its start under the name Band X. Accept's lineup has changed over the years, which has included different singers, guitarists, bassists and drummers. Their current lineup consists of Hoffmann, vocalist Mark Tornillo, guitarist Uwe Lulis, drummer Christopher Williams and bassist Martin Motnik. Hoffmann has been the sole constant member since its inception, and he and Baltes (until 2018, when the latter left Accept) are the only band members to appear on each album.

This guy has never figured out that it's possible to like both Pantera and the Supremes or whatever the hell he likes.

>Christgau has stated that he openly dislikes the following genres of music--heavy metal, progressive rock, dance, folk, classical, bluegrass, Celtic, jazz-fusion, gospel, and salsa.

He's literally a fucking so*yboy feminine moralist hypocritical retarded weakling though just like your wonderful pic, you clueless motherfucking disgutingly pathetic dumbass

Quite well though. A so-called professional music journalist who dismisses multiple entire genres out of hand as having no worth.

>metal
Reminds him of his old high school bullies. PTSD issues.
>prog
Suburban white people listen to it.
>dance
Says you can't really get into EDM without going to da club and doing tons of E. Which I suppose isn't an unreasonable position.
>folk
PTSD issues from being dragged to a Peter, Paul, and Mary concert in college.
>classical
Admitted in an ELO review that he hated school music class and he gets PTSD from it.
>bluegrass
>Celtic
I have no fucking clue.
>jazz-fusion
Suburban white people listen to it.
>gospel
His parents were big Christians so it's a fuck you, Mom and Dad thing.
>salsa
PTSD attacks from hearing a Xavier Cugat album or something as a kid (he seems to pretty much hate all Latin music).

>>Celtic
He doesn't like white folk

It's curious how Christgau slowly became a meme on this board the past few years, as he was largely ignored before then.

wow. this dude has issues up the wazoo.

>it’s not real
Fuck you
I had my hopes up for a minute
Dubs and cuckgau dies in less than a week
Trips and he dies tonight

>Says you can't really get into EDM without going to da club and doing tons of E. Which I suppose isn't an unreasonable position.
It can also apply to -core metal which is really a live genre and the albums are pointless.

not a big loss for music

have you ever read his reviews retard

If anything he clearly has a disliking of anything too dark/sinister/maudlin. For some reason he's unable to appreciate or empathize with that kind of music and pretty much closes his mind to it.

Some people are that way, my mom for instance can't listen to that kind of music. For a professional music critic though it's pretty less-than-professional to be this close-minded.

TIP Scaruffi, i'm going to miss seeing your egghead video reviews on youtube.