Email Author Robert Christgau

2004 Stories by Robert Christgau

• Who Needs Boxes 2004

  published December 14, 2004

  Pick Hits BEN WEBSTER King of the Tenors... More >>

• Against Interpretation

  published November 30, 2004

  Aware that not even Kazaa-impaired boomers will buy the same formula forever, Clive Davis bends the rules on the third annual installment of Rod... More >>

• Music

  published November 30, 2004

  Don't blame me if "Honky Tonk" didn't place in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs" thing—I wrote it in at No. 1, parts one and... More >>

• Mine Enemy The Turkey

  published November 16, 2004

  JAMIE CULLUM Twentysomething (Verve) This Brit is good enough at what he does to make you wonder why he bothers. With... More >>

• Sonic Refuges

  published November 2, 2004

  Pick Hits MOS DEF The New Danger (Geffen)... More >>

• Do-Gooders Do Good

  published October 12, 2004

  For the privilege of releasing Unity: The Official ATHENS Olympic Games Album, "EMI Music will make a donation to UNICEF's work with young... More >>

• Music

  published October 12, 2004

  BRUCE COCKBURN Anything Anytime Anywhere: Singles 1979–2002 Rounder It's been sitting there since a few months... More >>

• Tonic for Americans

  published September 28, 2004

  Pick Hits BRIAN WILSON SMiLE (Nonesuch)... More >>

• It Takes a Worried Man

  published September 14, 2004

  Alt-country guitar hero Buddy Miller said a funny thing when I asked him about Universal United House of Prayer. Solo or with his wife... More >>

• Modern Country Music's Greatest Vocalist Witnesses for the Lord on the Job

  published September 14, 2004

  Yes, Randy Travis's second "gospel" album goes down easier than Elvis Presley's oversung Ultimate Gospel. But when songs entitled "That's... More >>

• Music

  published September 14, 2004

  Sifting through a passel of more and/or less current country reissues—redundant or worse are Warner Bros./Rhino's one-disc Randy Travis,... More >>

• Inter-Century Freundschaft

  published August 31, 2004

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• With Arms Outstretched

  published August 24, 2004

  It happens to tunesters I dig like the Old 97's and to tunesters I disdain like Ben Folds: artists serenaded with their finest choruses by a fan... More >>

• Hitting Back

  published August 24, 2004

  "Any chimp can play human for a day," More Adventurous begins, and if you think you know which chimp, you're right, and if you think... More >>

• This Will Be Our Year, Pray Sam Stone, Tippecanoe, and Tyler Too

  published August 24, 2004

  Motorvated by He Is a Giant John Flansburgh and acquirable retail for $12 list, all profits to MoveOn and Music for America. Also as an add-on to... More >>

• Road to Ruin

  published August 10, 2004

  The most vivid figure in Michael Gramaglia and Jim Fields's End of the Century was the least articulate and most archetypal of the Ramones:... More >>

• Looking Past Differences

  published August 3, 2004

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• Them Against Us

  published July 20, 2004

  We knew Bush had no intention of bringing America together. What we didn't see at first was his plan to divide America almost exactly in half. Red... More >>

• Music

  published July 20, 2004

  What does this book have to do with music? About as much as your life. Though he takes second billing, its mastermind is retired hip-hop... More >>

• Fat Mike Against the First President "To Enter Office With a Criminal Record"

  published July 20, 2004

  This compilation is not about making a profit; it's about making a difference," says the big type on the inner sleeve. "It's not about who's a... More >>

• Black Enough For You

  published July 6, 2004

  Huey P. Newton's voice is high, clear, unhesitating, and authoritative. His sampled speech lasts 27 seconds, applause included. "The Black... More >>

• Music

  published July 6, 2004

  Joan Armatrading Love and Affection: Classics (1975-1983) A&M This St. Kitts woman from Birmingham, U.K., was never... More >>

• Musicology

  published July 6, 2004

  University of Wisconsin Afro-American studies professor Craig Werner thinks the essence of "the gospel vision" is believing in something bigger... More >>

• Squirt You

  published June 22, 2004

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• Accept Substitutes

  published June 8, 2004

  The Loser's Lounge, which convenes every few months at Fez to honor a rock-era songwriter, is a goof that evolved into a modestly profitable... More >>