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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 545 Registered: 05-2005 |
For the story, go to www.slate.com/id/2148997 His website is at www.robertchristgau.com His Go-Betweens reviews are at www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=the+go-betweens | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 546 Registered: 05-2005 |
I very much like the way he twice mentions his union as positive points in his Village Voice career. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 761 Registered: 05-2005 |
Crikey. It doesnt actually say why he was fired does it? I notice he is enthusing about the new Outkast album - I really should listen to it again. Great quip from Uncle Lou, you gotta love him. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 548 Registered: 05-2005 |
I suspect it's because he has spoken out publicly against the staff cutbacks and pay cuts the new owners foisted on the staff as soon as they bought it last year. Christgau is strong in the journalist's union too, so the owners probably think they'll have less "issues" to deal with from the union if they get rid of him. It is very sad to see what the Village Voice is being reduced and traduced to. How can the new owners expect to retain the paper's audience if they take away its heart (and I don't just mean RC). | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 700 Registered: 03-2006 |
I never missed his Consumer Guide column in the Village Voice (via the website). Unlike a lot of critics he has a real critical aesthetic - there's a certain intellectual cohesion there, real guiding principles at work, coupled with the ability to articulate them, all laced with a very warm, humanist quality...And, to boot, he gave the Go Bees some of the best notices of their career! Hope he finds someplace to light soon that appreciates him... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 176 Registered: 01-2005 |
His Pazz and Jop polls in the 1980's were music guidelines for many of my album purchases. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 541 Registered: 04-2005 |
I wonder if the VV will keep doing the annual critic's poll? Without Christgau, I wouldn't be surprised if they rename it if it continues. And his impossible-to-decipher-but-worth-trying annual essays will be missed. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2 Registered: 09-2006 |
I wouldn't say quite impossible-to-decipher...you just needed to read them several times, which was definitely its own reward. I let him make a lot of my record-buying choices (most definitely including the GBs) for more than 20 years, and my disappointment percentage with his picks in all that time was around .00001. I'm sure he'll find a place somewhere else, but this really is the end of an era. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 554 Registered: 05-2005 |
And now, inspired by Robert Christgau's site (not that I'm comparing my writing with him), I have started putting some of my archive record reviews from The Irish Times up at www.myspace.com/padraigcollins Nothing like a little self-promotion! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 556 Registered: 05-2005 |
By the way, for those of you new to the site, my thoughts on Grant's funeral are also on my myspace site, as is an interview I did with Robert and Grant in 2002. |