Metal is a world of its own, and even listeners who grew up hearing

>>69190318
that was pretty pretentious to read my mang

Why is this hack still alive?

Mmmuh punk/garage rock.

>narcissist complains about narcissism

is this guy worse than scaruffi?

>>69190318
So I take it that one full year later Christgau is still shilling his shitty "reviews" on /mu/.

Can't wait for him to drop dead.

>>69190318
>rock
>intellectuals
lmfao

Punk is inherently a live genre and it never really translates into the studio. Metal can be great at both.

>>69191664
>turbo autism
>the columns

File: 1440232072897.png (226KB, 620x670px) Image search: [Google]

226KB, 620x670px

>>69190318
>Rock intellectuals

>rock intellectuals
>phallic narcissism

does it get any more "wew lad" than this?

File: Christgau Elvis.png (116KB, 1563x313px) Image search: [Google]

116KB, 1563x313px

>>69191874
Now see here. He has deep-seated insecurities that he projects onto metal and politicians.

>>69191914
Why is he so pathetic, and, perhaps the worst thing of all, why does he expose himself publicly in such manner?

>>69191914
Nu Male--The Column

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 soon to have my dendrites rerouted by progressive radio. This band's momentum can be pretty impressive, and as with a lot of fast metal (as well as some sludge) they seem to have acceptable political motivations--antiwar, anticonformity, even anticoke, fine. But the revolutionary heroes I envisage aren't male chauvinists too inexperienced to know better; they don't have hair like Samson and pecs like Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's the image Metallica calls up, and I'm no more likely to invoke their strength of my own free will than I am The 1812 Overture's. B-

>>69192033
hey, robert christgau was the original nu male. show some respect

Too bad. He kind of liked Ted Nugent in the 70s. I bet he doesn't now for reasons you may easily guess. :^)

File: Bruce Dickinson.jpg (48KB, 630x420px) Image search: [Google]

48KB, 630x420px

"Punk was rubbish. The reason they embraced punk was because it was rubbish and the reason they embraced rubbish was because they could control it, They could say 'Oh yeah, we’re punk so we can sneer at everybody. We can’t play our fucking instruments, but that means we can make out that this whole thing is some enormous performance art.' Half the kids that were in punk bands were laughing at the art establishment, going: “What a fucking bunch of tosspots. Thanks very much, give us the money and we’ll fuck off and stick it up our nose and shag birds. But what they’d really love to be doing is being in a heavy metal band surrounded by porn stars."

File: trash.jpg (394KB, 778x1018px) Image search: [Google]

394KB, 778x1018px

>>69191664
>and not because I was raised liberal, because I wasn't, but because I took Corinthians 13:13 literally--I was advocating for multiethnic immigration at age fifteen

>>69191664
Christgau is almost a walking stereotype of the New Yorker who's never set foot outside of NYC and doesn't realize there's anything to the west of the Hudson River.

>>69190318
Is it just me or does Christgau have a lot in common with Trump?

>born in the 40s
>German ancestry
>from Queens, moved to Manhattan as an adult
>built a career on bullshitting and pretending to be an expert on things he's not
>everyone else in his business hates him

File: christgau2small.jpg (28KB, 370x256px) Image search: [Google]

28KB, 370x256px

He's the master of elegantly saying absolutely nothing at all.