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Product Description: With his trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Tom waits seems a perfect match for Anton Corbijn's grainy signature photographs...read more
By Robert Christgau (contributor)
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9783829605557 | Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh, December 26, 2011, cover price $200.00 | About this edition: With his trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Tom waits seems a perfect match for Anton Corbijn's grainy signature photographs.

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A compelling compendium of outstanding musical writing and criticism, including essays and articles about music and its culture, covers diverse modern styles--rock, pop, rap, jazz, blues, country, and more. Original.
By Daphne Carr (editor) and Robert Christgau (editor)
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9780306815614 | Da Capo Pr, October 22, 2007, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A compelling compendium of outstanding musical writing and criticism, including essays and articles about music and its culture, covers diverse modern styles--rock, pop, rap, jazz, blues, country, and more.

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Chronicles the history of Atlantic Records from its origins in 1948 to the present day through essays from various rock journalists, interviews by famous artists--including Mick Jagger and Stevie Nicks--and full-color photos taken throughout the years.
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9781556708602 | Welcome Rain, July 1, 2001, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the history of Atlantic Records from its origins in 1948 to the present day through essays from various rock journalists, interviews by famous artists--including Mick Jagger and Stevie Nicks--and full-color photos taken throughout the years.

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Product Description: Two generations of American music lovers have grown up listening with Robert Christgau, attuned to his inimitable blend of judgment, acuity, passion, erudition, wit, and caveat emptor. His writings, collected here, constitute a virtual encyclopedia of popular music over the past fifty years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780674443181 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 15, 1998, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: A collection of writings exploring the trends in rock, pop, and rap music from the 1950s to the present, discussing such topics as the origins of rock and the relationship of racial politics and rap

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9780674003828 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Two generations of American music lovers have grown up listening with Robert Christgau, attuned to his inimitable blend of judgment, acuity, passion, erudition, wit, and caveat emptor.

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A long-time rock critic, the chief music critic for The Village Voice offers an insightful overview of the music of the 1990s, discussing rock, rap, country, world music, and more, and grading albums from A+ works to the total failures. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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9780312245603 | Griffin, October 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Presents an overview of the music of the 1990s, discussing rock, rap, country, world music, and other genres, and grading albums from A+ works to total failures.

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Product Description: Many believe Robert Christgau invented rock criticism. Cooper Square Press offers an expanded edition of his early writings, unavailable since 1978. It was one of the first books on rock music, an invaluable compendium showcasing a new sub-genre of writing not yet contained by the established boundaries of journalism or criticism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780815410416 | Expanded edition (Cooper Square Pub, August 1, 2000), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Many believe Robert Christgau invented rock criticism.

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Amazon.com Review: The Grand Poobah of Rock Criticism and longtime Village Voice contributor rates 3,000 releases in this dandy book, which belongs on the night table of every self-respecting music fan. Robert Christgau's tastes are admirably catholic: refusing to limit himself to solid rock, he takes on rap, hardcore, country, blues, reggae, worldbeat, and everything in between...read more
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9780306805820 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, September 1, 1994), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Amazon.

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Product Description: Robert Christgau on James Brown: "When he modulates to the bridge it's like the Spirit of God moving upon the face of the waters. After that he could describe his cars for three [LP] sides and get away with it." Christgau on Carly Simon: "If a horse could sing in a monotone, the horse would sound like Carly Simon, only a horse wouldn't rhyme 'yacht,' 'apricot,' and 'gavotte...read more
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9780306804090 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, August 21, 1990), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Robert Christgau on James Brown: "When he modulates to the bridge it's like the Spirit of God moving upon the face of the waters.

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9780899190266, titled "Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the 70'S/#31368" | Houghton Mifflin, October 13, 1981, cover price $9.95

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9780899190259 | Houghton Mifflin, October 13, 1981, cover price $17.95

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