Robert Christgau
American music critic; music editor at The Village Voice from 1974 to 1985 and a senior editor there until 2006. Writes the Consumer Guide album reviews, now in his newsletter And It Don't Stop, and keeps an archive of his criticism at robertchristgau.com.
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Their wordsthe album‑side thing, of course, failed to survive the CD era
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Their wordsNashville's Music Row fed off, professionalized, and pretty much perfected pop songwriting per se, ending up with what they understood to be nothing less than not just an art form, which they cared about in itself, but a commercially potent fusion or amalgam of irresistible and well‑sung melodies shoring up meaningful verbal constructs capable of inflecting the love lives and even the world‑views of its audience.
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