Is Xgau Dying?

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What's with the headline and sappy introduction to his latest CG?

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0313/christgau.php

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe it has to do with the, you know, war or something.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 20:34 (twenty-three years ago)

wait, wait, wait...war?!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 20:37 (twenty-three years ago)

He gave Interpol the dud of the month. How very 1980. Or 2002.

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 20:38 (twenty-three years ago)

how very because they suck.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 20:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, but it's Christgau. Since when did he get so melodramatic?

What about this "A" rating for the Libertines? Never head of them, but I listened to a track off their Web site. Pretty cool.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

His Rolling Stone piece was also very lauding to the Libertines. I like the record.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 20:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Uh, that's "heard" of them.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 20:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, I've listened to some more Libertines samples. I'm really diggin' them.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 20:45 (twenty-three years ago)

The Libertines suck shit and I hope they die

― dave q, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 20:56 (twenty-three years ago)

So I guess you aren't interested in joining the Libertines fan club we're forming, right?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I nominate dave Q. as publicist/ media relations.

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)

U&K: Mark's Buffy piece is up too.

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't forget Mary!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm damn curious what that opening paragraph was about (hope everything's ok). At least he has Lou Reed's The Raven to keep him company through these cold, cold nights.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

And Mary!

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Well I'm sure Anthony's right, that he was referring to the war. It just sounded a little over the top for him.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw him last week and he's fine. It's the war, 99% likely.

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

valkyrie is dying

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw him last week and he's fine. It's the war, 99% likely.
Yeah. This whole week has been mondo depressing. I've got relatives over 'there', and I'm dreading the prospect of Baghdad becoming a new Stalingrad.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 23:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Those CG lead-ins are often pretty dramatic, especially since 9/11 (though that's about the same time I've been reading them). But when I saw the title of this one, I was like, "uhhhh... *wrong*"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 03:37 (twenty-three years ago)

For more reasons than this I wish he would change his name to Sunflower Love.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 03:39 (twenty-three years ago)

& as long as we're giving shouties mine was up last week.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 03:57 (twenty-three years ago)

We're all dying, dudes.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 04:10 (twenty-three years ago)

He called himself a lou-lou.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 04:12 (twenty-three years ago)

He called Stories Often Told a dud!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 04:16 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

rip, big man.

― gershy, Sunday, 4 November 2007 04:18 (eighteen years ago)

source?

― Display Name, Sunday, 4 November 2007 05:07 (eighteen years ago)

Wikipedia says so, but I can't find confirmation anywhere else. Really hoping this is a hoax.

― Telephone thing, Sunday, 4 November 2007 05:32 (eighteen years ago)

try harder

― gabbneb, Sunday, 4 November 2007 05:36 (eighteen years ago)

r.i.p.

― dylannn, Sunday, 4 November 2007 05:38 (eighteen years ago)

one of the greats
r.i.p.

― dylannn, Sunday, 4 November 2007 05:38 (eighteen years ago)

The entry has been corrected.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 4 November 2007 05:39 (eighteen years ago)

RIP fake entry

― Chris L, Sunday, 4 November 2007 06:26 (eighteen years ago)

jokes bruv

― King Boy Pato, Sunday, 4 November 2007 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

heaven needed a mystifyingly venerated rockist dullard.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 4 November 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

you tell 'em, bro.

― JN$OT, Sunday, 4 November 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

Was I the only one who went straight to Wikipedia to see if this was true when I first read it?

Hahaha, that's so sad.

― three handclaps, Sunday, 4 November 2007 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

my dad met this guy the other day and had no idea who he was.
"you write about music, do you know a ... Bob ... Christgau?"

― deej, Sunday, 4 November 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

That's beautiful. So what was the context of them meeting, just out and about?

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 4 November 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

whoever's at adsl-224-209-211.asm.bellsouth.net is gonna get dud of the month

― maura, Sunday, 4 November 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

they apparently have a mutual friend

― deej, Sunday, 4 November 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

i think they met at a bbq or something

― deej, Sunday, 4 November 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

"WHAT did you just say about my hamburgers?"

― StanM, Sunday, 4 November 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

"This sausage gets my 'dud of the month'"

― deej, Sunday, 4 November 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

i see someone already made a dud of the month joke

― deej, Sunday, 4 November 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

the "hilarious" thing about my revive is that i was unaware of the wikivandalism.

― gershy, Sunday, 4 November 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

This potato salad gets a weird face that looks nauseous and half of a bomb and the sentence "Not in this Hall of the Mountain King daydream? Nickels!" I'm a genius!

― filthy dylan, Sunday, 4 November 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.robertchristgau.com/icon/x2.gif

― gershy, Sunday, 4 November 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

shit sandwich.

― deej, Sunday, 4 November 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

speak for yourself, ferdinand.

― JN$OT, Sunday, 4 November 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/photoessay_1645_images/0417071029_M_041707_mourning10.jpg

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 4 November 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

dom this isnt the thread to brag about girls you fucked
-- and what, Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:38 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

― stephen, Sunday, 4 November 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

haha one of ethan's best

― deej, Sunday, 4 November 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

ethan's best salad dressing

― s1ocki, Sunday, 4 November 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

put a little dressing on that salad

― deej, Sunday, 4 November 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

as it were

― deej, Sunday, 4 November 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/blogs/crazedbythemusic_post/50571/christgau-not-gone/

― gershy, Monday, 5 November 2007 03:17 (eighteen years ago)

lolz

― J0rdan S., Monday, 5 November 2007 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

i just heard the news. this is just terrible, really terrible.

― omar little, Monday, 5 November 2007 04:55 (eighteen years ago)

EVEN POSSIBLY HIS WIKI ENTRY

― 31g, Monday, 5 November 2007 05:26 (eighteen years ago)

seven years pass...

http://www.helpguide.org/harvard/saying-goodbye.htm

― hunangarage, Saturday, 21 February 2015 03:30 (eleven years ago)

RIP

― flopson, Saturday, 21 February 2015 04:50 (eleven years ago)

is this about this?

https://mobile.twitter.com/jesshopp/status/567376856215990272

― StanM, Saturday, 21 February 2015 08:26 (eleven years ago)

this thread predates twitter. so yes

― soyrev, Saturday, 21 February 2015 15:47 (eleven years ago)

five years pass...

https://robertchristgau.substack.com/p/my-thigh-hurts

― nothing in the dialog (unregistered), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 17:28 (six years ago)

― medicate for all (outdoor_miner), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 17:51 (six years ago)

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