Robert Christgau: Dean of American Rock Critics

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Don Carlos

  • Just a Passing Change [RAS, 1984] B+

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Just a Passing Change [RAS, 1984]
Although Carlos isn't as consistent as ranking romeo Gregory Isaacs, his peaks--the title tune, in which he glimpses Selassie's ghost from behind modest dub and haunting horns, and "I Just Can't Stop," in which he flees Babylon till the break of dawn--bliss out the way true spiritual pop should. They lift the gracefully ordinary tunes way up even if three generically anonymous closers drag side two back down. B+