Robert Christgau: Dean of American Rock Critics

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Label: Bar/None

Artists

  • Alex Chilton:
    • Set [2000] Dud
    • From Memphis to New Orleans [2019] A-
    • Songs From Robin Hood Lane [2019] *
  • The dB's:
    • Falling Off the Sky [2012] A-
  • Emperor X:
    • Western Teleport [2011] A-
  • Esquivel!:
    • Space-Age Bachelor-Pad Music [1994] Neither
  • The Feelies:
    • Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground [2023] A
  • The Front Bottoms:
    • The Front Bottoms [2011] A-
    • Talon of the Hawk [2013] A-
  • Ezra Furman:
    • Day of the Dog [2013]  
    • The Year of No Returning [2013] A-
  • Freedy Johnston:
    • The Trouble Tree [1990] ***
    • Can You Fly [1992] A+
    • Unlucky [1993] **
    • The Way I Were [2004] A-
    • Rain on the City [2010] *
  • The Langley Schools Music Project:
    • Innocence and Despair [2001] C-
  • Arto Lindsay:
    • O Corpo Sutil/The Subtle Body [1996] A-
    • Mundo Civilizado [1997] A+
    • Noon Chill [1998] B+
  • K. McCarty:
    • Dead Dog's Eyeball [1994] Neither
  • The Paranoid Style:
    • Rolling Disclosure [2016] A-
    • Underworld U.S.A. [2017] A-
    • Rock & Roll Just Can't Recall + 3 [2018] A
    • A Goddamn Impossible Way of Life [2019] A
    • For Executive Meeting [2022] A
    • The Paranoid Style Presents: The Interrogator [2024] A
  • Pardoner:
    • Peace Loving People [2023] *
  • Phillips & Driver:
    • Together [2003] Dud
  • Standard Fare:
    • The Noyelle Beat [2010] A-
  • They Might Be Giants:
    • They Might Be Giants [1986] A
  • Tiger:
    • Shining in the Wood [1997] A
  • Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players:
    • Vintage Slide Collections From Seattle, Vol. I [2003] C-