Thread 127425312

Staring at the Sea: The Singles [Elektra, 1986]
Caught in his least lugubrious moments, Robert Smith stands revealed as a guy who gets a lot of skin because he believes he can live without it. He just won't play the "stupid game" that hooks the definitive "Let's Go to Bed," with its rotating I-don't-if-you-don't challenges--care, feel, want it, say it, and of course play it (and now let's go to bed, it's getting late). Guys who don't make passes because they wear glasses hate him for this, as do guys who don't get laid despite their muscular bods and heads. Above the fray, I think he's kind of amusing myself--a real cool type. B+

>>127425312 (OP)
>Guys who don't make passes because they wear glasses hate him for this
so much projection

Feel like christgau wanted to write the next great american novel but he was waiting for English speakers as a whole to rise up and demand it from him and he would sheepishly acquiesce. Instead he just drip fed all his creativity into reviews of cure albums and 90s hip hop.

>>127425312 (OP)
OK boomer
>I don't know why
>You wanna impress Christgau
>Ah let that shit die

>>127425772
you would be accurate. he originally wanted to be a novelist but didn't have the talent to make anything good so he devoted his life instead to shitting on actually talented people.

>>127426176
The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand. - George Edward Moore

>>127425772
>>127426176
>>127428305
"One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier." - Gustave Flaubert