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| | Robert Christgau: Pazz & Jop 1981: The Year the Rolling Stones Lost the Pennant |
 | | Somewhat more surprising was the runner-up: X's Wild Gift, with votes from daily reviewers in En Why and El Lay and Boston and Dayton and Detroit and Minneapolis too, as well as from 50 or so of the counterculture pros, hobbyists, freelancers, and semiemployed lowlifes who dominate rock criticism as they always have. |
 | | So Lester, an ace critic because he takes everything hard, is bitterly disappointed because "almost all current music is fraudulent" and "worthless" (and also because his friend Richard Hell, never a model of fortitude, hasn't thought up a title for his unreleased album). |
 | | Most critics I know, Kit included, love a lot of it (my January recommendation is Rebel Waltz), but find it frustrating to approach even one side at a time, much less as a whole. |
| www.robertchristgau.com /xg/pnj/pj81.php (4183 words) |
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