I love Robert Christgau - the way he rates every album is dead on!! There are few people from the music industry that I would like to meet - Robert Christgau is one of them!! + He’s the kinda guy you want to DJ your party!! :p

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“bet you got nothing, but why don’t you let all of us see your list & prove it? Who’s the real moron here? Maybe you?”

Nice attitude! You sound like a real sweet people person!

Don’t give ‘em nothing, JSW.

Hey “mike” while you’re shooting off your mouth, why don’t YOU come up with your own list? THEN, MAYBE JSW will give you his!

what’s with this “all of us” jive?

What is that supposed some kind of weak method of physheing someone out!

Ooooo,oooo, watch out! All of us are watching. Lame stuff, if you ask me.

@Santa Balls:
These choices might be obscure to an indi-rock provincial, but to those interested in music more generally, they aren’t at all. Christgau’s been pumping Rochereau for, oh, about 20 years now, and Rochereau’s arguably the second most important musician ever to come out of DRC/Zaire, a massively important musical country responsible for one of the two dominant pop styles in all of Africa, soukous. So that makes Rochereau the equivalent of, oh I don’t know, Dylan? Lennon? You know, obscure, underground, irrelevant. As for Fanfare Ciocarlia, I’ll confess that I haven’t heard of them, but since this seems to be their first album, why would I have? In case you fell asleep with your headphones on listening to Arcade Fire all year, you might have missed the fact that Roma music broke pretty big, thanks in part to the efforts of Gogol Bordello in ’06 and ’07. Lots of folks are going to listen to the GB albums, want more, and have no idea where to go, because the provincials like yourself who run the critics lists are clueless about the genre. Christgau’s been in there for years, and so can be trusted to sort out the good stuff from the quick cash-ins, providing a great service for all the new fans created by GB. As for Wussy, well, you’ve not only revealed yourself to be a provincial, but also pretty young, because any indirock fan over a certain age would remember that the Ass Ponies were a kick-ass band back in the day. They made a couple solid albums and put on a great live show that I was fortunate to catch. Knowing that Cleaver has a new group certainly piques my interest, so again, this review was a treat for me.

So I really don’t know where your humbug is coming from. Me suspects someone who prides himself (gotta be a himself, given your tone) is just annoyed to be forced to confront the shallowness of his listening habits. Happy holidays!

I think if JSW is gonna call Christgau a moron, he should submit his own list of the best 5 albums that didn’t make Rolling Stone’s top 50.

Let’s hear it JSW. Whaddya got? I bet you got nothing, but why don’t you let all of us see your list & prove it? Who’s the real moron here? Maybe you?

Other than Public Enemy who the hell has heard of any of these artists? It’s as if Christgau looked for the most obscure, little known underground artists that have released albums in ‘07 and said to himself, “Hmmm, I’ll pick Tabu Ley Rochereau and Fanfare Ciocarlia so it’ll make me seem cool to the RS readers.” Yeah right!! There are plenty of other albums not included in the top 50 that deserve mention. Who the hell are Wussy anyways. Humbug!

No he isn’t. Thank God someone gave Public Enemy’s new album some love. These Rolling Stone lists have been absolutely terrible. It’s refreshing to see some real talent recognized.

Who cares? Christgau’s a moron.