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CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE

Paranoid new wavers may suspect that I’m getting soft on super groups, but that won’t make the new albums by the Jam and Gary Numan more fun than those by ZZ Top and Led Zeppelin, not to mention more meaningful (or more fun) than the new one by Gil Scott-Heron.

June 1, 1980
Robert Christgau

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