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BIG STAR #1 RECORD & RADIO CITY SACD |
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Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 434 & 405/500!
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time - "Thirteen" - Rated 406/500!
Big Star: American band that during its brief existence in the early 1970s
helped define power pop, a style in which bright melodies and tunefully boyish
vocals are propelled by urgent rhythms (Encyclopedia Britannica).
Brief existence is right. The band was together from 1971 (#1 Record) to 1974
(Radio City). There was a later album called Third or Sister Lovers, but it
wasn't released until more than three years after the group broke up, and it
sounded like a nervous collapse in progress. So Big Star ends up in the
encyclopedia as a footnote to what might have been a brilliant future.
Well, no. It ends up in the Stax catalog as a reminder that although Big Star
never sold its way onto the charts, the band's influence continues and Alex
Chilton is regarded as, in the Jody Stephens, the Lennon and McCartney of the
genre, gave their music a socking energy that they absorbed growing up in
Memphis. That power and purity have never been heard with more impact than in
this Super Audio Compact Disc (SACD) issue of an American pop classic.
"Chilton wrote this acoustic ballad about two kids in love with rock & roll, featuring the deathless couplet 'Won't you tell your dad, 'Get off my back'/Tell him what we said about 'Paint It Black.'' It's simple musically; as Chilton said, 'I was still learning to play and stuff.' It never came out as a single or got any radio play, but 'Thirteen' is one of rock's most beautiful celebrations of adolescence." - Rolling Stone
Musicians:
Alex Chilton, guitar, vocals
Chris Bell, guitar, vocals (1-12 only)
Andy Hummel, bass, vocals
Jody Stephens, drums
Selections:
#1 Record
1. Feel
2. Ballad of El Goodo
3. In the Street
4. Thirteen
5. Don't Lie To Me
6. The India Song
7. When My Baby's Beside Me
8. My Life is Right
9. Give Me Another Chance
10. Try Again
11. Watch the Sunrise
12. St. 100/6
Radio City
13. O My Soul - Mono Only
14. Life is White
15. Way Out West
16. What's Going Ahn
17. You Get What You Want
18. Mod Lang
19. Back of Car
20. Daisy Glaze
21. She's a Mover
22. September Gurls
23. Morpha Too
24. I'm in Love with a Girl
Recorded at Ardent Studios, Memphis: Summer/Fall 1972 (1-12) and Fall 1973
(13-24)
Total Time: 73:17
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