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#1 Record/Radio City (CD)

By: Big Star (Artist)

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DISC 1 for #1 Record/Radio City (CD) Album By Big Star (Artist)
1   Feel
2   Ballad Of El Goodo, The
3   In The Street
4   Thirteen
5   Don't Lie To Me
6   India Song, The
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
13   O My Soul
14   Life Is White
15   Way Out West
16   What's Going Ahn
17   You Get What You Deserve
18   Mod Lang
19   Back Of A Car
20   Daisy Glaze
21   She's A Mover
22   September Gurls
23   Morpha Too
24   I'm In Love With A Girl
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (2/1/73, p.44) - "...NO. 1 RECORD isn't revolutionary--the group works within the well-defined forms--it's just exceptionally good..."
Q - 4 Stars - Excellent
Alternative Press (12/92, p.78) - "...Their perfect ballads and ecstatic white-hot pop were bright flames of inspired creation..."

Title Note

2 LPs on 1 CD: NO. 1 RECORD (1972)/RADIO CITY (1974).

Big Star: Alex Chilton (vocals, guitar); Chris Bell (guitar, background vocals); Andy Hummel (bass instrument, background vocals); Jody Stephens (drums).

Additional personnel: Danny Jones, Richard Rosebrough.

Recording information: Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee (1972 - 1973).

Big Star can be ranked alongside the Velvet Underground and the Sex Pistols as one of the major inspirations for the indie and alternative rock movements. The group's first two albums, collected here on one disc, have influenced everyone from R.E.M. to Teenage Fanclub to the Replacements to Nirvana. Their debut, #1 RECORD, combined the melodiousness and perfectly arranged feel of the mid-period Beatles with the raw rock kick of the early Kinks and the jangly country-rock beauty of the Byrds. "Feel," "Don't Lie To Me," and "When My Baby's Beside Me" feature stinging guitar licks, punchy rhythms, and hooks galore, and sound like someone discovering rock & roll for the first time. Alex Chilton's "Give Me Another Chance" and Chris Bell's "Try Again," on the other hand, are acoustic ballads with exquisitely beautiful, layered harmonies. Chilton's "13" and "The Ballad of El Goodo" are bright, unforgettable paeans to innocence.

RADIO CITY, the only other record released during Big Star's existence (BIG STAR'S THIRD, aka SISTER LOVERS, wasn't released for several years), is equally enthralling. Chilton wrote some of his finest proto-power-pop songs on this album, including "Mod Lang," "Back of a Car," and the sparkling, perfectly constructed "September Gurls," which has taken its place among the all-time rock song gems. Much has been made of Big Star's lack of commercial success, but the influence of #1 RECORD and RADIO CITY on rock history has been considerable, and the recordings sound as fresh and irresistibly listenable today as when they were released.

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