The next one is even better IMOThis is the fucking business.
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The next one is even better IMOThis is the fucking business.
Yeah, for me it was a toss up between the two. Think this one just has more memorable songs. Third is amazing as well.The next one is even better IMO
3 of my TAC choices right there, bud : )I like this.
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They belong in a box with Television and The Replacements as stuff from an earlier era that I admire, I like, but don't really love.
I don't have a problem with it, I was surprised to see so many comments here about it being a dud.The one about India is pretty cringey
The one about India is pretty cringey
I was at that Red Box gig too. It was so much better than anyone expected I think. The Posies lads did a really good job of making up the rest of the band and the bit when they did Chris Bell's I Am The Cosmos was just magic.
re: Lili Marlene's point about it being music made for and by white affluent middle-class Americans. I suppose it is. It really reminds me of Richard Linklater's film Dazed And Confused (were Big Star on the soundtrack? If not, they should have been) in terms of that yearning for a comfortable middle-class teenage mid-American life. But it's also desperately sad in parts so it just nails that nostalgia thing better than anyone else I can think of.
Some of the reaction to it here is along the lines of "yeah it's just a pretty good 1970s rock record" and that's true but for me, it's about the best 1970s rock record that there is. The playing is brilliant and the songs are (mostly) brilliant. It's one of those records that I have been listening to for years and I never tire of it. The songs are surprisingly complicated (try working them out guitarist musos!) but instantly accessible too.
By the way, I presume everyone knows that Alex Chilton was the teenage singer of 60s white-boy pop/soul group The Box Tops and that Big Star were signed to Memphis label Stax Records? I think you can clearly hear the influence of soul in it and I love the fact that their stuff was being put out by a label more commonly associated with Otis Redding, Booker T and the MGs etc ....
They weren't great on the lyrical front, it has to be said. They weren't really about social commentary, but as their music is just pure escapist joyous pop with killer hooks and melodies, they get away with it, imo.It also strikes me as odd that this blissful teenage album came out in 1971, after years of civil rights marches and race riots, right bang in the middle of the same year as the likes of There's a Riot Goin On and What's Going On coming out. Even John Lennon was talking about this kinda thing with Imagine that year....
Of note the original Rolling Stone review states: "There's not a trace of Memphis soul in Big Star"
Anyway, I'm not trying to paint them as white supremacists or anything silly like that but what's the deal with power pop and being white as white as white can be? I can't find a single person of colour in any group in here... Power pop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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