Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City
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Artist: Big StarEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1992-06-10
Music Label: Fantasy
Soundtracks:
- Feel
- The Ballad Of El Goodo
- In the Street - Big Star, Bell, Chris [1]
- Thirteen - Big Star, Bell, Chris [1]
- Don't Lie To Me
- The India Song
- When My Baby's Beside Me - Big Star, Bell, Chris [1]
- My Life Is Right
- Give Me Another Chance
- Try Again - Big Star, Bell, Chris [1]
- Watch the Sunrise - Big Star, Bell, Chris [1]
- St 100/6 - Big Star, Bell, Chris [1]
- O My Soul - Big Star, Chilton, Alex
- Life Is White - Big Star, Chilton, Alex
- Way Out West - Big Star, Hummell, Andy
- What's Going Ahn - Big Star, Hummell, Andy
- You Get What You Deserve - Big Star, Chilton, Alex
- Mod Lang - Big Star, Chilton, Alex
- Back of a Car - Big Star, Chilton, Alex
- Daisy Glaze - Big Star, Chilton, Alex
- She's a Mover - Big Star, Chilton, Alex
- September Gurls - Big Star, Chilton, Alex
- Morpha Too - Big Star, Chilton, Alex
- I'm in Love With a Girl - Big Star, Chilton, Alex
Free Music Notes for #1 Record/Radio City
Free Music Review: #1 Record came back when Chilton and Bell still had hope of being successful, easily in the top ten of the 70s
Hit: 5 Stars
The name of the band ended up being one of the worst ironies in music history, because when #1 Record came out the band were anything but a "Big Star". It's unbelievable that #1 Record wasn't more popular, but then again this was around the same time that Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin were ruling the rock airwaves along with James Taylor. The band in between couldn't fit in for either side, but if they had come out just five years earlier during the heyday of the British Invasion they would've been giants.
There are many highlights on the album, with Chris Bell and Alex Chilton being an amazing songwriting team.
1. "Feel" is the perfect album opener, epic in scope.
2. "Ballad of El Goodo" is a ballad, one of the first that starts to bring tears to your eyes.
3. "In The Street" was made famous by being the theme song for That 70s show, which may be the greatest accomplishment for the show, as the show introduced people to a great band they had never heard before.
4. "Thirteen" is on Rolling Stone's list of greatest songs of all time, and beautiful.
5. "Don't Lie To Me": More of a rocker, and while it is alright, The Raspberries (Another band you should check out) give this song competition.
6. "India Song": Alright but one I usually skip over.
7. "When My Baby's Beside Me": Pure classic.
8. "My Life Is Right": A ballad that doesn't reach as high as the others.
9. "Give Me Another Chance": Powerful.
10. "Try Again": While "Give Me Another Chance" brings you half the way there, "Try Again" completes it.
11. "Watch The Sunrise": A long instrumental before a song that is nice but not as good as the two before.
12. "St 100/6": Almost like "Because" by The Beatles, but with an acoustic guitar in the background.
"Radio City" was clearly made after the band was abandoned, and the absence of Chris Bell is visible at points.
1. "O My Soul": Okay, but not great. "Feel" it is not.
2. "Life Is White": Rocks in the best way possible, slow but with strength.
3. "Way Out West": The band has the same British Invasion flavors, but this song shows a voice evolving. Great song by the bassist Andy Hummel who wrote "India Song" on the #1 Record, definitely better and one of my favorites on Radio City.
4. "What's Going Ahn": Similar to the ballads on #1 Record, but different with a great repeating guitar line.
5. "You Get What You Deserve": Won't make you cry, instead is a beautiful frustration filled song that rocks, Lennon would be proud.
6. "Mod Lang": Instead of Beatles here there is a Stones influence, heaviest song on the album.
7. "Back Of A Car": Genius.
8. "Daisy Glaze": Could easily be a later period Beatles song, can almost see a haze rising up. Then the song picks up like one of the best multipart Beatles songs.
9. "She's A Mover": The Beatles theme continues, reminds me of "Taxman" at the beginning.
10. "September Gurls": If you haven't heard this song before, you'll be blown away. If you have, you'll look forward to hearing it again.
11. "Morpha Too": A piano song for the first time on the record, another slow ballad with great harmonies.
12. "I'm In Love With A Girl": The perfect closer, acoustic and longing like many of the songs on #1 Record.
Great albums that anyone should own, too bad more people don't.
#1 Record/Radio City Poster
A two-for-one combo of the first two Big Star albums (they only recorded three). Heard side by side, #1 Record and Radio City only add further testament to Big Star's seminal greatness. On the first album, Chris Bell and Alex Chilton share songwriting credit, though each brings a remarkably different sensibility to the band: Bell creates pure pop nuggets ("Feel") while Chilton swaggers with reckless melancholy ("Ballad of El Goodo," "Thirteen."). After Bell's departure, Chilton took control of the helm for Radio City, and what a ride it is. While not abandoning Bell's penchant for pop, Radio City careens wildly through some of the most exhilarating music ever created, from the rave-up opener, "O My Soul," to the pure pop masterpiece "September Girls" to the whimsical ditty "I'm in Love with a Girl." It's too bad that Big Star didn't create more albums, but thank God they made the ones they did. --Tod NelsonAlternative Rock Music CDs
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