Big Star's legendary #1 Record and Radio City albums Remastered and Reissued - available June 16 BIG STAR'S LEGENDARY #1 RECORD AND RADIO CITY ALBUMS REMASTERED AND REISSUED BY ARDENT/STAX ON ONE CD WITH PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED SINGLEMIXES Original two albums also reissued on two separate vinyl LPs Big Star released two albums in the early '70s, neither of which
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AOL/Spinner is streaming the following albums through Sunday, June 21, so listen while you can. • Big Star, '#1 Record/Radio City' • George Harrison, 'Let It Roll - Songs by George Harrison' • The Beach Boys, 'Sunflower' • Spinal Tap,...
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For a band who only released two real albums that were both universally ignored at the time, Big Star certainly has a high profile these days. Why? Because they wrote really catchy songs that might not have been en...
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Review of Big Star boxset of unreleased songs, Keep an Eye on the Sky
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Big Star's debut album, #1 Record, featured the downright lovely "Thirteen", one of the, like, totally purest expressions ever of what love means in junior high. Alex Chilton's simple, effortless approach to the lyrics sounds exactly like the notes you passed in class or things you whispered on a midnight phone call. With little more than an acoustic guitar and Chilton's voice, "Thirteen" exper...
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ok, consider me addicted to MOG.i'm listening to Thirteen by Big Star and thinking about how my new rec comes out on February 13th and it has 13 songs on it.... i'm nervous about that and scared and totally going through crazy shit right now but i'm listening to music and feeling hopeful.... Alex Chilton. oh yeah. i first heard Big Star when i lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, about 14 years ago.....
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Is there a more depressing song than Big Star's "Holocaust"? I mean, the whole of Elliott Smith's discography couldn't touch this song. Hank William's "Alone and Forsaken" isn't a patch on this song. And here's the reason why: these songs deal largely with unreal things, the rough stuff of the mind. They are man moaning meaninglessly, however beautifully they do it. These songs evoke a b...
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I've been helping Rock or Death and the other behind-the-MOG-curtain people by beta-testing MOG-O-Matic for a couple months now and today, finally, it's all working for me. I wound up trashing my old MOG database, uninstalling, then reinstalling & re-indexing my 80-day Library overnight.No more inaccurate "Last Songs" Played" for me!
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TheBenson Makes a good point here. Several good points in fact. One need not be a fan of **Bruce Springsteen** (for instance) to recognize that he has talent. And there are many who think that this "rock god" is overrated, or that blues giant is overrated, etc etc etc. And indeed, many "blues fans" who checked out **Robert Johnson** based on **Eric Clapton's** cue, came away disappointed, ...
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oyouSo, I got back from my marvelous experience swimming in the estrogen ocean, and realize that today's my two-year MOG-iversary. so, I need to put something up.I'm delighted to report that the community that made me stick with MOG has not stayed static, but has grown and deepened with time. It makes me very happy to see new people join and bring some good commentary to the table. What makes m...
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A few weeks ago, I was chatting with a few long-time MOGgers who haven't been very active here in a while, and talked about why we've drifted away. Most felt that the sense of community the MOG enjoyed had eroded, but none of us knew what to do about it.Then one of our own, the great Dane himself, suggested we get back to doing what we did to make MOG our online home in the first place. You kno...
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There's been a lot of great rock records made. Electric guitar songs have been a part of our legacy for more than half a century. Everybody knows that. A lesser known fact (opinion) is that back in 1973, Big Star made the very best guitar rock recording that will ever occur. "Radio City" was released to little fanfare. Few trade publications made much of the release. Just another rock record am...
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Alex Chilton and Big Star continue to amaze me. I have all three of the albums they released, but STILL I will hear a cover of a song they wrote and have no idea. They had that Velvet Underground like affect on pop music, I think it was Brian Eno who said about the VU that while only a few thousand people bought a Velvet Underground record upon their initial release, almost every single one of ...
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