Big Star – #1 Record / Radio City
I had typed up this blog entry a few weeks ago, but hadn’t gotten around to posting it. On my way to work this morning, I was surprised to hear a clip of Big Star’s “Thirteen” on NPR followed by the sad news about Alex Chilton’s death yesterday…
These albums never get old. Katie introduced me to Big Star a few years back, and it seems like the CD has been in a regular rotation ever since. The #1 Record / Radio City CD was re-released in 2009, so I picked it up, and we’ve been enjoying it for months. It is funny to me that when Katie started playing Big Star, I thought it was a Teenage Fanclub album (taking me back to high school…). Turns out that Teenage Fanclub was just making a lot of Big Star cover songs.
Big Star – In The Street
Big Star – O My Soul
Big Star – September Gurls