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Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers
My gut reaction to hearing “Kangaroo” for the first time after a few years of not hearing it: “Wow, this and ‘Ashes Of American Flags’ are the exact same song!” Which is not true at all, but it’s fun to say. The soulbond between this record and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is all too clear to me now.
I’ve never thought of this as a Big Star record. I don’t think Alex Chilton did either. It’s a logical extension of the shaggy darkness that fought its way into Radio City, sure, but this is ground zero. This is something else. Noise and lonely baroque strings and butt-sad pianos. The sound of a dude too paralyzed by aimless depression to do anything, but is doing something anyway. He is staying in your house and not leaving! Get used to it!
It’s so pretty though. Alex Chilton wrote pretty songs. “Stroke It Noel” is pure uncomfortable romance. Strings help this album so much. Lots of Left Banke homages that I never noticed before. Jody Stevens’ only song “For You” is great too! And NOT sad. All songs in the world are either happy or sad. You have to pick one! It’s that simple! Wisen up, Justin Vernon! Make a choice!!
A good record to listen to during your first week of college when you don’t know anybody and are too afraid to go to parties, so you walk around the perimeter of your dining hall over and over again hoping that somebody will talk to you. But nobody does, so you check the mailroom to see if that XTC album you bought with your parents’ money on Amazon came in yet and it hasn’t. So you walk back to your dorm alone. Do that. That’s what I did.
Stop what you are doing right now and listen to this
Alex Chilton – Can’t Seem to Make You Mine
Seeds Cover
The new Big Star Doc is brilliant - but if you wait just a few more years - the real story will surface…
Just wait…
The New York City premiere of the long-awated Big Star documentary is this weekend at the SVA Theater.
(via rachelandthecity)
