Big Star
#1 Record/Radio City
Label ©  Fantasy
Release Year  1978
Length  1:13:18
Genre  Rock
Personal Star Rating [1-5]  
  Ref#  B-0064
Bitrate  ~235 Kbps
  Other  
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    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Feel   (Bell/Chilton) 
       3:34  
      2.  
      		 The Ballad Of El Goodo   (Bell/Chilton) 
       4:21  
      3.  
      		 In The Street   (Bell/Chilton) 
       2:55  
      4.  
      		 Thirteen   (Bell/Chilton) 
       2:34  
      5.  
      		 Don't Lie To Me   (Bell/Chilton) 
       3:08  
      6.  
      		 The India Song   (Andy Hummel) 
       2:20  
      7.  
      		 When My Baby's Beside Me   (Bell/Chilton) 
       3:23  
      8.  
      		 My Life Is Right   (Bell/Eubanks) 
       3:07  
      9.  
      		 Give Me Another Chance   (Bell/Chilton) 
       3:27  
      10.  
      		 Try Again   (Bell/Chilton) 
       3:31  
      11.  
      		 Watch The Sunrise   (Bell/Chilton) 
       3:45  
      12.  
      		 ST 100/6   (Bell/Chilton) 
       1:01  
      13.  
      		 O My Soul   (Alex Chilton) 
       5:40  
      14.  
      		 Life Is White   (Chilton/Hummel) 
       3:19  
      15.  
      		 Way Out West   (Andy Hummel) 
       2:50  
      16.  
      		 What's Going Ahn   (Chilton/Hummel) 
       2:40  
      17.  
      		 You Get What You Deserve   (Alex Chilton) 
       3:08  
      18.  
      		 Mod Lang   (Chilton/Rosebrough) 
       2:44  
      19.  
      		 Back Of A Car   (Chilton/Hummel) 
       2:46  
      20.  
      		 Daisy Glaze   (Chilton/Hummel/Stephens) 
       3:49  
      21.  
      		 She's A Mover   (Alex Chilton) 
       3:12  
      22.  
      		 September Gurls   (Alex Chilton) 
       2:49  
      23.  
      		 Morpha Too   (Alex Chilton) 
       1:27  
      24.  
      		 I'm In Love With A Girl   (Alex Chilton) 
       1:48  
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      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 Nelson
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