Anybody seen it yet? I'm planning on catching it in a couple of weeks when it hits a theater in the ATL.
Anybody seen it yet? I'm planning on catching it in a couple of weeks when it hits a theater in the ATL.
"It was a cruel song, but fair."-Roger Waters
I caught it on Amazon Prime a few weeks ago. Fantastic stuff. A heartbreaking tale for sure. The first Big Star record was released the year I graduated high school and I never even heard it until some 20 years later. The film puts into focus how such immense talent slipped by virtually unnoticed, and the effect it had on the band. It would have been nice to have some interview segments with Alex instead of older taped stuff but, of course, he left us too soon. Big Star/Alex Chilton fans need to see it, and I think most music fans would be interested and moved.
No but sounds interesting, I like music docs. There's a new doc on writer J D Salinger that sounds good too.
When I went to Best Buy a year or so ago, I spotted a CD that contained the first two Big Star albums. I wanted to get it because I saw their three albums mentioned in a book called The 1,000 Greatest Albums Of All Time. Also, I found out a few years before that the That '70s Theme by Cheap Trick was based on Big Star's In The Street.
The first Big Star album is essential power pop - the second is of course pretty much Alex Chilton but that's not a small thing. I'll have to see this documentary.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
I've been following this doc on FB. I definitely want to see it!
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They're amazing albums. I have the older version of that twofer disc from the 90s. I just separate the songs into their proper album groupings with their respective cover art in iTunes. The thing about Big Star is that while there is certainly more in terms of solo projects and archival releases you can get the core three albums with just two purchases.
"It was a cruel song, but fair."-Roger Waters
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I still have original Ardent vinyl pressings of the first two albums which I'll occasionally play, but it is much more convenient to spin the two-fer CD. I rarely listen to 3rd: Sister Lovers, preferring Chris Bell's posthumous "I Am The Cosmos", or Chilton's "Like Flies On Sherbert".
Chilton's ode to the AIDS virus...
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