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Author: rhettlawrence
Date: 01-05-12 17:38
I finally picked up that box set during Rhino's sale last month and it's gotten me on a major Big Star kick of late. How's that "reunion" album from a few years back? Worth seeking out, or should I just leave well enough alone and revel in the greatness of this box set?
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Author: Michael Toland
Date: 01-05-12 21:05
The reunion record is...OK. Nowhere near great, but (mostly) not embarrassing, either. I gave it a couple of listens when I first got it, but never pulled it out again after that. I sold it in a purge a couple of years ago.
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Author: HollowbodyKay
Date: 01-06-12 10:37
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How's that "reunion" album from a few years back? Worth seeking out, or should I just leave well enough alone and revel in the greatness of this box set?
Based as it is on such a small sampling group, the general consensus may not be truly representative. However ...
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The reunion record is...OK ... I sold it in a purge a couple of years ago.
Do we have any other choices for the LP sticker blurb?
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I own it. It sits, collecting dust, in my stacks.
The reunion album and not the box set, hopefully.
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That might be a good thread theme: Least visited box set?
I'm thinking of a review for that Hindu Love Gods LP that said something like:
"This is the ideal gift for the person in your life who bought that Robert Johnson box set and never bothers to listen to it."
That wasn't Trouser Press, was it?
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Author: erikalbany
Date: 01-06-12 11:15
"Least visited box set?"
Well, there is that Stooges "Funhouse" box set that I HAD to own but which contained about a gazillion takes (all similar) of each song.
I don't visit it much, but they will have to pry it out of my dead hands.
In other news, I recall reviewing a Big Star tribute for No Depression back in 2001? 2002? I wonder if any other band has been covered and tributed as much.
I love the 1973 live set in the Big Star box.
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Author: rhettlawrence
Date: 01-06-12 12:25
Listening to that live disc right now and it is indeed pretty awesome. I love the ending: "Thanks a lot. Archie Bell and the Drells are up next."
I suppose I'll pick up the reunion album if I see it cheap somewhere, but won't go out of my way to find it.
Agreed on the Funhouse box. On the other hand, I don't go back to any single band box sets all that often anyway. Children of Nuggets is one box set I do return to on occasion.
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Author: Michael Toland
Date: 01-06-12 13:45
"Agreed on the Funhouse box. On the other hand, I don't go back to any single band box sets all that often anyway. Children of Nuggets is one box set I do return to on occasion."
That's likely the box set I've listened to the most. I like to take single disks with me on half-hour trips.
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Author: mats84
Date: 01-06-12 15:39
I will always love Radio City and Third - just never got the apeal of Chris Bell much - to me #1 Record is kinda wishy-washy and flat.
There's something hinted at on that album but.........not enough for me to truly like it all that much and Radio City is a quantum leap for me (I must feel that way because Radio City is indispensible in my collection and I don't even think I own #1 Record any longer). When Bell goes, Chilton makes them tougher, meaner, more complex.
Not sure which box set I play the least, but I play the Faces "Five Guys Walk Into A Bar" the most for sure.
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Author: M. Johnson
Date: 01-06-12 18:32
I've never been able to distinguish a Chris Bell-sound from a Chilton-sound on #1 Record.
There's really distinctive Bell , like "Try Again." But solo cuts like "Get Away" and "Got Kinda Lost" are just as tough/power-poppy as anything Big Star recorded, and make it much harder to draw a line between Chilton/Bell.
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Author: STEVE
Date: 01-06-12 22:28
memphis 2 me,
when my wife katalina (fanklub TP fanny kluB prez) recently returned from saintly city/ IN tennessee, she threw me a business card w/cabman 'CLAUDE' taxi service printed on it.
memphis is truly a city of (MUSICIANS) & gentlemen.
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Author: willie
Date: 01-10-12 14:56
I love #1 Record and Radio City equally - Third is interesting with some great high points but sort of a bummer as a whole. I don't know much about Chris Bell, but whatever he was doing on that first LP with Alex and in his few solo tracks - well, I wish he had done more of it. I was always moved how "I Am the Cosmos" is so solipsistic as compared to the expansiveness and ego-conquering tone of its obvious inspiration, "Across the Universe." He wants to transcend, but the words aren't flowing endlessly so he gives up, concluding "that won't get you back again."
I guess that's a long way of saying I'm pretty hooked on the whole Big Star mythos.
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