1 Record Radio City Music Cd

Big Star - 1 Record Radio City

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#1 Record/Radio City      Artist : Big Star      List Price : $18.98 USD        Your Price : $14.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1992-06-10      Studio : Fantasy      Label : Fantasy      Avg. Customer Rating : (112 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for 1 Record Radio City      influential, timeless, power-pop...      Rating:      2 historically important records for the price of one! Some great stuff here and some truly mediocre junk too. You can see the potential in these guys and its too bad Chris Bell died young and their record label was a bumbling bunch of idiots. Some "American Idol" clown should adopt some of these songs - they would sound as good today as they did 35 years ago. This CD comes with a lengthy insert that is worth it just for the history lesson. For further reading check out the internet article titled "The Sad Life & Death of Chris Bell" - very poignant and well-written. O my soul, my life is right, when my baby's beside me........     Customer Reviews for 1 Record Radio City Cd      Big Star = Big Disappointment      Rating:      No, no, no, scratch that; massive disappointment. This is like listening to a garage band, with minimal talent, trying to cover songs by the Zombies and the Beatles, but unable to convey a sense of memorable melody &, at least in terms of The Zombies, stellar lyrics. And this man's voice, my god, this voice is on par with James Taylor in terms of it's degree of nerve clawing. Elliott Smith covered them, and for some reason they're cited as being insanely influential; HOW? This is nothing new, not even for it's time, not even close to be remotely original, and more importantly, not even close to being important. Give it up, geezers, it's just nostalgia calling when you claim this as the greatest rock album of all time. Editorial Reviews for 1 Record Radio City Audio Cd      Amazon.com      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