It doesn’t sound great, but it’s fucking Big Star, they cover “Candy Says,” and I don’t have anything else to really post right now. I left my hard drive at home.
“The quintessential American power pop band, Big Star remains one of the most mythic and influential cult acts in all of rock & roll. Originally led by the singing and songwriting duo of Alex Chilton and Chris Bell, the Memphis-based group fused the strongest elements of the British Invasion era — the melodic invention of the Beatles, the whiplash guitars of the Who, and the radiant harmonies of the Byrds — into a ramshackle but poignantly beautiful sound which recaptured the spirit of pop’s past even as it pointed the way toward the music’s future. Although creative tensions, haphazard distribution, and marketplace indifference conspired to ensure Big Star’s brief existence and commercial failure, the group’s three studio albums nevertheless remain unqualified classics, and their impact on subsequent generations of indie bands on both sides of the Atlantic is surpassed only by that of the Velvet Underground.”
Big Star
March 31st, 1974; Cambridge, MA
Performance Center
Tracklist:
01. In The Street
02. Baby Strange
03. Mod Lang
04. Candy Says
05. Till The End Of The Day
06. O My Soul
07. Motel Blues
08. Thirteen
09. Way Out West
10. September Girls
11. We Gotta Go
