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| From | "Larry O Dean" <larryodean@poetrycenter.org> |
| Subject | Re: BIG STAR & Posies |
| Date | Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:34:10 -0600 |
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AssociationWorks writes:
> If it's as lackluster as the new Posies album, I'll have a shred more
> respect
> for bands like the Rolling Stones who just don't know when to quit.....
> ...just a shred.
I remember the thread about the Posies album. I hadn't yet heard it at the
time, but now that I've leant my ears to it I'm going to say that I think
it's actually pretty good. Not their best, in my opinion, but a good, solid
comeback with all the earmarks of a Posies album.
I've also heard the Big Star album but not yet had time to let it sink in.
It's best if you, as the boys suggest, don't expect a "Big Star" album but
rather something new and different under that name. I'm just happy to have
Chilton back, somewhat in a pop mode.
The Big Star bio I also enjoyed. Robert Gordon's It Came From Memphis is
also a good book about that very idiosyncratic scene (and all of Chilton's
quotes and comments in the bio came from Gordon's interviews; he didn't
cooperate with Jancovic).
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