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| From | "Robert Sutliff" <rsutliff@columbus.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Big Star - In Space |
| Date | Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:00:05 -0400 |
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Either you get it or you don't I suppose. If there's filler on Radio City I
would have killed to have written it. Even Morpha Too....
And Stroke It Noel is better than ANYTHING you could have written - ever.
Bobby Sutliff
>
> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:01:11 -0400
> From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
> To: <audities@smoe.org>
> Subject: Re: Big Star - In Space
> Message-ID: <017c01c5c3a6$97444b70$1d02a8c0@Sparky>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aaron Milenski" <amilenski@hotmail.com>
>>>>A really good 5-6 song EP, packaged into a 12 song suit.
>>
>>>So...just like #1 RECORD, RADIO CITY and THIRD, then. Excellent!
>>
>> That's not fair at all. I love RADIO CITY and (almost) THIRD from
>> start
>> to finish.
>
> I would agree that RADIO CITY is their most consistent album, but even
> it has some obvious filler. And THIRD, in any of its incarnations, is
> one of those records where you could argue that the half-written songs
> have their own place in the record as a whole -- the album probably
> wouldn't be as interesting without them -- but especially in the
> expanded Ryko edition that's the only way to hear the album anymore
> (the PVC and Line editions being long OOP), there's just no excuse for
> things like the covers of "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," "Femme
> Fatale," "Nature Boy" and "Til the End of the Day," all of which range
> from basically competent to completely pointless. ("Downs," of
> course, is only interesting as evidence of how out of it Alex Chilton
> was by the end of the sessions, not as a song.) Even on the album
> proper, I can't stand up for "Big Black Car," or "Nightime," or "Blue
> Moon," and only the string section saves "Stroke It Noel" from the
> same fate. THIRD is a great album in spite of its filler, but I would
> submit that every Big Star album is riddled with the stuff.
>
> S
>
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