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| From | "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Big Star - In Space |
| Date | Sun, 2 Oct 2005 01:46:50 -0400 |
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I like it. A lot.
As far as the original Big Star goes, this album is wholly discontinuous.
It has nothing to do with that band.
But that other band called Big Star-- the one playing that first band's back
catalog since '93; the band comprised of Chilton, Stephens, Auer, and
Stringfellow; the band that made glorious sloppy hay with Todd's "Slut"--
this is the wholly logical record for that band to make. Chilton is one of
four members; his songs sound like Alex Chilton songs, but with a somewhat
poppier veneer ("Love Revolution" wouldn't have sounded out of place on
High Priest.) Which is about what one would expect. This feels like a
"band" album, like four players with mutual respect trying to be a band, as
opposed to trying to fit into a template of one.
I think they've made themselves a real good record. And a really FUN
record. It sounds like they had fun making it, and fun is infectous. Not
the first Big Star record in 30 years, and if that is what you are looking
for, I think you're going to have a wicked time finding it. But a heck of a
debut from Big Star mach II. And it turns out they're not a bad little
band.
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