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| From | synthhtnys@comcast.net |
| Subject | Re: How does Big Star rate with you? |
| Date | Fri, 11 May 2007 18:47:20 +0000 |
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I'll second this emotion. I love Big Star, but simultaneously think they are overrated in some quarters through no fault of their own.
The problem (IMO) arises when you consider just how many other bands there are who are also wonderful and underappreciated are
again and again eclipsed with every gushing mention of Big Star.
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From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
> I'm gonna go with "overrated through no fault of their own." I love
> Big Star, but they have been so deified on the power pop scene over
> the last 20 years that I can understand it when people who have only
> been exposed to their music in recent years (say, since That 70s Show
> went on the air) say that they don't quite get what all the fuss is
> about. Even at their most accessible, Chris and Alex had tendencies
> towards willful weirdness in their lyrics, song titles, arrangements
> and tunes that I think someone who expected them to be Memphis' answer
> to the Raspberries would be mildly dissatisfied. But at the same
> time, someone who's heard all the hype about THIRD/SISTER LOVERS and
> expected it to be the American precursor to Joy Division (a common
> expectation for those whose first exposure to the band was via the
> covers by This Mortal Coil) would be equally confused.
>
> S
>
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