For what it's worth,and I don't put a lot of stock in their star rating,the 
new Rolling Stone gives it 3!/2 stars written by David Fricke. Concludes 
with, ""In Space" is no "#1 Record", but at it's brightest, it is Big Star 
in every way ".


>From: "Larry O Dean" <larryodean@poetrycenter.org>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: Slate rips Big Star a new one...
>Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:42:22 -0600
>
>Jason Damas writes:
>
>>*Fading Star*
>>Big Star returns to its own party, 30 years too late.
>>http://www.slate.com/id/2126964/
>
>Well written and thoughtful. Press in the UK has been much kinder, and  
>critics over there seem fonder of the stuff seen here as more throwaway. 
>Figures!
>
>