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500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die!
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A two-for-one combo of the first two Big Star albums (they only recorded three). Heard side by side, #1 Record and Radio City only add further testament to Big Star's seminal greatness. On the first album, Chris Bell and Alex Chilton share songwriting credit, though each brings a remarkably different sensibility to the band: Bell creates pure pop nuggets ("Feel") while Chilton swaggers with reckless melancholy ("Ballad of El Goodo," "Thirteen."). After Bell's departure, Chilton took control of the helm for Radio City, and what a ride it is. While not abandoning Bell's penchant for pop, Radio City c
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Manufacturer: Fantasy
Release date: 10 June 1992
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0025218302524 UPC: 025218302524
Release date: 10 June 1992
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0025218302524 UPC: 025218302524
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JxSxPx rated this 10/10 2 years, 5 months ago
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500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die! (500 music items)"Two albums recorded in 1972 and 1974 — the missing link between the Rolling Stones circa Aftermath and the new wave, with a side order of Dixie soul and chiming, glad-to-be-alive guitars by raggedy-voiced cult pinup Alex Chilton. Standout track: “September Gurls”"
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