Under Big Black Sun
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My 600 Favorite Albums Of All Time
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By the time the title track's triumphant riff chime-growls out midway through Under the Big Black Sun, the listener has already been through the most wrenching sequence of X songs yet assembled. After the thumping bike-club anthem "The Hungry Wolf" opens this 1982 major-label debut, its tough-ass romanticism is quickly plowed under by memories of a motel bed "with rubber sheets" and two heartrending songs about Exene Cervenka's sister Mirielle, who'd been killed in a car crash. In fact, even without "Blue Spark," this would easily qualify as the group's most indigo record yet; the second half
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Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
Release date: 18 September 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0081227437220 UPC: 081227437220
Release date: 18 September 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0081227437220 UPC: 081227437220
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