Big Star - Third / Sisters Lovers
Big Star
Third / Sisters Lovers
Ryko 1975
The world of rock is not just mediocre bands quickly get success and recognition, while others doubted his undeniable talent to not see their work recognized.
The latter is the case of Big Star, in its own right the group of Alex Chilton and Chris Bell should be treated at all by the side of the great and be as popular as any of them, but now no more than the status of group worship along anonymity.
Poor distribution of their discs had blamed much of its commercial failure, but rather had to do his understanding of music, far removed from the cliché rock fashionable at the time.
Big Star sound like Beatles, Beach Boys a while sound like Big Star, a prodigious melodies, instrumental arrangements impossible, exciting material that formed the first life to the songs of '# 1 record "and" Radio City "and would also form the aggregate "third / sister lover"
Alex Chilton when he entered the study, its commercial ambitions were already well watered, and their esteem as a composer rather hit, going through a time of conflict also sentimental and existential. All this is reflected in "third" Amazing by stripping the sound of Big Star all the luminosity of yesteryear, replacing it with anguish, pain and discouragement.
"Thank you friends" is a sarcastic tribute to his friends, starting with Chris Bell, who left the band years ago. "Night time is the search for consolation in the hand.
"Holocaust" shakes the listener with a history of death, sickness, misery.
"Third / sister lover" is the most hard disk of Big Star, the darker, the best songs that have
