#1 Record/Radio City

#1 Record/Radio City

A two-for-one combo of the first two Big Star albums (they only recorded three). Heard side by side, #1 Recordand Radio Cityonly 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 Citycareens wildly through some of the most exhilarating music ever created, from the rave-up opener, O My Soul, to the pure pop masterpiece September Girls to the whimsical ditty I m in Love with a Girl. It s too bad that Big Star didn t create more albums, but thank God they made the ones they did. --Tod Nelson SKU:ADIB000000XHA