Big Star - Radio City (Preorder 18/10/24)

Big Star - Radio City (Preorder 18/10/24)

Label: Concord - 7261981 - 0888072619814 
Format: LP, Album, Red Slushie Marble
Country: UK
Released: 18th Oct 2024
Genre: Rock / Pop
Style: Rock / Pop

Description
Radio City is the second album from Big Star. Released in 1974, Radio City includes “September Gurls” and “Back of a Car” which remain some of the most famous Big Star songs. The legacy of Radio City have far exceeded the original commercial letdowns of the album, which is now considered to be a milestone in the history of rock by critics and musicians alike. Both Radio City and #1 Record. made it onto Rolling Stone‘s 500 “Greatest Albums of All Time” lists, while tracks from each album (“Thirteen” and “September Gurls”) are also among the magazine’s 500 “Greatest Songs of All Time 

Big Star, considered to be among the founders of power pop, has been cited as an influence by many of the major alternative bands of the ’80s and ’90s, and continues to be a powerful presence in today’s musical landscape. Artists such as R.E.M., Teenage Fanclub, The Replacements (who famously penned the song “Alex Chilton”) and Wilco all enthusiastically tout the artistic impact of the group. Mike Mills recalls Big Star as “a band who had gotten it right, who made records that sounded like rock and roll bands should sound. A band who wrote all the songs, from flat-out rockers to achingly beautiful ballads that were still somehow rock songs

Tracklist

Side A 

O, My Soul  
Life Is White  
Way Out West  
What’s Goin Ahn  
You Get What You Deserve  
Side B 

Mod Lang  
Back Of A Car  
Daisy Glaze  
She’s A Mover  
September Gurls  
Morpha Too  
I’m In Love With A Girl