Disjointed musings on Life, Love, Art, Nerd-dom, and the Pursuit of Happiness (or 'How I learned to love the Internet and stop worrying about the decline of Western Civilization')
pretty much how i feel about big star. i mean i could go on at length, but. .. there's almost no need to. granted they'll always be 'JUST' a cult band, a muscians group of musicians, but. . . i think that's a pretty good legacy.
i think that just leaves jody stephens now because i'm sure andy hummell died sometime in the late nineties. . .
I must admit, I had only heard a little bit of Big Star on internet radio stations like Pandora, and I didn't get curious until we started playing Rock Band at home (our latest attempt to involve more than one person in gaming at a time). Alex Chilton by The Replacements kept coming on, and when we started singing along with the chorus, I realized, "Maybe I should look up Alex Chilton?"
Underrated sums it up, but I would also add underrepresented. I never had anyone to introduce me to Big Star, so I never knew about them. In fact, I see this song is on the Adventureland soundtrack, but I don't think it actually played in the movie. Happy sigh. It's a really nice song.
I hope this admonition isn't depressing for you, like proof that they're "just" a cult band. I'm more trying to underline your point. A musicians group of musicians is a special legacy, one that people like me will continue to stumble upon for years and years to come.
bronwen, *tsk, tsk* never heard of big star? shame on you!
kidding, of course. . . i like that they retain a certain level of obscurity, and regardless of how people get into them, people do. and generally cool bookish nerdy people like us. . .
they were a band i sought out rather than being introduced to, i think most people find them the same way and usually through their influence in other bands. in my case back in the nineties via teenage fanclub, the posies, matthew sweet, gin blossoms, a half dozen others and of course the replacements. . .
chilton's solo stuff is patchy at best, and the 'reformed' big star with jon auer and ken stringfellow of the posies just always sounded like. . . well, the posies but those first two big star albums and much of the third are just. . . stellar. in a word.
Deaths of musicians rarely bother me, but this one's a biggie, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteI think they'll always be the most unfathomably underrated band in the history of Music.
pretty much how i feel about big star. i mean i could go on at length, but. .. there's almost no need to. granted they'll always be 'JUST' a cult band, a muscians group of musicians, but. . . i think that's a pretty good legacy.
ReplyDeletei think that just leaves jody stephens now because i'm sure andy hummell died sometime in the late nineties. . .
I must admit, I had only heard a little bit of Big Star on internet radio stations like Pandora, and I didn't get curious until we started playing Rock Band at home (our latest attempt to involve more than one person in gaming at a time). Alex Chilton by The Replacements kept coming on, and when we started singing along with the chorus, I realized, "Maybe I should look up Alex Chilton?"
ReplyDeleteUnderrated sums it up, but I would also add underrepresented. I never had anyone to introduce me to Big Star, so I never knew about them. In fact, I see this song is on the Adventureland soundtrack, but I don't think it actually played in the movie. Happy sigh. It's a really nice song.
I hope this admonition isn't depressing for you, like proof that they're "just" a cult band. I'm more trying to underline your point. A musicians group of musicians is a special legacy, one that people like me will continue to stumble upon for years and years to come.
bronwen, *tsk, tsk* never heard of big star? shame on you!
ReplyDeletekidding, of course. . . i like that they retain a certain level of obscurity, and regardless of how people get into them, people do. and generally cool bookish nerdy people like us. . .
they were a band i sought out rather than being introduced to, i think most people find them the same way and usually through their influence in other bands. in my case back in the nineties via teenage fanclub, the posies, matthew sweet, gin blossoms, a half dozen others and of course the replacements. . .
chilton's solo stuff is patchy at best, and the 'reformed' big star with jon auer and ken stringfellow of the posies just always sounded like. . . well, the posies but those first two big star albums and much of the third are just. . . stellar. in a word.