Big StarBest Big Star Albums Ranked
8.6
Avg Score
20
Opinions
10
Albums
4
Reviewers
Summary from 20 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Big Star's catalog across 10 albums from 20 opinions, with an overall average of 8.6/10. The top-rated Big Star album is Third (1977) with a 9.1/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by Keep an Eye On the Sky and Complete Third. The discography on Wavelength spans 1972 to 2013. Thirteen ranks as the highest-rated Big Star song on Wavelength with a 9.7/10 average.
Third
“It’s safe to say there would have been no modern pop movement without Big Star. Everyone from the Replacements, the dB’s, the Bangles and R.E.M. to Teenage Fanclub and Ride is beholden to Big Star for the post-Beatles, post-Velvets trails the band blazed in the early Seventies. Big Star dared to be poppishly offbeat when […]”
Complete Third
“Big Star’s never-completed third album is enshrined in a triple-disc box that contains all known recordings from the 1974 sessions and finally makes sense of all the chaos.”
Keep an Eye On the Sky
“Combining studio tracks, live cuts, demos, and unreleased recordings, Rhino' 4xCD compilation is the reissue that finally gets Big Star right.”
Keep an Eye On the Sky
“The legend of Big Star was almost over at the starting gate: when co-founding singer-guitarist Chris Bell quit the Memphis pop band, rightafter its 1972 debut, #1 Record, came out and flopped. The LP — awhite-soul Abbey Road with a Lennon-McCartney-like tension between thegrainy ennui of ex-Box Tops singer Alex Chilton and Bell’s desperateromanticism — […]”
#1 Record
“This long-available twofer — the debut and follow-up by one of rock’s seminal also-rans — ain’t news, two (non-essential) bonus tracks and remastering notwithstanding. But classics are classics. #1 Record is a glammy swirl of Beatlesque hooks, Topanga Canyon harmonies and Southern-boogie outbursts mostly written by Memphis studio mystic Chris Bell and former teen AM-radio […]”
Nothing Can Hurt Me
“Nothing Can Hurt Me is the soundtrack for the new Big Star documentary of the same name. It contains unheard, alternate mixes from #1 Record, rough mixes from Sister Lovers, and other special mixes created for the movie. Together, they more or less function as a solid best-of.”
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