BIG STAR The Third Album LP AURA 1978 ALEX CHILTON-CHRIS BELL-BOX TOPS
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BIG STARALEX CHILTON, JODY STEPHENS
with WILLIAM MURPHY, STEVE CROPPER, JIM DICKINSON, LES BAKER, etc.
The quintessential American power pop band, Big Star remains one of the most mythic
and influential cult acts in all of rock & roll. Originally led by the singing and songwriting duo
of Alex Chilton and Chris Bell, the Memphis-based group fused the strongest elements
of the British Invasion era -- the melodic invention of the Beatles, the whiplash guitars of the Who,
and the radiant harmonies of the Byrds -- into a ramshackle but poignantly beautiful sound
which recaptured the spirit of pop's past even as it pointed the way toward the music's futurer
"THE THIRD ALBUM"
Produced by Jim Dickinson
1978 LP AURA RECORDS AUL 703
MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING
Different cover, track selection and sequence than US version
Barcode and Other Identifiers
LABEL: AURA - BROWNISH LABEL - BROWN TEXT
Catalog on cover: (rear & spine) AUL 703
Catalog on labels: AUL 703 (AUL.703A / AUL.703B)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): AUL-703-A
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): AUL-703-B
On labels: 1978 © Aura Records Ltd.
Produced by Jim Dickinson
Made in U.K.
(on side one): All songs written by Alex Chilton/Kolala Music/Black Neon Ltd.
except track 5 by Williams & David/Robert Mellin Ltd.
(on side two): All songs written by Alex Chilton/Kolala Music/Black Neon Ltd.
except track 2 by Lou Reed/Warlock Music
On Back Sleeve: Recorded at Ardent Studios Memphis, Tennessee 1974/75
© 1978 Aura Records Limited
from my records collection
tracklisting
Side A: KIZZA ME - YOU CAN'T HAVE ME - JESUS CHRIST
DOWNS - WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN' GOING ON - THANK YOU FRIENDS
Side B: O, DANA - FEMME FATALE - STROKE IT, NOEL
HOLOCAUST - NIGHTIME - KANGA ROO
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RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG but (please, see pictures and read above description)
After Big Star released Radio City, they fell apart, leaving Alex Chilton to record in 1975
what was later released as 3rd (aka Sister Lovers). The album is strikingly different from everything Chilton
created before or after. With pained outpourings such as the haunting "Holocaust," it holds its own
against rock's greatest monuments to existential angst, from Tonight's the Night to Bryter Layter.
It also ranks alongside the Beach Boys' SMiLE as perhaps the only "classic" album with no set sequence.
(Chilton never bothered to sequence it because, upon its completion, no label wanted to release it.)
It finally came out four years later, and since then, while it has appeared on several labels,
no two have used the same track order...(AllMusic)
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