“Combining studio tracks, live cuts, demos, and unreleased recordings, Rhino' 4xCD compilation is the reissue that finally gets Big Star right.”
“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 — […]”