Big StarBest Big Star Albums Ranked
8.6
Avg Score
20
Opinions
10
Albums
4
Reviewers
Summary from 20 ratings
On Rate.fm, 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 Rate.fm spans 1972 to 2013. Thirteen ranks as the highest-rated Big Star song on Rate.fm 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.”