Radio City is a Rock album by Big Star, originally released in 1974. On Gatefold: 38 pressings tracked, owned by 29 collectors.
About
At a time when prog-rock bands were stretching the vocabulary of guitar-based music to absurd ends in hopes of finding the future, Big Star looked back, refashioning the sound of the British Invasion into something catchy, eccentric, and genuinely new. Building on 1972’s <i>#1 Record</i> (their first album, definitely not its chart position), <i>Radio City</i> tied together gospel (“O My Soul”) and country (“September Gurls”), pre-psychedelic Beatles (“Back of a Car”), and pre-concept Kinks (“Way Out West”) with an offhand vulnerability that seemed uniquely their own. The result was pop that recaptured its potential to be alternative, even underground—a blueprint for bands as varied as The Cars and R.E.M., The Replacements and Elliott Smith, not to mention a generation of weirdos who just liked the old stuff best.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1O, My Soul5:35
- A2Life Is White3:18
- A3Way Out West2:46
- A4What's Goin' Ahn2:37
- A5You Get What You Deserve3:05
Side B
- B1Mod Lang2:42
- B2Back Of A Car2:42
- B3Daisy Glaze3:49
- B4She's A Mover3:09
- B5September Gurls2:46
- B6Morpha Too1:28
- B7I'm In Love With A Girl1:45
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Power Pop
- jangly
- bittersweet
- confessional
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Alex ChiltonGUITAR GUITAR , VOCALS GUITAR, VOCALS
- Andy HummelBASS BASS GUITAR, PIANO, VOCALS BASS, PIANO, VOCALS
- Danny JonesBASS
- Jody StephensDRUMS DRUMS, VOCALS VOCALS
- Richard RosebroughDRUMS
29 collectors on Gatefold own this · 38 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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