Excellent !!

Let's see, 7 tracks from #1, 5 from Radio, 4 from 3rd...

and with single mixes!

Rick A.

Am I correct that two discs could contain their entire studio releases from those three brilliant albums? Why would anyone buy this but for extraordinary parsimony or ignorance?

With only 28 posts I believe our friend Stanner is ignorant to the culture and completest inflictions many of us ICE'ers have embedded in our DNA.

Rick A.

No matter how much it costs!!

due to my extraordinary parsimony and ignorance, could one of you guys give me a point of reference (they are like_________________) on big star, please?

i know i should know, it's just one of those ones that must have slipped through the cracks

thanks

Renny, we appreciate your extreme parsimony.

I always garnish my meals with parsimony; it adds a nice touch.

As for the music, early Power Pop and wonderfully executed.

But it's much more than Power Pop, because it's anything but slick.

The lyrics go in a darker, more introspective direction and there's jangly guitars and odd rhythms.

This is a very good collection...with a dash of parsley.

Oh, also Cheap Trick loves them as well. As you may recall they covered "a new version titled "That '70s Song (In the Street)"

Rick A.

"What's with all the talk about Parsippany in this thread? Big Star were from Memphis!"

Artists influenced by Big Star: The Posies, Teenage Fanclub, The Replacements, The Bangles, the Gin Blossoms, Tommy Keene, Matthew Sweet, Cheap Trick, R.E.M.

Artists who influenced Big Star: The Beatles, The Kinks, The Zombies, The Byrds, the Who, many other British Invasion bands, The Box Tops (Alex Chilton's first band)

It's a great collection of songs, but t's hard to imagine that anybody who enjoys this wouldn't want to get their three albums, which are all pretty essential.

My first exposure to Big Star was when I bought the third album as a teenager after Peter Buck called it a masterpiece, and it put me off the band so much I didn't listen to the first two until years later. I love it now, but it's more of a weird, depressing outtake than an essential album like the first two, which are especially so in the single-disc package.

That's pretty much my experience too. Although I've grown to appreciate Third, I'm glad I finally went back and discovered those perfect gems that are the first two.

I suspect a lot of Big Star fans either prefer the first two albums or "Third." The first two are more polished and hook-laden. They sound like classic rock radio from a parallel universe. (They should have been classic rock in THIS universe.)Third is much looser and unstructured, but no less genius for it. It points in the direction of everything Alex Chilton did afterwards, as well as what became "alternative rock."

The loss of Chris Bell really affected this band.

As did their failure to achieve commercial success.

So, Renny, have you decided to try out Big Star?

still pondering........i will most likely go the spotify route first and see what happens from there.

This has been pushed back to May 19th, and the pre-order price has dropped by nearly $4, down to $12.19:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MYE232C/?tag=imwan-20