Big Star
Third/Sister Lovers
Label:  Rykodisc 
Date:  2/21/1992
Length:  0:00
Format:  CD
Genre:  Rock; Rock & Roll
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      Kizza Me    
      2.  
      Thank You Friends    
      3.  
      Big Black Car    
      4.  
      Jesus Christ    
      5.  
      Femme Fatale (Velvet Underground)    
      6.  
      O, Dana    
      7.  
      Holocaust    
      8.  
      Kangaroo    
      9.  
      Stroke It Noel    
      10.  
      For You    
      11.  
      You Can't Have Me    
      12.  
      Nightime    
      13.  
      Blue Moon    
      14.  
      Take Care    
      15.  
      Nature Boy    
      16.  
      Till the End of the Day    
      17.  
      Dream Lover    
      18.  
      Downs    
      19.  
      Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On    
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      By the mid-'70s, Alex Chilton's glistening pure-pop group Big Star had hit the rocks, ignored by the public and beset by internal problems. Chilton, backed mostly by session musicians playing both rock and chamber-music instruments, responded with this wracked, bizarre collection of deeply personal songs, venting oblique visions of terror (the much-covered "Kanga Roo" and "Holocaust"), sarcastically envisioning an imaginary circle of supporters ("Thank You Friends"), and covering the odd rock & roll classic in his messed-up teen-idol voice. The album was eventually abandoned and released in unfinished form years later, but the weird gaps in its arrangements make it even stranger and more powerful. --Douglas Wolk