Released: 1978 Label: PVC Records Genre: Power pop Producer: Jim Dickinson
Nay, I hadn’t heard of Big Star before this, but I’ve definitely heard their sound before. Recorded and released in the mid-70’s this sounds decidedly 80’s: power ballads, pop, power pop. Lyrically the record is full-on. Reading into it, it’s a record documenting a band falling apart, echoed by the lead singer’s mental deterioration. Reminds me a lot of Mott the Hoople actually. One to revisit.
Top tracks: The cover of The Velvet Underground’s “Femme Fatale” is a fantastic inclusion.
Released: September 8, 1972 Label: Columbia (US), CBS (UK) Genre: Glam rock Producer: David Bowie
This was an interesting album… this is glam rock and so maybe I don’t quite get what glam rock is just yet. I guess I was expecting something more like the modern way-over-the-top reimagining of glam like from something like The Darkness, but what I got was more like folk-rock. Not that that’s a bad thing, and I picked up some glitter in here (especially the title track). In all, I liked this music. Pretty non-offensive and pretty, well, pretty, I suppose.
David Bowie produced this album and wrote the title track. I’m looking forward to getting to Bowie soon.
Top track: “All The Young Dudes” – in my mind, the most glam of them all, and reminded me a little of KISS.
This week: Another short working week on the other side of Easter, but fuck, the short weeks seem the longest! One of my best and oldest friends and his wife had their first child, a beautiful baby girl (the first of my closest friends to have kids)… and I started a beginner’s hip-hop dance class. Word.
Also I think I want to start listening to The National and their back catalogue.
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