xylin6
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Alex Chilton/Chris Bell/Andy Hummel/Jody Stephens BIG STAR
For the record,the Big Star documentary 'Nothing Can Hurt Me' is just phenomenal and like all things Big Star,sad and beautiful at the same time. it is astonishing that a band who had such a large influence on a wide variety of later generations of artists (from The Replacements to R.E.M. to Cheap Trick (who covered Big Star's 'In The Street' for the intro music to 'That 70's Show') to Elliot Smith to the Bangles to This Mortal Coil to Robyn Hitchcock to Matthew Sweet,Mazzy Star,Wilco,The Gin Blossoms and many many others) were so little known in their own time, Apart from the Velvet Underground and the Stooges it's difficult to think of another band whose music served as a catalyst to so many, yet who were complete unknowns despite the fact they were on just about every rock critics favorites list in the 70's,as well as that all three Big Star albums are included in Rolling Stones top 500 albums of all time.
"To me Big Star was like some letter that was posted in 1971, but arrived in 1985" - Robyn Hitchcock / "Big Star’s music effectively combined the exuberant and the melancholic" - Micheal Stipe