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| | Subject: Re: Big Star - Radio City (1974) Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:04 pm | |
| Kind of Television-ish.
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| | Subject: Re: Big Star - Radio City (1974) Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:05 pm | |
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| | Subject: Re: Big Star - Radio City (1974) Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:05 pm | |
| Nice, but overlong.
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| | Subject: Re: Big Star - Radio City (1974) Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:06 pm | |
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| | Subject: Re: Big Star - Radio City (1974) Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:06 pm | |
| Melodically, structurally it's all a bit all over the shop.
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| | Subject: Re: Big Star - Radio City (1974) Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:08 pm | |
| I guess you can see why they're considered ahead of their time though.
For good or bad, it's got a distinctively late-'70s new-wave sound.
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| | Subject: Re: Big Star - Radio City (1974) Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:09 pm | |
| A proper tune never really broke out on that last one.
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| | Subject: Re: Big Star - Radio City (1974) Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:11 pm | |
| It's only really when there are guitar solos that the songs coalesce into something more coherent and tuneful.
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| | Subject: Re: Big Star - Radio City (1974) Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:12 pm | |
| What's Going Awwwwwwn.
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| | Subject: Re: Big Star - Radio City (1974) Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:14 pm | |
| Building nicely.
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| | Subject: Re: Big Star - Radio City (1974) Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:15 pm | |
| I always remember this being the best track on the album.
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