Big Star - September Gurls (Official Lyric Video)
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- Опубліковано 7 тра 2020
- The official lyric video for "September Gurls," from the Big Star album “Radio City.” The 180-gram vinyl reissue of “Radio City” now available at the Craft Recordings online store with exclusive bundle options: found.ee/bigstar-craft-collec...
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Damn! That might be my favorite rock and roll song ever! Alex hilton etc RIP!
I remember Ryan Adams talking onstage at the Paramont in Seattle probably 8 years ago about Big Star deserving far more fame than they received in their day. Agreed.
One of the most perfect power pop songs ever! Those jangly guitars. This song just feels so so so good. Love it!
Probably the greatest hit that never was in rock. It is to Big Star fans like me anyway.
One of those songs that'll sound like it was written yesterday forever
Man i love alex's voice on this
Man I LOVE that Byrds-y jangle!
Best rhythm guitar of the 70’s !!✨
Amazingly beautiful track ever....cried...at last.
I have a september girl i will never forget. incredible song.
This is a group that deserved more
The rhythm of rhyming guitars.
“Oh Yeah”
What an absolute classic
Great song! I'm 61 and just discovered this song earlier this year. Was reading about Alex Chilton and The Box Tops and came across this band. Apparently they didn't get much airplay in the states. Nice hidden gem!
So this is where the Bangle got this song. I think I'm going to like this group.
Also the song from that 70's show
@@mikelasater2016 yup, the theme song - "In the Street"
Thank God for the Byrds inspiring so many musicians
I hear “The Kinks “ and “The Who “ as well .
That rhythm guitar tone is incredible.
Agreed. Definitely a strat. Probably through a Fender Super Reverb.
Compression is your friend
@HamPilgrim: And the solo part was Alex Chilton using a Mando guitar which like a hybrid between a mandolin and guitar. 12-strings help give that solo part a sparkle.
You can hear this in R.E.M, Guided by Voices, The Replacements, the list keeps going. Even Tom Petty's 'Listen to Her Heart.' There's no doubt he would have heard this.
in regards to Guided by Voices, what is a good album to cut your teeth on their music? thanks, chris
@@christopherwestley3966 oh it really depends what you like. If you prefer the 90s US indie rock stuff Bee Thousand or Alien Lanes, but if you're more into this or Teenage Fanclub i'd say Isolation Drills. They're my favourite band of all time.
@@pov_music Thank you. Have a safe and wonderful day.
@@christopherwestley3966 no problem man! You too
@@christopherwestley3966 Bee Thousand, definitely. Pure Genius. 20 years on, and it's still in my top 10!
Oops, make that 30 years. But what's a decade or two, right? It still rocks!
The Replacements brought me here
This tune is ahead of time (even the spelling of the title "Gurls"!!)
Actually, that's not even a coincidence, and it's in fact the other way round.
"Gurl" is a very dated and non-standard (even in the 70s, when the song was originally released) alternate spelling of girl. This song was named this way as a tribute to the Beach Boys and their song "California Girls".
In turn, Katy Perry's manager chose the title "California Gurls" as homage to Big Star (and also because he was afraid that producing another song called "California Girls" would result in costly litigation about copyright with the management of the Beach Boys).
So the title it's somehow both ahead and behind its time.
The music itself however, I think, fits perfectly well. Pretty on-brand power pop; it's just that Big Star... well, never really became a Big Star.
Oh well, at least now their stuff is undergoing a bit of a revival, so cheers to that.
Customer.... I'm in Love... :)
Perfection in a song ...
September 2023. Still listening!
One of the Greatest "under known" bands of all time. This song in particular is absolutely stunning! R.I.P. Alex Chilton. Superb Power Pop!
Never go far without a little Big Star...
A Jewel of Power Pop indeed. That drum roll OMG!!
Thomas Jackson The song is flawless from start to finish
@@JCStorm76 except for that one second where Andy plays the wrong bass note. But hey, that's rock n roll.
Thomas Jackson Lol
@@jamesthomson9525 Ya never know, Alex could've written it like that. lol
As one reviewer once said, "Big Star will be around for many moons." This song is just perfect.
Very futuristic sounding for 1974.
No Man, this was right on time
Yep. Way ahead of it's time.
My birth year 🍻
Partly because of all the future bands they influenced :)
Those Byrds-esque jangly guitars (Rickenbackers?) are heavenly. One of the best Bridges ever...❤️ 1:12
One of the best songs ever period!
Treble boosters? Jeff Beck used a ColorSound treble booster live at one point.
One of the greatest songs ever ever ever - 🎶🎵 and of course watch the big star documentary if you haven't seen it
Pop music perfection.
When I was in high school I had a crush on a girl, by the time I got the nerve to ask her out it was too late, she was going with someone else. I was devastated. I heard this song and thought to myself “My God this is beautiful.”
I found this on a That 70’s Show compilation which is full of amazing 1970’s rock. This, of course , is the killer track.
big star possessed shimmering songs and in alex chilton a quixotic talent.
The song that launched a thousand power pop bands. Sheer perfection.
I learned of Big Star through Teenage Fanclub.
Bangles covered this.
They did! And I love it. Superdrag also did a take. There’s no better version, it’s all just gravy. Big Star is religion to those who’ve heard the gospel.
Michael Steele 🥰
What a song.
I remember hearing this song on the radio in the early 70's when I was growing up in NE Ohio - Cleveland radio played it. The Raspberries had a similar sound.
Cleveland rock was on top of things. There's a reason the Hall of Fame is there.....
Sublime.
Such a grand service has been done to this song
The song the Beatles would envy if recorded in their 60's heydays
This sounds way more like the Byrds than the Beatles
THIS SONG IS AMAZINGLY GOOD!
A perfect song.
I am glad they reissued this album, now I can get the chance to hunt it down, even if it's just a reissue. I don't care, I want BOTH Big Star albums!
A gem.
I wish i could isolate all the guitar layers. The more i listen to Big Star the more layers i hear.
Drummer of this band is one of the most creative. This is one of the great achievements of rock n roll. Thank goodness this band existed.
Yes i agree this song is awesome!!❤
I lyric video is done so well! Good job to the person who did it! ❤️❤️❤️
Wow - I missed this band somehow and I grew up in the late 60's-70's.
I can see where Tom Petty and Goo Goo Dolls got their inspiration.
Great band. Thanks for posting.
Through The Replacements.
You're not alone, I missed them, too in the same time period.
I love big star so much
Just perfect
This song is amazing! How come I never heard of Big Star before? I only heard of them because I looked up the band whose song was used in the intro for That 70s Show. And these cats are astounding
Ey, M8. When you said, these "cats" I knew you were hep. Too right, they're the ginchiest. They wrote the blueprints for 90's power pop. They sound like they'd be more at home across the pond. The US R&R HOF is daft for not inducting them.
@@jeffmurdock8321speaking of across the pond, you should check out late 70s UK power pop band Soft Boys.
Cool Video for one of Alex Chilton's (and Big Star's) greatest songs. The only element that's off is that the image in the video for the "December boy" is Sagittarius. Alex Chilton was a Capricorn (birthday December 28).
Big Star deserved to be so successful and should have had hits. I actually stopped listening to rock during that time because it was so boring. If I had heard Big Star it would have been a different story.
absolute core music
i am in love with this song, listened to it before you uploaded. thanks
Saw the black crowes at grand ole Opry as we waited for them to start they had mod lang and this one playing on there intro music hadn't listened to much big star in a few years now im hooked all over again from the 90s
FOREVER GRANDE STELLA 🌠
AH, my favourite song...
One of the most influential American bands ever. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, are you listening?
love it 🥺
I honestly look at this as the greatest power pop song ever made. The only songs that are even its shadow are other Big Star songs (namely “Thirteen”, “In The Street” and “Ballad Of El Goodo”)
I will second that!
I heartily concur!
Can I throw the Replacements' "Kiss Me On the Bus" into the ring? Paul Westerberg was a huge Chilton fanboy back in the day...
Chills.
Conocí a esta banda gracias a la película stargirl de disney me encanta ❤️🌼🌟
Sameee ame esta banda
Esta muy bueno!
Ma come è possibile che un'OPERA D'ARTE come questa abbia solo 68 commenti?!
FOREVER ALEX CHILTON 💌
DANiELE 😃
this is awesome
September Boy's also got it bad
LIsten to Nowhere Man by the Beatles. The tone in that guitar sounds exactly the same to me as Sept. Gurls.
Sounds like a Strat through a Vox amp
Chris Bell: genius.
Indeed he was, but he doesn't play on this track.
Could that strat be any quackier? Position 2, baby!😄
They actually didn’t have a position 2 back then Strats only had a 3 way switch and you had to jam it in between to get those tones. But yeh it’s definitely that tone though I think a short scale mustang might actually nail that tone better (more jangle)
Amo muito 😍❤️
That chord at 0:41. !!
Amei🥰
Interesting, I just noticed that their drummer sounds a lot like the drummer from the Steve Miller Band. Very energetic with lots of rapid drum solos driving the song forward. Maybe that was just the style of that time.
Love Alex ( R.I.P.)
♍️ Virgo woman - Sagittarius ♐️ man
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
❤️
For sheer sonic impact, Badfinger's 'Baby Blue' might be the only thing that comes close......or maybe the Raspberries......It was a good time for music.
today is the day
Does anyone else besides me hear Badfinger influence in Big Star's music? I could be wrong, I suppose, but I know that Alex Chilton liked the Beatles, and Badfinger liked the Beatles so....
[Verse 1]
September girls do so much
I was your Butch, and you were touched
I loved you, well, never mind
I've been crying all the time
[Chorus]
December boys got it bad
December boys got it bad
[Verse 2]
September girls, I don't know why
How can I deny what's inside?
Even though I'll keep away
They will love all our days
[Chorus]
December boys got it bad
December boys got it bad
[Bridge]
When I get to bed late at night
That's the time she makes things right
Ooh, when she makes love to me
(Ooh)
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 1]
September girls do so much
I was your Butch, and you were touched
I loved you, well, nevermind
I've been crying all the time
[Chorus]
December boys got it bad
December boys got it bad
December boys got it bad, ooh
[Guitar Solo]
Alex Chilton influenced a lot of bands who came after The Box Tops and Big Star...
This is very reminiscent of Gin Blossoms, The Lemonheads, REM.... it could have come out in 1988.
The Posies
I commented the first verse on Naomi Yang’s post which was her teenage photo. I hope she liked it… .
Whomever did this Sagittarius Virgo in space video had some insights. And I don't even believe in astrology. If anything, I'm a Chinese rooster.
Isn't it 'December boy's got it bad', a singular boy?
Alex was born in September. He never (consistently) owned up to the fact that the lyric referred to him, but it did 🙂
@@zenarcher5526Alex was not born in September. He was born in December. December 28th to be exact
Here is my take: September and December are adverbs, not adjectives. That is, "September" is not modifying "girls" in the sense of "mean girls" or "popular girls," and December is not modifying "boys" in the sense of "athletic boys" or "shy boys." Instead, September and December are describing when things are happening. i.e., In the month of September (which of course is the early part of the school year), girls make an effort to attract and the boys are acting aloof, hard to get, but by the month of December, the boys are smitten and cannot hide it. Thus, "September, girls do so much..." and "December, boys got it bad."
The Searchers do a great cover of SG
But I’m a Cancer with a Virgo September Girl. Can’t send this to her. Goddamnit.
Same here
I love this song so much, yet I have no idea what it means. I was your Butch? WTF? Still, one of my favorite songs ever!
He was referring to “Butch”- the name of a pet dog. Not what you would think!
@@kookoothebirdgirl1 I like how you think, KooKoo 😏
@@dannymoulton4829 yeah, I do that sometimes.
Butch was a cartoon dog that would loyally tag along after his owner like the singer is tagging along after this girl.
My neighbor girl was born in September and we were born in a same year. We used to play so many games when we were child. She stopped seeing me when she started to go high school. I found her IG and sent her this song. We had a relationship but it didn’t got anywhere because she was a dumb head.
The video though spells it girls instead of gurls lol. Is that the way the lyrics were written?
Gurls is correct
Alex's 2 "September Gurls" were Libras not Virgos
You guys realize the lyrics mean nothing? The song writer (Alex Chilton)claims "just words that went together easily." Chilton was a very young songwriter when he came up with "September Gurls" Many have tried to assign meaning to the words. There are none. There was a female" coming of age" book said to be related to the song and there was a group of orphan boys (Australian) assigned the name "December Boys."
Funny thing about song and lyrics when they come into your life it doesn't really matter the what lyricist intended to write. How you connect and interpret the song is what it means to you.
Its like nirvana took ssri tablets
Lisa
I was your Butch??
Your dog
tsk tsk alex chilton was a capricorn
"December boys got it bad" what does it mean??
maybe the September gurls don't like them anymore
A couple of things, I believe. To "have it bad" means that you're head over heels for someone. It can also mean that one is heartbroken. In this case, I suspect it's both. In September, they were in love. In December, he's still in love and heartbroken about being broken up. Their love was short and bright, and now that it's over, he's left to endure the winter days alone.
Alex was born in December.
@@jvcleftent9348 Exactly. The lyric should read "December boy's got it bad"...refers to himself.
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