For me this song recalls growing up in the early 70's - We had school dances, walked to and from school with friends, had so much hope for the future ---- We had more dreams than there were stars in the sky. Sometimes I wish I could go back just for a day, to feel that sort of optimism. When every day held the promise of something good.
The beauty of music. I only heard this yesterday for the first time ! It’s March 2024 ! And I thought I knew music ! Weird how some bands totally pass you by.
Welcome to Big Star. They wrote some songs you probably already know. "September Gurls" was covered by The Bangles. "In the Street" was That 70s Show theme song. Check out "Feel." That sounds like it could have been a theme song for the 1970s. "The Ballad of El Goodo" was one of my favorites. El Goodo was a place members of Big Star would eat, but the song had a deep message that wasn't about pizza. Check them out if you didn't already.
RIP the three members of Big Star Alex Chilton (December 28, 1950 - March 17, 2010), aged 59 Chris Bell (January 12, 1951 - December 27, 1978), aged 27 Andy Hummel (January 26, 1951 - July 19, 2010), aged 59 You will be remembered as legends.
The lore on this song is that It's called 13 because Alex wrote it at 13. It was his first song. A few years later he was the singer in the Box Tops singing The Letter and sounding like an old blues man. When the Box Tops broke up and he formed Big Star, and pulled the song out of mothballs. Thank God he did. BTW Jody, the drummer still runs Ardent studios in Memphis. I spent a couple hours with him a few years back. He was absolutely awesome. Everything you'd hope he'd be. Told great stories. Best day ever. Thanks for putting this up!
I did the math today. He would’ve been 15 when Paint it Black came out in ‘66. 15 and nostalgic for 7th grade. Utterly gorgeous song, sheer Genius. Chilton and Bell were born within months of my oldest brother, also long gone. I felt like I was watching my brother running up and down those stairs. Was that Chilton?
@@Tadpole31 Couldn't be more true. Despite all the rubbish they've got on them, they also give us access to almost every piece of information recorded by man
I know how you feel, especially considering that I live in New Orleans where Alex Chilton worked, including playing @Chris Owens Club (big-boobed showgirl way past it) for requests! He died here after Katrina due to lack of insurance. Heart attack. Check out Chris Bell’s solo posthumous album “I Am the Cosmos”. He’s inspired of Beck, R.E.M., Teenage Fanclub, Pixies, Primal Scream, Afghan Whigs, Pete Yorn, Wilco, The Posies, and The Replacements, all of whom have covered his music or expressed their admiration for Big Star.
Hey...thankfully, you ended up discovering the band and, you are able to revel in the glorious musical moments that they have captured on 1/4" reels for us to cherish into eternity 💖🤘🔥
In music, like so much of life, success is not necessarily measured in actual talent. That Big Star never became commercially successful in their day is a testament to that fact.
I read somewhere that when released this album was lauded as the best album of the year by the critics. Problems within Ardent Studios caused a delay in the promotion for almost a year after release which hurt its chances. I hear Big Star influences in so many great bands from the 1980s and later. Check out Elliott Smith's cover of Thirteen it is heartbreaking. Cheers!!!
Everytime i hear this on the radio, on spotify, on youtube i cry a little for the things that are gone. All the memories coming bsck when i listen this ❤
Me too. Can't help but remember Soul Deep, The Letter, etc. and my friends in HS. All gone now. Please forgive me; but, sometimes I think they are the lucky ones. I say that with love and respect. The pain is just too much sometimes. Young and full of life and hope. Why is life so cruel. Drafted in '71. Cancer in '81-82. On my third wife - she has lasted 21 years with me - a sainted woman. Feeling the end closing in every day.
it's incredible how this song was from the early 70s and still sounds incredibly fresh and nostalgic at the same time. to me it sounds like it could have come from an indie rock/pop band today.
I lived in Raliegh/Bartlett suburb of Memphis from January 1967-February 1973. I loved The Box Tops. We moved to Florida but I've always had memories of Memphis. When I watch this video and with the lyrics, I'm taken back to those 6 years. The clothes we wore and the hairstyles, I was the first kid in my school in the 8th grade, with a shag haircut. It was great time. But I digress. Sadly, I didn't really get to know Big Star's music until the last few years. They were recording the album around the time we moved. It's refreshing to find new/old music that is awesome. As I become more familiar with them. I see the influence they had on the alternative and new wave bands that I love some much from the late 70s to mid 90s. PS I've seen so many comments about Paint it Black but the verse that brings tears to my eyes every time is "Tell me what you're thinking of, Will you be an outlaw for my love"...
Because this song has a way of bringing long and forgotten memories back up to the surface. It gets into your head and brings back a time long forgotten. It as beautiful and powerful.
Because it's about your first real crush. And there's nothing more powerful than the memories you have and the feelings that are generated when you think about your first real crush.
There is a boy I used to walk to the subway with. It was the favorite hours of my day. We talked about same old mangas or nothing at all and was so comforting. Guess I've never felt so happy and calm just being around someone. That was so many years ago. I wonder how he is now. This song reminded me of him. I miss him. I miss those times. It was so sweet.
The nostalgia this brings me from a time I wasn't even alive in, is impeccable. All I can think of is my parents & their generation rocking out in the 70s. Beautiful.
It was an amazing time to come of age. I weep for the generations now who won’t know some of the simplest of joys we knew. You’re sadly all too monitored now. I wish it could be like this again. It was simple, raw and amazing.
Found this song 2 days back. I haven't stopped listening to it since then. I cant describe my emotions. It's so simple yet makes you feel so much. Wow.
Absolutely gorgeous.... Like a cherry on a sundae. I miss this type of romantic music, and I sure as hell miss Chris Bell and my good man Alex Chilton.
Alex played a hole-in-the-wall place called the Dugout across the street from Emory University in 1987. My roommates and myself, all huge fans of him and Big Star attended the show. Was kinda taken aback at how many people weren't there. Very small crowd. Less than 75 people in attendance. He played an amazing show, and much to my delight played this tune and just mesmerized the audience. One of the most memorable shows I've ever seen.
I heard this song for the first time yesterday and cried for a good 20minutes straight. It's a heartbreaking song for sure. Then again I'm going through a breakup so there's that...
Reminds me of my sister and her husband. She passed away a few years ago. I miss her so much it hurts. The 1970s where the best years of my life! I just turned 53 on June 14th. 2023 and I remember life was easier and there was so much more love and less hate. 😭
I was hanging out in Memphis in the mid to late 70s and wish I would have known...oh well. There was a big to-do about them when the Live at Missouri album came out in the early 90s, and I bought it...and listened...and thought, meh. Sometime in the 2000s, there was another big to-do and I listened to them again and...how could I have been so wrong?? I DID get to see Alex Chilton, who I WAS a fan of (still am), in the early 90s sometime. It was at a small festival in Memphis, and I heard that he was going to play and drove up from Oxford, MS, where I then lived. Wow. He had obviously just rolled out of bed, came on stage with a GREAT band (my memory is that it was a pick up band, pretty much, of the finest Memphis musicians, but I could be wrong). One of my great musical experiences for sure.
As much as I love Alex's vocals and lyrics, Chris to me will always be the soul of Big Star. A beautiful star that flared up so brightly and faded away so quickly, strangely it makes the music better and more precious to me than it would have been otherwise, I'm sure of that as weird as it sounds, it's one of the many things I love about the music, the relative scarcity making it all the more precious, every note and lyric.
No matter how many times I hear this song, it makes me flash through my whole life, and life is beautiful, magical, just as this song is. What a beautiful version!!
Knowing how the story of Big Star went, it's a little sad watching this footage. The boys look so happy and full of life here especially Chris around the 1:08 mark. May Chris, Alex, and Andy rest in peace. Thank's for the music, guys.
A Disney+ original called Stargirl brought me here. I had never heard it before which surprises me bc my Dad was huge into music. I will always wonder now if he had ever heard it, loved/liked/hated it. I feel if he had ever heard it and did like it, I would surely have heard it sometime. My Dad passed away April 2019. I don’t think my heart will ever heal.
I don't see how anyone can dislike this song. Alex has such a beautiful voice and the song has absolutely nothing that could be changed to make it better. Perfection.
This reminds me of the very first girl I kissed, the day before she moved away. I never kissed or saw her again, and the kiss was horrible from an objective perspective, but it contained such a sweetness, the first fumblings of learning and yearning to connect to a person in this mind-blowing and brand-new way. Thinking about it 41 years later, I feel a hint of melancholy, but much more kind of remote and distant joy from it still reverberating in some small spot inside of me. Every single time I listen to "13" I feel a bit of the same way, it never loses it's potency to evoke that same exact and rather rare feeling in me. Chris Bell forever!
Found this song out through Elliott Smith's cover back in the day. Grew up listening to 60s and 70s music though i was born in 85. Absolute solid gold of a song!
Fantastic. Footage of the legendary eternal Big Star right at the beginning when everything still seemed possible and Chris Bell was still full of hope and creative energy. Plus early '70's cars, fashion (bell-bottoms!) and street scenes.
This stuff makes me weep. It's so good. It's so cool. Big Star should have been the next big thing. It's up to us to keep it alive and we're in great company cause I never met a musician that isn't mesmerized by their music. Like a beacon shining in a fog. This stuff connects.
"Thirteen" Won't you let me walk you home from school? Won't you let me meet you at the pool? Maybe Friday I can Get tickets for the dance And I'll take you, ooh ooh Won't you tell your dad get off my back? Tell him what we said 'bout Paint It Black Rock and roll is here to stay Come inside where it's okay And I'll shake you, ooh ooh Won't you tell me what you're thinking of? Would you be an outlaw for my love? If it's so, well let me know If it's no, well I can go I won't make you, ooh ooh
I wasn't born yet when this song came out I believe in 72, I was born in 81.. When I was 12, a friend of my parents introduced me to it, since I have a love for all kind of music. And I was just in love with it, and still am to this day. And when I heard it on the finale of That 70's Show, I was just blown away. It is just a sweet simple song about a first love when you were younger. And by it being from the early 70's, its really coming from a time when it was all so pure and plain innocent.
They had the foresight to document the making of #1 Record, which this track is from. You see some of the footage here. Love to see the rest of it. 'Thirteen' hits the spot alright, don't it? Can never seem to listen to it just the once, though.
My parents named me after Alex, my first name is Alex and Chilton is my middle name. Although I'm just getting around to listening to his music now; really sad how badly Big Star got screwed, still great music nonetheless
I'm thirteen, and I've loved this song since I was 11. I knew about it before I watched That 70's Show, which I finished about a month ago. But I was watching How I Met Your Mother with my mom and this song came on, I've been listening to it for an hour on repeat Haha.
Serenity Music really does unite people of all ages, and it’s amazing that the feelings I feel for this song now are the same as the feelings I felt for it 7 years ago. So cool!
For me this song recalls growing up in the early 70's - We had school dances, walked to and from school with friends, had so much hope for the future ---- We had more dreams than there were stars in the sky.
Sometimes I wish I could go back just for a day, to feel that sort of optimism. When every day held the promise of something good.
😞heavy sigh😞
I think everyone misses their childhood. It's not necessarily an early 70s thing.
Absolutely. It's our heart.
Sledding down the big hill in our town with all my school mates. We used to have huge snows in the late sixties. Those were the best times of my life.
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The beauty of music.
I only heard this yesterday for the first time ! It’s March 2024 !
And I thought I knew music ! Weird how some bands totally pass you by.
Welcome to Big Star. They wrote some songs you probably already know. "September Gurls" was covered by The Bangles. "In the Street" was That 70s Show theme song. Check out "Feel." That sounds like it could have been a theme song for the 1970s. "The Ballad of El Goodo" was one of my favorites. El Goodo was a place members of Big Star would eat, but the song had a deep message that wasn't about pizza. Check them out if you didn't already.
I graduated 81, never heard til last month. How 😮
@@joyschlomer6866 I know what you mean.
My sister just played this for me today. Amazingly beautiful.
I learned of this song/band after hearing a cover by Elliott Smith, one of my favorite artists.
RIP the three members of Big Star
Alex Chilton (December 28, 1950 - March 17, 2010), aged 59
Chris Bell (January 12, 1951 - December 27, 1978), aged 27
Andy Hummel (January 26, 1951 - July 19, 2010), aged 59
You will be remembered as legends.
Interesting that all three were born within a month of each other.
@@lordofthemound3890 Indeed my friend.
We lost them all way, way too soon.
Another 27 :( same as Pete Ham from Badfinger...
Jody Stephens is still alive.
When Chris Bell's harmonies come in at the end of the second verse, chillllllllls.
One of the most beautiful songs ever written
1985. I was 17 When I bought my 1st Big Star record (& Velvet Underground).
Little did you know it's about a pedophile...
@@bandname sure man.....keep telling yourself that vile narrative
@@mackeydirk8643 Haha, touchy.
Look at your yearbook while this plays...
"Would you be an outlaw for my love"
TRY TOPPING THAT LYRIC
BRILLIANT
'I'm paying the price for rolling the dice in the air'
Gary Glitters epitaph.
*'Cease to exist' - Charles Manson*
@@joedent3323HAAAAAAA ok you've done killed the net
My favorite verse. Brings tears every time.
The lore on this song is that It's called 13 because Alex wrote it at 13. It was his first song. A few years later he was the singer in the Box Tops singing The Letter and sounding like an old blues man. When the Box Tops broke up and he formed Big Star, and pulled the song out of mothballs. Thank God he did. BTW Jody, the drummer still runs Ardent studios in Memphis. I spent a couple hours with him a few years back. He was absolutely awesome. Everything you'd hope he'd be. Told great stories. Best day ever. Thanks for putting this up!
I did the math today. He would’ve been 15 when Paint it Black came out in ‘66. 15 and nostalgic for 7th grade. Utterly gorgeous song, sheer Genius. Chilton and Bell were born within months of my oldest brother, also long gone. I felt like I was watching my brother running up and down those stairs. Was that Chilton?
He didn't write all of it at the age of 13 because "Paint It Black" came out when he was
15 1/2.
Supposedly it was titled Thirteen as that was the age both Alex and Chris were when they first heard The Beatles.
Not likely. More likely: he was an artist, and he wanted to capture in music what it was like to be a thirteen year old boy.
So, not a song about having an underage girlfriend then? Because that's what the lyrics *strongly* suggest.
I'm 15 and I'm so glad I've got this music
The best thing about these phones are the archives they hold.
@@Tadpole31 Couldn't be more true. Despite all the rubbish they've got on them, they also give us access to almost every piece of information recorded by man
One of the most beautiful songs I ever heard. Too bad it took 40 years for me to discover Bigstar
You aren't the only one!
I'd wait another 40 years if I had the opportunity to hearing this song for the first time again.
I know how you feel, especially considering that I live in New Orleans where Alex Chilton worked, including playing @Chris Owens Club (big-boobed showgirl way past it) for requests! He died here after Katrina due to lack of insurance. Heart attack. Check out Chris Bell’s solo posthumous album “I Am the Cosmos”. He’s inspired of Beck, R.E.M., Teenage Fanclub, Pixies, Primal Scream, Afghan Whigs, Pete Yorn, Wilco, The Posies, and The Replacements, all of whom have covered his music or expressed their admiration for Big Star.
Hey...thankfully, you ended up discovering the band and, you are able to revel in the glorious musical moments that they have captured on 1/4" reels for us to cherish into eternity 💖🤘🔥
I’m 15 hehehehe
In music, like so much of life, success is not necessarily measured in actual talent. That Big Star never became commercially successful in their day is a testament to that fact.
I read somewhere that when released this album was lauded as the best album of the year by the critics. Problems within Ardent Studios caused a delay in the promotion for almost a year after release which hurt its chances. I hear Big Star influences in so many great bands from the 1980s and later. Check out Elliott Smith's cover of Thirteen it is heartbreaking. Cheers!!!
I never travel far, without a little Big Star....
Paul !!! Fuck yea
YESSSS
Tell them what we said about Paint it Black .. Not such a good idea to tell her parents? Great song.
Children by the million scream for Alex Chilton
me either, really I don't.
Godamn.. I’m crying again ..
Everytime i hear this on the radio, on spotify, on youtube i cry a little for the things that are gone. All the memories coming bsck when i listen this ❤
Me too. Can't help but remember Soul Deep, The Letter, etc. and my friends in HS. All gone now. Please forgive me; but, sometimes I think they are the lucky ones. I say that with love and respect. The pain is just too much sometimes. Young and full of life and hope. Why is life so cruel. Drafted in '71. Cancer in '81-82. On my third wife - she has lasted 21 years with me - a sainted woman. Feeling the end closing in every day.
You're definitely not alone. The song embodies the era.
One of the most honest and pure songs ever recorded.
it's incredible how this song was from the early 70s and still sounds incredibly fresh and nostalgic at the same time. to me it sounds like it could have come from an indie rock/pop band today.
I lived in Raliegh/Bartlett suburb of Memphis from January 1967-February 1973. I loved The Box Tops. We moved to Florida but I've always had memories of Memphis. When I watch this video and with the lyrics, I'm taken back to those 6 years. The clothes we wore and the hairstyles, I was the first kid in my school in the 8th grade, with a shag haircut. It was great time. But I digress. Sadly, I didn't really get to know Big Star's music until the last few years. They were recording the album around the time we moved. It's refreshing to find new/old music that is awesome. As I become more familiar with them. I see the influence they had on the alternative and new wave bands that I love some much from the late 70s to mid 90s.
PS I've seen so many comments about Paint it Black but the verse that brings tears to my eyes every time is "Tell me what you're thinking of,
Will you be an outlaw for my love"...
listening for first time...tears in my eyes...beautiful
I don't know why but this song just stops me in my tracks every time I hear it
Because this song has a way of bringing long and forgotten memories back up to the surface. It gets into your head and brings back a time long forgotten. It as beautiful and powerful.
george lavallee I only just heard it for the first time......Think im in love
Cause it's heartbreaking.
Because it's about your first real crush. And there's nothing more powerful than the memories you have and the feelings that are generated when you think about your first real crush.
Same
There is a boy I used to walk to the subway with. It was the favorite hours of my day. We talked about same old mangas or nothing at all and was so comforting. Guess I've never felt so happy and calm just being around someone. That was so many years ago. I wonder how he is now. This song reminded me of him. I miss him. I miss those times. It was so sweet.
Mega friendzone, was he like a brother to you?😏
Find him 😉
Awww... I hope you'll find him
Espero que a vida tratou você bem durante esse tempo
💚
The song is more than beautiful, it's addictive. It gets under your skin and itches to be heard... again and again.
My hometown heroes. A damn shame Chris Bell didn't live long enough to see how influential their songs became.
The nostalgia this brings me from a time I wasn't even alive in, is impeccable. All I can think of is my parents & their generation rocking out in the 70s. Beautiful.
Perfectly said!
It was an amazing time to come of age. I weep for the generations now who won’t know some of the simplest of joys we knew. You’re sadly all too monitored now. I wish it could be like this again. It was simple, raw and amazing.
I've never seen this footage before, it's priceless. It's incredible how much beauty they created together in so short a time.
Found this song 2 days back. I haven't stopped listening to it since then. I cant describe my emotions. It's so simple yet makes you feel so much. Wow.
You might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like Big Star
I was watching that 70's show and heard this for a brief minute and went searching for it, so glad I found it:)
Same here. Only I've been looking for it for it for more than a year. AND FINALLY I FOUND IT!!!!!!!
326natallen same here seen the last episode of that 70’s show brought me here
I came here after watching the epsiode. But I already know this from 13 reasons why and How I met your mother.
This song fits Eric and Donna perfectly from that 70s show
Hauntingly beautiful
Absolutely gorgeous.... Like a cherry on a sundae. I miss this type of romantic music, and I sure as hell miss Chris Bell and my good man Alex Chilton.
Alex played a hole-in-the-wall place called the Dugout across the street from Emory University in 1987. My roommates and myself, all huge fans of him and Big Star attended the show. Was kinda taken aback at how many people weren't there. Very small crowd. Less than 75 people in attendance. He played an amazing show, and much to my delight played this tune and just mesmerized the audience. One of the most memorable shows I've ever seen.
Makes me cry every time! Reminds me of my sister I lost a few years ago and her husband who I love very much!
I'm not certain how I missed Big Star! I'm obsessed ❤ (in April 2023).
Jody sang this beautifully yesterday afternoon in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
Seriously, one the most beautiful acoustic songs ever written.
I love Chris Bell and I don't even know him. Such a beautiful person
A song that immediately transports me back to 8th and 9th grade. Serious lyrical and musical magic!
RIP Alex, Chris, Andy...
that's the best song ever
I don't understand how they weren't commercially sucessfull.
Emil poor label management
I understood their record got shelfed... for decades.
The albums sat in Stax warehouse w no money for distribution they went bankrupt . Alex was my friend. Memphis has no money.
@@elisecliftonklitz, could you please tell me which man in the video is Alex Chilton?
@@erscott13 he is the one getting on the elevator and sitting at the baby grand piano. ❤❤❤
Reminds me of my sister Bonnie and her husband. She passed away a few years ago! I miss her so much.
Why do I find this song so heartbreaking? Tell me I am not alone.
I always feel nostalgic when I hear this song. Such an overwhelming feeling, I can't explain
You ,my sensitive friend are definitely not alone.
I know someone who can't listen to it, bc it fills him up too much.
You are not. 🥺
I heard this song for the first time yesterday and cried for a good 20minutes straight. It's a heartbreaking song for sure. Then again I'm going through a breakup so there's that...
I keep coming back to this! God i miss you sister! 😭
Reminds me of my sister and her husband. She passed away a few years ago. I miss her so much it hurts. The 1970s where the best years of my life! I just turned 53 on June 14th. 2023 and I remember life was easier and there was so much more love and less hate. 😭
I was hanging out in Memphis in the mid to late 70s and wish I would have known...oh well. There was a big to-do about them when the Live at Missouri album came out in the early 90s, and I bought it...and listened...and thought, meh. Sometime in the 2000s, there was another big to-do and I listened to them again and...how could I have been so wrong?? I DID get to see Alex Chilton, who I WAS a fan of (still am), in the early 90s sometime. It was at a small festival in Memphis, and I heard that he was going to play and drove up from Oxford, MS, where I then lived. Wow. He had obviously just rolled out of bed, came on stage with a GREAT band (my memory is that it was a pick up band, pretty much, of the finest Memphis musicians, but I could be wrong). One of my great musical experiences for sure.
rock and roll is here to stay come inside where its O.K.
And I'll shake you
ralieghTsakers Rock and Roll never dies! ✌
I love Chris's smile at 1:10
augsburg60 can’t help but get sad seeing it, knowing that he passed away at 27 in a tragedy.
Lest we forget. RIP.
As much as I love Alex's vocals and lyrics, Chris to me will always be the soul of Big Star. A beautiful star that flared up so brightly and faded away so quickly, strangely it makes the music better and more precious to me than it would have been otherwise, I'm sure of that as weird as it sounds, it's one of the many things I love about the music, the relative scarcity making it all the more precious, every note and lyric.
"I Am the Cosmos" and "Your Sister", not Big Star in name but Alex contributed...unbelievably beautiful and heartbreaking
I hope he knows that he has an everlasting impact on Indie Rock.
Happy Birthday, Chris Bell! I'm sharing this and other Big Star songs with my music students today.
Thanks to That 70's Show for letting me know this great song
This is some of the most beautiful footage
No matter how many times I hear this song, it makes me flash through my whole life, and life is beautiful, magical, just as this song is. What a beautiful version!!
One of the most perfect songs ever written. Sends chills down the spine every time regardless of mood.
rock n roll is here to stay, alright
Still a favourite after all these years.
Discovered this on the plane. Thought they were a 90s indie band like Wilco. They’re from the 70s?! Ahead of their time if you ask me
Early 70s, even -- 1972, 1973
Knowing how the story of Big Star went, it's a little sad watching this footage. The boys look so happy and full of life here especially Chris around the 1:08 mark. May Chris, Alex, and Andy rest in peace. Thank's for the music, guys.
A Disney+ original called Stargirl brought me here. I had never heard it before which surprises me bc my Dad was huge into music. I will always wonder now if he had ever heard it, loved/liked/hated it. I feel if he had ever heard it and did like it, I would surely have heard it sometime. My Dad passed away April 2019. I don’t think my heart will ever heal.
I found this from that 70's show great show! & Song!
Chris Bell, you beautiful human.
Yes
thank you Alex, for this beautiful gem you penned at age 13 shows you r amazing underappreciated talent. may you RIP!!!
Every single time I hear this song I get goosebumps.
Beautiful. This song always tugs at my heart strings.
Makes me remember, makes me cry
This old video takes me back in time, old cars on the street and every one dressed like the Partridge family. Very sweet song, too.
Love these lyrics. Simple but effective.
I don't see how anyone can dislike this song. Alex has such a beautiful voice and the song has absolutely nothing that could be changed to make it better. Perfection.
big star forever 💫
You might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like Big Star
I have listened to this song more than thirteen times over the years.
This reminds me of the very first girl I kissed, the day before she moved away. I never kissed or saw her again, and the kiss was horrible from an objective perspective, but it contained such a sweetness, the first fumblings of learning and yearning to connect to a person in this mind-blowing and brand-new way. Thinking about it 41 years later, I feel a hint of melancholy, but much more kind of remote and distant joy from it still reverberating in some small spot inside of me. Every single time I listen to "13" I feel a bit of the same way, it never loses it's potency to evoke that same exact and rather rare feeling in me. Chris Bell forever!
The fact that this was the last song played on "That 70's show" tells you something. One of the best bands of the 70's that nobody heard. Tragic.
Found this song out through Elliott Smith's cover back in the day. Grew up listening to 60s and 70s music though i was born in 85. Absolute solid gold of a song!
who cares how people find good music as long as they find it.
Fantastic. Footage of the legendary eternal Big Star right at the beginning when everything still seemed possible and Chris Bell was still full of hope and creative energy. Plus early '70's cars, fashion (bell-bottoms!) and street scenes.
This stuff makes me weep. It's so good. It's so cool. Big Star should have been the next big thing. It's up to us to keep it alive and we're in great company cause I never met a musician that isn't mesmerized by their music. Like a beacon shining in a fog. This stuff connects.
chills... love it as the 70s show 😍
One of the most heartfelt odes to the rush, power and, utter hopelessness/hopefulness of young love
most beautiful song ever no words
You just said words.
@@mkimmick61 lol
Man,that video was like time travel..Awesome. RIP Chris,Andy and Alex.
Such a beautiful and well-crafted song.
One of my all time favorite bands growing up.
This song it's so honest, so pure, so innocent
"Thirteen"
Won't you let me walk you home from school?
Won't you let me meet you at the pool?
Maybe Friday I can
Get tickets for the dance
And I'll take you, ooh ooh
Won't you tell your dad get off my back?
Tell him what we said 'bout Paint It Black
Rock and roll is here to stay
Come inside where it's okay
And I'll shake you, ooh ooh
Won't you tell me what you're thinking of?
Would you be an outlaw for my love?
If it's so, well let me know
If it's no, well I can go
I won't make you, ooh ooh
Thank you )
I wasn't born yet when this song came out I believe in 72, I was born in 81.. When I was 12, a friend of my parents introduced me to it, since I have a love for all kind of music. And I was just in love with it, and still am to this day. And when I heard it on the finale of That 70's Show, I was just blown away. It is just a sweet simple song about a first love when you were younger. And by it being from the early 70's, its really coming from a time when it was all so pure and plain innocent.
They had the foresight to document the making of #1 Record, which this track is from. You see some of the footage here. Love to see the rest of it. 'Thirteen' hits the spot alright, don't it? Can never seem to listen to it just the once, though.
Awesome. Makes me think of my childhood a lot
What A Great Band! WooF! Chris Bell's I Am The Cosmos is Fantastic!
My parents named me after Alex, my first name is Alex and Chilton is my middle name. Although I'm just getting around to listening to his music now; really sad how badly Big Star got screwed, still great music nonetheless
Damn your parents are based af
@@jeepmccann752 You’re kind.
You are not alone, beautiful song with so much, and that teenage lomging is so authentic and sad
They're so young... amazing song.
great footage thanks
One of my favorite songs of all time
I'm thirteen, and I've loved this song since I was 11. I knew about it before I watched That 70's Show, which I finished about a month ago. But I was watching How I Met Your Mother with my mom and this song came on, I've been listening to it for an hour on repeat Haha.
Hannah White now you’re 20ish! Crazy
damn, and that was 7 years ago. it's crazy how we never expect paths to cross like this.
Serenity Music really does unite people of all ages, and it’s amazing that the feelings I feel for this song now are the same as the feelings I felt for it 7 years ago. So cool!
@@TurtleyGoodness I love that you replied 7 years later. This comment section is like a glorious time capsule for passionate music lovers.
im 14 n just found this song on spotify while browsing through a playlist and omg the guitar is beautiful?? wtf
Listening it after 40 yrs of releasing, idk why this song gives me soothing Vibes ❤
Rip legends, thanks for the wonderful song.
That 70's Show brought me here
finale got me here. and all those heartaches came rushing back to make me sob like a girl.
shiva nishtala just watched the final episode and came here right after it was over. There was a tear....
Edgar Garcia how I met your mother brought me here lol
i wish i was a teen in the early 70s
Same. I was definitely born in the wrong decade.
I was a teen in the 70s. And the world was *infinitely* a better place back then.
I was 17 in 1970. It was a great time to be alive. Unfortunately, I never heard of Big Star back then. No radio play....
Under no circumstances is that time better, although it was awesome.
@@dreamingmusic3299 hahaha better? Everyone was trippin on acid back then.
Emouvantes images d'archives.
Une superbe chanson "étoilée".
Chris bell, is an amazing artist for sure!!
The heart and soul of Big Star
Geno - think of you when i hear this, miss ya, wish you didn't leave !!!!❤
Such a beautiful song.😢😢😢😢😢 I miss such beautiful songs, and i miss that 70s show. Damn everything fades with time
Big love for Big Star and especially for Chris Bell. RIP ♥️
This is the generation I should've grown up in.
Star girl brought me here! Not a big fan of this type of music but damn ... I loved this song straight away ♥️
Same
Good
Now listen to more, lol
It's never too late to start!