BIG STAR The ballad of El Goodo REACTION -Beautiful song that took me back to the 70s! First hearing
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BIG STAR The ballad of El Goodo REACTION
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Just one more person hearing and appreciating the sublime beauty of Big Star warms my heart ❤️
Big Star- my favorite band.
Gorgeous song.
Alex Chilton. Still checkin' his stash by the trash at St. Mark's Place. RIP Alex. Great singer and songwriter.
Masterpiece
Wonderful song to play on guitar; great choice. A band that should have made it big!!!🎶🎶🎶
Oh wow, Big Star---great stuff! Very influential band that never broke thru due to record label incompetence and bad promotion, but they were loved by the critics of the day. They had a cult following over the years and influenced lots of bands. You should follow up and do "September Gurls", a power pop classic if there ever was!
Agree on September Gurls. The term "power pop" hadn't been coined yet but they were America's first power pop band.
@Bode you're right, we didn't know it was power pop at the time! It was just tasty sounding rock! 🙂
Despite being a 54 year old rocker, I only first heard of this band in 2016 due to the documentary on Netflix. What great albums
They were actually regarded as anachronistic at the time. A throwback to the 60s.
Hard to believe, but that's mainstream pop "critics" for ya. Cheers mate.
Alex Chilton was the 16 year old lead singer of The Box Tops who had the Top 10 hit, "The Letter." Joe Cocker covered it famously as well. Chilton's mature voice was quite different than the Menphis soul singer vibe he was after in his teens. He never sounded like he did on The Box Tops records again. Very talented but kind of scattered, Chilton deserved a bigger career than he had. He passed in 2010 at the age of 59. Thanks Kevin for the pick and Harri for the reaction.
There's a beautiful song by Big Star called "Thirteen". It was later covered by Elliott Smith. I'd love it if you could react to both versions. Big Star was a big influence on Elliott Smith's songwriting.
The greatest band that never made it.
A tragedy. RIP Alex, Chris, Andy.
Good call on The Faces influence. They loved British Invasion pop.
great
Big Star was on Ardent Records, based in Memphis TN, which was a subsidiary of the great Stax Records. However, as Stax was having financial problems in the early-mid 70's, Big Star's records were not promoted, as much vinyl-pressed for release, and thus, got stuck. They had two great albums, and a more unusual third album. They influenced Tom Petty, R.E.M., The Replacements, The Bangles, and others. The original members of Big Star have all died. They really belong in the Rock Hall -but have not been nominated.
Actually Jody Stephen's drums and vocals is still alive! He's played with Golden Smog. Combination of The Jayhawks, Wilco, Soul Asylum and Run Westy Run! His current band is Those Pretty Wrongs.
@@victorbortolussi2964 Ok, true! I checked Wikip', and personal of Big S' listed three deaths, and last iteration of Big s' in 2010. My records are upstairs -Wiki' I misread.
@@jonathanmurphy3141
No worries, hope I didn't come across as " that guy". But as we all get older, you don't want to be cheated out of any days! Lol
Have a great New Year!
Amazing band i love their song❤❤❤❤❤❤
The Replacements even did a song about Big Star's guitarist and songwriter Alex Chilton, titled simply, "Alex Chilton", which includes the lyrics : "I never travel far, without a little Big Star..."
The White Animals even have a track on one of their albums where they are on a New York street trying to get an interview with Alex Chilton. I think its the album ecstasy the first part of the live Gloria track.
Tricky song: sounds unremarkable at first, then weeks later you're still humming it while having your morning coffee and pondering the mess that your life is. Then you go out the door and it's just another day.
Big Star was the best! Named for a Memphis grocery store. You really can't go wrong with these guys.
Please do more Big Star! Also check out Chris Bell's solo album 'I am the Cosmos'. All the songs are that album are perfection.
Big Star didn’t sell many records but had a massive influence nonetheless.
This band has a really sad and tragic existence but, put out some great music in the short time they were together. Check out “Thirteen” by them!
Not familiar with this but it's nice Thanks Kevin and Harri.
Love the song
I know you likely won’t get a whole bunch of views for Big Star, as they’re one of the greatest unknown bands of the 70’s.. but nonetheless earn a solid spot of my top favorite rock bands ever, fully deserving to be right up there with The Stones, The Who, The Floyd, or Fleetwood Mac as far as I’m concerned.
Their entire catalog is loaded with gems, and to me, they perfectly bridged the gap from the hippy songwriters of 60’s/70’s to the power pop era of the late 70’s/early 80’s. From the days of Dylan to the advent of Elvis Costello, if you will.
Knowing the tragic story of the band, their missed opportunities for promotion and even reasonable exposure which has been afforded to slews of lesser bands left them lost in the cut out bins of rock n’ roll obscurity.
After first hearing this band 20 years ago, initially I was angry that I hadn’t ever heard of them before, as I was immediately blown away by this band.
Then I found myself pacing the room, reveling in the genius of the great songs that kept hitting, one after another.
To me, it’s just mastercraft songwriting, harmony, and composition from the team of Alex Chilton and Chris Bell.
Though I know they are mostly unknown, they have achieved something of a cult following in recent years, thanks greatly to the recent documentary on the band: “Nothing Can Hurt Me”.
If you ever get around to giving this band another chance, I would HIGHLY SUGGEST you check out the opening tune from their 1974 “Radio City” album called “O, My Soul” as it is more upbeat and bouncy pop tune than that of the EPIC ballad “Thirteen” which most any other person would submit to you as a follow up.
I’d also recommend their song that was used for the opening Theme song to the notoriously awesome sitcom: “That 70’s Show”, a song called “In The Street” which incidentally, directly follow “The Ballad of El Goodo” on their infamous debut album, “#1 Record”.
Thanks for this. There’s a real Nilsson feel to the way the vocals are layered, which I suppose itself owes some to Pet Sounds.
@@loadedorygun Definitely Harry Nilsson and Beach Boys, as well as the many bands that “Pet Sounds” had inspired, like the Beatles, or perhaps even The Moody Blues.
Amazing write up! Well done. I gotta say specifically the O My Soul from that comp, (can’t remember the name off the top) It starts with the engineering saying “it’s only a demo” and then the proceed to blast out one of the best songs of all time thats “only a demo”.
@@asmahism I haven’t heard that version, but now I really want to! I just know that version on the “Radio City” album.
The whole construction of the song strikes me as a very peculiar type of genius that seems to have a completely different approach than that of most any of their contemporaries in mid-70’s rock.
It comes off as so original that it’s really hard to pinpoint anything of that time period that really gets close. Some Jerry Garcia Band somehow comes to mind, but more obviously Badfinger, or The Raspberries.. (???) other than those, I’m at a loss for influences in their time period.
The jazzy guitar chords with the bouncy State Fair organ skating alongside them are just fascinating to me. The entire pacing of the tune comes off as effortless, and the hook is really catchy and rocking to boot.
For me the rock version of country rock, paired as the mirror of the Flying Burritos who were more country than rock but had the same kind of eclectic, spare catalog with high lonesome male vocals.
Big Star could've been the American Beatles but for the cruel and stupid machinations of the music industry. Here's a version of their song "Thirteen" with some great stock footage of the band on UA-cam:
ua-cam.com/video/NnEzkeaopmA/v-deo.html
Alex Chilton should have been a bigger star!
So should’ve Chris Bell..
Big Star made 3 excellent albums in 70s and then another in 90s . It’s definitively not like Smokey in my view . Unfortunately one died early , and the main man got lost in Memphis still making some good songs. THe third album is a piece of depressed genius . If you look at rolling stone top 500 album you will find several of their albums there
You shouldn't stop it once it started. You stopped it on the second verse when the killer backup vocals come in. Goosebumps every time for me, it didn't seem to phase you. Maybe because you stopped it and lost the contrast from the beginning
Counting Crows do a great version of this song.
Best anti-social brainwashing song.