The Vinyl Legacy Of Alex Chilton

tommy hoehn - losing you to sleep (such a great album. especially the track that alex co-wrote/plays on)(single with chris bell on it is likewise great)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LL77nS6HL._SS500_.jpg

― scott seward, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:11 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.jahsonic.com/GravestHits.jpg

― hobbes, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:14 (fifteen years ago)

used to own this great dbl vinyl comp, always loved the cover pic:

http://991.com/newGallery/Alex-Chilton-Lost-Decade-300078.jpg

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:14 (fifteen years ago)

my german copy of BACH'S BOTTOM (on white vinyl!) looked like this:

http://www.vinylmoon.com/activos/lp8090/chiltonbach.jpg

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:16 (fifteen years ago)

I love the High Priest LP.

also Set.

― MC Short Shorts (Nijoli), Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:19 (fifteen years ago)

http://mishkanyc.verbsite.com.lg1x8zmax.simplecdn.net/bloglin/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/I-Know-You-Fine.jpg

― Stormy Davis, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:20 (fifteen years ago)

actually, *did* that Gories LP ever come out on vinyl originally? I have the CD on Cherry Red, bought when it first came out because I've been a massive Gories fan ever since the first issue of 'Houserockin'. but I think I Know you Fine..' on the original Cherry Red issue may have been only on CD? but then i think Crypt reissued it with a lamer cover

― Stormy Davis, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:22 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.lpcd.de/1/C9630_01.jpg

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:23 (fifteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/50/MagnoliaCurtainLPfrontsm.jpg/300px-MagnoliaCurtainLPfrontsm.jpg

― Ole Rastaquouère (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:27 (fifteen years ago)

http://s.ecrater.com/stores/118695/4b280d5f37042_118695n.jpg

― scott seward, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:29 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP22LJkcbHs

― scott seward, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:30 (fifteen years ago)

oh so this was the Crypt lp art

http://www.bornbad.fr/WebRoot/ce_fr/Shops/240383/4978/9E82/CA0E/38F3/C752/3EC1/CD19/C2DA/GORIES_0020_I_0020_KNOW.jpg

― Stormy Davis, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:30 (fifteen years ago)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RaAIo0_-QY0/SuX6NuR650I/AAAAAAAAA1Y/q7sBX2Lzs7s/s320/45neon3.jpg

― scott seward, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:31 (fifteen years ago)

man, maybe once every 5 years or so, I will actually hear "Cry Like A Baby" in a drugstore or waiting room or something like that, and IT MAKES ME IMMEASURABLY HAPPY!!

― Stormy Davis, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:32 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.raw-tcsd.com/box%20tops400.jpg

― scott seward, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:33 (fifteen years ago)

they got their money's worth out of that shoot

― I gave'em anything that popped into my cabeza. (los blue jeans), Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:35 (fifteen years ago)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GVUpFsG-_aA/SXxVz7_hElI/AAAAAAAAIrE/Mks0cHnHAk0/s400/box_tops_the_letter.jpg

― scott seward, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:35 (fifteen years ago)

ha, is that dude's cat meowing at the end of that YouTube needle drop of "Cry Like a Baby"?? haha, awesome

― Stormy Davis, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:36 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.boxtops.com/45scl2.jpg

― scott seward, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:36 (fifteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/132/349479779_42731de31b.jpg?v=0

― scott seward, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:38 (fifteen years ago)

just love this picture...

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr06/images/classic4fourpiece.l.jpg

― scott seward, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:40 (fifteen years ago)

http://helium.lunarpages.com/~funky4/pictures/ironleg/bigstar_45.jpg

― scott seward, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:41 (fifteen years ago)

Chris sans mustache

― Stormy Davis, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:42 (fifteen years ago)

that looks like a cool room to hang out in

― Stormy Davis, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:43 (fifteen years ago)

would sit in chair and sip a manhattan in that room

― Stormy Davis, Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:43 (fifteen years ago)

http://i41.tinypic.com/2m7agq1.jpg

High Priest and Feudalist Tarts (he covers B-a-b-y Baby on this one <3)

― MC Short Shorts (Nijoli), Thursday, 18 March 2010 02:45 (fifteen years ago)

honestly, my fave Alex document may have never been released on LP. it's this damn thing :(

http://a31.idata.over-blog.com/280x280/0/24/04/68/album-11/Chilton1970.jpg

― Stormy Davis, Thursday, 18 March 2010 03:15 (fifteen years ago)

so damn good

― Stormy Davis, Thursday, 18 March 2010 03:16 (fifteen years ago)

thanks for this thread skot, it swings like "dalai lama"

― Religious Embolism (WmC), Thursday, 18 March 2010 03:37 (fifteen years ago)

i'll be totally honest and admit i've never heard a lick of any of the music on this thread except the chris bell album (because it was compared to dennis wilson). i've never really thought it'd be my thing. i'm not really into power pop or anglo styled stuff (never listened to the kinks either!), but.... where should i start?

― jaxon, Thursday, 18 March 2010 04:34 (fifteen years ago)

the Big Star albums - #1 Record and Radio City (reissued together on one CD) and Third aka Sister Lovers (way more dark and fucked up but a lot of people's favorite)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pte3Jg-2Ax4

― dmr, Thursday, 18 March 2010 05:08 (fifteen years ago)

Jaxon -- you should totally at least try one of the three classik LPs that are out there on new reissues. Get "Radio City" -- it's totally classic, you will love it! i think! There is an available recent 180 gram reish. beaut mix of power-pop and depresso dirges, top ten all-time stuff

― Stormy Davis, Thursday, 18 March 2010 05:12 (fifteen years ago)

third sounds up my alley. i actually just went to facebook and since all anyone could talk about was this, and post vids, i've remedied this situation. guess what? i actually like this a lot! especially the slower darker songs.

― jaxon, Thursday, 18 March 2010 05:20 (fifteen years ago)

Yay!

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 18 March 2010 06:09 (fifteen years ago)

i love you but you are such a goofball.

RIP Alex. 16 years old to 59 years old... 43 years of rock and roll.

― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 18 March 2010 07:07 (fifteen years ago)

i love you but you are such a goofball.

steve, u talking to me or alex? because, if i remember, you never listened to the beatles until last year

― jaxon, Thursday, 18 March 2010 15:44 (fifteen years ago)

I never listened through the Beatles ***ALBUMS*** as an adult until this year... quite quite different imo.

But you, my friend, are just plain goofy. Maybe if he had used an arpeggiator on some old 12" you'd be blogging about it. You know he went disco for a short while too right?

― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 18 March 2010 15:48 (fifteen years ago)

He used to sing a great version of "Disco Lady."

― Ole Rastaquouère (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 March 2010 15:49 (fifteen years ago)

but i don't listen to disco anymore!

― jaxon, Thursday, 18 March 2010 17:34 (fifteen years ago)

:-/

― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 18 March 2010 20:35 (fifteen years ago)

holy shit you made steve shasta grimace

― 69, Thursday, 18 March 2010 20:44 (fifteen years ago)

Since we're breaking some vinyl rules here, still love this bootleg CD cover:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Brushback/One-Base/BigStarWhatsGoinAhnFront.jpg

― http://tinyurl.com/yzdrfva (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 18 March 2010 20:54 (fifteen years ago)

Also, this alternate version of Radio City.

http://earbuds.popdose.com/darren/big%20star%20radio%20city.jpg

Back when TGI Friday's was a hip place to hang out.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2666/3676240493_f4cd0170a2.jpg

― http://tinyurl.com/yzdrfva (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 18 March 2010 20:56 (fifteen years ago)

He was touring on this when I first saw him:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RB9HNR0ML._SL500_AA240_.jpg

― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 March 2010 21:11 (fifteen years ago)

a comp, but it was my intro to alex chilton beyond the first two b.s. records. lots of this + beers and whatnot this weekend...

http://www.kaimonokun.com/user/151/photo/sam/6176.jpg

― city worker, Thursday, 18 March 2010 21:39 (fifteen years ago)

the b&w cover to big star's third is just really gorgeous huh?

― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 18 March 2010 22:25 (fifteen years ago)

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