Hey Hey Hey It's the Big Star #1 Record vs. Radio City Poll

Radio City

Tough choice. I've always had them as a twofer CD so think of them as one big album.

Okay, Radio City.

#1 Record, but just by a nose.

radio city > third > #1

"#1 Record". Because it had those marvellous backing vocals on it.

"September Gurls" is the better song on either though.

big star is just about my favorite band ever at this point. i never really "got" radio city until a few months ago, but now i like it even more than #1 record, which i loved first. i'm hoping to have a similar epiphany w/ third too at some point

but for real radio city is probably my favorite album ever, though this changes weekly

Always had trouble figuring out "September Gurls" on guitar, but ... capo at the second fret!

"watch the sunrise" and "when my baby's beside me" are what westerburg's saying children by the millions should be screaming for. what's that sound?

i never understood that replacement lyric. care to explain?

Radio City's secret weapon: Jody Stephens' amazing drumming.

#1 Record's only real flaw is the sequencing. Putting "Give Me Another Chance," "Try Again," "Watch the Sunrise," and "ST100/6" all right next to each other is ballad overkill.

unless you're being silly, jc, jd, the whole song's called "alex chilton"

not "chris bell." so maybe he liked radio city better or sister/lovers, though the song doesn't sound that way

Bump.

Radio City

Not really terribly close IMO.

Radio City's secret weapon: Jody Stephens' amazing drumming.
oddly he doesn't play drums on a couple songs here -- "she's a mover" and "mod lang" i think? But agreed -- Stephens is a wonderful drummer, he seems really attuned to what Chilton is doing -- no easy feat, i'm sure. Voted Radio City, but I could easily vote #1 Record ...

(maybe) coincidentally, those two songs are probably two of my least favorite on the record. agreed that he's quite a force

#1 Record

Radio City! Really close, but the William Eggleston photo on the cover clinches it.

Radio City

I miss Chris Bell on Radio City, and its not as out there as Third/Sister Lovers - surprised about all the love here.

3rd/Sister Lovers would probably beat Radio City, but it's not an option here.

Would vote Radio City over all but maybe ten albums ever made.

unless you're being silly, jc, jd, the whole song's called "alex chilton"

I know; I meant the "what's that sound" part. It seems like an odd thing to say.

Radio City for the big ones, "Back of a Car", "September Gurls", and especially "Life Is White", because you know me, boredom. Plus the riffs and the bridge they can't bring themselves to take seriously.

The harmonica part on "Life is White" is stellar. It always prods a soft spot in my emotional psyche.

I went with #1 Record because a) it's what I immediately think of for Big Star, as I've got the reissue with both albums and #1 comes first, b) it's more upbeat, and that's what I'm in the mood for right now. But damn if Radio City isn't a sublime downer sometimes.

#1 Record has been growing on me. i love it. but RC by a little bit. also, i am the cosmos is my favorite Big Star record that band never actually made

Radio City. No contest.

I was hoping this thread would help me pick one or the other, but it's still an impossible choice.

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Thank you all and goodnight.

Alex Chilton overload.

i like radio city a ton, but #1 record is their masterpiece.