BIG STAR "RADIO CITY" 1974 ARDENT RARE 1st.PRESS NM-/EX- (NOTCH CUT) OOP LP

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THE PHOTO'S MAY BE A LITTLE BLURRY, HAVE A LITTLE GLARE, SOME REFLECTIONS OR IN SOME CASES YOU MAY SEE SPECKS OF DUST. BUT THE PHOTO'S ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM YOU ARE BIDDING ON. I DO COMBINE SHIPPING. BUT I DO NOT ACCEPT “BEST OFFERS”, THE MONIES GO TO MY FRIENDS WIDOW.

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ARTISTS: BIG STAR

TITLE: “RADIO CITY”

TRACK LISTING (SEE PHOTOS & BELOW):

A1

O, My Soul

5:35

A2

Life Is White

3:18

A3

Way Out West

2:46

A4

What's Goin' Ahn

2:37

A5

You Get What You Deserve

3:05

B1

Mod Lang

2:42

B2

Back Of A Car

2:42

B3

Daisy Glaze

3:49

B4

She's A Mover

3:09

B5

September Gurls

2:46

B6

Morpha Too

1:28

B7

I'm In Love With A Girl

1:45

Companies, etc.

• Distributed By – Stax Records, Inc.

Credits

• Engineer – John Fry

• Performer – Alex Chilton, Andy Hummel, Jody Stephens

• Performer [Played Too] – Danny Jones (3), Richard Rosebrough

• Photography By – Bill Eggleston*

Notes

A1 is in mono, the rest in stereo.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Runout etching side A): ? STXS-0740-3 AS-0565 -L.NIX-- SON

• Matrix / Runout (Runout etching side B): ?? STXS-0741-3 AS-0566 -L.NIX-- SON
  

LABEL: ARDENT RECORDS (DISTRIBUTED BY STAX)

CAT. #: ADS-1501 (AS 0665)

YEAR: 1974

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN EX+/NM-CONDITION.NO VISIBLE WEAR, SCRATCHES, LINES ETC. NICE SHINEY LUSTER TO THE VINYL. BOTH LABELS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. LOOKS VERY CLEAN ALL IN ALL THE SONGS PLAY SUPER CLEAN. ALMOST TOTALLY DEAD AIR BETWEEN THE TRACKS, VISUALLY THERE IS A TINY “LINE” ON SIDE ONE THRU TRACKS 2-4, I TRACKED OVER IT, AND NOTHING, NO CLICKS, POPS, OR ANYTHING MORE COSMETIC, BUT I WOULD BE WRONG TO NOT MENTION IT, WHICH KEEPS IT FROM NM/MINT CONDITION.

SLEEVE CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN EX/EX- CONDITION THERE'S NO WRITING ON THE JACKET. STRAIGHT EDGES, NO WRITING, TEARS, WRINKLES OR SEAM SPLITS, ETC.ETC. NOTCH CUT IN THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER DONE BY THERE RECORD COMPNAY (SEE PHOTO).

MORE INFO: THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. THE MATRIX # MATCHES WHAT DISCOGS LISTS AS THE 1st. PRESSING. NO RESERVE!

MORE ON THE ARTIST & RELEASE:

Big Star was an American rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1971 by Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Jody Stephens, and Andy Hummel. The group broke up in early 1975, and reorganized with a new lineup 18 years later following a reunion concert at the University of Missouri. In its first era, the band's musical style drew on the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Byrds. Big Star produced a style that foreshadowed the alternative rock of the 1980s and 1990s. Before they broke up, Big Star created a "seminal body of work that never stopped inspiring succeeding generations", in the words of Rolling Stone as the "quintessential American power pop band", and "one of the most mythic and influential cult acts in all of rock & roll". Big Star's first album—1972's #1 Record—was met by enthusiastic reviews, but ineffective marketing by Stax Records, and limited distribution stunted its commercial success. Frustration took its toll on band relations: Bell left not long after the first record's commercial progress stalled, and Hummel left to finish his college education after a second album, Radio City, was completed in December 1973. Like #1 Record, Radio City received excellent reviews, but label issues again thwarted sales—Columbia Records, which had assumed control of the Stax catalog, likewise effectively vetoed its distribution.

After a third album, recorded in the fall of 1974, was deemed commercially unviable and shelved before receiving a title, the band broke up late in 1974. Four years later, the first two Big Star LPs were released together in the UK as a double album. The band's third album was finally issued soon afterward; titled Third/Sister Lovers, it found limited commercial success, but has since become a cult classic. Shortly thereafter, Chris Bell was killed in a car accident at the age of 27.

During the group's hiatus in the 1980s, the Big Star discography drew renewed attention when R.E.M. and the Replacements, as well as other popular bands, cited the group as an influence. In 1992, interest was further stimulated by Rykodisc's reissues of the band's albums, complemented by a collection of Bell's solo work.:13

In 1993, Chilton and Stephens reformed Big Star with recruits Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow of the Posies, and gave a concert at the University of Missouri.[5]:253 The band remained active, performing tours in Europe and Japan,:253–260 and released a new studio album, In Space, in 2005. Chilton died in March 2010 after suffering from heart problems. Hummel died of cancer four months later. These deaths left Stephens as the sole surviving founding member. Big Star was inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame in 2014.

Since December 2010, several surviving members have appeared in a series of live tribute performances of the album Third/Sister Lovers, under the billing "Big Star's Third". As of 2017, that project has remained active.

Radio City is the second album by the American rock group Big Star. Released in 1974, Radio City was recorded during 1973 at Memphis' Ardent Studios. Though not a commercial success at the time, it is now recognized as a milestone album in the history of power pop music. Critically acclaimed upon its release, the record sold poorly, partly due to a lack of promotion and the distribution problems of the band's struggling record label, Ardent Records. The album included "September Gurls" and "Back of a Car", which remain among the most famous Big Star songs; both the Searchers and the Bangles have covered "September Gurls".

The original Ardent Records LP featured record-jacket photographs by noted photographer William Eggleston, including The Red Ceiling on the cover. Eggleston was a close friend of band member Alex Chilton.

Some of the outtakes from the album include "I Got Kinda Lost", "Gone with the Light", "Motel Blues", and "There Was a Life" (an early version of "There Was a Light" from Chris Bell's I Am the Cosmos CD). The singles released from the album were "O My Soul" and "September Gurls".

Radio City's reputation has grown since its release, with many critics and listeners of the opinion that it is not only the definitive power pop album but one of the finest rock-music albums. As writer Richard Meltzer told an interviewer, "Big Star...is the means through which most bands today who are influenced by the Beatles get their dose of the British Invasion."

It was voted number 319 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000). In 2003, the album was ranked number 405 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and again in 2012. Rolling Stone magazine also ranked the song "September Gurls" as number 178 on its 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Sound & Vision ranked it number 43 on its Top 50 Albums of All Time list.

Composition and recording

In late 1972, following the release of the debut album, #1 Record, founding member Chris Bell left the group and the band became inactive for four months. Bell had already contributed to the music and lyrics of "O My Soul" and "Back of a Car"—songs which Alex Chilton recalls were written "by committee"— but receives no official credit. Chilton, aided by drummer Richard Rosebrough and at times by bassist Danny Jones, completed the recording of "Mod Lang", "She's a Mover", and "What's Going Ahn" without Jody Stephens or Andy Hummel. After performing at the Rock Writers Convention in 1973, the band returned to the studio to start work on Radio City.

On its release in February 1974, Radio City met with general acclaim. Record World judged the musicianship "superb"; Billboard described the album as "a highly commercial set", and Cashbox called it "a collection of excellent material".[However, sales were thwarted by an inability to make the album available in stores. Stax Records, primary distributor for the band's Ardent Records label, had recently placed distribution of its catalog in the hands of the much larger Columbia Records; Radio City's release coincided with a disagreement between Stax and Columbia, which left Columbia refusing to distribute the catalog. As a result, the album achieved only minimal sales of around 20,000 copies at the time.

Giving an "A" rating, Robert Christgau calls the album "Brilliant, addictive", observing meanwhile that "The harmonies sound like the lead sheets are upside down and backwards, the guitar solos sound like screwball readymade pastiches, and the lyrics sound like love is strange," concluding his review with, "Can an album be catchy and twisted at the same time?" AllMusic's William Ruhlmann considers that the band's follow-up to #1 Record "lacked something of the pop sweetness (especially the harmonies)" of the debut but captured "Alex Chilton's urgency (sometimes desperation) on songs that made his case as a genuine rock & roll eccentric. If #1 Record had a certain pop perfection that brought everything together, Radio City was the sound of everything falling apart, which proved at least as compelling."

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