Once again pimping the Chris Bell solo LP

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 3:13 am

if you like side 2 of Big Star's first gig...you got to get this record.

plus, it rocks a little harder and dirtier

i'm a zealot, i don't hide it.

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:01 am

I haven't been in the right mood (razors-in-hand depressed) to listen to that album in some time. I usually reach for Way Out West before You and Your Sister.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:34 pm

you think it's that bad? it's got a lot of Jesus songs....and unlike the Elliot Smith discussion at least Bell died tragically in a car accident--instead of suicide.

i think it's better than the Star 3rd record.....i know that's borderline blasphemy....but the world needs heretics too.

Sister Lovers has some stinkers...especially the complete one that came out in the early 90's with Nature Boy and WHole lot of shakin'. there's a reason those were left off the original LP.

and you wanna hear Nature Boy see if you can find a Marvin Gaye sings Nat King Cole LP.....my mom's got that one. it's unreal start to finish.

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 7:45 pm

King Crimson wrote:i think it's better than the Star 3rd record.....i know that's borderline blasphemy....but the world needs heretics too.

Not blasphemy at all. If you had said it was better than radio city then I would have to fight you.

and you wanna hear Nature Boy see if you can find a Marvin Gaye sings Nat King Cole LP.....my mom's got that one. it's unreal start to finish.

hmm...
I've got "When I'm Alone I Cry" from his brief torch period. I would like to hear the Cole covers. Love those ballady tunes from that era. Hate the cheesy ones but love stuff from Nat King Cole or the Ink Spots or Platters.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:36 pm

we don't have to ever have that fight. and you should try and find that Marvin sings Nat Cole record. it's money.

did you ever hear that Game Theory record Real Nighttime from the mid-early 80's....it's got a couple Big Star cuts like Kangaroo and you can't have me from Sister Lovers. it's a good record. They were a San Francisco band...they were (as far as i know) outside maybe an off the cuff mention from the db's, mitch easter, and even REM the first "indie" band to acknowledge Big Star. and especially the first to record actual songs--though from Sister Lovers since in the mid 80's you couldn't get #1 or Radio City.

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:51 pm

I know very little about them other than some long title that references a lot of stanley kubrick movies. I remember where their record was in the radio station stacks and that I played it, but don't rightly recall much else.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:47 am

they were a decent band. i liked real nighttime the best, even though they put out a couple "college" radio friendly records after that....Lolita Nation is prolly the one with Kubrick excess. there's another one, i forget the name.

if you read music sites, Lolita Nation gets like "5 stars" while nighttime gets 2. it's kind of that REM's best record was document mentality.