Yessssssss! More awesome Alex Chilton. Of course I like the first Big Star record. And Sister Lovers somehow happened, and keeps on happening over and over for me more than just about anything else...But he hasn't given me another moment to love until now. Like Flies on Sherbet has some pretty good stuff, but nothing else even comes close to catching, and nowadays his albums are literally wedding-band level performances of wedding-band material. Thanks to Spin magazine(!) for turning me onto this, cause "She Might Look My Way" and "The Walking Dead" are as close to Sister Lovers as anything else is gonna get. The drunk mellotron from "Kanga Roo" is even back for "The Walking Dead". And this version (not to be confused with the awful glammy one on Bach's Bottom) of "Take Me Home and Make Me Like It" is the swamp that all rock 'n roll aspiration might fall into if it managed to keep on falling...
Who the fuck but Chilton could have sung "I don't wanna fight and lose", and made it sound so anthemic? Who the fuck else could have done any of this? What is it that Chilton had--only for a short time--that no one else has ever had, before or since? I will never know, so I'll come back again and again to his moments of impossible, messed-up grace. They make me feel more human. I guess music can really do that...
I'll add an extra note of heartbreak here. "Take Me Home..." and "The Walking Dead" were recorded in Memphis in '75--close enough to the Sister Lovers period that I can still tell myself there was just something irreplaceable about that time and place for Chilton (which would include Jim Dickinson's hand at the console). But "She Might Look My Way" is New York, 1977. It came back and touched him...for one more night? What, the right combination of booze and pills and laid and a certain color of sky? I mean, how does that happen?!--and then gone again. Forever...
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1. Take Me Home and Make Me Like It not rated 4:29
2. The Walking Dead not rated 4:07
3. Can't Seem to Make You Mine not rated 2:56
4. Tennis Bum not rated 2:51
5. Baron of Love not rated 3:56
6. Shakin' the World not rated 2:46
7. My Rival not rated 2:42
8. Little Fishy not rated 4:01
9. She Might Look My Way not rated 2:10
10. Window's Motel not rated 2:33
11. Lovely Day not rated 1:40
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me; i would'nt go so far to give it the "Sister Lovers" moniker cuz there is a lack of the sheen that Lovers had over the mess.
also, i am unsure if the songs were even done at the same time because i have singles of some tracks.
more info needed yet still a MUST for any Chilton fan.
5/23/11
dusted in memphis - alex chilton (vinyl rip)
Yessssssss! More awesome Alex Chilton. Of course I like the first Big Star record. And Sister Lovers somehow happened, and keeps on happening over and over for me more than just about anything else...But he hasn't given me another moment to love until now. Like Flies on Sherbet has some pretty good stuff, but nothing else even comes close to catching, and nowadays his albums are literally wedding-band level performances of wedding-band material. Thanks to Spin magazine(!) for turning me onto this, cause "She Might Look My Way" and "The Walking Dead" are as close to Sister Lovers as anything else is gonna get. The drunk mellotron from "Kanga Roo" is even back for "The Walking Dead". And this version (not to be confused with the awful glammy one on Bach's Bottom) of "Take Me Home and Make Me Like It" is the swamp that all rock 'n roll aspiration might fall into if it managed to keep on falling...
Who the fuck but Chilton could have sung "I don't wanna fight and lose", and made it sound so anthemic? Who the fuck else could have done any of this? What is it that Chilton had--only for a short time--that no one else has ever had, before or since? I will never know, so I'll come back again and again to his moments of impossible, messed-up grace. They make me feel more human. I guess music can really do that...
I'll add an extra note of heartbreak here. "Take Me Home..." and "The Walking Dead" were recorded in Memphis in '75--close enough to the Sister Lovers period that I can still tell myself there was just something irreplaceable about that time and place for Chilton (which would include Jim Dickinson's hand at the console). But "She Might Look My Way" is New York, 1977. It came back and touched him...for one more night? What, the right combination of booze and pills and laid and a certain color of sky? I mean, how does that happen?!--and then gone again. Forever...
via
1. Take Me Home and Make Me Like It not rated 4:29
2. The Walking Dead not rated 4:07
3. Can't Seem to Make You Mine not rated 2:56
4. Tennis Bum not rated 2:51
5. Baron of Love not rated 3:56
6. Shakin' the World not rated 2:46
7. My Rival not rated 2:42
8. Little Fishy not rated 4:01
9. She Might Look My Way not rated 2:10
10. Window's Motel not rated 2:33
11. Lovely Day not rated 1:40
34:11
...
me; i would'nt go so far to give it the "Sister Lovers" moniker cuz there is a lack of the sheen that Lovers had over the mess.
also, i am unsure if the songs were even done at the same time because i have singles of some tracks.
more info needed yet still a MUST for any Chilton fan.
