EP255: Big Star "#1 Record"

If you have heard Big Star’s music, chances are that you’re a fan.  If you haven’t but love Cheap Trick or REM or the Replacements or the Plimsouls or the Go-Go’s or Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers chances are that you’re a fan but just don’t know it yet.  They were that good.  In this, our first episode discussing the Power Pop geniuses, we deep dive record #1.    RIP Chris Bell RIP Alex Chilton RIP Andy Hummel  RIP Wayne Kramer RIP Mojo Nixon   Recommended Listening The Box Tops “The Letter” https://open.spotify.com/track/6RJK553YhstRzyKA4mug09?si=87b3201939374987   Chris Bell “I Am the Cosmos”  https://open.spotify.com/album/7a7Lzqu4AuMHVtCPkxASay?si=baGet3soSZWVtYuGcy4caw   The Replacements "Alex Chilton” https://open.spotify.com/track/2g9EvzLR2sYscJQubwKGqu?si=6e2aaee1a7cb46c6   Movie Big Star:  Nothing Can Hurt Me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Star:_Nothing_Can_Hurt_Me   HHPP Spotify Track:  “The Ballad of El Goodo”  https://open.spotify.com/track/1B5kQto4k99RG67TJEwwS5?si=cef86b8f1665466b   Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Contact us at:  [email protected]   huntsmanhill.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRwAcademy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ Mid City Three:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/2LW7wWSHd9bi3n3Q5N8i35?si=aVFU0HdnRzqI1UOTAfc-ig

If you have heard Big Star’s music, chances are that you’re a fan.  If you haven’t but love Cheap Trick or REM or the Replacements or the Plimsouls or the Go-Go’s or Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers chances are that you’re a fan but just don’t know it yet.  They were that good.  In this, our first episode discussing the Power Pop geniuses, we deep dive record #1.    RIP Chris Bell RIP Alex Chilton RIP Andy Hummel  RIP Wayne Kramer RIP Mojo Nixon   Recommended Listening The Box Tops “The Letter” https://open.spotify.com/track/6RJK553YhstRzyKA4mug09?si=87b3201939374987   Chris Bell “I Am the Cosmos”  https://open.spotify.com/album/7a7Lzqu4AuMHVtCPkxASay?si=baGet3soSZWVtYuGcy4caw   The Replacements "Alex Chilton” https://open.spotify.com/track/2g9EvzLR2sYscJQubwKGqu?si=6e2aaee1a7cb46c6   Movie Big Star:  Nothing Can Hurt Me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Star:_Nothing_Can_Hurt_Me   HHPP Spotify Track:  “The Ballad of El Goodo”  https://open.spotify.com/track/1B5kQto4k99RG67TJEwwS5?si=cef86b8f1665466b   Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Contact us at:  [email protected]   huntsmanhill.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRwAcademy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ Mid City Three:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/2LW7wWSHd9bi3n3Q5N8i35?si=aVFU0HdnRzqI1UOTAfc-ig