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100
Third documents Alex Chilton’s choice to stop making choices, to follow his whims and fascinations to whatever end.
4y
100
A shambling wreck of an album, Big Star's Third/Sister Lovers ranks among the most harrowing experiences in pop music; impassioned, erratic, and stark, it's the slow, sinking sound of a band falling apart.
13y
100
Third is guitarist-singer Chilton’s untidy masterpiece. It is beautiful and disturbing, pristine and unkempt — and vehemently original.
11y
100
A great album in spite of its maker's worst intentions - amid the wreckage, don't miss Stephens' oasis of sanity and sweetness, For You.
5y
ROLLING STONE #285
individually, so many strong songs but as an album, the theme wasn't super focused. i loved the haunting slow songs, that's where it shined the most for me. rolling stone must love them a lot because 3/4 of their records are on this list... crazy. i do see why people criticize this though, but personally I enjoyed it.
fav: big black car
least fav: jesus christ
overall: 8.0/10
An album that is impossible to really match, its very strange sound wise. It sounds like a continuation of Radio City and #1 Record but like they lost it, its gives the album a very strange effect. It's intensely melancholic, something perhaps best shown on their cover of Femme Fatale, one of the lesser expected things yet intensely understandable songs on the album, given much like The Velvet Underground, Big Star were a band well known in their hometown and made some of the best albums ever ... read more
This is my first time listening to big star and for the most part I enjoyed this album. I thought the writing was great and the instrumentation was incredible on some tracks but others were a bit slow or underwhelming for me. My favorite moments on this album were the more up tempo rock tracks and my least favorite moments were the slow and darker tracks. While I think the writing on those songs are very emotional and powerful, I just found the pacing to be a bit too slow for me. However, the ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Stroke It Noel 2:06 | 78 |
| 2 | For You 2:43 | 78 |
| 3 | Kizza Me 2:44 | 79 |
| 4 | You Can't Have Me 3:11 | 77 |
| 5 | Nightime 2:53 | 83 |
| 6 | Blue Moon 2:06 | 80 |
| 7 | Take Care 2:47 | 79 |
| 8 | Jesus Christ 2:39 | 75 |
| 9 | Femme Fatale 3:30 | 78 |
| 10 | O, Dana 2:35 | 79 |
| 11 | Big Black Car 3:36 | 78 |
| 12 | Holocaust 3:49 | 88 |
| 13 | Kanga Roo 3:46 | 84 |
| 14 | Thank You Friends 3:06 | 85 |
Total Length: 41 minutes
