Always super-fascinating to read your impressions! Admittedly, Big Star's Third is a complicated artifact. If you feel like digging in a little, this piece from 2016 may help break it down a little and lead to a different feeling about the songwriting, if nothing else. Cheers! https://anearful.blogspot.com/2016/10/a-bit-like-goodbye-big-star-complete.html
Thanks Jeremy! I'll absolutely give that a read. I wrote my knee-jerk reaction here, but my first couple of listens definitely lacked context. This band is so great - I'll be sure to circle back when I know a little more.
Thank you so much Thea! I'm still pondering the best way to approach that problem - it's so hard to boil down all the nuances of an artist (good and bad) and their music into a single rating number, which is what my data-driven brain wants to do. Numbers are just so much easier to work with! But nuance is so important as well.
Always super-fascinating to read your impressions! Admittedly, Big Star's Third is a complicated artifact. If you feel like digging in a little, this piece from 2016 may help break it down a little and lead to a different feeling about the songwriting, if nothing else. Cheers! https://anearful.blogspot.com/2016/10/a-bit-like-goodbye-big-star-complete.html
Thanks Jeremy! I'll absolutely give that a read. I wrote my knee-jerk reaction here, but my first couple of listens definitely lacked context. This band is so great - I'll be sure to circle back when I know a little more.
Love these reviews. I’m intrigued and anxious to hear your system for reconciling artists’ values/behavior from their art.
Thank you so much Thea! I'm still pondering the best way to approach that problem - it's so hard to boil down all the nuances of an artist (good and bad) and their music into a single rating number, which is what my data-driven brain wants to do. Numbers are just so much easier to work with! But nuance is so important as well.