Sat, 18 May 2013 03:14:07 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7898&Focus=225766#Comment_225766 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7898&Focus=225766#Comment_225766 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:10:30 -0700 infomancer blog post about it.

]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7898&Focus=225767#Comment_225767 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7898&Focus=225767#Comment_225767 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:22:51 -0700 elricj
the first 3 Big Stars + Chris Bell's LP are all long time favs. I was thrilled to get the Box Set material.

another good one gone. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7898&Focus=225847#Comment_225847 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7898&Focus=225847#Comment_225847 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:20:58 -0700 vrbtm
Chilton always blew me away. By all rights he should have been another boring Memphis r&b/rock guy, but instead he went in wild directions. He made stuff that sounded like the contemprary British pop of the time, he did rootsy and religious stuff, he did noisy stuff, and he did boorish attitudinal stuff that predated punk. And whatever he did, he did it with craft in mind. Alex could shred on guitar, and his singing voice could croon without ever sounding overly sweet.

If you were to plot a lineage of great American country/folk/pop/rock songwriters, all lines would go through Alex.

Maybe something like:
Guthrie
Dylan
Parsons
Chilton
Westerberg
Tweedy

Most of the world doesn't know who we just lost. (Good. Fuck 'em for not knowing better.) ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7898&Focus=225862#Comment_225862 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7898&Focus=225862#Comment_225862 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:44:00 -0700 infomancer
Well, either way... Thanks Alex, RIP.



I wonder how many 90's/grunge singers took their style from this song. I definitely hear some Layne Staley. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7898&Focus=225865#Comment_225865 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7898&Focus=225865#Comment_225865 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:11:12 -0700 Steven Thomas Although I had always heard songs by Big Star here and there, I never owned one of their albums until sometime around 1998 after I saw Son Volt do a simmering-slow-drawl-to-blazing version of Holocaust.

Between suicides and natural causes, death has claimed a lot of musical talent the last few months.
Vic Chesnutt
Rowland S. Howard
Mark Linkous

"I never travel far, without a little Big Star" - P.Westerberg ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7898&Focus=225880#Comment_225880 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7898&Focus=225880#Comment_225880 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:19:58 -0700 Casey Moore http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7898&Focus=225883#Comment_225883 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7898&Focus=225883#Comment_225883 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:07:54 -0700 JP Carpenter http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7898&Focus=225913#Comment_225913 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7898&Focus=225913#Comment_225913 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:18:27 -0700 MagicSword! http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7898&Focus=225932#Comment_225932 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=7898&Focus=225932#Comment_225932 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:14:15 -0700 oldhat