Christmastime is Here!!

Kim is here... it's a Christmas miracle! Nice to see you.

Here's an awesome Xmas gift from one of the blogs I read:

Big Star - Ardent Studio Sessions (1972-73) HappyHolidays! 01 - Feel (rough mix with alternate guitar) 02 - Ballad Of El Goodo (rough mix with alternate vocals) 03 - In The Street (rough mix with alternate guitar) 04 - In The Street (alternate take) 05 - Thirteen (alternate mix) 06 - Don't Lie To Me (rough mix) 07 - When My Baby's Beside Me (alternate mix) 08 - My Life Is Right (alternate mix with intro) 09 - Give Me Another Chance (rough mix with alternate lead guitar) 10 - Another Time, Another Place And You (instrumental backing track) 11 - There Was A Light (demo with Chilton vocals) 12 - I Got Kinda Lost (demo with Chilton vocals) 13 - Motel Blues (demo) 14 - Gone With The Light (demo) 15 - O My Soul (rough mix with alternate vocals) 16 - Mod Lang (rough mix with alternate vocals) 17 - You Get What You Deserve (alt mix) 18 - (unknown) (instrumental backing track) 19 - Way Out West (rough mix with alternate vocals) 20 - Daisy Glaze (Instrumental Backing Track) 21 - She's A Mover (alternate take) 22 - Morpha Too (rough mix) plus: Lovely Day (rare, original version of "Stroke It, Noel") This is a collection of alternate mixes and outtakes from the sessions for #1 Record and Radio City. Some differences are only noticeable to the obssessive and some are very obvious. The alternate take of 'In The Street' was released (by mistake?) as the b-side to the original 'When My Baby's Beside Me' single in 1972 and is a MUCH better version with a totally different guitar solo. All other tracks are unreleased versions. Pride of place however go to tracks 10-14 and 18 which are previously unavailable in any form! 'Another Time, Another Place & You' and 'Unknown' (my title) are backing tracks for songs that were apparently never finished. 'There Was A Light' (or LIFE in this version) and 'I Got Kinda Lost' are Big Star recordings of the songs that would later appear on the Chris Bell solo collection I Am The Cosmos and are particularly interesting due to the lead vocal on both being sung by Alex Chilton, which puts a question mark over quite how much of Chris Bell's solo work was left over from his time with Big Star and whether they are in fact Chilton/Bell compositions...'Motel Blues' is a studio version (at last!) of the Loudon Wainwright song that Chilton played in the acoustic segment of the WLIR Radio broadcast in 1974, and 'Gone With The Light' has never surfaced before or since in any form as far as I am aware.

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