Big Star "#1 Record" (1972)
Not necessarily an appropriate title, as this album did not fare well commercially. The band became more of a 'cult' hit.
At first listening to this I was feeling like "just a hangover of the 60s pop-rock sound. Okay but nothing special" but it grew on me as I listened, so I ran it
through a couple more times and I love it.
It does sound fairly 1960s
but the songwriting elevates the music above 'just some slightly behind
the times pop band'. This has interesting vocal arrangements and a great meshing
of loud guitars and pop melody, including the song that would later become the theme tune to 'That 70s Show'
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