Big Star - Radio City (w/ guest Jack Linden)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2018

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Musician Jack Linden (Rose Boulevard, Karma Gambit) joins Bill and Brian to discuss Big Star's second album Radio City (1974, Ardent). Jack talks about his "power pop" phase and how influential this sound has been on him as he starts his new project, Karma Gambit.Then Bill, Brian, and Jack discuss the absence of Chris Bell and that influence on Alex Chilton and the band, Andy Hummel's songwriting chops, Jody Stephen's underrated drum skills, and much more as we make our way through the album track by track! And support this week's sponsor: !

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill.
0:02.2	And I'm Brian.
0:02.9	What are we talking about today, Brian?
0:04.6	Radio City by Big Star.
0:15.3	So tell the girls, they so much.
0:20.1	I was your butch and you would touch.
0:24.6	I love you.
0:26.0	Well, never mind.
0:28.6	I've been crying all the time.
0:34.1	What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:39.2	We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do, and we cap it all off with a track-by-track review in which we talk about the things that we think about while listening to the music and the things we like about it, too.
0:50.9	And we're not doing it alone.
0:52.2	Absolutely not.
0:52.9	Who's joining us this week, Brian?
0:54.1	This week we have returning to the program, Jack Linden, formerly of the band Rose Boulevard,
1:00.8	currently of the solo project slash going to probably be a full band called Karma Gambit.
1:08.0	And he's going to tell you all about that. Yeah, he's kind of between things right now.
1:12.1	While he's preparing for Karma Gambit to become its thing.
1:17.1	Yeah, yeah.
1:17.8	Still working a few things out, but apparently has recordings pretty much ready to go.
1:22.4	I'm excited to hear what he's going to do because I really loved Rose Boulevard,
1:26.5	but as he said, he's moving towards
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