Big Star is sort of before my time in the sense that it came out in the 70s, but both of these records were on heavy repeat by my father when I was growing up. Going back to them when I was older I realized that they might be the greatest things yet created by man.
You've probably already heard Anthems for a 17 Year Old Girl (a generationally defining song for like 3 generations now), but I promise that every single other song on YFIIP is just as good if not better. My pick for the greatest Indy record ever recorded
Big Star's #1 record is almost incomprehensibly good. If I told someone a record this good existed, where every song was *that* good, I wouldn't be able to properly convince them if it's existence without just showing them the record in full.
