Let's Get Retro!: Big Star
You may know this song as the theme to "That 70s Show" (as recorded by Cheap Trick) but it actually was originally recorded by power pop group Big Star — which is one of those groups that you know that you know, but you can't always think of exactly why. Elliott Smith was a big fan, and their lead singer Alex Chilton was immortalized in a Replacements song of the same name (although if you're a Replacements fan, you probably already know that). Chilton and Jody Stephens, another original member of the band, recently teamed up with Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer (who are better known as The Posies, which has a story of its own that I'm not going to tell you here) and released a record in 2005 under the Big Star name, "In Space." While the album doesn't capture the band's earlier indispensable-ness, it does have it's moments.
Enjoy.
-eh, www.amNY.com
