Big Star Glow-In-The-Dark Slip Mat
Available June 25, 2013
Great companion piece to the Big Star Nothing Can Hurt Me soundtrack.
Buy them individually for $10.00 each, or as a specially priced bundle
with the Big Star LP and save 3 bucks!
Nothing Can Hurt Me: Original Soundtrack
Available June 25, 2013
Soundtrack to the Forthcoming Big Star Documentary featuring
all previously unissued versions of classic Big Star songs!
For information on the film, please visit Magnolia Picutres.
The story of Big Star will finally hit the big screen in the feature-length documentary Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (Magnolia Pictures). After years in the making, the movie comes to theaters, On Demand and iTunes on July 3.
On June 25, Omnivore Recordings will release the soundtrack to the film featuring 21 tracks, all of which are unissued versions of classic Big Star songs. The soundtrack will be available on CD, double-LP in a gatefold sleeve with a download card included, and digitally. A limited edition of the LP version was made available on Record Store Day and sold out immediately, following previous successes with the 2011 Record Store Day release of the legendary Third [Test Pressing Edition] and Alex Chilton’s Free Again: The “1970″ Sessions in January of 2012.
An official selection of the SXSW Film Festival (2012), winner of the Best Documentary at Indie Memphis (2012), and a hit at the BFI London Film Fest and DOC NYC, the Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me film chronicles the initial commercial failure and subsequent critical acclaim of Big Star, further solidifying the enduring legacy of one of pop music’s greatest cult bands.
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me traces the origins and history of the legendary group — from 16-year-old Alex Chilton skyrocketing to stardom in the late ’60s with the Box Tops and their #1 hit, “The Letter”; to the serendipitous meeting of Chilton and local Memphis singer-songwriter-guitarist Chris Bell; through the tumultuous recording of Big Star’s landmark albums, #1 Record, Radio City, and Third; culminating with the band’s implosion due to lackluster record sales, personal breakdowns, and the tragic death of Bell in 1978.
The three original Big Star releases, each of which charted on Rolling Stone’s “Top 500 Albums of All Time,” have become critically lauded touchstones of the rock music canon. A seminal band in the history of alternative music, Big Star has been cited as an influence by R.E.M., The Replacements, Belle & Sebastian, Elliott Smith, Wilco, Beck, Jeff Buckley and The Flaming Lips, to name just a few. With never-before-seen footage and photos of the band, in-depth interviews and a rousing musical tribute by some of the bands they inspired, Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me is a story of artistic and musical salvation.
The Omnivore Recordings soundtrack plays like an audio version of the documentary, capturing its essence. It features previously unissued versions of classic Big Star, Chris Bell and Alex Chilton songs, including demos, plus alternate original and new mixes made especially for the film.
Side 1:
1. O MY SOUL (Demo, 1973)
2. GIVE ME ANOTHER CHANCE
(Control Room Monitor Mix, 1972)
3. IN THE STREET (Movie Mix, 2012
4. WHEN MY BABY’S BESIDE ME
(Alternate Mix, 1972)
5. STUDIO BANTER (1972)
6. TRY AGAIN (Movie Mix, 2012) – Rock City
Side 2:
1. MY LIFE IS RIGHT (Alternate Mix, 1972)
2. THE BALLAD OF EL GOODO
(Alternate Mix, 1972)
3. FEEL (Alternate Mix, 1972)
4. DON’T LIE TO ME (Alternate Mix, 1972)
5. WAY OUT WEST (Alternate Mix, 1973)
Side 3:
1. THIRTEEN (Alternate Mix, 1972)
2. YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE
(Alternate Mix, 1973)
3. HOLOCAUST (Rough Mix, 1974)
4. KANGA ROO (Rough Mix, 1974)
5. STOKE IT NOEL (Backward Intro, 1974)
6. BIG BLACK CAR (Rough Mix, 1974)
Side 4:
1. BETTER SAVE YOURSELF
(Movie Mix, 2012) – Chris Bell
2. I AM THE COSMOS
(Movie Mix, 2012) – Chris Bell
3. ALL WE EVER GOT FROM THEM WAS PAIN
(Movie Mix, 2012) – Alex Chilton
4. SEPTEMBER GURLS
(Movie Mix, 2012)
All songs by Big Star except where noted
Nothing Can Hurt Me: Original Soundtrack
SOLD OUT! Available in record stores only on Record Store Day, April 20, 2013
180-Gram Colored Vinyl Release of the Soundtrack to the Forthcoming Big Star
Documentary featuring all previously unissued versions of classic Big Star songs!
Third [Test Pressing Edition]
SOLD OUT! Available in record stores only on Record Store Day, April 16, 2011
180-gram black vinyl exclusively available for Record Store Day and limited to 2,000 copies worldwide.
Locate your favorite independent record store at the Record Store Day website.
11th Annual Independent Music Awards nominee for Best Reissue and for Best Album Packaging!
What the heck is Big Star Third, anyway? To be honest, it’s the kind of thing a doctoral thesis could be written about: a “lost” record re-discovered years after it was recorded, one that has seen many track listings, titles and album covers, a classic, an enigma.
Third comes from sessions with Big Star’s Alex Chilton, Jody Stephens and a bevy of session musicians, recorded with producer Jim Dickinson in 1974 and early 1975. Whether it was actually intended to be a Big Star album is up for debate, but a couple hundred test pressings made in 1975 clearly list it as Big Star III, as does the original tape box (now lovingly reproduced here for you). Until the cavalcade of reissues began in 1978, all that existed were those test pressings. And since that time, it has been reissued and resequenced into something other than what the original product was: a 14-track pressing of pure bliss.
We here at Omnivore have decided to transport you back 36 years, to a time and place where this platter of polyvinyl chloride was all that existed–a truly faithful replica of that Ark of power pop goodness (complete with replicas of the original tape box, tracking and lead sheets, mastering card and pretty white blank label). This limited edition is being cut from the original assembly reel, on the same lathe at the legendary Ardent Studios in Memphis and by the very same engineers who cut it the first time, Mr. Larry Nix and Mr. John Fry! Pressed on high quality vinyl at RTI, this should be the definitive version of this album.
To make things even more special, in the worldwide, limited run of 2,000 copies, five copies of the original test pressings (courtesy of Jody Stephens) will be inserted into the mix. Which means not only that you can listen to a bit of history—but if you’re lucky you could own it, too. To make things even cooler, those five copies have been signed by Jody, original mastering engineers Larry Nix and Ardent’s John Fry.
Third time’s the charm, indeed.
LP TRACK LIST:
Side 1:
1. STROKE IT NOEL
2. DOWNS
3. FEMME FATALE
4. THANK YOU FRIENDS
5. HOLOCAUST
6. JESUS CHRIST
7. BLUE MOON
Side 2:
1. KIZZA ME
2. FOR YOU
3. O, DANA
4. NIGHTIME
5. WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN’
6. KANGA ROO
Be sure to check out more of what’s going ahn at Ardent Studios, and if you’ve got mastering work, check out one of our favorite engineers in the world, Larry Nix!