Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me Page #11

commercially

successful about it.

I thought about

the former dream

a lot more than I ever thought

about the other dream.

# I see sadness in your eyes

"It has been said that art

should create the sense

that time has stopped.

Big Star transcended

normal escapist pop convention

by creating music

that somehow froze moments

that were concurrently vibrant

and yet startlingly brilliant,

and yet oddly spent. "

It was after

my mother died in this home,

my brother-in-law

noticed some people

in the front yard

taking pictures of the house.

They said,

"We're from New York

and we're fans of Chris Bell. "

That knocked us all out.

Having a very personal

relationship to a band

and especially if the band

doesn't become big commercially.

They were

trying to do something.

They were shooting

for the moon.

There's a certain kind of purity

in terms of what the music

was going to sound like.

It's more an idea

I think on some levels.

It was too individual.

It was too Memphis.

It was unrecoupable

and has never really recouped,

but nevertheless,

it changed music.

They were there waiting like

a little jewel in the earth,

for me to dig them out

and to find them

and to appreciate them

retrospectively.

That to me is a great gift

of recorded music.

My personal viewpoint

on Big Star story

is pain transformed

into beauty.

Everybody suffered,

everybody feels pain,

not everybody turns that

into that kind of art.

It really harkened back to real,

authentic pain,

real authentic loneliness.

Things that would

become alternative music

20 years later.

I'm not sure

where we belonged

and maybe that's why

I wasn't so surprised

when Big Star wasn't

commercially successful.

But it seems to belong now.

# September gurls do so much

# I was your butch

and you were touched #

# I loved you,

well, never mind #

# I've been crying

all the time #

# December boys got it bad

# December boys

got it bad #

# September gurls

I don't know why #

# How can I deny

what's inside #

# Even though I keep away

# Maybe we'll love

all our days #

# December boys got it bad

# December boys

got it bad #

# When I get to bed

late at night #

# That's the time

she makes things right #

# Ooh, when

she makes love to me #

# At nighttime I go out

and see the people #

# Air goes cool

and hurryin' on my way #

# And dressin' so sweet,

all the people to see #

# They're lookin' at me,

all the people to see #

# And when I set

my eyes on you #

# You look like a kitty

# And when you're in the moon

# Oh, you look so pretty

# Caught a glance

in your eyes #

# And fell through the skies

# Glance in your eyes

# And fell through the skies

# I'm walkin' down

the freezin' street #

# Scarf goes out behind

# You said, "Get them away

# Please don't say a word"

# Get me out of here,

get me out of here #

# I hate it here,

get me out of here #

# At nighttime I go out

and see the people #

# Air goes cool

and hurryin' on my way #

# A glance in your eyes

# And fell through the skies

# A glance in your eyes

and fell through the skies #

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