What's almost better than a first rate Big Star song? A fantastic Replacement song about Big Star, that's my answer...also, I love that Westerburg's vision of Chilton is slightly unhinged (Appropriately, on both men's accounts): Chilton is from Mars, children follow him like the pied pipper, he rapes and pillages through villages...only slightly less absurd is the idea, that actually existed for a few days, that Chilton had been lost in Hurricane Katrina...turned out not to be true, but it would have been an appropriately Westerburgian end to a man who was a legend to a depressingly small following.
One final note on the song itself, you can't go wrong with handclaps in a song. Much like cowbells, synchronized stops, and "na-na-na" choruses, it just always works.
Incidentally, this is song #100 in this little project. I'm 1% finished...swell...
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