A Man Called Destruction

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Total Tracks: 12   Total Length: 37:17

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Smells like Memphis

misterrosewater

I fell into Big Star backwards, starting with this album. I was working at a radio station in BF South Dakota when this little gem came into the office. I listened to it, loved it, and began digging into the back catalog of this Chilton guy. I was green to most of the Replacements good stuff, so as one can imagine most of my paychecks were going towards expanding my collection with everything and anything Chilton/Westerberg related. Lies and Don't Stop are jams, and the horn section that permeates the record sounds at home with Alex's rediscovered white boy soul.

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Since the mid-’80s, all Alex Chilton albums are basically interchangeable. Chilton and his bar band get together and knock off a handful of mediocre new songs and several (mostly obscure) R&B and rock & roll oldies. Now that Chilton is more or less sober, his pitch is a bit better, yet there isn’t anything particularly special about A Man Called Destruction, other than the delightfully corny “What’s Your Sign?,” where Alex sings the horoscope in an attempt to pick up a girl, even if it’s all listenable. – Stephen Thomas Erlewine