In memory of Alex Chilton - Holocaust (Big Star)

[Withywindle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQ977u8Wuk

One of the saddest songs ever written. And just about the best song about depression ever that isn't credited "L. Cohen."

I used to cry my eyes out to this all the time when I was in high school. I'm doing it again now. Thanks for understanding and being there when I needed you, Alex. :cry:

[miscsoc]

1. one of my favourite songs ever

i posted a link to some other youtube video of it in another thread. it's wonderfully hopeless...such a sense of defeat.

i'm glad other people have cried their eyes out to this.

[Withywindle]

2. Unbelievably beautiful, isn't it?

"Jesus Christ" from the same album is just about my favorite Christmas song ever too.

[miscsoc]

3. I first came across this song in the form of this cover:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Q112QQQjk&feature=PlayList&p=91BC2D2F03D9BDDF&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=71

It's not as sublimely shattered and fragile as the original, by any stretch.

[miscsoc]

4. "she said, don't be afraid"

that line is just horrifying to listen to, since she's wrong, and he IS afraid, and she's gone.

[Withywindle]

6. yeah, and if you were dying and wanted to comfort a loved one,

you very well might say the same thing.

No one who's ever heard this song can escape knowing it's a lie. :cry:

[Withywindle]

5. No, but it's still a good cover.

Son Volt were a great band. A friend of mine was a road/sound guy for them.

[miscsoc]

7. holocaust is

the only song i've ever tried to record myself singing. i can't sing or even play guitar competently, but I was besotted by the song to the extent that I gave it a go, using my girlfriend-at-the-time's computer when she was out. I gave up when her flatmate came home, since i was worried he might hear me. Probably for the best. Anyway I basically copied the Son Volt version, since I liked the little guitar fills. Really wish I'd kept the recording, would have been interesting to listen to today.

[miscsoc]

8. as for son volt

i'm listening to "route" to cheer me up

reality it burns! good band.

[6000eliot]

9. RIP, Alex.

One of the great misunderstood artists.