Columbia: Live at Missouri University | ||||
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Live album by | ||||
Released | September 14, 1993 | |||
Recorded | April 25, 1993[1] | |||
Genre | Power pop | |||
Length | 48:59 | |||
Label | Zoo[2] | |||
Producer | Jim Rondinelli | |||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
Robert Christgau | A−[4] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [5] |
Rolling Stone | [6] |
Spin Alternative Record Guide | 4/10[7] |
Columbia: Live at Missouri University 4/25/93 is a reunion live album by the American power pop group Big Star, recorded and released in 1993 by the original Big Star members Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens together with The Posies' members Jonathan Auer and Ken Stringfellow.[8] It was recorded at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.[9][10]
In April 2016, the concert was reissued for Record Store Day as a 2-LP vinyl edition titled Complete Columbia: Live at University of Missouri 4/25/93, with an additional six tracks ("O My Soul," "Thirteen," "Kansas City," "Till the End of the Day," and "Duke of Earl," plus "Jody Rap" – Stephens reciting a thank you list to those who made the concert possible).[11] The release, on 180-gram vinyl and pressed at MPO in France, was limited to 4,000 copies.
Rolling Stone wrote: "Without trying to recreate pristine versions of the original songs, the rejuvenated Big Star go for feel: Guitars battle and build to crescendos, impassioned vocals push the melodic hooks with heart, soul and guts."[6] Trouser Press wrote that "the under-rehearsed playing, if hardly airtight, is free of preciousness and nostalgia and vibrantly on the emotional money; the sloppy singing is hearty and tuneful."[9] The Spin Alternative Record Guide dismissed the album, writing that the only song worth hearing is the cover of "Slut."[7]
Side A
Side B
Side C
Side D