Since the death of Alex Chilton in 2010, everything Big Star and anything associated with the band has been or is being released. The latest in the Big Star sweepstakes is Looking Forward <\/i>by Chris Bell.<\/p>\n
Bell\u2019s time with the band was short. He contributed to their terrific 1972 debut album, #1 Record. <\/i>His solo career showed promise, but he was killed in a car accident in 1978 at the age of 27, leaving him as a \u201cwhat if\u201d of rock music.<\/p>\n
Looking Forward <\/i>gathers together his unreleased and rarely found pre-Big Star material. His participation in bands such as Rock City, Icewater, and the Wallabys explores his development \u2013 and thus, the roots of Big Star.<\/p>\n
Seventeen of the 22 tracks are finished, well-recorded songs by the aforementioned bands. They may sound a bit primitive by today\u2019s standards, but Bell\u2019s melodic approach and tight harmonies are present throughout.<\/p>\n
The best songs are from his time with Rock City. The ten tracks have a cohesive feel, though they should have been placed chronologically on the CD. \u201cThe Wind Will Cry For Me,\u201d \u201cI Lost A Love,\u201d \u201cThe Answer,\u201d and \u201cThink It\u2019s Time To Say Goodbye\u201d are fairly mature and have a finished feel.\u00a0The six Icewater and Wallabys contributions find him not as settled and travelling in a number of directions, including several that feature bluesy vocals.<\/p>\n
Bell never really enjoyed any large commercial success during his lifetime. While his post-Big Star material is more polished and focused, Looking Forward <\/i>is an eclectic look at his early career and is well worth a listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":33241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[10045],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-45050","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-chris-bell","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45050"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45050"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}