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Title: A Diamond In The Rough
Review: This album is a shambles. It is full of unfinished songs, with weird, half-done arrangements. It also has some of the most harrowingly dark, emotionally powerful music ever written. Not a tight power-pop album like Big Star's first two albums that were done when the band was actually still a band, not the disintegrated mess it was when this album was recorded, mostly by Alex Chilton by himself. Not a party album by any stretch of the imagination. A decidedly challenging listen (I did not like it at all the first time I listened to it), but it has many rewards for the open-minded and persistent.
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