Alex Chilton - Bach's Bottom (1975-77, 1993 expanded edition)

Artist: Alex Chilton
Title: Bach's Bottom
Year Of Release: 1975/1993
Label: Razor & Tie
Genre: Garage Rock, Alt Rock, Indie Rock, Proto-Punk
Quality: Flac (tracks, log)
Total Time: 47:40

Recorded in 1975 and 1976, shortly after Big Star broke up during the fractious, drug-addled sessions for their final album, the songs on Bach's Bottom were similarly left stranded at the time, although four of them did eventually show up on the 1977 Ork Records EP Singer Not the Song. Released well after the sessions, Bach's Bottom (a punning title on Chilton's first band) is a mess.

It sound spooky and haunted and rocking. Songs like "Free Again," the most obviously Big Star-like tune here, and the storming cover of the Seeds' "Can't Seem to Make You Mine," so parts of the album actually work. And of course, it has "Bangkok," possibly Chilton's finest post-Big Star single, so it's close to necessary just for that. Bach's Bottom is Chilton's one of his most willfully difficult and impenetrable records.

Tracklist:
1. Take Me Home and Make Me Like It (Alex Chilton, Benny Davis, Jon Tiven) - 2:55
2. (Every Time I) Close My Eyes (Jon Tiven) - 1:57
3. All Of the Time (Alex Chilton) - 2:47
4. Free Again (Alex Chilton) - 5:06
5. I'm So Tired, (Pt. 1, 2) (Willie Banks, John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 2:58
6. Free Again (Alex Chilton) - 2:17
7. Jesus Christ (Alex Chilton) - 2:54
8. Singer Not the Song (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) - 2:04
9. Summertime Blues (Jerry Capehart, Eddie Cochran) - 2:37
10.Take Me Home and Make Me Like It (Alex Chilton, Benny Davis, Jon Tiven) - 6:58
11.(Every Time I) Close My Eyes (Jon Tiven) - 1:46
12.Bangkok (Alex Chilton) - 2:00
13.Can't Seem to Make You Mine (Sky Saxon) - 2:46
14.Walking Dead (Alex Chilton) - 2:58
15.Take Me Home and Make Me Like It (Alex Chilton, Benny Davis, Jon Tiven) - 5:31