Big Star - Thirteen [Alternate Mix] (Official Music Video)
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- Big Star - "Thirteen" [Alternate Mix] (Official Music Video) from the greatest-hits album 'Keep An Eye On The Sky' (2009). "Thirteen" originally appeared on '#1 Record' (1972). The video features archival footage of Big Star members Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Jody Stephens, and Andy Hummel.
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The lore on this song is that It's called 13 because Alex wrote it at 13. It was his first song. A few years later he was the singer in the Box Tops singing The Letter and sounding like an old blues man. When the Box Tops broke up and he formed Big Star, and pulled the song out of mothballs. Thank God he did. BTW Jody, the drummer still runs Ardent studios in Memphis. I spent a couple hours with him a few years back. He was absolutely awesome. Everything you'd hope he'd be. Told great stories. Best day ever. Thanks for putting this up!
I did the math today. He would’ve been 15 when Paint it Black came out in ‘66. 15 and nostalgic for 7th grade. Utterly gorgeous song, sheer Genius. Chilton and Bell were born within months of my oldest brother, also long gone. I felt like I was watching my brother running up and down those stairs. Was that Chilton?
RIP the three members of Big Star
Alex Chilton (December 28, 1950 - March 17, 2010), aged 59
Chris Bell (January 12, 1951 - December 27, 1978), aged 27
Andy Hummel (January 26, 1951 - July 19, 2010), aged 59
You will be remembered as legends.
Interesting that all three were born within a month of each other.
@@lordofthemound3890 Indeed my friend.
We lost them all way, way too soon.
Another 27 :( same as Pete Ham from Badfinger...
Jody Stephens is still alive.
One of the most beautiful songs I ever heard. Too bad it took 40 years for me to discover Bigstar
You aren't the only one!
I'd wait another 40 years if I had the opportunity to hearing this song for the first time again.
I know how you feel, especially considering that I live in New Orleans where Alex Chilton worked, including playing @Chris Owens Club (big-boobed showgirl way past it) for requests! He died here after Katrina due to lack of insurance. Heart attack. Check out Chris Bell’s solo posthumous album “I Am the Cosmos”. He’s inspired of Beck, R.E.M., Teenage Fanclub, Pixies, Primal Scream, Afghan Whigs, Pete Yorn, Wilco, The Posies, and The Replacements, all of whom have covered his music or expressed their admiration for Big Star.
Hey...thankfully, you ended up discovering the band and, you are able to revel in the glorious musical moments that they have captured on 1/4" reels for us to cherish into eternity 💖🤘🔥
I’m 15 hehehehe
For me this song recalls growing up in the early 70's - We had school dances, walked to and from school with friends, had so much hope for the future ---- We had more dreams than there were stars in the sky.
Sometimes I wish I could go back just for a day, to feel that sort of optimism. When every day held the promise of something good.
😞heavy sigh😞
"Would you be an outlaw for my love"
TRY TOPPING THAT LYRIC
BRILLIANT
'I'm paying the price for rolling the dice in the air'
One of the most beautiful songs ever written
1985. I was 17 When I bought my 1st Big Star record (& Velvet Underground).
Little did you know it's about a pedophile...
@@bandname sure man.....keep telling yourself that vile narrative
@@mackeydirk8643 Haha, touchy.
Look at your yearbook while this plays...
I'm 15 and I'm so glad I've got this music
I don't know why but this song just stops me in my tracks every time I hear it
Because this song has a way of bringing long and forgotten memories back up to the surface. It gets into your head and brings back a time long forgotten. It as beautiful and powerful.
george lavallee I only just heard it for the first time......Think im in love
Cause it's heartbreaking.
Because it's about your first real crush. And there's nothing more powerful than the memories you have and the feelings that are generated when you think about your first real crush.
Same
I never travel far, without a little Big Star....
Paul !!! Fuck yea
YESSSS
Tell them what we said about Paint it Black .. Not such a good idea to tell her parents? Great song.
Children by the million scream for Alex Chilton
me either, really I don't.
The beauty of music.
I only heard this yesterday for the first time ! It’s March 2024 !
And I thought I knew music ! Weird how some bands totally pass you by.
Welcome to Big Star. They wrote some songs you probably already know. "September Gurls" was covered by The Bangles. "In the Street" was That 70s Show theme song. Check out "Feel." That sounds like it could have been a theme song for the 1970s. "The Ballad of El Goodo" was one of my favorites. El Goodo was a place members of Big Star would eat, but the song had a deep message that wasn't about pizza. Check them out if you didn't already.
I graduated 81, never heard til last month. How 😮
@@joyschlomer6866 I know what you mean.
My sister just played this for me today. Amazingly beautiful.
I learned of this song/band after hearing a cover by Elliott Smith, one of my favorite artists.
There is a boy I used to walk to the subway with. It was the favorite hours of my day. We talked about same old mangas or nothing at all and was so comforting. Guess I've never felt so happy and calm just being around someone. That was so many years ago. I wonder how he is now. This song reminded me of him. I miss him. I miss those times. It was so sweet.
Mega friendzone, was he like a brother to you?😏
Find him 😉
Awww... I hope you'll find him
Espero que a vida tratou você bem durante esse tempo
💚
Chris Bell, you beautiful human.
In music, like so much of life, success is not necessarily measured in actual talent. That Big Star never became commercially successful in their day is a testament to that fact.
I read somewhere that when released this album was lauded as the best album of the year by the critics. Problems within Ardent Studios caused a delay in the promotion for almost a year after release which hurt its chances. I hear Big Star influences in so many great bands from the 1980s and later. Check out Elliott Smith's cover of Thirteen it is heartbreaking. Cheers!!!
it's incredible how this song was from the early 70s and still sounds incredibly fresh and nostalgic at the same time. to me it sounds like it could have come from an indie rock/pop band today.
One of the most honest and pure songs ever recorded.
My hometown heroes. A damn shame Chris Bell didn't live long enough to see how influential their songs became.
Godamn.. I’m crying again ..
Why do I find this song so heartbreaking? Tell me I am not alone.
I always feel nostalgic when I hear this song. Such an overwhelming feeling, I can't explain
You ,my sensitive friend are definitely not alone.
I know someone who can't listen to it, bc it fills him up too much.
You are not. 🥺
I heard this song for the first time yesterday and cried for a good 20minutes straight. It's a heartbreaking song for sure. Then again I'm going through a breakup so there's that...
Such a beautiful and well-crafted song.
rock and roll is here to stay
Everytime i hear this on the radio, on spotify, on youtube i cry a little for the things that are gone. All the memories coming bsck when i listen this ❤
The nostalgia this brings me from a time I wasn't even alive in, is impeccable. All I can think of is my parents & their generation rocking out in the 70s. Beautiful.
Perfectly said!
It was an amazing time to come of age. I weep for the generations now who won’t know some of the simplest of joys we knew. You’re sadly all too monitored now. I wish it could be like this again. It was simple, raw and amazing.
I don't understand how they weren't commercially sucessfull.
Emil poor label management
I understood their record got shelfed... for decades.
The albums sat in Stax warehouse w no money for distribution they went bankrupt . Alex was my friend. Memphis has no money.
@@elisecliftonklitz, could you please tell me which man in the video is Alex Chilton?
@@erscott13 he is the one getting on the elevator and sitting at the baby grand piano. ❤❤❤
You're definitely not alone. The song embodies the era.
RIP Alex, Chris, Andy...
that's the best song ever
I've never seen this footage before, it's priceless. It's incredible how much beauty they created together in so short a time.
The song is more than beautiful, it's addictive. It gets under your skin and itches to be heard... again and again.
Hauntingly beautiful
Eric and Donna ♥
"In the Street!"
yesss!
This is the coment i was searching.
'hello wisconsin'
treu love
Found this song 2 days back. I haven't stopped listening to it since then. I cant describe my emotions. It's so simple yet makes you feel so much. Wow.
You might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like Big Star
Seriously, one the most beautiful acoustic songs ever written.
I was watching that 70's show and heard this for a brief minute and went searching for it, so glad I found it:)
Same here. Only I've been looking for it for it for more than a year. AND FINALLY I FOUND IT!!!!!!!
326natallen same here seen the last episode of that 70’s show brought me here
I came here after watching the epsiode. But I already know this from 13 reasons why and How I met your mother.
This song fits Eric and Donna perfectly from that 70s show
listening for first time...tears in my eyes...beautiful
I love Chris's smile at 1:10
augsburg60 can’t help but get sad seeing it, knowing that he passed away at 27 in a tragedy.
Lest we forget. RIP.
As much as I love Alex's vocals and lyrics, Chris to me will always be the soul of Big Star. A beautiful star that flared up so brightly and faded away so quickly, strangely it makes the music better and more precious to me than it would have been otherwise, I'm sure of that as weird as it sounds, it's one of the many things I love about the music, the relative scarcity making it all the more precious, every note and lyric.
"I Am the Cosmos" and "Your Sister", not Big Star in name but Alex contributed...unbelievably beautiful and heartbreaking
Absolutely gorgeous.... Like a cherry on a sundae. I miss this type of romantic music, and I sure as hell miss Chris Bell and my good man Alex Chilton.
This reminds me of the very first girl I kissed, the day before she moved away. I never kissed or saw her again, and the kiss was horrible from an objective perspective, but it contained such a sweetness, the first fumblings of learning and yearning to connect to a person in this mind-blowing and brand-new way. Thinking about it 41 years later, I feel a hint of melancholy, but much more kind of remote and distant joy from it still reverberating in some small spot inside of me. Every single time I listen to "13" I feel a bit of the same way, it never loses it's potency to evoke that same exact and rather rare feeling in me. Chris Bell forever!
rock and roll is here to stay come inside where its O.K.
And I'll shake you
ralieghTsakers Rock and Roll never dies! ✌
"Thirteen"
Won't you let me walk you home from school?
Won't you let me meet you at the pool?
Maybe Friday I can
Get tickets for the dance
And I'll take you, ooh ooh
Won't you tell your dad get off my back?
Tell him what we said 'bout Paint It Black
Rock and roll is here to stay
Come inside where it's okay
And I'll shake you, ooh ooh
Won't you tell me what you're thinking of?
Would you be an outlaw for my love?
If it's so, well let me know
If it's no, well I can go
I won't make you, ooh ooh
Thank you )
Star girl brought me here! Not a big fan of this type of music but damn ... I loved this song straight away ♥️
Same
thank you Alex, for this beautiful gem you penned at age 13 shows you r amazing underappreciated talent. may you RIP!!!
Thanks to That 70's Show for letting me know this great song
My parents named me after Alex, my first name is Alex and Chilton is my middle name. Although I'm just getting around to listening to his music now; really sad how badly Big Star got screwed, still great music nonetheless
Damn your parents are based af
@@jeepmccann752 You’re kind.
That 70's Show brought me here
finale got me here. and all those heartaches came rushing back to make me sob like a girl.
shiva nishtala just watched the final episode and came here right after it was over. There was a tear....
Edgar Garcia how I met your mother brought me here lol
Awesome. Makes me think of my childhood a lot
A Disney+ original called Stargirl brought me here. I had never heard it before which surprises me bc my Dad was huge into music. I will always wonder now if he had ever heard it, loved/liked/hated it. I feel if he had ever heard it and did like it, I would surely have heard it sometime. My Dad passed away April 2019. I don’t think my heart will ever heal.
It was just today I realized this song dropped in 1972. I mean, the reference to Paint it Black should probably be enough, but the lyrics are just that timeless.
I was hanging out in Memphis in the mid to late 70s and wish I would have known...oh well. There was a big to-do about them when the Live at Missouri album came out in the early 90s, and I bought it...and listened...and thought, meh. Sometime in the 2000s, there was another big to-do and I listened to them again and...how could I have been so wrong?? I DID get to see Alex Chilton, who I WAS a fan of (still am), in the early 90s sometime. It was at a small festival in Memphis, and I heard that he was going to play and drove up from Oxford, MS, where I then lived. Wow. He had obviously just rolled out of bed, came on stage with a GREAT band (my memory is that it was a pick up band, pretty much, of the finest Memphis musicians, but I could be wrong). One of my great musical experiences for sure.
Happy Birthday, Chris Bell! I'm sharing this and other Big Star songs with my music students today.
What A Great Band! WooF! Chris Bell's I Am The Cosmos is Fantastic!
One of the most perfect songs ever written. Sends chills down the spine every time regardless of mood.
I don't see how anyone can dislike this song. Alex has such a beautiful voice and the song has absolutely nothing that could be changed to make it better. Perfection.
Reminds me of my sister Bonnie and her husband. She passed away a few years ago! I miss her so much.
Makes me cry every time! Reminds me of my sister I lost a few years ago and her husband who I love very much!
I found this from that 70's show great show! & Song!
This is some of the most beautiful footage
No matter how many times I hear this song, it makes me flash through my whole life, and life is beautiful, magical, just as this song is. What a beautiful version!!
This is the generation I should've grown up in.
I always liked boot cut pants, I use them since 1989
I wasn't born yet when this song came out I believe in 72, I was born in 81.. When I was 12, a friend of my parents introduced me to it, since I have a love for all kind of music. And I was just in love with it, and still am to this day. And when I heard it on the finale of That 70's Show, I was just blown away. It is just a sweet simple song about a first love when you were younger. And by it being from the early 70's, its really coming from a time when it was all so pure and plain innocent.
I keep coming back to this! God i miss you sister! 😭
This old video takes me back in time, old cars on the street and every one dressed like the Partridge family. Very sweet song, too.
The fact that this was the last song played on "That 70's show" tells you something. One of the best bands of the 70's that nobody heard. Tragic.
No matter how many times I hear this song, his voice when he sings the part "paint it black" still gives me chills. So perfect and beautiful.
I'm not certain how I missed Big Star! I'm obsessed ❤ (in April 2023).
Emouvantes images d'archives.
Une superbe chanson "étoilée".
Beautiful. This song always tugs at my heart strings.
Every single time I hear this song I get goosebumps.
Still a favourite after all these years.
All I wanted was this kind of love at this age. It only took me another 30 years to get it but I am so glad I did.
I love Chris Bell and I don't even know him. Such a beautiful person
Love these lyrics. Simple but effective.
Won't you let me walk you home from school?
Won't you let me meet you at the pool?
Maybe Friday I can
Get tickets for the dance
And I'll take you, ooh-ooh
Won't you tell your dad, "Get off my back"
Tell him what we said 'bout 'Paint It Black'
Rock and Roll is here to stay
Come inside where it's okay
And I'll shake you, ooh-ooh
Won't you tell me what you're thinking of?
Would you be an outlaw for my love?
If it's so, well, let me know
If it's no, well, I can go
I won't make you, ooh-ooh
chills... love it as the 70s show 😍
How I Met Your Mother. Season 3, episode 13. Beautiful song to a beautiful love scene.
Fantastic. Footage of the legendary eternal Big Star right at the beginning when everything still seemed possible and Chris Bell was still full of hope and creative energy. Plus early '70's cars, fashion (bell-bottoms!) and street scenes.
They're so young... amazing song.
One of my all time favorite bands growing up.
Big love for Big Star and especially for Chris Bell. RIP ♥️
will always be one of my favourite records
Words cannot express how beautiful this song is.
This song it's so honest, so pure, so innocent
Listening it after 40 yrs of releasing, idk why this song gives me soothing Vibes ❤
Rip legends, thanks for the wonderful song.
When Chris Bell's harmonies come in at the end of the second verse, chillllllllls.
Man,that video was like time travel..Awesome. RIP Chris,Andy and Alex.
Wildest things about Rock N Roll, No. 1:
A 16 year old sang the song “Letter” in the 1967. It sure doesn’t sound like a 16 year old.
PS: he sings this song too. 😎
I'm thirteen, and I've loved this song since I was 11. I knew about it before I watched That 70's Show, which I finished about a month ago. But I was watching How I Met Your Mother with my mom and this song came on, I've been listening to it for an hour on repeat Haha.
Hannah White now you’re 20ish! Crazy
damn, and that was 7 years ago. it's crazy how we never expect paths to cross like this.
Serenity Music really does unite people of all ages, and it’s amazing that the feelings I feel for this song now are the same as the feelings I felt for it 7 years ago. So cool!
@@TurtleyGoodness I love that you replied 7 years later. This comment section is like a glorious time capsule for passionate music lovers.
im 14 n just found this song on spotify while browsing through a playlist and omg the guitar is beautiful?? wtf
This song makes me sad because it reminds me of the episode where Eric went back to Donna after he ditched his wedding. T-T E+D 4ever!!!
One of my favorite songs of all time
I have listened to this song more than thirteen times over the years.
I find it hard to believe that you can't get in to the rest of their music. #1 Record is an absolute masterpiece.
big star forever 💫
You might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like Big Star
Wow. A beautifully crafted love song that's so sincere... I feel like a teenager again every time I hear it
One of the most heartfelt odes to the rush, power and, utter hopelessness/hopefulness of young love
what amazing recordings BIG STAR made. John Fry and the boys really laid down some incredible-sounding stuff. sonically perfect. ethereal. heavenly. art. R.I.P. Alex Chilton, Chris Bell & Andy Hummel
who cares how people find good music as long as they find it.
Such a beautiful song.😢😢😢😢😢 I miss such beautiful songs, and i miss that 70s show. Damn everything fades with time
Heard this song on that 70s show, which I love. Even a 71 y.o. like me gets taken back to memories of high school by songs like this one. Omg, it's called "13". Man, thats the age I saw my true love for the 1st time. Too bad I never got the courage to approach her, cuz, I still love her.
i wish i was a teen in the early 70s
Same. I was definitely born in the wrong decade.
I was a teen in the 70s. And the world was *infinitely* a better place back then.
I was 17 in 1970. It was a great time to be alive. Unfortunately, I never heard of Big Star back then. No radio play....
Under no circumstances is that time better, although it was awesome.
@@dreamingmusic3299 hahaha better? Everyone was trippin on acid back then.
Oh my, so beautiful. Thank you.
I love this. Not ashamed to say Vinyl finally made me listen to this. It was something that had been skirting on the edge of my "to listen too" list for a while. Wistful, simple, and makes me long for that time where you could share these things with someone without cynicism. It's a pity it took so long for them to be recognised in a wider context.