Third/Sister Lovers

Imagine that, more crappy, forgettable pop/rock. You gotta cut this shit out, Dimery.

Na. just a bit 'light' no meat on it

Not for me

Every single track is bad in it's own way, which is actually really impressive.

I could have died without ever knowing who these guys were, let alone listen to this hot mess.

This album was so mediocre that even the band didn’t have an interest in seeing it succeed. It was recorded in 1975 and wasn’t released until 1978. This was also the last album by the band who broke up after its creation. As for the music, it’s high school garage band level at best. Every song is the same dull composition with different boring lyrics that repeat incessantly on topics that no one cares about. This album has no business being on this list of 1001.

After my initial listen, I could only assume that I must have missed something, so I forced myself to listen to the whole album again with complete and total focus to arrive at an accurate review. Here’s what I came up with: What the actual fuck? Someone in this band must have horribly incriminating nude photos of the book’s author and the willingness to use them. There is no other explanation as to why I was subjected to this twatwaffle and his brooding, sophomoric bullshit … twice.

Most depressing music ever

The epitome of "you're making this really hard for me to care about this album in any form". I've probably forgotten I listened to it by the time you're reading this.

My god this might be one of the most droning, boring albums I’ve had to listen to. Whoever the vocalist is, let’s just say it’s in Liam Gallagher territory in terms of how annoying it is. Struggled to find anything redeemable here.

Kohutavalt igav plaat. Vokaal on nii imal, lodev ja lõikav. Siin on mõni üksik käik, mis mulle meeldib. Aga muidu on mul seda C-duuri sitta ikka suht ebamugav kuulata. Julgen sellele panna 1.5/5

I must be missing something. How is this band a cult classic? At times it’s cheesy pop and other times run-of-the-mill music. Side note, the name made me believe they were a country act.

What the hell was that?

Strange band.

Wow, hated that.

I found this relentlessly boring. 2/10 Marginal

2/10 Probably my least favorite album so far.

From the wiki: "After two commercially unsuccessful albums, Third documents the band's deterioration as well as the declining mental state of singer Alex Chilton. It has since gone on to become a cult album, and was placed at number 449 on Rolling Stone's 2012 list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time"." My own mental state declined after listening to this album. It made me want to overdose on heroin behind a dumpster. I guess I’m not in this “cult.”

this was bad even before they started in with that Christian bullshit

Listened this morning and forgotten already

Bro never have I rated this many albums so low in a row. Did not enjoy this at all. I might be the problem.

This album does not exist! I listened to a version that is not the original. Terrible…there are other great albums by big star to listen to.. not this one!

People covering this band do much better job

This was a weird cult like David Bowie feel.

very bad and boring album but i liked one song but not really liked it

Back in the 90s, many bands were claiming this was a massive inspiration but it didn’t sound great even then and it has not improved since.

Did not like. Some er and meh.

Sad and pathetic

They didn't care while making it. I didn't care while listening to it. Fair play all around.

I commend the string section for their professionalism, everything else here is obnoxious bullshit.

"you're a holocaust"

Wow. This was such a wierd album. The first 7 songs were actually ok and some of them good. Then I was hit with track nr. 8 which on my album was Kanga Roo. Holy shit. What the absolute madness happened here? I read that the singer and drummer lost interest on doing the album and you can really hear it here from the drummer. The next song was also bad. Then it went on to being ok and bad from till the end. This album could've been 2 or 3 even if someone would've actually paid antention to what goes on to the album. Shame. Best song... I don't know, if I have to pick I would say Till The End Of The Day or Holocaust.

Awful. Truly awful

I've heard it said, these guys were a great, unknown band. They should have stayed unknown. This wasn't great. It was kind of putrid. Very disappointing and can't redeem it.

Prior to this I had never heard of them. Wish I still hadn't. Yet another 1 start piece of trash from this list.

I could have died without listening to this

Not for me. 1/5

Not great

Crap

For the first album I got on 1001 Albums, this was not a strong start. It did have some great songs, like Kizza Me, Thank You Friends, and Jesus Christ. This album to me had poor mixing overall, and I feel that it started to lose energy near the end. However, the album was still pleasant to listen to.

At times I can hear the flickers of something I’d actually like, but mostly this is a chaotic mess. Other than You Can’t Have Me and Nighttime, it just spirals into weird-for-weird’s sake.

2/10 - boring and unforgettable

I'm glad I only listened to the previews of this song. A couple catchy ones but overall not a fan!

Everything about it is awful. How it's on here is beyond me?

some folks seem to hold this album in pretty high regard... for reasons that continue to baffle and elude to me. please believe me when i say that i tried to listen to this in good faith to understand what the appeal is: knowing that big star was influential to R.E.M. made me think this was going to be sonically miles away from where it actually landed. how can you call this "a shambling wreck of an album" and give it 5 stars??? where is the "haphazard brilliance"??? all i hear is the "haphazard" part - are we listening to the same album??? ??? highlights - for you

Meh, nothing to write home about. Many songs that i only somewhat remebered. Fav = Downs

Very uninteresting album - couldn't tell you what a single song sounds like. In terms of musicianship I've heard better pub bands.

Imagine an album of music made by people who are bored and irritated by the whole process and each other. This album from 1974 is exactly that and sounds as you might expect, a shambolic, rambling mess that was wisely shelved at the time. For some reason it attained a semi-mythical status through bootlegged tapes and was eventually released four years later. They really shouldn’t have bothered.

Sooo lsngweilig

Unknown band. I don't like the vocals all that much. Poor album.

Inconsistent, varying between tiresome, super weak sauce, and almost but no cigar.

Never understood the love for this band?

Not on my music streaming platform.

This band is just awful. Why did this make the list?

So bad also could not find this album

A no from me

I don’t get it, originally #449 on Rolling Stones Top 500. Then it moved up to #285 8 years later. I must suck at rating music…

If you're gonna do something, do it well, or shut the fuck up. Big Star failed to do either. It's people like this that give a bad name to incest.

Nie ma na spotify

Yet another album, which makes me wonder, why is it on this list? Especially according to Wikipedia, "After two commercially unsuccessful albums, Third documents the band's deterioration as well as the declining mental state of singer Alex Chilton." Yeah, that sounds like an album I should listen to before I die. Did the guy who wrote this book, actually listen to these albums, this one is awful!

Sometimes when I'm like "I've never heard this band before" when I get my album for the day I get excited like I'm going to be exposed to something new and exciting, something great. Not with this, this, this is trash. I can think of all the bands who were formed when they listened tot his album and were like 'fuck if they can get signed so can we'. I do know this though, no one looking to form a band is putting an add out saying 'looking to start a band that sounds like Big Star. I cannot say this more, garbage, garbage, garbage. What is worse, is there seems to be another album from this trash ass band. -100/5

Ironic this album is called third, because it took me three days to finish it. Incredibly meandering and boring. I thought I liked Big Star, but clearly not.

Some of the poorest production quality and some surprisingly shrill vocals completely turned me off this album. Some of the slower songs sounded pretty enough, but they also get repetitive and boring. Amazing that this is the "quality" of the album after so many releases and re-releases

nope

A few excerpts from the album review.... "...a combination of financial issues, the uncommercial sound of the record, and lack of interest from singer Alex Chilton and drummer Jody Stephens in continuing the project prevented the album from ever being properly finished... ....After two commercially unsuccessful albums, Third documents the band's deterioration as well as the declining mental state of singer Alex Chilton" Now....do those sound like descriptors of an album considered essential listening? NO!! There's too much of this absolute fucking garbage on this list.... Favorite songs: Thank You Friends Least favorite songs: Holocaust, Femme Fatale, Big Black Car, Nature Boy 1/5

Never heard of these guys. With good reason. Meh

Went from parody to abhorrent real quick. I need a shower.

This is a weird and wobbly pop record. I didn't even know which version I was supposed to listen, but after hearing few tracks I decided that I didn't care. Horrible record. Skipped through most of it. Couldn't wait to stop.

Nope. Bad production value and mediocre songs and performances.

Another Big Star album? And not even the one that has that one good song. September Girls I think. This is one of those bands that I really want to like, but just can’t find a way. Last album we heard was pretty stinky, and with this title? Were members of the band warring over the titles “Third” and “Sister Lovers?” I would’ve added a “third” option; dissolve the band and pursue alternate life paths. Another day, another ray of proverbial sunshine. Please let the Big Star be merciful, for the big star in our system yields to none. Kizza Me - I want to annoy the band and pronounce this like “Pizza.” Actually, let’s just call this song “Pizza Man.” Pizza Man is a bad song with bad performances and bad lyrics. That’s my professional writing. 3 word repetitions per sentence or your money back. What’s that? I didn’t repeat words last sentence? We’ll have you paid me any money? Jeez. bookings@alfisasexualbeing.gov Thank You Friends - Well, don’t count me among your friends if this is going to be your output. Big Black Car - What is this? What am I listening to? Will continuing to ask unanswerable questions render me satisfied that my writing is acceptable? I don’t know, I don’t know, and probably not. Femme Fatale - Imagine reimagined for the late 70’s. Is this a cover? It might be a cover. Man, I really just don’t care about this album. The playing is whatever and the vocals aren’t doing it for me. Holocaust - Hey, we’ve covered kissing and sedans, so let’s dive into a light topic. This should be handled with tact by “Big Star,” on their album “Sister Lovers.” I will hand it to this song, it sounds modern as anything. Almost has a Radiohead quality, with some of the odd instrumental choices. I kind of like this track. Unfortunately, listing “holocaust” as a “highlight” might flag some well-intentioned censorship programs. Stroke it Noel - Umm. Uhhh. This was interminable. Truly awful. For You - Oh man, we’re getting close to later indie songwriting again. Elliot Smith type sound. I mean, it’s still not good, but it’s closer to the direction I’d like to hear. And YES, I hear directions, I have BRAIN ISSUES, PROBLEM, LIBERAL? Nightime - That word with out the extra “t” is so strangely awful, that I can’t quite explain the misery it conjures. I also hate it here, and wish someone would get me out. Blue Moon - This song is so depressing. I like songs about depression every once in a while, but when it hits the wrong way, it is just experiencing depression, which is uhh not good. Take Care - Holy shit, we’ve changed song? I am in a restless sleep. I hate this. Nature Boy - A cover of a song by a hippie. I got into a rabbit hole a little bit with the hippies on Wikipedia. Interesting connection between German immigrants and the flower power movement of the 60s. Who knew? Presumably, a lot of you, but I didn’t. Anyway, this performance sucks and I don’t think I love the song that much either. Till the End of the Day - Summer stretches over the fields of refuse. Unimpeded solar beams irradiate dying earth. The garbage stockpiles overflow sickening mulch into streams once bountiful. The march of progress yields no ground to the thought of future life. Solar flares light up the skies. The weak are the first to fall. Galvanize the rhetoric. The weak fell, the strong shall succeed. While the carbon has changed, the sun is a solid eternity. Strong and weak, the Big Star suffers no foe. Uncaring blasts of life, boil the oceans as the skin of our strongest bubbles to muck. Healing has begun. Dream Lover - Yeah this sucks too. I’m reading some “tea” as the gays said, and now the young people repeat. This may be intentionally bad. Now that’s one RYM reviewer. The band themselves say that the only reason Big Star is behind this album is because of the label. It should’ve been A solo release, and better yet, it should’ve been kept contained. This album feels like being depressed in the summer or experiencing a negative response to drugs. Take a negative response to drugs, add in a depressive episode in August, mix with some horrible vocal narration you didn’t ask for, and that is Big Star’s third effort. You can take your critical acclaim and uh do something with it. I politely disagree. 0.5-1 HIGHLIGHTS: Holocaust (The song, you Psychos)

nah

Don't get the hype with this one. Artsy power pop with chamber arrangements, acoustic guitars, some slide, and lots of frail vulnerable vocals. It's slow and plaintive, reflexive and tender, but definitely does not rock at all. People seem enchanted by the backstory, but the album itself doesn’t do anything.

meh

Very boring

Awful. I'm not sure I had a favorite track but I could relate to the lyric "I hate it here. Get me out of here" while listening.

1. kizza - 1 2. friendz - 0 3. black - 2 4. femme - 1.5 5. holocauzt - 2 6. noel - 1.5 7. you - 1 8. night - 0 9. moon - 1.5 10. care - 1 11. boy - 1.5 12. day - 1.5 13. lover - 1.5

Nah

This was nothing

Echoes of the flaming lips but with a lot less effort (& talent?) I wanted to like it but each track I listened to kept coming up short for me. Another album in my opinion I find debatable that it ever made it on the list but it's all subjective isn't it.

Not interested enough to try to get it.

I audibly laughed out loud when the vocals kicked in on the first track. Why on earth is this album included in this list? It’s the most generic 1970’s pop-rock I’ve ever heard. Musically it’s entirely predictable, boring riffs and root note basslines. Lyrically it’s uninspired and vapid. I can’t even honestly bring myself to write anything more about it, it’s just so terribly mid. Not gonna be adding this one to any playlists anytime soon. 1*

Umm.... why? This album is bland and boring. There was one song that had me tapping my foot for a second, and then nothing. I didn't even bother to look at the name of the song, it was boring. Just more '70's pop. BLAH! My Rating: 1/5

I don’t even understand why this is on the list. I couldn’t even listen to the entire album it was so booty cheeks (pancakes)

Bruh wut the boof was this?! I skimmed through it. Didn’t like. Didn’t care. Not interesting. Not for me.

I have taken everything into account, including this albums background/inspiration, as well as how well I’ve been actively listening & engaging with albums this year — and I just want to say: They named the band after the rating this album gets.

Did nothing for me, pretty dull, and i found the vocals annoying.

Heard of the band before but somehow never listened to them. Oh boy, this album is just background music. Literally nothing interesting or exciting going on musically 1/5

kizza me isch afoch en rock song. paar cooli idee. isch jesus christ ironisch?? wenn nöd ischs insaaane arschhh find etz au femme fatale gaar nüt bsunders. o dana no cool zum teil aber ich bin mich wüüürklich am langwile irgendwie? kanga roo isch au meeega langsam und het knapp en puls. wüüüürkli nai. ha etz die letste paar songs afoch über mich ergoh loh und s isch s meiste seeehr lahm. würkli GAR kei spass gha. die dudes sind anschinend mega gross ide USA und ich check nöd ganz wiso. es isch afoch rock. i ao fäll checki dass lüt sich ufreged dases z viel rock het uf dere liste.

This person is WAY off key.

crazy no

It's not terrible, I think - I guess? It's just incredibly dull and uneventful. If it was a 30 minute album rather than an hour maybe I'd have given it a 2, but it has no right to take up that much time whilst being one of the most boring albums I've ever listened too His vocals suck too

Couldn’t listen not available

I have a problem with Big Star. I know I'm supposed to love them. So much of the music I love is supposed to be inspired by them, if it's anything indie rock, power pop, emo, punk. But they just suck. I mean, I love the Replacements, they love Big Star, how come I don't like Big Star? I don't get it. The production is somehow both empty and muddy. The singing is annoying. The guitar tone is bleh and the riffs are not interesting at all. The songs are boring, muddling along. I don't know if the band even cares about them. Some of them are even worse then boring, they're downright annoying. What are those weird chicken picking riffs in Femme Fatale? And the weird croon? Is it attempt at a dig against the Velvet Underground somehow? urgh, even the covers on this album are soooo bad, really showcasing how this is just a very bad band. I just don't get it. It's not even the type of not getting where I can get why other people like them, or why they are good at what they do. I think it's just bad and overhyped for some weird reason. One star (and not even a big one).

Kinda weak

In a nutshell: messy and apathetic This is not the same band who made #1 Record, literally and figuratively. It's experimental in a haphazard way. Stark strings, covers and lots of weird arrangements. It's soulless. I can hear the defeat and insouciance in Alex's voice. It sounds like no-one wanted to record this album. The band had so much faith in themselves from the beginning and truly thought they had a great debut album. With Third (aka Third/Sister Lovers), the love is gone. Overall: 1/10

This is my Christmas album this year… just saying, Jesus Christ at least fits that, I love #1 record but this just isn’t that good, kizza me Is dreadful, holocaust is probably the best track and that’s just dreary. They even fucked up femme fatale!!! Maybe it’s the fact it’s on Christmas Day so I’m pissed but I’m gonna make this my biggest ratings disparity I could possibly do 1/5, it might be more of a 2 but fuck it minus one, the album’s on my naughty list… fuck fuck fuck

I like nature boy, but there's better versions out there

A rare turn-off mid-album for me on this one. Awful durge.

I just can't. This was a rough one.

These tags should work for me, but they don't. The songwriting is really weak, the vocals are tepid and uninspiring and the instrumentals put me to sleep. Still, glad to be more cultured on my favourite genre of music by listening to this (alternative rock)

Musical equivalent of beige - moving on

Putting me to sleep

If this is the best unknown band you've never heard of, this is a terrible album to get introduced to them. Even if I could get past the weird, terrible vocals, it just sounds unfinished and half thought out.

That was terrible. It's like Feargal Sharkey got stoned and decided that everyone should switch instruments for a session of Kinks covers. How did this make the list?

Wow this is so uneventful and boring

Hated this

Garbage!!!!

Bester Titel: Till The End Of The Day. Leider nicht entfernt so gut wie das Original von den Kinks.

Ugh. No.

Track one; OK-ish rock backing with awful vocals. Track two; the same. Didn't go any further. I remember various critics in music books raving about them, which is really puzzling. Cult band, my arse!

Big star give rock bands a bad name. After two terrible albums they follow it up with a third. No idea how this gained ‘cult’ status. It’s just bad

Terrible. The kind of album you get stuck listening to at a relatives house where it wouldn't be done to comment on how shit the music is. The covers, usually the catchy ones, were bad: Nature Boy was out of tune and didn't seem stylised.

I thought it started off okay-ish, then the 3rd track kicked in and I was ready to throw the stereo into the river! and oh gawd, the cover songs were dreadful!

Flat out terrible

The mix sounds terrible, and the music itself is super uninspired. Their other albums aren’t really my cup of tea either, but the at least feel like they were competently recorded.

Couldn't do it

You know how sometimes you get so fixated on the negative aspects of something that it becomes impossible for you to see the positives? This is not one of those cases, it was awful all the way through.

I listened to the first 6 songs of this and had to take a week's break to recuperate Best part was recognising that Dean Blunt sampled For You in his song Lush This is not the first album that he has sampled that shows up on this list

Not good IMO

Something different. Zappa-esque vibes from the first song... ...5 tracks in and it's still completely off the wall. Ok. I've now gone through all tracks. Not one song I felt "I liked". This is for the recycle bin. It's a ♻️ 1

Overall I was not a fan of this album or style of music. It's old timey and not my style. Having said that, I enjoyed the second half of the album more than the first. The first half included what seemed like a Christmas song ("Jesus was born today") and a song about your mother dying ("Your mother died and you're on your own"). Ready to move on.

I found no value to this album

no sabía que el power pop era una cosa, se parece a los beatles

big ugly mess

Why? Just why is this album on anyone’s list?

Sorry couldn't get further than track 2.

eh not for me

Cover impressions: cult or lesbian incest? Yikes. Apparently that is the alternate cover and this is a male rock band featuring Alex Chilton-- who I only know of thanks to a song by The Replacements that was featured in Rock Band 2. "Kizza me" starts off poorly with a weird, almost constipated vocal and desperate, distressing lyrics. That same strained style of singing continues through most of the album. "Big Black Car" kind of escapes that, but is rather boring instead. "Holocaust" is deeply depressing. Had hopes for "Kanga Roo" but I can't imagine what it means to want someone like a Kangaroo. I didn't expect a rock album to be my first 1-star but I don't get this album."Get me out of here, I hate it here" is the most relatable lyric. Favorite track: "Til the end of the day" -- apparently this was technically a bonus track added in later releases and a Kinks cover. No wonder it was good. Otherwise "Nightime" would be my favorite original track. 1/5

Forgettable. One and done.

I really really did not like this album.. Immediately from the start I knew from just the sound on this thing alone that this was not an album for me. I don't want to like rip an album apart because art is art, and its subjective to each and ultimately I just respect any form of art for being itself so I'll just leave it at a low rating for me personally. Overall: 1.2/5

Terrible lyrics, discordant sounds, rhythms that were all over the place...it's hard to see what was redeeming/interesting enough about this album to warrant a place on this list.

Experimentation is great and necessary for progress, but some albums, like Third/Sister Lovers, deserve to remain undiscovered.

This wasn't that good.

Vocals sounded like they were played at the wrong speed, just horrible. I could not get through a song

Is this for children?

Nah

10 sekuntia kului ja hymyhuulet ilmenivät suupieleen.. vihdoin saa kuunnella sontaa. menee maku touhusta kun kokoajan hyvää albumia. joku nuorukainen 70-luvun loppupuolela kuunteli ja nykyään saa nostalgiaa tästä.. mieti että ikimuistoinen musiikkihetki on jollain vittu tömmönen... itse oisin tapanut itseäni suicide boys... hups dark huumori eikö pälli kestä... jesus christ

Yawn.

Boring album, sounds like everything else from this time period.

Slower than I like, a bit of the same o every track. More background noise than anything

What a hot steaming pile of shit.

Seichter Rock

Ok

Never heard of this band before, and Wikipedia says that this album wasn't a commercial success when it was released in 1978 (some 4 years after it was recorded) - I can't say I'm surprised. Depressing. Doesn't even make it to mediocre.

Loved Big Star's first but ho lee shit this is a goddamn mess. Most of these songs are just ...dumb ("Kizza Me" is not a good choice for anything, let alone the first cut). Lost are most of the catchy melodies and good pop rock - 2tf happened? Those were all replaced by mopey bullshit reminiscent of the worst of Lou Reed. aka Lou Reed. At least Alex's voice is a mostly palatable topping. I know I'm not being generous here, as there are a few nice cuts such as "For You" and "Nightie" but does it / do they stick out because of how meandering and dull the rest is? I think so - rhese would/should have been among the lesser cuts on a better album. After one more challenging pass...yeah those are really the only decent ones. This just kept getting worse and by the end it's just an insulting collection of garbage. It may be titled "Third" but "#2 record" would have been more appropriate 3/10 1 star

I usually like power pop but I hated this. It was insufferable, with the only exception being "Till the End of the Day." I'd give it a 1.5 but meh.

Wow, I really disliked this album. It made me angry that no band I was ever in got a record deal.

I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS

This album was incredible awful. I'm am not sure how it made the list, because my life would have been better never to have heard this album.

So there is nothing in particular that tell my that this is a super great album, but its not bad, it look like a punk album, like everything feel like kinda punk, exept the music and its a bit wierd. S/o to the velvet underground cover wich is pretty good, i think their story/legacy and attitude so like them a bit The story behind the album is accualy quite intersting, and apparently they have a big influence on alt rock. But personally i dont realy like it

Bored

Not on apple music

Sounds like they can’t be bothered

Was not my style of music, so skipped it after song 3

Didn’t enjoy this at all. Contrived and mediocre and the singer’s voice was particularly annoying ! 1*

Not a fan.

wow um bad i didn’t like. it doesn’t feel like it’s worth one star but i can’t give it any more sorry x

Ah it was crap

1.5

some generic 70s crap with the high pitched voices. i could barely listen to this through the first time, i think its safe to say there won't be a second.

Quite forgettable

Just...what? There's no defined sound for this album and none of them work particularly well, not to mention half the songs aren't available on Spotify. Gonna say no thanks.

Just awful.

ah não, muito triste, pelo amor de deus

Not all that compelling, but then again I didn't listen very closely. Might come back to it, but if we're being honest, probably not

Eh, didn't really like this

Am behind. Listened to some of this, but it was doing nothing for me.

So boring