#1 Record | ||||
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Released | April 24, 1972 | |||
Recorded | May 1971 – February 1972 | |||
Studio | Ardent Studios, Memphis | |||
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Length | 37:03 | |||
Label | Ardent | |||
Producer | John Fry | |||
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#1 Record is the debut album by the American rock band Big Star. It was released on April 24, 1972, by Memphis-based Ardent Records.
Many critics praised the album's vocal harmonies and songcraft but #1 Record suffered from poor distribution and sold fewer than 10,000 copies upon its initial release. However, #1 Record gained wider attention in the late 1970s in the UK when EMI reissued it with Radio City as a double LP package due to increasing demand.[4] The same combination was used when the album was released on CD in 1992.[5] It is now widely-regarded as a seminal work in pop rock and power pop. In 2020 it was ranked number 474 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[6] Rolling Stone also ranked the song "Thirteen" as number 406 on its 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[7] It was voted number 188 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).[3]
They mixed British Invasion pop finesse with all-American hard rock, from the surging "Feel" to the acoustic heartbreaker "Thirteen.