You and Your Sister

For the album by the Vulgar Boatmen, see You and Your Sister (album).
"I Am the Cosmos / You and Your Sister"
Cover of the 1978 US single
Single by Chris Bell
from the album I Am the Cosmos
A-side"I Am the Cosmos"
Released1978
Genre
Length3:14
Label
Songwriter(s)Chris Bell
Producer(s)Chris Bell

"You and Your Sister" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Chris Bell, that appears on his only solo album I Am the Cosmos. It was released as the B-side to Bell's only single "I Am the Cosmos". Comparisons have been made to Big Star's "Thirteen", which Bell co-wrote with bandmate Alex Chilton,[1] and is also an acoustic love ballad. Chilton sings backing vocals on the song.

Mark Deming of AllMusic described it as a "sweet, guileless love song" that "represents the sincerity and emotional innocence that Bell brought to his brief tenure in the band Big Star" that "make[s] more emotional sense than literal sense" [2] and as "one of the great unknown love songs in the pop canon, a luminous and fragile ballad almost otherworldly in its beauty."[3]

Two alternate versions of the song appear on the posthumous 1992 I Am the Cosmos release, an "acoustic version" and a "country version".[3] The song is included in the 2009 Big Star box set Keep an Eye on the Sky.[4]

  1. ^ Ruhlmann, William. "#1 Record - Big Star". AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-12-02.
  2. ^ Deming, Mark. "You and Your Sister". AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-12-02.
  3. ^ a b Ankeny, Jason (1992-02-21). "I Am the Cosmos - Chris Bell". AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-12-02.
  4. ^ Thomas, Stephen (2009-09-15). "Keep an Eye on the Sky - Big Star". AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-12-02.