Keep an Eye on the Sky is a 4-CD, 98-song career retrospective
box set from
American rock group
Big Star, released in 2009. It features 52 unreleased tracks: demos, alternate takes, and live performances. As well as material from founder member
Chris Bell's earlier bands Rock City and Icewater, it includes all titles (in many cases as alternate mixes or demos) from Big Star's first three studio albums, #1 Record, Radio City, and Third/Sister Lovers, and a recording of a 1973 Big Star concert. Staged in January at Lafayette's Music Room, the Memphis venue used again in May for the Rock Writers' Convention, the concert took place after Bell's departure and before the remainder of the group began work on Radio City.[4] The box set's liner notes won a 2011 Grammy Award for author
Robert Gordon.[5]
Track listing
Disc one
"Psychedelic Stuff" (original mix) – Chris Bell - 3:05
"All I See Is You" – Icewater - 3:30
"Every Day as We Grow Closer" (original mix) –
Alex Chilton - 2:28
Keep an Eye on the Sky is a 4-CD, 98-song career retrospective
box set from
American rock group
Big Star, released in 2009. It features 52 unreleased tracks: demos, alternate takes, and live performances. As well as material from founder member
Chris Bell's earlier bands Rock City and Icewater, it includes all titles (in many cases as alternate mixes or demos) from Big Star's first three studio albums, #1 Record, Radio City, and Third/Sister Lovers, and a recording of a 1973 Big Star concert. Staged in January at Lafayette's Music Room, the Memphis venue used again in May for the Rock Writers' Convention, the concert took place after Bell's departure and before the remainder of the group began work on Radio City.[4] The box set's liner notes won a 2011 Grammy Award for author
Robert Gordon.[5]
Track listing
Disc one
"Psychedelic Stuff" (original mix) – Chris Bell - 3:05
"All I See Is You" – Icewater - 3:30
"Every Day as We Grow Closer" (original mix) –
Alex Chilton - 2:28