Keep an Eye on the Sky is a 4-CD, 98-song career retrospective box set from American

United States

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 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

Chris Bell (musician)

Christopher Branford "Chris" Bell was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist born in Memphis, Tennessee. Along with Alex Chilton, he led the power pop band Big Star, which recorded albums during the early 1970s...

'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

Number 1 Record

#1 Record is the debut album by the American power pop group Big Star. It was released in 1972 by Memphis-based Ardent Records. Though many critics praised the album's elegant vocal harmonies and refined songcraft , #1 Record fared quite dismally in terms of...

, Radio City

Radio City (album)

On its release in January 1974, Radio City met with general acclaim. Record World judged the musicianship "superb"; Billboard described the album as "a highly commercial set", and Cashbox called it "a collection of excellent material". However, sales were thwarted by an inability to make the album...

and Third/Sister Lovers

Third/Sister Lovers

Third, also issued as Sister Lovers, is the third rock album by American power pop group Big Star, recorded in 1974 and eventually released in 1978 by PVC Records...

, 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.

Track listing

Disc one

1. "Psychedelic Stuff" (original mix) - Chris Bell
2. "All I See Is You" - Icewater
3. "Every Day as We Grow Closer" (original mix) - Alex Chilton
   Alex Chilton
   William Alexander "Alex" Chilton was an American songwriter, guitarist, singer and producer, best known as the lead singer of the Box Tops and Big Star...
   
   
4. "Try Again" (early version) - Rock City
5. "Feel"
6. "The Ballad of El Goodo"
7. "In the Street" (alternate mix)
8. "Thirteen
   Thirteen (song)
   "Thirteen" is a song by the American rock band Big Star. Rolling Stone describes it "one of rock's most beautiful celebrations of adolescence", and rated it #396 in a list of the 500 greatest songs of all time...
   
   " (alternate mix)
9. "Don't Lie to Me"
10. "The India Song" (alternate mix)
11. "When My Baby's Beside Me" (alternate mix)
12. "My Life Is Right" (alternate mix)
13. "Give Me Another Chance" (alternate mix)
14. "Try Again"
15. "Gone with the Light"
16. "Watch the Sunrise" (single version)
17. "ST 100/6" (alternate mix)
18. "The Preacher" (Excerpt) - Rock City
19. "In the Street" (alternate single mix)
20. "Feel" (alternate mix)
21. "The Ballad of El Goodo" (alternate lyrics)
22. "The India Song" (alternate version)
23. "Country Morn"
24. "I Got Kinda Lost" (demo)
25. "Back of a Car" (demo)
26. "Motel Blues" (demo)

Disc two

1. "There Was a Light" (demo)
2. "Life Is White" (demo)
3. "What's Going Ahn" (demo)
4. "O My Soul"
5. "Life Is White"
6. "Way Out West"
7. "What's Going Ahn"
8. "You Get What You Deserve"
9. "Mod Lang" (alternate mix)
10. "Back of a Car" (alternate mix)
11. "Daisy Glaze"
12. "She's a Mover"
13. "September Gurls
    September Gurls
    "September Gurls" is a song written by Alex Chilton for Big Star's second album Radio City, released in 1974. The song was also released as a single...
    
    "
14. "Morpha Too" (alternate mix)
15. "I'm in Love with a Girl"
16. "O My Soul" (alternate version)
17. "She's a Mover" (alternate version)
18. "Daisy Glaze" (rehearsal version)
19. "I Am the Cosmos
    I Am the Cosmos
    I Am the Cosmos is the only solo album by the American pop-rock musician Chris Bell, eventually released in 1992, having been recorded over a period of two to three years during the mid-1970s. Bell had previously been a member of Big Star....
    
    " - Chris Bell
20. "You and Your Sister
    You and Your Sister
    You and Your Sister is a song by Memphis-born musician and Big Star member Chris Bell that appears on his only solo album I Am the Cosmos...
    
    " - Chris Bell
21. "Blue Moon" (demo)
22. "Femme Fatale
    Femme Fatale (song)
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    " (demo) (Lou Reed
    Lou Reed
    Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...
    
    )
23. "Thank You Friends" (demo)
24. "Nightime" (demo)
25. "Take Care" (demo)
26. "You Get What You Deserve" (demo)

Disc three

1. "Lovely Day" (demo)
2. "Downs" (demo)
3. "Jesus Christ" (demo)
4. "Holocaust" (demo)
5. "Big Black Car" (alternate demo)
6. "Manana"
7. "Jesus Christ"
8. "Femme Fatale"
9. "O, Dana"
10. "Kizza Me"
11. "You Can't Have Me"
12. "Nightime"
13. "Dream Lover"
14. "Big Black Car"
15. "Blue Moon"
16. "Holocaust"
17. "Stroke It Noel"
18. "For You"
19. "Downs"
20. "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"
21. "Kanga Roo"
22. "Thank You Friends"
23. "Take Care"
24. "Lovely Day"
25. "Till the End of the Day
    Till the End of the Day
    "Till the End of the Day" is a song by The Kinks, written by Ray Davies and released as a single in 1965 and later on their album The Kink Kontroversy. It centres around a power chord, like many of the group's early hits, and was similarly successful, reaching no. 8 in the UK and no...
    
    " (alternate mix) (Ray Davies
    Ray Davies
    Ray Davies, CBE is an English rock musician. He is best known as lead singer and songwriter for the Kinks, which he led with his younger brother, Dave...
    
    )
26. "Nature Boy
    Nature Boy (song)
    "Nature Boy" is a song by eden ahbez, published in 1947. The song tells a fantasy of a "strange enchanted boy... who wandered very far" only to learn that "the greatest thing... was just to love and be loved in return"...
    
    ' (alternate mix)

Disc four – Live at Lafayette's Music Room, Memphis, TN, January 1973

1. "When My Baby's Beside Me"
2. "My Life Is Right"
3. "She's a Mover"
4. "Way Out West"
5. "The Ballad of El Goodo"
6. "In the Street"
7. "Back of a Car"
8. "Thirteen"
9. "The India Song"
10. "Try Again"
11. "Watch the Sunrise"
12. "Don't Lie to Me"
13. "Hot Burrito"
14. "I Got Kinda Lost"
15. "Baby Strange"
16. "Slut"
17. "There Was a Light"
18. "ST 100/6"
19. "Come On Now"
20. "O My Soul"

Enhanced CD

Enhanced CD

Enhanced CD, also known as CD Extra and CD Plus, is a certification mark of the Recording Industry Association of America for various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both Compact Disc and CD-ROM players....

video: "Thirteen" (Alternate Mix)