I Am The Cosmos

Rolling Stone: 3.5 Stars - Very Good - "...The mostly demo-quality songs are wonderful...a bevy of shimmering, angst-ridden pop..."

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CD Details

Number of Discs: 2
Released: September 15, 2017
Originally Released: 1992
Label: Omnivore Recordings

Entertainment Reviews:

Rolling Stone - 3/19/92

3.5 Stars - Very Good - "...The mostly demo-quality songs are wonderful...a bevy of shimmering, angst-ridden pop..."

Spin - p.82

"[T]his collection of demos and finished songs stretches over two remastered discs of brilliant melancholia."

Q - 7/00, p.140

Included in Q's "The Best Male Angst Albums Of All Time"

Q - May/92, p.86

3 Stars - Good - "...offers plenty of the patented ramshackle grandeur that Big Star fans find irresistable..."

Option - May-June/92, p.92

"...one of pop music's great songwriters..."
Village Voice (3/2/93, p.5) - Ranked #23 in the Village Voice's list of the 40 Best Albums Of 1992.
Billboard (p.33) - "Almost all of it lives up to the legend."

Q (Magazine) - p.136

3 stars out of 5 -- "I AM THE COSMOS still has enough of Big Star's guitar-pop fragility and grandeur to make it worthwhile."

Mojo (Publisher) - 3/01/04, p.55

Included in Mojo's The 67 Lost Albums You Must Own! - "[E]xquisitely melodic, Lennon-esque songs..."

Record Collector (magazine) - pp.90-91

4 stars out of 5 -- "Bell's part in Big Star's vibrant distillations of their anglophilic pop fixation is well-known and well-represented on tracks such as 'I Don't Know' and 'My Life Is Right'..."

Tracks on Disc 1:

1.I Am the Cosmos
2.Better Save Yourself
3.Speed of Sound
4.Get Away
5.You and Your Sister
6.I Got Kinda Lost
7.Look Up
8.Make a Scene
9.There Was a Light
10.I Don't Know
11.Fight at the Table
12.Though I Know She Lies
13.I Am the Cosmos [Acoustic Mix] - (remix)
14.You and Your Sister
15.Look Up [Acoustic Movie Mix] - (remix)
16.Untitled Acoustic [Instrumental] - (remix)

Tracks on Disc 2:

1.I Am the Cosmos
2.Better Save Yourself [Alternate Mix] - (remix)
3.Speed of Sound
4.Get Away
5.You and Your Sister
6.Make a Scene - (remix)
7.Fight at the Table - (remix)
8.I Don't Know
9.Speed of Sound - (previously unreleased)
10.Stay With Me
11.In My Darkest Hour
12.So Long Baby (aka Clacton Rag)
13.Fight at the Table - (previously unreleased)
14.You and Your Sister - (remix)
15.Get Away - (previously unreleased)
16.Better Save Yourself - (previously unreleased)
17.I Am the Cosmos - (previously unreleased)
18.[Untitled] [Electric Instrumental] - (remix)
19.Though I Know She Lies - (remix, previously unreleased)