Disc One:
The Jynx
The Jynx featuring Chris Bell (founding member of Big Star).
Pre-Big Star;
recorded in December 1965.
1.Little Girl
2.Just Like Me
3.And My Baby's Gone (Laine/Pinder)
4.I'll Go Crazy (Brown)
Chris Bell
recorded pre-Big Star.
Most likely recorded in the late 1960's.
5.Psychedelic Stuff (Bell)
Terry Manning
From the Terry Manning album "Home Sweet Home".
6.Guess Things Happen That Way (Clement)
Chris Bell on lead guitar.
7.Trashy Dog (Manning)
Chris Bell on lead guitar.
8.Wild Wild Rocker (Manning)
Lead guitar solo by Chris Bell.
Terry Manning
1968
9.One After 909 (Lennon/McCartney)
Terry Manning and Chris Bell duet on the harmony lead guitar middle solo.
Alex Chilton
These sessions from 1969-1970 also feature Terry Manning and Richard Rosebrough.
From a mono mix tape which would find eventual release as "1970" (Ardent).
10.Free Again (Chilton)
11.Everyday As We Grow Closer (Chilton)
12.C'mon Honey (Chilton)
13.Happy Song (Chilton)
14.Pain (Chilton)
15.All I Really Want Is Money (Chilton)
16.I Wish I Could Meet Elvis (Chilton)
17.The EMI Song (Smile For Me) (Chilton/Manning).
18.Just To See You (Chilton)
19.Sugar Sugar (Kim/Barry)
This track is incomplete.
disc two
Icewater
1969
1.Feel (Bell/Chilton)
This version of "Feel" was recorded pre-Big Star in 1969 just before Alex Chilton joined.
Big Star members who played on this track are: Chris Bell and Jody Stephens. Terry Manning contributes bass to this track.
Rock City
featured future Big Star members Chris Bell and Jody Stephens. Additional members include Terry Manning and Thomas Dean Eubanks.
recorded between 1969-1970.
2.I Think It's Time To Say Goodbye (Eubanks)
3.I Lost Your Love (Eubanks)
4.The Wind Will Cry For Me (Eubanks)
5.My Life Is Right (Bell/Eubanks)
6.Lovely Lady (Eubanks)
7.The Answer (Eubanks)
8.Introduction (Eubanks/Bell/Stephens)
9.Sunday Organ (Manning)
10.The Preacher (Bell/Eubanks)
11.Shine On Me (Eubanks)
12.Try Again (Bell/Chilton)
Chris Bell
(date unknown)
13.Country Morn (Bell)
This track would later be re-worked/re-titled as "Watch The Sunrise" for Big Star's debut album "#1 Record".
Big Star
#1 Record
(date unknown)
alternate versions
14.Feel (Bell/Chilton)
This is a rough mix version with alternate vocal.
15.The Ballad Of El Goodo (Bell/Chilton)
Rough mix with alternate guitar track.
16.The Ballad Of El Goodo (Bell/Chilton)
alternate mix
17.My Life Is Right (Bell/Eubanks)
alternate mix with intro, previously never heard before.
18.In The Street (Bell/Chilton)
rough mix with alternate guitar
19.In The Street (Bell/Chilton)
45" single version
20.Thirteen (Bell/Chilton)
alternate mix
21.Don't Lie To Me (Bell/Chilton)
rough mix
22.When My Baby's Beside Me (Bell/Chilton)
alternate mix
23.Give Me Another Chance (Bell/Chilton)
Rough mix with alternate lead guitar
Disc 3
Big Star
1.Another Time, Another Place And You (Bell/Chilton)
Outtake
(date unknown)
instrumental
2.There Was A Life (Bell/Chilton)
Outtake
(date unknown)
rough mix outtake
3.I Got Kinda Lost (Bell/Chilton)
Outtake
(date unknown)
Demo version
4.Gone With The Light (Bell/Chilton)
Outtake
(date unknown)
demo version
5.Motel Blues (Loudon Wainwright Jr.)
Outtake
(date unknown)
demo version
6.O My Soul (Bell/Chilton)
Radio City
(date unknown)
mono
Rough mix with alternate vocals
7.O My Soul (Bell/Chilton)
Radio City
(date unknown)
45" single version edit
sourced from 45".
8.Mod Lang (Chilton/Rosebrough)
Radio City
(date unknown)
rough mix with alternate vocals
9.You Get What You Deserve (Chilton)
Radio City
(date unknown)
rough mix
10.Instrumental (Bell/Chilton)
Outtake
(date unknown)
unknown instrumental believed to be written by Bell/Chilton.
11.Way Out West (Hummel)
Radio City
(date unknown)
rough mix with alternate vocals
12.Daisy Glaze (Chilton/Hummel/Stephens)
Radio City
(date unknown)
instrumental
13.She's A Mover (Chilton)
Radio City
(date unknown)
alternate take
14.Morpha Too (Chilton)
Radio City
(date unknown)
rough mix
15.Fireplace (Stephens)
Outtake
(date unknown)
unreleased
This track later re-emerged as "Fireplace" on the Big Star release "Third/Sister Lovers".
16.Lovely Day (Chilton)
Outtake
(date unknown)
This song later re-emerged as "Stroke It Noel" on Big Star's release "Third/Sister Lovers".
17.The Walking Dead (Chilton)
Outtake
(date unknown)
demo - Memphis 1975
Chris Bell
I Am The Cosmos
(date unknown)
18.Make A Scene (Bell)
alternate mix
Disc 4
1.She Might Look My Way (Hoehn/Chilton)
Outtake
(date unknown)
demo
Alex Chilton lead vocals
2.She Might Look My Way (Hoehn/Chilton)
Outtake
(date unknown)
Tommy Hoehn lead vocals.
No Big Star member played on this track.
3.All Of The Time (Aldridge/Chilton)
Bach's Bottom
(date unknown)
Chris Bell plays 2nd guitar and timbales
Prix
(date unknown)
"Historix" versions
4.Girl (Hoehn/Tiven)
Chris Bell co-produced
5.She Might Look My Way (Hoehn/Chilton)
No Big Star member plays on this track
6.Love You All Day Long (Hoehn/Clark/Tiven)
Chris Bell co-producer, lead guitar and backing vocals
7.Everytime I Close My Eyes (Tiven)
Alex Chilton backing vocals
8.Take Me Home And Make Me Like It (Tiven/Chilton/Graflund/DeLuca/Davis)
Alex Chilton plays piano and background vocals
Van Duren & Jody Stephens
9.The Love That I Love (Duren/Stephens)
Demo
(date unknown)
Van Duren lead vocals
10.The Love That I Love (Duren/Stephens)
(date unknown)
Van Duren lead vocals.
11.Andy, Please (Duren Stephens)
Demo
(date unknown)
Van Duren lead vocals; Jody Stephens background vocals and drums.
12.Andy, Please (Duren/Stephens)
(date unknown)
Van Duren lead vocals.
13.So Glad To See You (Duren)
Demo
(date unknown)
Jody Stephens lead vocals; Van Duren background vocals.
14.Grow Yourself Up (Duren)
Demo
(date unknown)
Van Duren vocals, Jody Stephens drums
15.Grown Boy (Duren)
Demo
(date unknown)
Lead vocals - unknown; Jody Stephens background vocals
16.Where You Belong (Duren)
Demo
(date unknown)
Van Duren lead vocals; Jody Stepehns - drums
17.Long, Long Road (Duren)
Demo
(date unknown)
Van Duren lead vocals; Jody Stephens - drums
Tommy Hoehn
(date unknown)
18.Cuba (Hoehn/Bell)
No Big Star member played on this track
Big Star
19.Hot Thing (Auer/Chilton/Jackson/Love/Stephens/Stringfellow)
(date unknown)