60 albums
1987 - Alex Chilton - High Priest

Alex Chilton - High Preist (New Rose, 1987)

My Alex Chilton timeline must be approx this…

• The Letter by The Box Tops - I had a compilation double album called America’s Greatest Hits from the early 70s which I remember being a rather good whizz through US music history from the the 1950s… although… that awful, awful sleeve!
• Big Star #1 Record / Radio City “2 complete albums on 1 CD” - that I bought probably in the late 80s.
• A bunch of Alex Chilton solo I picked up second hand in various places - Bach’s Bottom, Live in London, Black List (all on CD) and The World We Knew (the Tav Falco’s Panther Burns album he played on/produced) and High Priest (both on LP). I bought these after my Big Star discovery.
• Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers and Live when Ryko issued them on CD in the early 90s.
• I saw Big Star live once, at The Clapham Grand in August 1993.

Of those non-Big Star albums the one I listen to most is definitely “High Priest”, it’s a cracking album, I hadn’t listened to it for ages but, when I popped it on this week, it was so familiar - I must have listened to it a lot. Most of the rest of the Chilton solo I had picked up was patchy (although I did also quite like the Panther Burns LP - it obv isn’t an Alex Chilton album). But I’d recommend High Priest to anyone who might not have listened to Alex beyond Big Star.