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You and Your Sister
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Wikipedia article
"'You and Your Sister'" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Chris Bell, that appears on his only solo album 'I Am the Cosmos'. It was released as a B-side to Bell's only single "I Am the Cosmos." The song is very similar in composition, vocals, and guitar playing to Big Star's "Thirteen," which Bell co-wrote with bandmate Alex Chilton, and is also an acoustic love ballad. It features backing vocals by Chilton.
Mark Deming of Allmusic described it as a "sweet, guileless love song" that "represents the sincerity and emotional innocence that Bell brought to his brief tenure in the band Big Star" that "make[s] more emotional sense than literal sense" and as "one of the great unknown love songs in the pop canon, a luminous and fragile ballad almost otherworldly in its beauty."
Two alternate versions of the song appear on the posthumous 1992 'I Am the Cosmos' release, an "acoustic version" and a "country version." The song is included in the 2009 Big Star box set 'Keep an Eye on the Sky'. It was covered, along with "I Am the Cosmos", by This Mortal Coil on the 1991 album 'Blood'; by Seana Carmody on the 2007 album 'Barn Songs',; by Mike Daly on the 2001 album 'A Tribute to Big Star'., by James Yorkston on 'The Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society' in 2014; and by Susanna Hoffs on her 2021 covers album, 'Bright Lights'.
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Category:1978 songs
Category:Big Star
Category:Chris Bell (American musician) songs
Category:Songs about siblings
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