Columbia: Live at Missouri University


Columbia: Live at Missouri University 4/25/93 is a reunion live album by the American power pop group Big Star, recorded and released in 1993 by the original Big Star members Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens together with The Posies' members Jonathan Auer and Ken Stringfellow. It was recorded at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.
In April 2016, the concert was reissued for Record Store Day as a 2-LP vinyl edition titled Complete Columbia: Live at Missouri University 4/25/93, with an additional six tracks. The release, on 180-gram vinyl and pressed at MPO in France, was limited to 4,000 copies.

Critical reception

Rolling Stone wrote: "Without trying to recreate pristine versions of the original songs, the rejuvenated Big Star go for feel: Guitars battle and build to crescendos, impassioned vocals push the melodic hooks with heart, soul and guts." Trouser Press wrote that "the under-rehearsed playing, if hardly airtight, is free of preciousness and nostalgia and vibrantly on the emotional money; the sloppy singing is hearty and tuneful." The Spin Alternative Record Guide dismissed the album, writing that the only song worth hearing is the cover of "Slut."

Track listing

  1. "In the Street" – 3:10
  2. "Don't Lie to Me" – 3:22
  3. "When My Baby's Beside Me" – 3:25
  4. "I Am the Cosmos" – 4:12
  5. "The Ballad of El Goodo" – 4:28
  6. "Back of a Car" – 2:53
  7. "Way Out West" – 2:54
  8. "Daisy Glaze" – 3:34
  9. "Baby Strange" – 4:03
  10. "For You" – 3:04
  11. "Feel" – 3:34
  12. "September Gurls" – 2:58
  13. "Thank You Friends" – 3:19
  14. "Slut" – 3:58

    Complete Columbia (2016 reissue) track listing

Side A
  1. "In the Street" – 3:22
  2. "Don't Lie to Me" – 3:15
  3. "When My Baby's Beside Me" – 3:25
  4. "I Am the Cosmos" – 4:11
  5. "O My Soul" – 4:38
Side B
  1. "The Ballad of El Goodo" – 4:33
  2. "Back of a Car" – 2:54
  3. "Way Out West" – 2:48
  4. "Daisy Glaze" – 3:36
  5. "Thirteen" – 2:51
Side C
  1. "Baby Strange" – 4:05
  2. "Jody Rap" – 0:46
  3. "For You" – 3:04
  4. "Feel" – 3:35
  5. "September Gurls" – 3:00
  6. "Thank You Friends" – 3:19
Side D
  1. "Slut" – 3:58
  2. "Jeepster" – 5:35
  3. "Kansas City" – 3:05
  4. "Till the End of the Day" – 3:37
  5. "Duke of Earl" – 3:35

    Personnel

Produced, recorded, and mixed by Jim Rondinelli