Big Star - Stroke it Noel

### THANKS FOR ALL, ALEX ########
(1950-2010)
Here,Alex Chilton calls the Sucess for dance....
one of the best songs of Big Star...

"STROKE IT NOEL"
Child will you come on down
Come on in with me
Morning says to idle on
Stay clear of the street
On the wing
And on the land
Can you sing
With anything
Do you wanna dance
Do ya, do ya, do ya, do ya wanna dance
Stroke it Noel
They say we're lazy men
Drinkin' our white wine
We could go right insane
'Cause we can buy the time
Oh, keep an eye
On the sky
Will they come
Oh the bombs
But, do you wanna dance
Easy now, easy now
Do ya, do ya, do ya, do ya wanna dance ??
Do ya wanna, do ya, ya wanna dance??

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• big
• star
• alex
• chilton
• stroke
• it
• noel
• third
• sister
• lovers

[OldMcEyeballs]

Superb song, my favorite Big Star tune

[antifolkhero]

Thank you for posting this! I love Big Star. They're one of my favorite bands ever.  Check out my cover of "The Ballad of el Goodo" sometime if you get a chance. Cheers.

[luvjoisey]

Closest thing I've heard to Dylan since Dylan

[ManFacingSoutheast]

Such an oddly concocted song - but monumentally charming. And yes, I wanna dance. 

[unholy1988]

i say the bad thing of Big Star's songs is that they are so short, then I think that if they were longer they wouldnt be so good.

so i'll just play it all over again, till my drukness is gone or till the moon goes down.

[stefaanido]

Third album is by far the best Big Star record in my opinion. Hauntingly beautiful. Slower and perhaps less poppy but so much deeper than 1 and 2.

[L0os1]

@davebest2001 "Third" definitely has an acquired taste, it's really only a Big Star album by name. Alex wrote all the songs except "For You", with no other creative input from Jody or other musicians. It's a classic non the less.

[sradelasierramorena]

@leecorey1 So what. He's still as Big as God : =

[newwind07]

A lot of people don't get the third album. Maybe they haven't gotten there yet. The way I see it, the Big Star albums chronicle being young, and the third focuses on the sense of disillusionment at the tail end of "coming of age". Some call it an existential crisis, others call it ennui. I just call it, BIG STARS THIRD. Now, if only Chilton had come up with an album that focuses on paying taxes and raising kids....

[1GoodRiddance]

A frickin brilliancy.

[veranka3]

@davebest2001

It appears you have spent the last two weeks listening to every song from the Third album on youtube, and leaving a comment about how much you hate it and how it "sounds drunk." We get it... you don't like Big Star's Third record. Surely you must have better things to do.

[davebest2001]

Were they drunk recording this ? It's a shambles