My Top 1000 Songs #904: Speed Of Sound

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

This is my third visit to Big Star co-founder Chris Bell's posthumous I Am The Cosmos LP. Is that overkill for an album that didn't even exist until some 14 years after the musician's tragic passing? Perhaps. But there's just so much beauty there (and that's not even touching the upbeat rockers). "Speed Of Sound" is one of the most heartbreaking break-up so...