Saturday night is movie night here. Most recently we’ve been watching stuff I’ve been recording off of TCM so a lot of older classics. Gina was in the mood for something a little more recent tonight so we scanned through the movie listings looking for something interesting.

Let me tell you, what we found and decided to watch certainly qualifies as interesting. We saw Sam Rockwell on Colbert talking about Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die a while back and it sounded like fun and we like Sam Rockwell, and then we forgot about it until tonight when it showed up on Hulu in the movie listings.

It was great fun and I highly recommend it.

Now you may be wondering what any of this has to do with Big Star and the random song of the day so I will explain. There is a scene in the movie where a woman wants her boyfriend to watch the sunrise with her and I, of course, had to resist the urge to stop the movie and play this song, an impulse I struggle with frequently.

Watching the sunrise actually turns out to be pretty significant, so this popped in to my head a few times, so let’s break the chain of missed days without sharing a song with this one.

“Watch the Sunrise” is just a magnificent song from Big Star’s 1972 debut. If you don’t have Big Star in regular rotation in your collection, well, your collection is just incomplete.

As Paul Westerberg famously sang in “Alex Chilton” – “I’m in love, what’s that song? Well, I’m in love with that song / I never travel far without a little Big Star”

Alex Chilton is great and all, and coming from The Box Tops gave him the name recognition, but don’t underestimate the importance of fellow songwriter on this one, Chris Bell, for his contribution to this remarkable band that has gone on to influence countless others.