Alex Chilton - High Pries (1987) [2017]

1987's High Priest was Alex Chilton's first full-length studio album since the fascinatingly disastrous Like Flies on Sherbert in 1979. While it certainly wasn't the return to pure-pop form some fans were hoping for from the former leader of Big Star, it at least showed Chilton to be in firm command of his faculties again, and fronting a solid band of Memphis/New Orleans studio heavyweights. High Priest boasted only four original songs from Chilton, the best being the mildly sleazy "Thing for You" (though the just-plain-weird "Dalai Lama" has a certain perverse charm), but he dug up a handful of worthwhile covers, including the good-and-greasy "Make a Little Love" and a fine, obscure Carole King number, "Let Me Get Close to You." While Chilton's vocals betray a certain inscrutable irony, he's in fine voice throughout, and his wildly underrated guitar work is very much in evidence.

Tracks:

001. Alex Chilton - Take It Off [02:56]
002. Alex Chilton - Let Me Get Close To You [02:39]
003. Alex Chilton - Dalai Lama [05:14]
004. Alex Chilton - Volare [03:00]
005. Alex Chilton - Thing For You [03:15]
006. Alex Chilton - Forbidden Love [02:45]
007. Alex Chilton - Make A Little Love [03:30]
008. Alex Chilton - Trouble Don't Last [03:17]
009. Alex Chilton - Don't Be A Drag [03:28]
010. Alex Chilton - Nobody's Fool [03:12]
011. Alex Chilton - Come By Here [03:40]
012. Alex Chilton - Raunchy [02:13]