Keep an Eye on the Sky


Keep an Eye on the Sky is a 4-CD, 98-song career retrospective box set from American rock group Big Star, released in 2009. It features 52 unreleased tracks: demos, alternate takes, and live performances. As well as material from founder member Chris Bell's earlier bands Rock City and Icewater, it includes all titles from Big Star's first three studio albums, #1 Record, Radio City, and Third/Sister Lovers, and a recording of a 1973 Big Star concert. Staged in January at Lafayette's Music Room, the Memphis venue used again in May for the Rock Writers' Convention, the concert took place after Bell's departure and before the remainder of the group began work on Radio City. The box set's liner notes won a 2011 Grammy Award for author Robert Gordon.

Track listing

;Disc one
  1. "Psychedelic Stuff" – Chris Bell - 3:05
  2. "All I See Is You" – Icewater - 3:30
  3. "Every Day as We Grow Closer" – Alex Chilton - 2:28
  4. "Try Again" – Rock City - 3:38
  5. "Feel" - 3:33
  6. "The Ballad of El Goodo" - 4:20
  7. "In the Street" - 2:55
  8. "Thirteen" - 2:39
  9. "Don't Lie to Me" - 3:09
  10. "The India Song" - 2:24
  11. "When My Baby's Beside Me" - 3:28
  12. "My Life Is Right" - 3:17
  13. "Give Me Another Chance" - 3:29
  14. "Try Again" - 3:33
  15. "Gone with the Light" - 2:45
  16. "Watch the Sunrise" - 3:12
  17. "ST 100/6" - 0:55
  18. "The Preacher" – Rock City - 0:57
  19. "In the Street" - 3:01
  20. "Feel" - 3:33
  21. "The Ballad of El Goodo" - 4:32
  22. "The India Song" - 2:11
  23. "Country Morn" - 3:13
  24. "I Got Kinda Lost" - 3:35
  25. "Back of a Car" - 3:17
  26. "Motel Blues" - 3:04
;Disc two
  1. "There Was a Light" - 3:44
  2. "Life Is White" - 3:17
  3. "What's Going Ahn" - 2:16
  4. "O My Soul" - 5:39
  5. "Life Is White" - 3:19
  6. "Way Out West" - 2:51
  7. "What's Going Ahn" - 2:42
  8. "You Get What You Deserve" - 3:06
  9. "Mod Lang" - 2:49
  10. "Back of a Car" - 2:48
  11. "Daisy Glaze" - 3:50
  12. "She's a Mover" - 3:14
  13. "September Gurls" - 6:10
  14. "Morpha Too" - 1:29
  15. "I'm in Love with a Girl" - 1:49
  16. "O My Soul" - 5:10
  17. "She's a Mover" - 3:17
  18. "Daisy Glaze" - 3:55
  19. "I Am the Cosmos" – Chris Bell - 3:43
  20. "You and Your Sister" – Chris Bell - 3:12
  21. "Blue Moon" - 2:09
  22. "Femme Fatale" - 2:49
  23. "Thank You Friends" - 2:50
  24. "Nightime" - 2:14
  25. "Take Care" - 1:37
  26. "You Get What You Deserve" - 3:21
;Disc three
  1. "Lovely Day" - 1:51
  2. "Downs" - 1:28
  3. "Jesus Christ" - 2:31
  4. "Holocaust" - 3:35
  5. "Big Black Car" - 4:42
  6. "Manana" - 0:48
  7. "Jesus Christ" - 2:21
  8. "Femme Fatale" - 3:30
  9. "O, Dana" - 2:36
  10. "Kizza Me" - 2:44
  11. "You Can't Have Me" - 3:19
  12. "Nightime" - 2:53
  13. "Dream Lover" - 3:34
  14. "Big Black Car" - 3:38
  15. "Blue Moon" - 2:07
  16. "Holocaust" - 3:49
  17. "Stroke It Noel" - 2:07
  18. "For You" - 2:44
  19. "Downs" - 1:54
  20. "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" - 3:24
  21. "Kanga Roo" - 3:46
  22. "Thank You Friends" - 3:07
  23. "Take Care" - 2:50
  24. "Lovely Day" - 2:09
  25. "Till the End of the Day" - 2:14
  26. "Nature Boy' - 2:39
;Disc four – Live at Lafayette's Music Room, Memphis, TN, January 1973
  1. "When My Baby's Beside Me" - 3:29
  2. "My Life Is Right" - 3:25
  3. "She's a Mover" - 4:07
  4. "Way Out West" - 2:42
  5. "The Ballad of El Goodo" - 4:21
  6. "In the Street" - 2:51
  7. "Back of a Car" - 2:41
  8. "Thirteen" - 3:02
  9. "The India Song" - 2:25
  10. "Try Again" - 3:20
  11. "Watch the Sunrise" - 4:02
  12. "Don't Lie to Me" - 4:10
  13. "Hot Burrito" - 3:50
  14. "I Got Kinda Lost" - 2:57
  15. "Baby Strange" - 4:11
  16. "Slut" - 3:35
  17. "There Was a Light" - 3:26
  18. "ST 100/6" - 3:56
  19. "Come On Now" - 1:54
  20. "O My Soul" - 5:41