A song harkening back to the naïvete and mixed innocence of budding pubescence. It is track four on Big Star’s debut album "#1 Record". The song has been covered by Elliott Smith, Wilco, and Garbage, amongst many others. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked this song #396 out of it’s Top 500 Songs Of All Time, calling it “one of rock’s most beautiful celebrations of adolescence.” It is featured in the 2016 movie "Handsome Devil". Bill Janovitz of Buffalo Tom writes in his AllMusic review of the song

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