"You and Your Sister" is a song by the American singer-songwriter
Chris Bell, that appears on his only solo album ''
I Am the Cosmos''. It was released as a
B-side
The A-side and B-side are the two sides of phonograph records and cassettes; these terms have often been printed on the labels of two-sided music recordings. The A-side usually features a recording that its artist, producer, or record compan ...
to Bell's only single "I Am the Cosmos." Comparisons have been made to
Big Star's "
Thirteen," which Bell co-wrote with bandmate
Alex Chilton, and is also an acoustic
love ballad. Chilton sings backing vocals on the song.
Mark Deming of
Allmusic described it as a "sweet, guileless love song" that "represents the sincerity and emotional innocence that Bell brought to his brief tenure in the band Big Star" that "make
more emotional sense than literal sense"
and as "one of the great unknown love songs in the pop canon, a luminous and fragile ballad almost otherworldly in its beauty."
Two alternate versions of the song appear on the posthumous 1992 ''
I Am the Cosmos'' release, an "acoustic version" and a "country version."
The song is included in the 2009 Big Star box set ''
Keep an Eye on the Sky''. It was covered, along with "I Am the Cosmos", by
This Mortal Coil on the 1991 album ''
Blood''; by
Seana Carmody Seana or Seána is a female given name. Notable people with the name include:
* Seána Kerslake (born 1990), Irish actress
* Seana Kofoed (born 1970), American television actress
* Seana McKenna (born 1956), Canadian actress
* Seana Shiffrin
Sea ...
on the 2007 album ''
Barn Songs'',; by
Mike Daly on the 2001 album ''A Tribute to Big Star''.
, by
James Yorkston on ''
The Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society
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The album was released on 17 August 2014 and is the seventh studio album by Yorkston. It was produced by Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip in London's Livingston s ...
'' in 2014; and by
Susanna Hoffs
Susanna Lee Hoffs (born January 17, 1959) is an American singer and guitarist, best known as a co-founder of the pop-rock band The Bangles.
Hoffs founded The Bangles (originally called the Bangs) in 1981 with Debbi and Vicki Peterson. They re ...
on her 2021 covers album, ''Bright Lights''.
References
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1978 songs
Big Star
Chris Bell (American musician) songs
Songs about siblings