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* Chris Bell's solo track "Better Save Yourself", where he [[BreadEggsMilkSquick casually mentions that he attempted suicide twice]].
* Almost all of ''Third/Sister Lovers'' can qualify. The band, now reduced to Alex, Jody and some session musicians, realized that they weren't going to hit it big. This clearly shows in the final product. Alex sounds like he's going through a CreatorBreakdown and the whole album has a slightly-to-extremely unsettling atmosphere.
** "Holocaust" can be particularly eerie, due to its very slow pace, depressive and pessimistic lyrical content, Alex Chilton's [[PerishingAltRockVoice emotionally drained-sounding vocal delivery]], and a sudden dissonant instrumental bridge that includes a distant-sounding OneWomanWail.
* Alex's first post-Big Star album ''Like Flies on Sherbert'' takes the NightmareFuel present in ''Third/Sister Lovers'' and ratchets it up to eleven. The lo-fi production and Alex going through what sounds like even more SanitySlippage just adds to the whole thing. The album feels almost [[Creator/DavidLynch Lynchian]] in design and execution.
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