but comes with the eccentric R&B and demo-quality glam rock that have made Chilton's solo records a mixed blessing. The funk pastiche "Love Revolution" should have been an outtake; "A Whole New Thing" starts out like old T. Rex, then goes nowhere special. But on either side of those potholes are the rough sunshine of "Best Chance We've Ever Had," the Beach Boys-via-Revolver paraphrase "Turn My Back on the Sun" and a Motown-punk treatment of the 1962 Bruce Channel nugget "Mine Exclusively." In Space is no #1 Record, but at its brightest, it is Big Star in every way.