Thirteen, by Big Star.
I feel like there are probably better songs about what adolescence feels like — or at least what it felt like for me in the late 1980s, when I would’ve been thirteen, deeply in love with any girl who would slow dance with me.
But this song does a pretty good job of it. I have to admit, my relationship with Big Star, until Alex Chilton died, started and ended with the name-checking Replacements song, Alex Chilton. There’s a great Waxahatchee cover of this song, of course.
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