― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 19 June 2004 06:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― TheNewJMod (JMod), Sunday, 20 June 2004 03:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― earlnash, Sunday, 20 June 2004 04:00 (nineteen years ago) link
The funny thing is, I also grew up near the Twin Cities, and I never had any use for the Replacements until I was in my mid-twenties. One day they just clicked. I'd only heard "Within Your Reach" -- big shout out to the "Say Anything" soundtrack -- and I picked up "Stink" on impulse. I liked it, but it took another year or two before I bought "Let It Be." Then I was hooked. Nowadays, I swap bootlegs and count down until Rykodisc releases the much-delayed Perfect LP.
I have a theory that growing up in the 'burbs sort of immunized me to the local music scene. I thought Limited Warranty was cool, because they were on the radio, but it never occurred to me to venture up Highway 55 to the cities to check out bands. My mistake. It wasn't until I started college (in Saint Paul) that I realized the error of my ways, and by that point the Replacements were old news.
Also, FWIW, Soul Asylum had a nice run there. Hang Time and Grave Dancer's Union were both nice little records, and the Twin-Tone stuff is definitely worth checking out. And that's Dave Pirner yelling at the cops in the beginning of "Kids Don't Follow," so that's already pretty cool.
― subgenius (subgenius), Monday, 21 June 2004 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 June 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link
When I was in elementary, our school had a contest where we had to draw these anti-smoking posters and slogan that we made up....If yours was selected as one of the finalists or winners, you got to go on a field trip to see Limited Warranty play a "Smoke Free Generation" show at the Metrodome! I didn't win.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Hear me cryin' out to youYou said, "Never, never would I leave"Here's a tear from me to youAnd maybe it will make you hear me
I loved youYou didn't feel the sameThough we're apartYou're in my heartGive me one more chance To make it real
In a dream you are hereYou smile and hold me nearAnd in my heart I'll pretendThat you are hear again
Give me one more chanceTo make it real
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link
That's brilliant! So that's him going "Hey fuck you man!"?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Dan, don't forget about Limited Warranty's classic tune "Victory Line."
― subgenius (subgenius), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 June 2004 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link
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― the bellefox, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Original Jimmy Mod: Kind Warrior (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Heard the other day that the Twin/Tone albums (up through Let it Be) are going to be released before the year's up as 2cd versions. Even though the bonuses are likely to be stuff the fans have already booted, it'll be great to have the quality upped.
Pinefox - if you're a fan of more polished sounds (you like Lloyd Cole and Prefab Sprout, right?), you might check out the _All For Nothing_ comp from the Replacements' Sire years. _Tim_, the album after _Let It Be_, was their first for Sire.
― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link
I think that this Replacements track is the only one I have heard in the years since I first heard a tape of them at university, c. October 1991. I didn't really love that tape. But I think it was the Replacements.
― the bellefox, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Spiderwebbed Wilderness (Bimble...), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― -Vest, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link
I used to love the 'Mats, but they haven't really aged well for me. Let it Be is one of those albums that's going to have a following amongst high-school juniors forever, but it sounds pretty played out to me now. Shockingly, Soul Asylum's Hang Time actually holds up better. I never really liked Tim, although I think that's a function of the production more than anything else. Stink and Sorry Ma still have some great moments, but (although I would never have said this at the time), I think that Flip Your Wig stands out the masterpiece of this particular twin cities subgenre.
― J (Jay), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link
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