― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link
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― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link
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― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
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― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link
I remember the first time I was in the CC and how I'd heard the juke was so kickass and how it was this legendary joint and but I was only there because I was silly drunk and it was 1989 and I was still pretending that the Replacements mattered. Totally a let down, just like OarFolk. They say never meet your heroes because you'll only be disappointed.
The thing about the Mats is that their legend is way better than the reality, which is kinda like above--it's better to experience them when you're young/loaded, and then just not listen to them 15 years (or fuck, 20) after the fact because you will realize that your heroes were not that good. As in, every other band currently in my rearview mirror. They only sound good when I drop all my pretensions and enjoy the salve of nostalgia.
― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Ah, this store. Which I only know about through MST3K of course.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link
eh, that may be true for you, but not for me. When I go back to those records I'm still pretty taken with the songwriting and weirdo guitar playing. and the lyrics are sharp, funny, and economical - I don't invest the stuff with the same emotional intensity I did as a teenager, but it isn't just nostalgia that makes me appreciate a completely perfect tune like "If Only You Were Lonely".
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― J (Jay), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link
IOYWL is so completely awesome. I was listening to it JUST LAST NIGHT.
― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link
i like the cc club, but it's weird now that there's no smoking in mpls...smells funny.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Smoking room at a decrepit Motel 6+deep fryer+bathroom cleaner=yum!
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link
From my First Avenue oral history:
Peter Jesperson, Replacements manager: We did a show in the Entry and I remember I tried to put something on the flier that said "rock 'n' roll" and [Paul] Westerberg got pissed at me and said, "We ain't no rock 'n' roll band." I was like, What do you mean you're not a rock 'n' roll band? Of course you are. I finally convinced him to let me use "low-class rock." That was acceptable.
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 25 August 2005 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't want to be TOO predicktable!
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 August 2005 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 27 August 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link
but I do think there's so much 80's rock politics caught up in talking about the Replacements that it's hard to hear them with clean ears
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 27 August 2005 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Saturday, 27 August 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah, anyone remember the Musician cover story circa Don't Tell a Soul? The cover line was something like "The Last Great Rock'n'Roll Band" or something ridiculous like that. I was a massive fan at the time (OK, I still am), but even to me it seemed silly.
BUT...I think they get sold down the river by some people because of all that. They were a lot funnier, smarter and weirder than that whole earnest-romantic-rocker tag gives them credit for. Hootenanny covers more ground in less time than almost anything I can think of, and somehow manages to drop "Within Your Reach" right in the middle, and "Let It Be" is likewise full of left turns. "Tim" and "PTMM" are more conventional "rock" records, obviously, but they're not that conventional, and they're loaded down with track-by-track good-to-great songs. And if you're looking for a Twin Cities guy to lump Westerberg with, I think Craig Finn's a much better match than Bob Mould.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― donut gon' nut (donut), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
OTM. this song blows me away every time...
― stevie (stevie), Sunday, 28 August 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
I just wish sometimes that I could exorcise the Replacements out of me once and for all. If I could just UNDERSTAND what the hell they did, and then finally let them go. But I continue to try to unravel the mystery, fascinated, spellbound. Well aware of their flaws.
I saw them live in 1985, but I was too young to even understand how important they would seem later.
― Mr. Whirly, Please Don't Call Me (Bimble...), Saturday, 10 September 2005 06:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Gotta also mention "Swinging Party" in the same breath. What a great song. Mabye it's 'cause I lived in Mpls in my 20s, but those echoey plaintive vox take me right back to the grey streets, sometime after the leaves have dropped and before the first frost.
― declan zimmerman, Saturday, 10 September 2005 06:22 (eighteen years ago) link
I honestly cannot imagine anyone saying "dud" to this band. Sure, their last, oh, two albums were largely shite (though I still adore "Anywhere's Better Than Here" on Don't Tell A Soul), but everything else if fuckin' gold. Yeah, they unwittingly begat a slew of shitty bands like the Goo Goo Dicks and the so forth, but y'know...what'cha gonna do.
"Take Me to the Hospital" on Hootenanny is also, by the way, fucking perfect.
Great, unteathered, shambolic, genius rock'n'roll with personality and attitude galore. Don't like it? Go listen to Mariah Carey then, you cheese-addicted twits!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 10 September 2005 06:30 (eighteen years ago) link
(from my new album "WAIT they dont love you like i love you")
― JD from BEYOND LIQUORDOME, Saturday, 10 September 2005 06:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Saturday, 10 September 2005 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link