The Replacements: Classic or Dud?

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CLASSIC CLASSIC CLASSIC you are an idiot if you disagree/ just listen to the album "let it be" CLASSIC CLASSIC CLASSIC

(from my new album "WAIT they dont love you like i love you")

― JD from BEYOND LIQUORDOME, Saturday, 10 September 2005 06:31 (twenty years ago)

I've had "I'll Be You" stuck in my head out of nowhere for the past three days. I haven't heard it since I was six, but my parents used to have the cassette single for it.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Saturday, 10 September 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

And it's still the only Replacements song I'm familiar with.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Saturday, 10 September 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

I will defend Pleased to Meet Me to the death.

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Saturday, 10 September 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Classic. It is the case, though, that Westerberg was a better singer while (at least slightly) drunk.

― M. V. (M.V.), Saturday, 10 September 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

He's drinking again. Smashed in NY last spring. Two nights, and like the mythical olde days, one was drunk 'n' sloppy, the other professional.

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Saturday, 10 September 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

I've had "I'll Be You" stuck in my head out of nowhere for the past three days. I haven't heard it since I was six, but my parents used to have the cassette single for it.

I'm usually immune to the "makes me feel old" syndrome, because I'm pretty aware of my age and comfortable with it and I know everyone's experience is relative and subjective and whatever. But still, someone's parents having a cassingle of "I'll Be You"...makes me feel old.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 10 September 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

I will defend Pleased to Meet Me to the death.

Yeah in retrospect I felt bad I didn't mention that one in my post. I meant it no disrespect.

― Mr. Whirly, Please Don't Call Me (Bimble...), Saturday, 10 September 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Polite version: Ian, I do dearly hope the album Let It Be will cross your path someday. I believe most would agree it is their best.

Honest version: For god's sakes, man what are you waiting for? GET your arse down to a shop NOW! You've got hurricanes down there in Florida, you can't afford to take these kinds of risks! ;)

The thought of cassingles alone makes me feel old.

― Mr. Whirly, Please Don't Call Me (Bimble...), Saturday, 10 September 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

On a side note, the songwriting credit on "Mr. Whirly" ("Mostly Stolen") would all by itself qualify them classic.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 10 September 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

It's a knockoff of The Beatles "Oh, Darling," innit? Did they have to share the credit, like Neil Innes and the Rutles?

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 10 September 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

Knockoff of "Oh Darling" and "The Twist," w/ the intro to "Strawberry Fields."

Their early liner notes were all classic. Sorry Ma features the immortal "written 20 mins after we recorded it."

Westerberg's notes to his recent solo best-of are similarly funny, though significantly crankier.

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Saturday, 10 September 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

"Bob's lead is hotter than a urinary tract infection."

― xero, Saturday, 10 September 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, of course, Alex, I forgot about those other parts. I just replugged in my turntable, so now that it is within my reach, I should probably play some of those old lps.

xero, stop using your ears as ... oh, never mind.

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 10 September 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

That is an excerpt from Westerberg's deathless prose in the Sorry Ma liner notes. My ears remain inviolate.

― xero, Saturday, 10 September 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

When I got my Sorry Ma... LP, it didn't have the liner notes for some reason, but everybody was always quoting them- "Make up your own words- we did!"

― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 11 September 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I like a Replacements song! I just tracked down the identity of a song I've had on tape for ancient years and it is "Treatment Bound."

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 15 October 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

We're goin' NO where
quick as we know how
We're goin' NO where
treeaat-mint BOUND

― xero (xero), Saturday, 15 October 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

Yesterday's trash... too boooored to thrash

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Sunday, 16 October 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

First thing we do when we finally pull up
get SHYEEEIT FACED drunk, try to...SOBER UP
SECOND THING WE DO IS WALK AROUND!
don't do the job or tryta HOLD one down

― xero (xero), Sunday, 16 October 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

Wow, I think I'm gonna have to pull the fucking thing out now. Thanks Rockist_Scientist.

Incidentally: Classic, for Sorry Ma, Stink, and Hootenanny, plus bits of Let It Be, Tim,, and Pleased to Meet Me.

― xero (xero), Sunday, 16 October 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

God bless you for this thread, R_S, I haven't listened to "All Shook Down" in many years.

― Lukas (lukas), Sunday, 16 October 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

ha ha! this is funny. are they "classic" or not? ha ha! what do you mean, "classic"? "classic" like foghat? i started reading the responses, but just couldn't get through them all.

when westerberg meets his fans, some of them go up to him smiling, and leave wiping their eyes. this usually happens because of how deeply, personally his music touched their lives. i've never seen anything like it before in my life.

let it be, motherfuckers.

― scooterboy, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 20:30 (twenty years ago)

I've got 40 or 50 of their bootlegged live shows and no two are the same. They were so unpredictable. One night you would get tight, kick ass rock N roll with heartfelt lyrics and the next night you would have them doing somersaults onstage and spewing beer into the crowd while butchering covers they learned backstage before the show.
You get the idea.

They are a classic band who wrote mostly brilliant songs with great lyrics. What more is there?

― TomT, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 23:54 (twenty years ago)

A reason to play their albums again? (Which I haven't had for some years now.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:49 (twenty years ago)

Uhhh, what reason do you have to play your other albums?

I mean, I know my finger quivers with existential angst just before it hits the "play" button, but I would like to hear of your experiences.

― subgenius (subgenius), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 07:36 (twenty years ago)

Tell me 'bout the city ordinance
Tell me that we're insubordinate

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 10:17 (twenty years ago)

For me the Replacements are the definition of rock music.

― Stephen C (ihope), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 11:25 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

I like 'em. "I Will Dare" is such a ripoff of "I'm Only Sleeping," though.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 20 April 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

the name of the album that appears on is kinda a giveaway

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Thursday, 20 April 2006 21:44 (twenty years ago)

Revolver ?

(ha)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 20 April 2006 21:49 (twenty years ago)

i just realized how awesome "something to du" is when it popped up on shuffle the other day!

Delivering noise
Real tough boys
And what else have I got
Half-priced drugs
Stolen guitars
When the weather's hot
It's somethin to du
It's somethin to du

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 20 April 2006 22:15 (twenty years ago)

I'm convinced that's their best album.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 20 April 2006 22:22 (twenty years ago)

I know it's my favorite. That or Stink.

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 20 April 2006 23:00 (twenty years ago)

I'm gonna burn myself a CD of both of those.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 20 April 2006 23:04 (twenty years ago)

c'mon guys -- the contrarian best mats album is hootenanny.

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Friday, 21 April 2006 00:38 (twenty years ago)

how contrarian!

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 21 April 2006 01:49 (twenty years ago)

not so much.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 21 April 2006 02:29 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

not sure the genesis of this, but there's a really good 1981 show up on youtube. start here and follow the linx. they sound tight! what is tommy, like 14?

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 16 April 2007 08:07 (nineteen years ago)

(aha it's from this.)

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 16 April 2007 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

I love it when other people revive Replacements threads so I don't have to.

― Bimble, Monday, 16 April 2007 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

has anyone mentioned the classicness of the song ' customer'....everytime i hear it i wonder why there are'nt mroe songs about being in love with the girl who works in the shop down the road

― grap-fu, Monday, 16 April 2007 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking as someone raised in (well, near) the Twin Cities, I have to say that the Replacements are one of the most overrated bands to ever walk the Earth. Really. I mean, they only had one decent song ("Within Your Reach"), and that relied on a drum machine!
LIMITED WARRANTY was a more vital, entertaining and coherent band than The Replacements ever were. Anyone who has heard Limited Warranty will understand the magnitude of that claim.

DUD.

I think this was the first thing I read on ILM. It nearly (but sadly didn't) drove me away.

― nathalie, Monday, 16 April 2007 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

LIMITED WARRANTY sounds like the name of Adam Sandler's former band in The Wedding Singer.

So what about this new book?

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 26 October 2007 05:54 (eighteen years ago)

I want it so bad but i'm gonna wait for the paperback version - it'll be cheaper and easier to read / carry around. I'm reading the Pixies oral history now, anyway, and you can really only read one oral history at a time, right?

But yeah, I'm excited about it.

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, 26 October 2007 08:06 (eighteen years ago)

"And then Bob fell over! Man!"

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 26 October 2007 08:59 (eighteen years ago)

BAH! I gave in to temptation after all and just bought this book on Amazon. Damn super saver discount gets me every time - also bought that new Shooter Jennings album and the Michael Showalter CD to save on shipping. What a weekend it will be when THAT combo arrives!

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 27 October 2007 05:01 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, I've got a gift card for Barnes & Noble! I wonder if...

― Bimble, Saturday, 27 October 2007 08:05 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

some good extras on here. "If Only You Were Lonely" is easily one of their best tunes.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

Agreed

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 04:48 (eighteen years ago)

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