The Replacements: Classic or Dud?

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.

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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

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

So what about this new book?

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.

"And then Bob fell over! Man!"

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!

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

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

Agreed

Remasters out on Tuesday!

I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW AND I WONDERED WHEN PEOPLE WERE GOING TO START TALKING ABOUT IT ON THIS BOARD BECAUSE I AM PSYCHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111

some b-sides on the 2nd disc of all for nothing/nothing for all that are really fantastic, esp the jungle rock/all he wants to do is fish/date to church retro-trilogy

oh also totally classic for this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5CaagwSYGk

invariably makes me smile

it's too late to take pills, here we go. . . .

yeah the lyrics changes + the intro + (most of all) i really dont think ive ever seen a major band so genuinely giddy

"giddy"

by 'genuinely' i meant giddy for reasons that extend beyond probable pre-show drug intake

"probable"

i totally knew you wuz gonna do that

anyway, classic - & que if yr point is they were actually more or less typically like that live id love to see some video links if you got em, ive always imagined their drunk-off-their-asses shows to be a trainwreck enjoyment kinda thing

i love the Replacements, but these albums are fine the way they are. who needs a remaster?

Um... didn't they already remaster their albums a couple years ago?

these have a shitload of bonus tracks i think.

The liner notes of the new editions aren't even that painful.

As long as the guy who wrote the book didn't write them.

Why, are you that unsatisfied with it?

Why, are you that unsatisfied with it?

Ha. Took me a minute, but ha.

haha after a decade of listening to a personalized best-of cassette, I finally decided to actually buy a Replacements album like two weeks ago (an old used copy of Let It Be) and NOW there are new remasters out that I probably should've waited for.

lol, I'm kind of a grumpy dude

Anyone got an opinion these yet?

I didn't think the Let It Be bonus tracks were all that much to write home about, but the "Forgot To Take Out The Trash" bonus tracks were much better and pretty solid. Haven't played Stink or Hootenanny yet.

I do want to say...that out of all the music in the entire world, nothing makes me feel like I'm 13 again like the "Let It Be" album, especially "I Will Dare". I only just managed a few days ago to remember that I actually heard Let It Be when I was 13, not 14. Hell I probably heard that before I even heard Joy Division. I'm serious. Let It Be is the classick of the classick.

Meet you with the vampires.

ALSO EVERYONE KNOWS THAT "ANDROGYNOUS" RULES THE LAND RIGHT UP UNTIL THE TIME "UNSATISFIED" COMES ON AND THEN YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND AS TO BEST SONG ON THIS ALBUM

spin article this month/last month is surprisingly readable. first longform interview with westerberg i've read in a while. he seems to have reached that inevitable stage where he accepts that he'll always be best known for stuff he did a long time ago. also, strong intimations of a "reunion," although that would just mean paul and tommy plus whoever. (chris mars is too busy painting.) but hell i'd probably go see paul and tommy.

Let It Be is just one big, lovely teardrop. Without a doubt an absolute all time classic.Right down to the fucking cover.
They had some erm, 'moments' on other albums too . We know what they are.

Classic.

Bring on the reunion. Why not?

the albums didn't sound fine they way they were, and the remastered stuff that came out a few years ago sounded even worse. I'm told these sound much better and have bonus tracks to boot, so I'll pick up Hootenanny and LIB at least, and PTMM when it comes out