The Replacements: Classic or Dud?

That post isn't even funny.

of course it is, he says "hahahah" 3 times

lol

I Will Dare (? i think that's its name)

classic

I'll take the bait also. That Candy song is better than alot of Angry Samoans songs too (and I will take Replacements songs over many that Metal Mike's Samoans did also). Just cuz Metal Mike Saunders says something, doesn't mean it is automatically worth repeating. Great, he knows Kenny Highland

Suddenly strikes me how much "Anywhere's Better Than Here" sounds like Darkness-era Springsteen

That was my jam in 9th gr.

heard rumor that Westerberg coaches Little League (picturing Walter Matthau)

Also totally reminds me of the moment when I bought that tape -- I played the first side and was kinda underwhelmed, but then I turned it over and it was quiet for a few seconds and then YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW and I knew I had made the right decision to buy it. 1990, my 2nd semester of 9th grade.

The end.

heard rumor that Westerberg coaches Little League

Well at some point most of us do grow up. Just a bit. Enough to take on some responsibility.

I remember reading an interview w/PW around the time of Suicaine... where he talked about his neighbor's kids having a garage band, and how he didn't have the heart to tell them to "Turn that crap down!" when they rehearsed.

TURN THAT SHIT OFF

If you don't love the 'mats, you never loved rock and roll. Lester Bangs, in his famous article on the Clash, wonders why he looks to art for salvation, and thinks that it was maybe something he once glimpsed for a moment, in the corner of a flashbulb. The replacements are that thing, and are that moment. Hootenanny through Pleased To Meet Me are some of the most brilliant and visceral albums I own. Let It Be and Tim are the two most anthem-packed albums ever produced.
And if you never needed an anthem, you never needed rock and roll.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, February 14, 2001 8:00 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^Man is this one of the corniest posts of all time. I got an anthem, it's not very good, and somebody usually butchers it before every fucking sporting event i go to. "looks to art for salvation he saw in a corner of a flashbulb"???????what the fuck are you talking about?

I understand it's over a decade old so I'm not anticipating a response.

Another gem: "The replacements are that thing, and are that moment." So are they a thing, or a moment? for a moment, they sure look like four pretty ugly guys.

hey bill: you suck.

but it will be ok.

how's that for a response

Wester-fuck

LOL

'We'll Inherit The Earth'' sounds like Westerberg trying to write ''We Didn't Start The Fire''

Before it existed, obv

It was after?
I think?

"achin to be" is the shit

jammed "little mascara" a while back... i'd been underrating Tim for too long.

what's the story behind the LP name "Tim" anyways?

I remember reading an explanation for the title back when this came out but old man me can't remember it, and my quick google search did not prove helpful.

'little mascara' IS a really underrated track!

^thirded, those verses are godlike

hey bill: you suck.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 22:10 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

2nded

thirded.

Tim is named after Tim the Enchanter from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Why? I have no idea.

mr. snrub & bill magill

That Sterling post would be unobjectionable except for the first sentence. I mean I understand its hyperbole, but still, it's kind of annoying to assume that everyone has to have the same "corner of a flashbulb" experience that you do. Different flashbulbs for different folks. I like the Replacements but they've never been like one of my favorite bands.

For anybody who's missing it, the "corner of a flashbulb" bit is a actually a line from the Lester Bangs Clash piece Sterling is talking about, not just Sterling waxing drunkard.

Oh. Does Sterling still blog or ever post here anymore?

For anybody who's missing it, the "corner of a flashbulb" bit is a actually a line from the Lester Bangs Clash piece Sterling is talking about, not just Sterling waxing drunkard.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:28 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's still a crap line. Don't care if Lester Bangs, Abe Lincoln or Jesus Christ said it.

what if ALL THREE of them said it

what if Tony Iommi said it

It's still a crap line. Don't care if Lester Bangs, Abe Lincoln or Jesus Christ said it.

― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Thursday, August 11, 2011 5:41 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

God it must be so fucking exhausting being such an iconoclast, Billy, how do you handle the weight of the world likethat?

I'm just gonna stop, cause it occurs to me that your obnoxiousness isn't a thing that ends.

his heart could use some glasses amirite

I don't know why I'm getting all knives out about this--I just feel like killing your idols is a little dated.

forget it, hoos. it's bill magill. *chinatown music*

what if Tony Iommi said it

― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, August 11, 2011 1:42 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

then it would be utter brilliance of course.

forget it, hoos. it's bill magill. *chinatown music*

― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, August 11, 2011 2:12 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I agree with this. I certainly don't take myself very seriously, either.

You would think people would be used to rhetorical hyperbole by now

THEY GOT NO WAR TO NAME US

or is it "ain't got no war to name us"?

whatever

Am I the only one who likes Tim much more than Let it Be?

no tim is the best, slightly grey production aside

yeah Tim has pretty much everything that the replacements do so well.

I don't like Tim much at all. In the bottom 3 'Mats records for me.