The Replacements: Classic or Dud?

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.

Ooooo, EZ, you disappoint me. Care to elaborate?

It took me awhile to get into Tim. "Here Comes A Regular" still sounds a bit too maudlin.

Isn't it supposed to, though? That's the point, it's a sad state of affairs.

I've always thought that much of Tim sounds like they are trying too hard to make a "Replacements record". There is good stuff on Tim, but too little of the bratty spark of the albums that preceded it. However, I'm one of those weird fans that think Hootenanny is the best thing they ever did, and that All Shook Down is the best of the Sire records.

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

― tylerw, Thursday, August 11, 2011 6:33 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

^ this.

Unfortunately, "choosing a good producer" is not something the Replacements generally did well. I love this record to bits, but the dated production has dimmed some of its brilliance over the years.

Isn't it supposed to, though? That's the point, it's a sad state of affairs.

It doesn't hit the cylinders like other "pitiful" songs like "The Grand Tour".

It's not supposed to hit cylinders. The lack of cylinder-hitting is the entire subject of the song. Dude in "The Grand Tour" is all over-the-top, omigod I've lost someone. "Regulars" is a guy who deliberately keeps himself from having much to lose.

Anyway, came on this thread to post this, because I enjoyed it. I don't have any particular reason to love Tommy, but I do anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7eWEafLU7A

<3

And Tim was the first album of theirs I bought, so it's hard to be objective about it. I've always loved it, and I even love its bright, garbled sound, but I understand complaints about the production. It doesn't sound quite like the big rock album they thought they were making (which Pleased to Meet Me does, I think), it sounds like something else. I just really like it.

It doesn't sound quite like the big rock album they thought they were making (which Pleased to Meet Me does, I think)

yes

cf 'here comes a regular,' which would have been a very different and less good song on tim imo

Not trying to read the rest of the thread right now but the video jesse malin just posted is awesome.

Always wondered if Johnny Thunders got that title from a Honeymooners episode.

Had some production problems with Tim back in the day but I learned to enjoy and accept what at first seemed to be its off quality and now I like it, the same as with Marshall Crenshaw's Field Day.

i mean i sort of got over my production issues when i realized just how slick 'dont tell a soul' was, like

ok 'pleased' is slick at moments

its not so slippery i could slide on it

i'll live with it

Yeah what HOOS just said

'here comes a regular,' which would have been a very different and less good song on tim imo

But it was on Tim.

woops lol i meant 'nightclub jitters'