The Replacements: Classic or Dud?

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'

I love Tim and the strong numbers on PTMM compensate for the run of boring rockers, in which I can hear a band falling out of love with rockers ("Shooting Dirty Pool," "Red Red Wine" and whatever else stands in the way of "Skyway").

The band was falling out of love or the songwriter was? Whatever the answer, without Bob Stinson's idiot-savant magic, those rockers didn't add up to much

what sort of crazy person doesn't like 'red red wine'

Big mistake recording PTMM as a three piece IMO

The band was falling out of love or the songwriter was?

Both!

what sort of crazy person doesn't like 'red red wine'

The sort of crazy person who thinks Westerberg sucked as a lead guitarist.

Big mistake recording PTMM as a three piece IMO

― Master of Treacle, Monday, August 22, 2011 10:50 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

What choice did they have? They didn't have time to break in a new lead guitarist, and Westerberg wailed -- I love Bob Stinson, but I don't know that he could've negotiated the "Alex Chilton" solo as well as Westerberg did. The one post-Bob album they did as a 4-piece was a step (or two) down from PTMM.

The "Chilton" solo is the best on the album – agreed.

"IOU" and "Alex Chilton" are better rockers than anything on Tim.

So Glen Campbell covered "Sadly Beautiful" by the Replacements. I forget what Replacements album that is on. Westerberg wrote a new song for Campbell's upcoming release.

All Shook Down, I think? I will have to check it out.

Yep, it's on All Shook Down. Wait, Glen Campbell covered it? Mind blown, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AddX3jVQV3U

idk if any of yall give a fuck about lucero, but this cover of 'if only you were lonely' that i just stumbled on makes me pretty happy

http://grooveshark.com/s/If+Only+You+Were+Lonely/3JH8yn?src=5

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/paul-westerberg-tommy-stinson-consider-replacements-reunion-20110822

In 2006, Westerberg and Stinson reunited the Replacements to record two new songs for a compilation LP. Session drummer Josh Freese played drums, though Mars did contribute background vocals. "From time to time we'll get together and jam just for fun," says Stinson. "We do it without any sort of expectations or anything. We didn't break up in any sort of a nasty fashion. There was no dispute or anything. We just kind of walked way from it. I'm not so sure if there's any point in really revisiting it necessarily."

And let's be clear, that song was pretty awful.

Tommy Stinson – who currently plays bass in Guns N' Roses and Soul Asylum
still so weird

If it were anybody else it might be but in this case not that weird.

Why don't more bands cover this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EonYQxlpLfI&feature=related

afghan whigs covered that once when i saw them and the crowd went nuts

Think I saw Austin local legend Michael Hall cover that one once at The Hole In The Wall and it went over pretty well.

When I heard that the Goo Goo Dolls covered that, I thought, surely they got that from the the Replacements

Didn'y they cover the Cross as well?

Soul Asylum did "The Cross" as part of "James at 16 - Heavy Medley" on a 12-inch B-side. Don't think Replacements ever did it.

One of my favorite Replacements covers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKpmpe6ysEY

This - a group of tricenarians (well, maybe except for Stephen King on the bass) playing a set in front Sam's Italian Pizzeria while families stroll across the plaza, listening to the haunting tunes of a 25-year-old song about suicide. "She's trying to be reached on her CELLphone…."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fPFA7YdXz4

"We're CERTIFIED ANGUS from Lansing. Happy Mothers Day!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a90Eq7gqCbk

welp

The singer comes across as a douche, but it's completely possible that they're the second- or third-best Mats cover band in Mid-Michigan.

and arguably the only one specializing exclusively in "pleased to meet me" covers

haha

Mats cover bands each need their own version of Bobby Stinson

wear footie pajamas onstage and you're halfway there

Reading through a box full of letters/notes from my youth, I found one from 9th grade ('89-'90) to my bff on which I doodled the following unattractive but heartfelt doodle at the top of the page.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6718436027_a8c0ffb9ee_z.jpg

omg <3 4ever <3 <3 <3

okay that is rad

would buy a tee-shirt with it printed on

Have only heard Sorry Ma..,

I bought it to play in a hire car driving through Germany with my then 8 year old daughter.

I thought it was pretty good. She called it "Grandpa music".

I never played it much after that.

Your loss!

That's one wild 8 year old.

i guess kids don't follow

I feel like the Replacements is one the most difficult bands to transmit to younger generations. Their loss, though.

of

Not to be rude, and lord knows I bought all their albums at the time, but I think they're hard to transmit because they weren't actually all that good. Just didn't have much competition at the time, and followed an unusual progression for a few albums. Not enough reasons for an 8-year-old to like them. My 4-year-old likes Fucked Up and The Police, fwiw.