The Replacements: Classic or Dud?

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

I never had a problem with the production of the mats stuff.Maybe it's my duff hi/low fi
That other huge Minneapolis(sp?sorry) band suffered worse on that front and I'm not talking about Soul Asylum , The Cows or Prince.

Yeah, I don't think I ever thought about the production one way or the other and last time I listened, my old CD of Stink still sounded pretty hot. I mean, I'm sure they could be made to sound somewhat better, but it's hard to imagine it making a huge difference. Nice Strong Arm, on the other hand...

i was talking about The Baby Astronauts ;-)

$16 bucks each at Best Buy for the reissues. Will have to look online instead.

LOOK ME IN THE EYE

Bimble will still be a teenager in the morning. And next year. And the year after that.

Every girl I've ever had an unrequited crush on has liked the Replacements. and Jonathan Richman and the Smiths. They know too well what to do with guys like me. They know too well.

Nothing anyone can do to me on ILX to ruin it when Let It Be makes me feel like a teenager again. Not a thing. Not a damn thing you can do. Forget it.

xpost sorry to hear that Burt. Really, that's horrible. If girls who like the Smiths don't get you, that's bad.

haha, they do "get me", but they know all the ways to make you miserable with the helpful guide of the lyrics. Curse them!

Did the Replacements ever play the sax on stage ? Not like Soul Asylum. they played the sax.

hahahahahaha

"I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour/but heaven knows I'm miserable now"

xpost

One of the "best" performances The Replacements gave was on their first (and only) appearance on SNL (11/23/85). They did "Bastards of Young" and "Kiss Me On the Bus", but the best part was that between songs, all the bandmembers (save Bob, who was wearing a dress) switched clothes. It took a sharp eye to catch it the first time it was on! (I've got the tape.)

http://www.bsideblog.com/images/2008/07/bb1004_0150.jpg

Haha, oops.

http://i42.tinypic.com/2vv9qas.jpg

hahahah waht?

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this thread just got GOOD.

yes, i'm reviving this thread on purpose

Just downloaded a comp of rarities and it's fucking killing me, these are their fuckin castoffs and they're SO GOOD

"PO Box" should have been on Let It Be it's too fuckin good to be orphaned

I'M THE BOY THEY COULDN'T IGNORE
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE I'M SURE

i've been deliberately ignoring this elephant in the room but

LOOK ME IN THE EYE

― Bimble, Sunday, May 4, 2008 3:26 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark

fuck me

they were my favorite band in high school
whenever i hear paul westerberg's voice it's like hearing an old friend, for real (though i don't hear it much because i listened to all of these albums SO MANY TIMES)

still love singing "shiftless when idle" in the shower a whole hell of a lot

Just downloaded a comp of rarities
link? i'm in need of replacements boots

http://fuelfriends.blogspot.com/2006/03/paul-westerberg-replacements-b-sides.html

it's more b-sides and orphans than bootlegs but it's dope

If Only You Were Lonely = their finest moment

"Shiftless When Idle" is their best song IMO. Diminishing returns as the albums get along in the chronology. I never bought them as more than 19 year old snots and they got further away from that with each passing album. One of the all time greats, though. Classic.

'shiftless when idle' is such a great turn of phrase, and bounces around in my head all the time. the song too.

LL huskers or mats?

mats!

If Only You Were Lonely = their finest moment

nah:

• unsatisfied
• answering machine
• alex chilton
• skyway

srsly imo their best BAND moment is easily unsatisfied, best westerfield moment is answering machine

Saul Westerfield, a great guitarist.

i like unsatisfied, ans machine, alex chltn, skyway and especially if only u were lonely just fine fine fine but they were not not not the replacements' best moments. they were some good paul late-night drunken sad moments. i liked my placemats drunken happy and being an actual band. i'm in trouble, run it, favorite thing and IOU blow all those songs out of the lake. for starters.

I think "I Will Dare" is my quintessential 'Mats tune. Literate and cheeky lyrics with such a lack of faith in their own abilities that a hired gun is brought in on guitar. Too self-effacing to see their own majesty or even believe it's possible. He can't even take the lead in his own lyrics - If you will dare, I will dare.

srsly imo their best BAND moment is easily unsatisfied, best westerfield moment is answering machine

my wife heard me listening to unsatisfied yesterday and said "wow, that's good! what is that song?"

"Favorite Thing" will always be my favorite Mats song.

favorite thing or iou or i won't are prob my ~faves~

"left of the dial" is missing from the list of best songs imo

everybody's seen that full set from 81 on youtube, right? soooo fuckin good, quality ridic amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_W4csFiQx8

yeah that's like one of the greatest thing on all of youtube. and that song in particular is like MY JAM every once in a while (i.e. whenever i've been fucked up jobless)

also now i think of those youtubes every time i'm at the 7th st.