The Replacements: Classic or Dud?

To paraphrase Courtney Love, "Well Paul, the worst crime I can think of is for you to just continue being a rock star when you fucking hate it, just fucking stop."

By the way Chr1s, thanks for the new dn.

sorry I made you whore your past by spending $60 on a ticket to your show Paul! keep being punk by photoshopping beer rings and sarcastic remarks in a "pen font" on your press releases!

i know it must have been hard to stoop to playing songs for lots of money with tommy and two pro session dudes in front of adoring fans especially for a guy who once scaled the heights of the Open Season soundtrack!

^^^harsh mpls ownage

Edina recently had a pretty steep property tax spike, Paul knows the struggle dude.

ive been to Bloomington and Eden Prairie
but ive never been to
Edina

eden prairie is gauche "new money" compared to edina
bloomington is pretty much just 60s/70s standard middle class burb

well, i respectively went (1994) to MST3K studio and MoE.

EP in 1994 was basically still an ex-burb, it's all crazy built up now. Bloomington is I don't, whatever.

Edina is the real.

Spent a week in Edina once.

I loved the Mats and they still hold a special place in my heart, but c'mon. Paul's been playing those songs for years. This has just been the first time in 24 that he's had the bass player from Guns N' Roses playing with him.

Wow ppl bitter in this thread. Do whatever u want paul

Yeah I'm all for that. Shit, I bet he's got a whole closet full of t-shirts.

I'll always hate Edina - the suburb so preppy, its school mascot is a kind of wasp.

Saw them last week in London and it was incredible (and incredibly nostalgic). I've always loved them - guilty admission: Waitress In The Sky was on all my tapes for flying to and from college, based on the let's-reinforce-the-patriarchy behaviour of the bitchy NWA stews I encountered on the airline (when you are a working-class kid travelling to and from a scholarship place, being at the mercy of grown-up Mean Girls who suck up to businessmen right in front of you brings on certain feelings). The last time I'd seen them before this was the '85 REM show where Huskers and Replacements both opened.

I liked all Minneapolis bands except for Soul Asylum, and if Tommy Stinson came in Northern Lights when we were hanging out there, we'd mime Beatlemania screams. DJP at the top of the thread extolling the virtues of Limited Warranty, IDK - I remember them as being for Duranies who wore a lot of pastel-coloured Matinique/In-Wear. Bleurgh.

On first listen, this new Westerberg/Juliana Hatfield thing is unremarkably pleasant. I'll have to give a few spins to see if any of the songs really stick. His voice is even more shot than usual, but they sound nice enough together.

So you are saying it's no Sid n Susie?

Yeah -- though a covers album by them could be cool.

Who the hell is this artist known as 'Kindness' and their cover of "Swingin' Party" I just heard in a sandwich shop?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ-9Mgizpf0

Bet I can guess what his cover of "Within Your Reach" sounds like.

Bought the new book, psyched to dive in.

It's kind nice, actually. Not a patch on the original but something for the kids today to relate to and the lyrics are as impactful as ever.

Whatever gets the lads some cash...

Assuming ebook will arrive at midnight.

Following the TwinTone vinyl box, here's the Warner Years---I've still got the original Tim and Pleased To Meet Me LPs, not jonesing for subsequent---Rhino press release:
http://view.e.wbr.com/?j=fe9b17727460077e71&m=fe8e137075670c7572&ls=fe2a1c73746d007e731671&l=feeb12797d600d&s=fe5f177377600c7f7c15&jb=ffcf14&ju=fe4d10727d63037b7d1c&r=0

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If they get released individually I'll definitely pick Tim up (have PtMM already and yeah, not fussed for the last two).

Gave away my DTIS a few years ago, haven't really missed it. No format can make that record sound good, anyway.

DTAS is half-good at least, though "I'll Be You" is awful.

The one time I saw them live was on that tour, and they acted like an actual band and not a bunch of drunken morons. Ended the encore with "Cruella Deville".

I'm about 300 pages into the book, and I really heartily recommend it. A lot of stuff in it you already know, but the author does a really good job of propelling the story while incorporating a lot of direct quotes and (as I think Ned pointed out on another thread) largely avoiding cliches. Funny in many spots, though heartbreaking throughout (especially the Bob-stuff).

Right now I'm at the part where they're touring DTAS, so I put it on for the first time in awhile. It definitely sounds very dated compared to everything they'd done to that point.

I think all of their major label albums sounds dated and/or shitty except maybe "Pleased." Regardless, I love "Don't Tell a Soul." I listen to it far more than "Tim" or "Pleased."

Tolerate PtMM but don't dig the other major label stuff. Super dry guitars courtesy of Lord Alge Bros on DTAS are maddening. Actually kind of like ASD, but is it really a 'Mats album?

Oh yeah, book delivers. Wonder if when naming Let It Be they thought, The Buzzcocks took the cover design so we will take the title.

Speaking of the book, did yall see this chunky excerpt? They play Saturday Night Live, and party with Harry Dean Stanton, the host with the most:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-the-replacements-disastrous-saturday-night-live-debut-20160212

Sorry, Don, forget to read the excerpt.

Came to post this, in case we haven't done it already: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AUFWnbz2siM

Try again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUFWnbz2siM

that 7th street entry video is absolutely classic. chris' posture is making my back hurt.

Speaking of the book, did yall see this chunky excerpt? They play Saturday Night Live, and party with Harry Dean Stanton, the host with the most:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-the-replacements-disastrous-saturday-night-live-debut-20160212🔗🔗

Right now I'm at the part where they're touring DTAS, so I put it on for the first time in awhile. It definitely sounds very dated compared to everything they'd done to that point.

― dc, Tuesday, March 1, 2016 12:48 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I listened to it yesterday for the first time since 1989. And yeah, it still sounds just as dated as I remembered, and it's obvious Mars is playing to a click-track, but some of the songs are still killer. My band at the time used to cover "Talent Show."

I think all of their major label albums sounds dated and/or shitty except maybe "Pleased." Regardless, I love "Don't Tell a Soul." I listen to it far more than "Tim" or "Pleased."

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, March 1, 2016 12:53 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I also love DTAS. Unreservedly

"Anywhere's Better Than Here" alone off DTAS is better than the entirety of Tim.

Song for song, I'd take DTAS over any Mats album that isn't Let It Be, and I think the 'bad production' criticism is overstated (not because it's wrong but because it's beside the point). "Achin' To Be," "Rock and Roll Ghost," "I Won't," "Anywhere's Better Than Here," "Darlin' One." I mean, all the songs are good, which is the only Mats album you can say that about. When was the last time you cued up "Gary's Got A Boner" or (ugh) "Waitress In The Sky?"

Waitress in the Sky is great

so is Gary's Got a Boner

song for song, i'd take every twin/tone album over every sire album, and it isn't all that close. and first two sire albums over last two sire albums.

the best songs on DTAS (Talent Show, I'll Be You, Achin to Be) overcome the production

Replacements are the most selectively liked band I can think of. When I bought Sorry Ma the record clerk told me, "That's their only good album."

Ha! I never listen to that one. And if I play Stink, it's only to hear "Go"

"Gary's Got A Boner" is harmless filler, but "Waitress In The Sky" is a blight on an otherwise perfect album (OK, maybe "Lay It Down Clown" could go, too)

"The most selectively liked"--yeah, this section of the thread's been proving it, like a Neil Young thread, or maybe even more so! Whatta band.
James, sorry I didn't warn yall about the Bob bummer in that excerpt, but I've read so much bad and worse re Bob that it didn't occur to me, I took it as a given.

Whole book's a Bob bummer; makes me wanna go back in time and hug/adopt him.

For me it's LIB > Hootenanny > the next two > the first two > the last two

For me it's LIB > Hootenanny > the next two > the first two > the last two

― dc, Saturday, 5 March 2016 01:02 (59 seconds ago) Permalink

LIB > Hootenanny > LIB & Tim > Sorry, Ma & Hootenanny > DTAS & ASD

?

aren't the next two albums after Hootenanny LIB and Tim (unless you're talking about Shit Hits...)?