The Replacements: Classic or Dud?

"God Damn Job" would sound good at the inaugural ball.

he actually lives in Minneapolis

oh god help us, the local press will have a raging boner over this 'local connection'

Purple Kaine, Purple Kaaaaaaaaine

Kainedy Apple Gray

Kaine't Hardly Wait

Tim

Timmy Gets His Tonsils Out

'16 Blue

omg '16 blue
yes

lol we have a winner

The rest of you can just grab your things and go home.

Daymn, Tafumes.

I'm sorry, I had to tweet that. I was about to explode.

as celebrities-still-repping-for-the-replacements-in-2017 goes, kudos to bob odenkirk for "most of all I play Stink! and Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take out the Trash."

The Last Word: Bob Odenkirk on Catholic Guilt, the Replacements and Late-Breaking Fame

I'm embarrassed to admit how long it took '16 Blue above to dawn on me, I was missing the apostrophe. A+

Nice to see him down with the Mehr book too.

i thought it was about being 16 and blue
it's not?

yah i'm confused on that too

it was a joke upthread about tim kaine (remember him?) being a Replacements fan

oh ok
i got that one

seems so long ago :'(

not as long ago as the time when i genuinely felt feelings about the replacements

funny thing

i never get sick of this band no matter how many times i listen to them and it's still a lot

timeless songs that fall apart if you look too closely at them

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2017/07/18/replacements-for-sale-live-at-maxwells-1986/

awesome show, probably my fave 'mats bootleg — excited to hear it cleaned up ... I wrote about it way back when over here: http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/514-invisible-hits-the-replacements-at-their-bestand-worst/

Hmm, this would have been less than a week after I saw them for the first time. (In Providence — still maybe the best show I've ever been to.)

hmmm...i didn't think i could get excited about the replacements again but this might do it

hmmm...i didn't think i could get excited about the replacements again but this might do it

also I'm sorry but as a MN dude this is one of the most o_O opinion lol djp

LIMITED WARRANTY was a more vital, entertaining and coherent band than The Replacements ever were.
― Dan Perry, Wednesday, February 14, 2001 7:00 PM (sixteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

damn, the hottest take

Live at Maxwells is an incredible recording, having suffering through so many cassette bootlegs. You can actually hear all the parts. And they sound competent.

Ah it is isn't it. mastered beautifully and caught at the perfect time too.

I wasn't at that show but a few nights earlier at the Ritz NYC i think

I have that Ritz show somewhere on a cassette Morbs. It's probably on the Internets someplace too.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8005711/the-replacements-for-sale-maxwells-live

Ranking the only albums that matter

Pretty sure the click-track didn’t come in until DTAS, though a Fairlight was used on PTMM (and I couldn’t tell you where on that record it appears, but I think it’s buried somewhere in “The Ledge”).

Good list. I’d put PtMM higher, but I get your rationale. It is an album, for me, where the highs are so high that I barely notice the lows.

I still haven’t heard their last two albums.

Pretty sure the click-track didn’t come in until DTAS

slim dunlap didn't come in till then either. he joined them for the pleased to meet me tour but they made the album as just paul, tommy & chris.

co-sign your disinterest in the last two albums. like hootenanny more than you do.

Pretty sure the click-track didn’t come in until DTAS, though a Fairlight was used on PTMM (and I couldn’t tell you where on that record it appears, but I think it’s buried somewhere in “The Ledge”).

Iirc in the book they say the Fairlight was used to sample and loop good takes to clean them up, which is maybe why it sounds like it was recorded to a click.

I like DTAS a lot.

From what I remember, the Gehr book says that the Fairlight was present in '87 already?

DTAS up there as one of the most disappointing albums ever. Can’t stand those dry guitars. Can tolerate ASD as an okay Paul solo album.

DTAS was my first Replacements album and I bought it when I was 14 and I loved it intensely. I'm sure it objectively sucks but it reminds me of my prelapsarian self. Now that I have read Trouble Boys, my feelings about this band have changed and recently I had a dream that Bob Stinson was my best friend and he was super cool until I realized during the dream that Bob Stinson was actually not a very objectively good friend and also is dead.

The whisper in the song "Don't Tell A Soul" utterly disillusioned me - I loved the band for how they fitted punk to sentimentality, but the whisper was just corny. And yeah, Stink is their best output as a unit, brawling and hilarious.

I always put these guys, Minutemen and Hüsker Dü in the same bag labelled 'canonical 80s rock bands I just don't get'. Never gave it much thought tbh.

they were like my three favorite bands for a while!!
all so different
also reminds me of a deeply horrendous period of my life but HD has emerged as the most enduring favorite, Minutemen endlessly replayable, and Replacements are absolutely the shitty boyfriend who treated me like garbage.

shoulda made that plural tbh but who cares

I love the corniness of DTAS. Personal faves include Talent Show, We'll Inherit the Earth (no prob with this one), Anywhere's Better Than Here (great opening scream) and I'll Be You.

The opening scream on side 2 was what made me totally fall in love with this band. The sentiment too. I remember exactly where I was standing when I flipped the tape and listened to it for the first time. My friend's sister's empty bedroom, standing near the closet.

Reading about how hateful/disdainful/dismissive PW was to the new fans that DTAS earned them made me realize what a choad he was. Is? Idk

the badness of dtas is extremely overstated. i like that record a lot

What about All Shook Down? That's a real good record.

not a fan!