Tonight I'll be doing pull-ups on the toilet POLL - Artist Poll #104 - THE REPLACEMENTS Voting Thread

I included a ridiculous number of Hootenanny tracks myself. Didn't really see that coming.

The number of ballots is safely into double digits already, with, er, *checks* 80 Replacements tracks and 37 'other' tracks getting the nod.

Incidentally, for anyone with niggling ballot regrets, amendments are no problem at all.

the burrito that defined a generation at 6:32 22 Sep 20

ums I bet when you hear Paul's "go" in "anyway I ain't got nowhere else to go" from Hangin' Downtown, it probably just sounds like a normal "go" to you and not the monophthongal /oʊ/ linguistic curiosity that it actually is

...haha yeah I mean. being from MN I have a lot of complex feelings about the Replacements but I mean, there's a connection that I feel really deeply even in times I'm not that into them.

i think ended up w 3 tracks from Sorry Ma and 3 from Hootenanny ... it was a v sad game of lifeboat, culling the master list :/

aside from "Gary's Got a Boner" as the clear number one, it's hard to rank them

Before I made my final cuts I had it down at the bottom of my draft ballot in the Novelty Nods section along with Buck Hill and Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out. Slept on it and ultimately chose the one true right-feeling wrong best song.

was so happy when they did Tommy Got His Tonsils Out at the big show at Midway Stadium in St Paul... playing a big last hometown show at a minor league baseball stadium that was about to be torn down is pretty much perfect

super cool you saw that! I'm still holding out hope for maybe one more pass-through of my town (and if I'm extra lucky, maybe even a Last Train to Clarksville)

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

Bash & Pop's Tiny Pieces is a little bit fabulous. And it's been repeatedly re-entering my head since the weekend. Hooray for discovering things 27 years late.

there's one beautiful moment near the end of 'left of the dial' where the bass does a little descending walking line and you want the song to continue like that for at least another minute (like what bruce does in 'thunder road') but it only happens once and then the song ends 10 seconds later.

― i got a homogenic björk wine farmer permabanned (voodoo chili), Tuesday, September 22, 2020 5:47 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Yes

Sent my list in, pretty easy since they only have one good album and it is an EP

Bob’s trainwreck solo at about 00:50 on “We’re Comin’ Out”, open strings and all, is the greatest Replacements moment of all time (for today)

Bob is one of my favorite "outside" rock guitarists.

there's one beautiful moment near the end of 'left of the dial' where the bass does a little descending walking line and you want the song to continue like that for at least another minute (like what bruce does in 'thunder road') but it only happens once and then the song ends 10 seconds later.

You know I tend to think of Westerberg's solo career as a series of diminishing returns, but I've got close to 30 tracks without even getting into 49:00, which I think is brilliant. Admittedly, I love all the Grandpaboy stuff, Dead Man Shake in particular.
BTW Caryn Rose has a great piece on Salon about the 49:00 period: https://www.salon.com/2015/04/11/the_best_paul_westerberg_songs_you_never_heard_a_journey_through_his_surprise_2008_solo_gems/

Might there be appetite for additional slots on the solo/other ballot? Ten slots is kinda cramped for the volume of material, and many of you clearly know big chunks of it well. Happy to stretch it out to 20 if folks could use it...

Voted Replacements + Albums. wonder why my text wrapped above?
I'd appreciate an extra 10 on solo material, and think it could help the Bash+Pop and Chris Mars releases.

Should have had a top 10 replacements sound alike tracks

that's so meta

*touches nose*

Should have had a top 10 replacements sound alike tracks

or you could just start a goo goo dolls poll

nirvana

goo goo dolls sounded like all shook down and don't tell a soul. nirvana often resembled the twin/tone years, sometimes in their singles but also in the goofier incesticide stuff

or at least, listening to a lot of the twin/tone stuff with fresh ears, that's what i often think

"i'm worse at what i do best" is so westerberg it hurts

haha, yep

also, i truly have no idea how to handle the albums/releases part of this poll. 4-way tie for first?

hearing them play "darlin' one" live before dtas came out, i was convinced it was pretty much the greatest pop song ever written, an epic soft-rock masterpiece that could be played on AM radio and alt-rock radio alike for the rest of time, a signal of a new way forward for a band that would finally, for real this time, have actual hits, or, at the very least, it would be the song i could use to complain for the rest of my life about how the big bad world doesn't recognize real talent. christ was i disappointed when i actually heard it again, on record. there were entire sections of the song in my memory that seemed to have gone missing. hooks that only i remembered, and that i would soon forget. the production was just, oy. there was no sparkle. still a damn good chorus though.

do the alternate mix or live milwaukee '89 version on Dead Man's Pop come close to what you remember?

sadly, no. i've gone thru various versions over the years in search of what i thought i heard and no dice. my rosebud version was from 1987 tour.

*dream sequence*
*terrence malick whispers*

...they said it was the perfect performance...

lol

haha, i know what you mean though. i think i have only one example, though. secret machines opened for trail of dead on the source codes tour (in STL), and they did this AMAZING set, one song, with a huge godspeed-of-that-very-same-era style buildup and release. that's all, and then they were done. i thought they were this new hotshit post-rock band, but then every single release of theirs i've ever heard has been not that song, and nothing like that song. my friends who were there say the exact same thing, though. collective dream sequence

yup, that's a different version of the same exact feeling. trying to decide if "songs you thought you heard but you didn't" should be a thread, an album or a genre.

Make a thread. Or I will. I have one.

opposite feeling: first time i heard "i will dare," the first placemats song i'd ever heard. i felt like i'd heard it a thousand times before even though i ever had. it was like i'd been waiting for that exact album my whole life without knowing it. like i'd already written and recorded the entire album in my dreams and was just waiting for someone else to actualize it.

(xp) make it!

(xp to me) even though i *never* had, d'oh!

Okay, I'll make it official: feel free to submit UP TO 20 SELECTIONS IN THE SOLO/OTHER CATEGORY.

If you already voted, you are very welcome to submit additional tracks.

I'll have word with the one voter who went with an unranked ballot in that category, seeing as that has implications for scoring...

Um, bold would have been better!

UP TO 20 SELECTIONS IN THE SOLO/OTHER CATEGORY

The title “I Will Dare” always seemed to want more of an anthem than the song it’s actually attached to is.

^this
also the rubbishy Peter Buck solo, or "solo" even

goo goo dolls sounded like all shook down and don't tell a soul. nirvana often resembled the twin/tone years, sometimes in their singles but also in the goofier incesticide stuff

― Karl Malone, Thursday, September 24, 2020 3:02 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

funny you say this, I was listening to the early 'Mats stuff more thoroughly than ever before the other day and even though there were a lot of tunes I really liked, my primary takeaway was that I'd rather be listening to Bleach or Incesticide. Kurt was just a better melodist, and the music just feels more explosive and combustible.

the early Goo Goo Dolls stuff on Metal Blade is way more raw and I think in a lot of ways more indebted to early Soul Asylum than the Mats

https://youtu.be/yUfHVVjGrOQ

also they formed in 86 first album in 87 and had 3 albums before All Shook Down was out

I so often get fixated on outtakes in these things. In that spirit, here's where I say that "Perfectly Lethal" from the LIB era is fine ear-candy (no idea what he's getting at, lyrically) which kinda sorta invents Dinosaur Jr. (Or not. Maybe it's just that I can so easily hear J Mascis singing "no-one toooold youuuuu")

i haven't listened to any of the recent reunion replacements show stuff...until NOW:

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

honestly i'm kind of really impressed! he still looks and sounds great. gonna keep that in mind in case coronavirus ever ends and i go to a rock n roll show again

xp i love 'perfectly lethal', and i had never heard it before last week! it'll definitely be on my ballot (which i hope to submit tonight - i'm narrowing it down now)

SENT and i already feel terrible about my choices

Maybe you should find an outlet for those feelings like, say, trashing an RV.

Fun fact: 16 voters so far; 88 Replacements tracks and 40 'other' tracks have appeared on ballots.

That feels like a fair, er, sample size already. There's still another week to skew the numbers slightly towards your POV, if you've not yet done so...