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

(Possibly too) late lobbying post: the originally UK-only track "Nowhere Is My Home" from (approximately) the Tim era was already mentioned early in the thread (by birdistheword, I think) but here's a Youtube link to reinforce the crucial, crucial message!

I am aware of that track and have listened a few times- it was on some comp or other over here, maybe the one called something like All Or Nothing At All but it never hooked me.

Word. It seems to be on expanded Tim issues too these days.

I could almost vote for a 10 second excerpt of the lead guitar hook alone. LOL.

Is that song called "Nowhere Is Near My Home"?

I've seen it with and without the 'near'.

Okay this song is pretty Bob-tastic and I will consider voting for it.

I couldn't find the earlier reference upthread, did it mention that the were playing it on reunion shows and Paul was doing some pretty good lead playing?

:)

He was talking broadly about improving the listening experience of the Sire records.

I noticed they also played "Wake Up" in reunion shows. (Which, again, the audience may have known largely from All For Nothing?!?) I think I kept that one on my ballot too, so this has suddenly mutated into de facto lobbying post. LOL. Last one!

It’s actually not on All for Nothing, “Nobody” is. It was on some UK only thing called Boink!!

So many songs where Bob totally takes over either the entire latter half with a solo and then fills or at the very least the outro.

i love Good Day by Tommy! i will def be voting for that
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, September 22, 2020

I'm belatedly checking a few things, like: where does one locate a recording of this?

I'm acquainted with Westerberg's "Good Day", reputedly inspired by *Bob* S, but a Tommy track is proving elusive. Might I be overlooking an alias?

Will try to finish up today. One question: in the OP you mention ranking for songs but not for albums. Is that intentional?

Just sloppiness. :) Ranked or unranked is fine, though most, if not all, have ranked them.

I was reflecting on the incredible 1983-era video above, and thinking that perhaps what the Replacements represent is one of music's great could have beens. Paul (at least) always distances himself from the punk scene in interviews, but the guitar interplay on display in that video is simply frightening. Television's Friction chased with Jack Daniels and spit back out into a freezing Minneapolis night.

xposts to Nag!: ugh i am a dumb i meant light of day by Tommy not good day sorry

https://youtu.be/awtxkRwqKeY

Aha! Awesome. Thanks.

I was reflecting on the incredible 1983-era video above, and thinking that perhaps what the Replacements represent is one of music's great could have beens. Paul (at least) always distances himself from the punk scene in interviews, but the guitar interplay on display in that video is simply frightening. Television's Friction chased with Jack Daniels and spit back out into a freezing Minneapolis night

It does make me wonder how this would have played out had Bob remained in the band and presuming Paul wrote those later songs in the same way. In many of those later songs there were clearly delineated differences between ‘rhythm’ and ‘lead’ - to the extent that a lot of the rhythm was ‘only’ acoustic guitars - so I do wonder how Bob would’ve responded as lead guitarist

Voted!

That takes it to 24 voters so far. And exactly 100 distinct Replacements tracks, 79 'other' tracks. (I slightly overestimated at least one of those a couple of days ago.)

:D

Tomorrow’s the official deadline, right?

EXTEND

^^

I will likely be able to get a ballot together monday

voted

Alright, I'll check how things are going at the end of Monday. (Alaska time or, you know, that the very last timezone a little after that.)

My ballot will arrive today, just sorting out solo tracks.

Thinking about my issues with PTMM prompted me to make a playlist which remedied all said issues with some re-sequencing and a couple of, uh, yup I’m gonna say it: Replacements.

1. IOU
2. Alex Chilton
3. Photo
4. Cruella DeVille
5. Nightclub Jitters
6. I Don’t Know
7. Never Mind
8. The Ledge
9. Red Red Wine
10. Skyway
11. Can’t Hardly Wait

This side one flows better for me. “I Don’t Know” always sounded too soon and out of place, but as an opener on side 2 I think it’s perfect. “Cruella DeVille” has a certain energy that deserves a side one placement and why not make it right before the similarly swinging “Nightclub Jitters”? “Photo” though (which I only heard recently) was the linchpin that made this possible; I think it’s good enough and similar in feel enough to follow Chilton. “Valentine” has a good melody, my problem with it has more to do with the context in which it appears in the original. Thank God for modern playlist technology!

This poll led me to go back and load this video clip of "First Steps" from a Tommy solo show at a record store here a few years ago. He got up on the countertop for the encore. The audience, as you can see, is exactly who'd expect.

https://youtu.be/Wojo4IKHsDY

OMG

I couldn't hang around after the show, but one of my friends did and ended up buying Tommy drinks at the bar next door.

My ballot is in btw.

Buying him drinks and giving him a lift back to his hotel, actually.

I voted.

I will be surprised if mine's not the ballot heaviest on Don't Tell A Soul.

My breakdown: Sorry Ma (2), Stink (1), Hootenanny (3), Let It Be (6), Tim (6), PTTM (7), DTAS (2), All Shook Down (2), non-album (1). HOWEVER, the album with the most tracks only placed one in my top 10.

I voted.

I will be surprised if mine's not the ballot heaviest on _Don't Tell A Soul_.

Oh but I wasn’t intending on ranking, maybe I should rethink

Interesting, looks a lot like mine: All Shook Down 2, DTAS 3, PTMM 7, Tim 5, Let It Be 6, Hootenanny 4, Sorry Ma, Stink-1 Each, Live/Cover-1.
two from my top album in the top 10. I was hoping the years passing might shed some light on whether All Shook Down is good or not, but I still don't really know what to make of it. I think it mostly makes me sad, that's a dude in a dark place.

I guess I got all the CD re-issues whenever those came out, and while there are some interesting extras, nothing I felt particularly strongly about. Nowhere is My Home and Portland are probably the best, but they didn't beat out low-20s tracks for me like Go. I guess I tended to like his re-writes better, Portland=Talent Show, and You're Getting Married feels like an earlier, less mature (read-meaner) version of Little Mascara or Nobody.

A couple of the All Shook Down tracks that I remembered as highlights did not really hold up for me. That album is so betwixt and between. I actually prefer 14 Songs.

The audience, as you can see, is exactly who'd expect.

I feel seen.

Lol.

If I was walking by and saw that crowd I might not have walked in.

Almost about to hit send. Track ranking is really somewhat arbitrary, although album ranking follows an obvious pattern.

To be clear, I fit in very comfortably with that crowd too.

Yeah, me too but Grouch Marx etc.

Reminds me of the first time I thought of going to a crossword puzzle contest, which was then a block from my house. I had already registered but I saw some dude going in with a record bag over his shoulder and just couldn't do it, at least not that time.

Ballot sent.

A bunch of ballots in my mailbox, I see. Nice. That must be 30-something in total now.

So should we now stop posting and go into deep hibernation cover on the incognito tip until the rollout?

ballot sent!

i didn't submit a solo/side projects ballot 'cause i couldn't come up with anywhere near 20 of those, but for anyone who hasn't voted yet and is still contemplating, can i lobby for this fantastic tune westerberg co-wrote and recorded with the leatherwoods:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mebxXIPPMs