I hate ILoveMusic, it's got too many POLLS - Artist Poll #104 - THE REPLACEMENTS - RESULTS

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#4
THE REPLACEMENTS - Hootenanny
April 1983
Score: 50
Votes: 23 (1)
Youtube excerpt: You Lose

quite surprised hootenanny placed above sorry ma

me too! i like hootenanny a lot and i look forward to feeling dumb and thinking it's my favorite a few years down the road. but overall, in my listening i found myself a little bit let down by it, especially sandwiched by so much amazing stuff directly around it

some days i think hootenanny is their pinnacle, some days i think it's a bit of a mess, but there is no day in which i don't thank the good lord above for the existence of "lovelines."

it's just a weird transitionary record to me, a few moments of brilliance and a bunch of other directions that don't work too well

solid thread title, btw

I always remember Hootenanny as a bit too jokey. In reality that's only really a couple of brief tracks and the highs are high. Without giving much away, almost all of it was pretty well represented on tracks ballots.

Also, fun fact: There's a typo in the opening post, as it was written in advance and didn't account for a ballot arriving slightly later. There were in fact 31 album ballots, not 30.

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#3
THE REPLACEMENTS - Pleased to Meet Me
April 1987
Score: 82
Votes: 28 (4)
Youtube excerpt: Red Red Wine

hootenanny is definitely transitional, partly still trying to be a punk band, partly shouting no way, partly laughing at the predicament, fully, um, stuck in the middle. but i think "run it" is as good as they ever punked, "color me impressed" is a clear arrow forward, and "mr. whirly" is pretty much a career declaration that they're not going to take this shit seriously, ever, no matter how badly someone wants them to. a weirdly quintessential mats album for me.

and pttm is where end up deciding to take this shit seriously in spite of their own worst intentions, and is the beginning of their downfall, and is still a fantastic album.

where *they* end up...

shout-out to whoever had Hootenanny #1, I had it at #2. I feel like it's overlooked, the first classic.
No drama left now.

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#2
THE REPLACEMENTS - Tim
October 1985
Score: 107
Votes: 31 (4)
Youtube excerpt: I'll Buy

No drama perhaps, but still interesting that this was the only long-player that everyone voted for.

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#1
Let It Be
September 1984
Score: 126
Votes: 29 (18)
Youtube excerpt: Gary's Got a Boner

I enjoyed selecting those Youtube tracks just now. Not even particularly representative perhaps, but you might be able to guess why I chose those...

In summary...
                                                                            points  votes   #1's 
 1   The Replacements - Let It Be (September 1984)                             126     29     18
 2   The Replacements - Tim (October 1985)                                     107     31      4
 3   The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me (April 1987)                         82     28      4
 4   The Replacements - Hootenanny (April 1983)                                 50     23      1
 5   The Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash (August 1981)    37     14      2
 6   The Replacements - Stink (June 1982)                                       23      7      1
 7   The Replacements - Don't Tell a Soul (January 1989)                        14      5      1
 8   The Replacements - Dead Man's Pop (September 2019)                         10      6      0
 9   The Replacements - The Shit Hits the Fans (January 1985)                    5      2      0
10=  The Replacements - All Shook Down (September 1990)                          4      2      0
10=  The Replacements - For Sale: Live at Maxwell’s 1986 (October 2017)          4      2      0
12   Paul Westerberg - Stereo/Mono (April 2002)                                  3      2      0
13=  Paul Westerberg - Suicaine Gratification (February 1999)                    1      1      0
13=  Paul Westerberg - 49:00 (July 2008)                                         1      1      0

I was going to do a top thirty for the solo/other stuff, but I'll expand it slightly and fairly briskly today to 36, partly to get everyone's #1's in, and begin the top 30 proper tomorrow (Thursday morning AEDT, Wednesday for most of you.)

No drama perhaps, but still interesting that this was the only long-player that everyone voted for.

SOLO AND OTHER PROJECTS

85 distinct tracks received votes. Here's a seven-track taster before the Top 30 beginning tomorrow, such that everything with 40 points or greater (not least all tracks receiving first-place votes) are accounted for.

Three way tie for 35...

#35 (TIE)
TOMMY STINSON - Light of Day
from Village Gorilla Head (2004)
Score: 40
Votes: 1 (1)
Youtube: audio track

#35 (TIE)
PAUL WESTERBERG - A Star Is Bored
from Melrose Place soundtrack (1995)
Score: 40
Votes: 1 (1)
Youtube: audio track

#35 (TIE)
PAUL WESTERBERG - Runaway Wind
from 14 Songs (1993)
Score: 40
Votes: 1 (1)
Youtube: original promo video

I have sneaking suspicion "A Star Is Bored" existed before Melrose Place used it, but I can't seem to prove it. Anyone?

Interest levels seem low right now so I'll keep things even more skeletal than planned. LOL. Last batch before tomorrow:

#34
PAUL WESTERBERG - Daydream
from Come Feel Me Tremble (2003)
Score: 42
2 (0)
Youtube: audio track

#33
PAUL WESTERBERG - My Dad
from Folker (2004)
Score: 43
2 (0)
Youtube: audio track

#32
PAUL WESTERBERG - Dirty Diesel
from Come Feel Me Tremble (2003)
Score: 45
2 (0)
Youtube: audio track

#31
GRANDPABOY - 2 Days 'Til Tomorrow
from Mono (2002)
Score: 47
2 (0)
Youtube: audio track

Good to see another vote for My Dad. Folker has a couple of strong tracks.

Yay "Days 'Til Tomorrow", great tune

Nag at what point do you start getting consensus (5 votes?) on solo tracks?

It's mostly 3 votes before the top 10, IIRC. The proportion of voters submitting a solo/other list dropped away after a promising surge about half way through the voting period.

Started populating the Spotify list for this part now. Feel free to add stuff if I fall behind.

Good to see another vote for My Dad. Folker has a couple of strong tracks.

I was the other one. Folker's got plenty of strong tracks, and not just one but two about his dad ("Looking up in Heaven" being the other).

And it's funny, because Folker came out 23 years after Sorry Ma, in which he sang about how he hated his dad but someday he wouldn't ("I Hate Music"), but also in the middle of Folker is an entirely different song about a different kind of regret called "23 Years Ago."

A typo has been pointed out: Suicaine Gratifaction, that should be. Sorry about that.

I have clearly been spelling Suicaine Gratifaction wrong for years! I spelt it wrong on my ballot, so my fault.

hello late to the rollout in true punk fashion alas i am not drunk tho sorry (ma)

A typo has been pointed out: _Suicaine Gratif*ac*tion_, that should be. Sorry about that.

its even worse corrected. wtf paul

The self-sabotage takes a multitude of mysterious forms.

I'll return and endeavor to get through to #16 in about 7 to 8 hours, but I'll drop one now, if only to check the image.

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#30
THE I DON'T CARES ‎– Born For Me
from Wild Stab (2016)
Score: 53
Votes: 2 (0)
Youtubet: audio track

I’m interested in how 2 votes equal 53?

33 + 20, it seems.

Anyway, I changed my mind. I'll post this three-way tie before wandering off.

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#27 (TIE)
BASH & POP ‎– Friday Night Is Killing Me
from Friday Night Is Killing Me (1993)
Score: 54
Votes: 2 (0)
Youtube: audio track

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#27 (TIE)
PAUL WESTERBERG ‎– We May Be the Ones
from Stereo (2002)
Score: 54
Votes: 2 (0)
Youtube: audio track

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#27 (TIE)
PAUL WESTERBERG ‎– Knockin' on Mine
from 14 Songs (1993)
Score: 54
Votes: 2 (0)
Youtube: audio track

Enjoying the rollout, thanks Nag. Concur that it’s a good thread title.

Is it wrong of me to think the solo stuff titles and covers look like artifacts from a fictional or parallel universe?

Tommy Stinson was a really cute young man.

Easy, Action!

That SNL performance of Knockin on Mine just rips.

Actually getting curious about the band track results now. Which of the underreleased tracks make the cut, which favorites rise and fall.

I only voted for two solo songs, but I just remembered one I shoulda voted for, "Silent Film Star".

Backstage with Tommy Stinso from The Replacements…
They called us Tom Petty and Excess Baggage… And we called them The Placements. pic.twitter.com/8LXKh6RHNp

— Mike Campbell // The Dirty Knobs (@MikeCampbellHQ) March 16, 2021

https://www.insidehook.com/article/music/the-replacements-got-me-through-pandemic

I believe it

They're one of those magical acts that at the right place and time, whatever and whenever that may be, are the Best Band Ever. Could be with friends, could be while driving, could be while sitting on the can. It's totally plausible that it could have been for the duration of the pandemic, too. Per that author, they're just in some ways so much more comforting in their chaos than something like Husker Du (too much rage) or the Minutemen (too agitated).

Timely--got in my car after morning coffee and "I Will Dare" was playing. I'm sure there are still college stations that play the Replacements, but I think that might be the first time I've ever heard them off the car radio (CBC in Canada).

(I would have pulled over to the side of the road Greil Marcus-style, but I was already in park.)

I just went kerrazy and read this entire thread anew. I seemed to make even more blunders than my average poll rollout lol. Thanks again to everyone who voted and/or added to the discussion!

One of the great ILM poll titles.

honestly blows my mind that the only album everyone voted on was Tim.

Wow, is that really the case?

Never forget:

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"You know who he is?" *after* two minutes of interrogation lol.

XP: It's true: 31 album ballots, all including Tim. LIB appeared on 29, but won on points. PTMM was on 28.

I wonder who the Seinfeld box set was for.

Jerry’s Got a Boner