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

Didn't vote in the solo poll; the one song I love, Westerberg's "Lookin' Out Forever," lost its vote.

Jerry Harrison's Cut-out Cred!

I didn't follow this poll, and I only listened to Let It Be, Tim, and Hootenanny, but I remember being impressed by how much The Village Voice loved this band in the 80s

Pleased To Meet Me box is up on US Spotify!

Wth there’s a Jimmy Iovine remix of Can’t Hardly Wait?!

He had a hand in everything back then! I have a story tangentially related to Jimmy Iovine, I might finally need to recount. I have been sitting on it for decades. It’s nothing shocking and not really about him, so don’t want to get your hopes up, but with end times upon us I might want to release it from the vault, even if it is of second take “Wally” quality.

Must...go to sleep... and wait until the morn to listen to PTMM box.

Wth there’s a Jimmy Iovine remix of Can’t Hardly Wait?!

my memory is that was the version they used for the 7-inch single and that it was not good. i could probably google this to make sure, but i don't think that's what the replacements would do in this situation.

LOL

I'm a little unwell at present, but I think I'll start on the Replacements tracks in about 9 hours time. Just from #60 to #50, to get things moving.

THE REPLACEMENTS - TRACKS

Actually, I'll post just #60 alone right now. Happens to work quite well as the Opening Theme, no?

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#60
Buck Hill
from Hootenanny (1983)
Score: 57
Votes: 6 (0)
Youtube: audio track

Awesome. I had it at 23.

Glad Popular Creeps made it, best Mats solo soon song

also great graphic on Buck Hill, classic MN church group field trip destination

glad Buck Hill showed up, it was a late cut from my ballot

it was disillusioning to learn the title was not a reference to Pete Buck

Lol

legend has it that in 1983 a young Charles Thompson IV heard "Buck Hill" and was so intrigued by its combination of surf guitar and deranged screaming that he thought he might use it as the basis for his new band

Well done.

buck hill always makes me smile but i think i like it more in the context of the sprawl that is hootenanny than as a thing of its own. it sounds very much like it was meant to be a song with lyrics but they never got around to it. i appreciate that the internet has done its best to monumentalize the lyrics it does have.

(that said, it's almost surely in my top 60 placemats songs!)

i just annotated it

i'm a Genius now because the other day I got really into a nevernending "LoFi Radio: Beats To Sip To | Pepsi" station on youtube and decided to transcribe and annotate all the Pepsi lyrics

hahaha perfect

I really couldn't find any great way to rank or decide what was going to be on my ballot. I was listening to Hootenanny and "Buck HIll" was one of the tracks that stood out to me that time so it made the cut.

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#59
Asking Me Lies
from Don't Tell a Soul (1989)
Score: 58
Votes: 3 (0)
Youtube: audio track (DTAS)
Youtube: audio track (Matt Wallace mix)

Confession: I struggled to remember what this track was, as a relative newcomer to DTAS. (Plus I was thinking in terms of Top 50 until 12 hours ago.)

I can’t really remember it

Did it make it onto “Dead Man’s Pop”?

Hm, I see that it did indeed make into onto Dead Man’s Pop.

The second Youtube clip is from DMP IIRC.

Oh yeah, Matt Wallace Mix.

Love Buck Hill but like lots of other faves it didn't make my 30. It would definitely make my top 60, so I approve.

Yeah, I figured this poll was going to be a team effort so I didn’t sweat the ranking for one thing, for exactly that reason.

Enjoying PTMM more than usual right now. Perhaps it’s due to cleansing my palate by attempting to listen to the solo material.

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#58
God Damn Job
from Stink (1982)
Score: 58
Votes: 4 (0)
Youtube: audio track

Is Stink. Is good.

Incidentally, number of voters then number of first-place votes are serving as tie-breakers. This is a handy illustration.

ah yes, the replacements song about being sick of one particular book in the bible

i thought it was just a statement of what god did to job

it almost made my ballot! i appreciate the sentiment, and that they used to perform it for encores suggests a lot of other people did

Lol

I had it at #12. Not sure why it was so high, see my previous post.

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#57
Kick Your Door Down
from Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash (1981)
Score: 58
Votes: 5 (0)
Youtube: audio track

I couldn’t just post songs from Sorry Ma so that one missed out, but good to see it here.

Some of these images received more thought than others. LOL. That particular photo shoots is fab though.

Pretty sure I didn't vote for any these, but could happily have done so, apart from #59.

^^ voted for this one, feels like a harbinger of what was to come.

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#56
Nowhere is My Home
outtake from Tim-era sessions (1985)
Score: 61
Votes: 4 (0)
Youtube: audio track

Kick Your Door Down was my #8!

sorry ma was totally new to me, so the whole album blew my socks off. i thought this was one of the ones that sounded a lot like Wipers in some ways. westerburg even has a sage-like robotrippin negative vibe ("i wonder what goes on behind closed door"). also sounds a bit like the buzzcocks! and unlike some of the later material, the tempo and feel shifts all over the place throughout the song. by the time they get to the end, they're noticeably faster and more intense, it's lovely

“Nowhere is (Near) My Home” was too new to me to vote for, but it is good.

Spotify list is no longer just a dummy track, btw. Might even serve as a apoiler for 5 minutes depending on which order I do things.

I spent more than enough time praising this track in the other thread I suspect.

Yeah, sure did, but you can cut and paste or put convenience links if you want.