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

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.

first follower over here, i will never unfollow

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

just be like me and post pretty much the same thing with slightly different words! feels good to have another shot

Haha. Something something something guitar hook is totes rad.

The instinct towards restraint is commendable but the run-up thread and the rollout thread are distinct entities that are presumably exempt from any spamming or related rule so ultimately it’s probably fine to repeat.

Thing is, I'm usually cross-eyed from triple-checking bbcode and can barely think straight during rollouts. :)

Graphics looking good here!

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#55
Lovelines
from Hootenanny (1983)
Score: 65
Votes: 5 (0)
Youtube: audio track

DIdn't get scooped up in my ballot but glad it's here.

What other band is even bringing the shenanigans like The Replacements?

Not too many, or at least not with as much success.

Okay, PTMM bonus tracks not making me feel great.

Pretty sure I did keep this on my ballot. If not, I least muttered a little 'yay' with each email that included it.

The track list on that new boxset did not entice this fan, I must say. Who even was clamoring for it?

* Short break in rollout required. Do talk among yourselves. *

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Dunno, but Dead Man's Pop was good, so it seemed intriguing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9XR5CynN-k

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#54
Don't Ask Why
from Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash (1981)
Score: 70
Votes: 3 (0)
Youtube: audio track