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

xp seriously, I wanna know who that is and how much student loan debt they have

That’s a brilliant ranking.

respect

whoever voted it as number one is truly in touch with the spirit of the band

Didn't vote for it because I knew someone else would.

Glad God Damn Job made the cut, it was my no. 31 and hated to cut it.

Red light, red light, cut it!

I didn't vote for "Asking Me Lies," but I actually like it. I used to hate it, but Dead Man's Pop became a good reason to re-evaluate it. The new mix is an improvement - it actually sounds more like the 'Mats proper - but it made a hell of a lot more sense knowing they were big Jackson 5 fans. So the 'Mats do their take of a Jackson 5 number, and I can dig what Westerberg hears in their music because it's pretty much what I hear in a good Jackson 5 number.

I never saw the 'Mats back in the day, but when I saw the "reunion," one of the highlights was when they did "Nowhere Is My Home," and even better a lot of people around me at least knew enough of the words to shout along with the first chorus. Not bad for something that criminally languished as an obscure, out-of-print cut for several decades.

I don't know if the master or multi-track tapes wound up in the river, but it's a shame it only exists as a so-so dub from a vinyl copy. It could really use a better mix to bring out some of the muscle, but it's still a great track, I love it - the guitar riff, the choruses, everything. It really should have made Tim.

if you write the lyric "at a Mexican bar mitzvah for 700 years" then you are good at writing lyrics

Just a couple more to consider at your leisure...

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#50
We'll Inherit the Earth
from Don't Tell a Soul (1989)
Score: 79
Votes: 6 (0)
Youtube: audio track (DTAS)
Youtube: audio track (Matt Wallace mix)

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#49
Nightclub Jitters
from Pleased to Meet Me (1987)
Score: 81
Votes: 6 (0)
Youtube: audio track

Don't mind "Nightclub Jitters" but it didn't make the cut.

Heh, had to go back and check my ballot since for all I know it could've snuck on at the bottom.

“I’ll Buy” didn’t make my ballot because it always reminded me of that Del Fuegos beer commercial which had come out a few months before Tim was released. I always conflate the two in my head.

I voted Asking Me Lies, it's a fun Jackson 5/Lynyrd Skynyrd (another influence) homage, and I love Tommy's backing vocals on it.
This seems like the 'pick your favorite filler' part of the poll, and one man's 'Asking Me Lies' is another's 'I'll Buy'.

Tim was my introduction, listened to the whole album blind, and the “you had me at” moment may very well have been I’ll Buy’s “Movies are for retards like me and Maybelline.” Just absolute perfection in the way it rolls off the tongue.

Lol, campreverb.

I searched for “Del Fuegos beer commercial” and yup, the 2 are definite family. Derivative af but I really don’t care, I just feel exactly how I should feel when I hear it.

oh man "We'll Inherit the Earth" is not filler to me! I listened to the versions on Dead Man's Pop today & I still prefer the original mix, but the demo is excellent as well. I like the Matt Wallace mix less. It's another cosmic-themed song, about life & death stuff, sacred & profane. It's hard to think that Sorry Ma was only eight years earlier, because the lyric sounds like the kind of thing that earlier band would have mocked relentlessly. But this song is relentless too, a pump your fist anthem even though your hands are in your pockets. It reminds me of another would-be anthem from that year, the Jesus & Mary Chain's "Between Planets".

Asking me lies was #13 for me, I love it. It sounds dated in a good way, like happier times... butterfly train never ends, never ends.

I liked "We'll Inherit the Earth" when the album first came out but over time it's kind of faded for me — feels too much like a deliberate sequel to "Bastards of Young," but without its humor and specificity.

"Nightclub Jitters" is the first of my picks to make the rollout. I love that song. It's ersatz cocktail jazz in the same way "Buck Hill" is ersatz surf music and "Waitress in the Sky" is ersatz honky-tonk. Ersatz is one of my favorite Replacements modes, because they're always better than you think they'd be at whatever form they try, but also still sloppy and Replacements-y about. (The loss of that hang-loose make-it-up vibe is what most mars the last two albums for me.)

Plus "Nightclub Jitters" is a catchy tune, a good groove and has some classic Westerberg lines. "They say now don't be stranger/ That really don't matter to me/ I'd be willing to wager/ That it don't matter much if we keep in touch."

Replacements-y about it, that should say.

Do you guys remember what Bruce Springsteen said to The Rock Bottom Remainders?

"Take my Little Steven, please!"

Ha, lol, no. It was something like, "You guys are pretty good. But not too good. But don't get any better, or you'll just be another band."

I love this story.
https://blog.thecurrent.org/2012/09/when-bob-dylan-met-replacements-new-yorker-unearths-priceless-decades-old-anecdote/

Haha! F*#% him if he can’t take a joke.

looooooool

that's amazing. getting burned by dylan in person is still a lifetime achievement imo, especially for performing Like a Rolling Pin

"asking Me lies" always struck me as "uh, the label says the Chili Peppers are doing OK-ish on radio (this being 89), so we'll do our not-even-half-assed version…"

looooooool

that's amazing. getting burned by dylan in person is still a lifetime achievement imo, especially for performing Like a Rolling Pin

"asking Me lies" always struck me as "uh, the label says the Chili Peppers are doing OK-ish on radio (this being 89), so we'll do our not-even-half-assed version…"

Weekends are not really all *that* quiet are they!

I'm thinking (i) leisurely get to 41 before Monday, (ii) 40-21 on Monday, (iii) 20-1 on Tues, if that's agreeable. (USA time; Tues and Wed for antipodeans.)

I'll post a couple more now.

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#48
Sadly Beautiful
from All Shook Down (1990)
Score: 87
Votes: 7 (0)
Youtube: audio track

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#47
Treatment Bound
from Hootenanny (1983)
Score: 90
Votes: 8 (0)
Youtube: audio track

Didn’t make the cut but I like.

The latter. The former I merely tolerate

Going back a bit: I believe I had "We'll Inherit the Earth" at the bottom of my ballot largely cuz it's dense and hazy in the Matt Wallace mix. Have no particular recollection of hearing it before Dead's Man Pop though, and working backwards to the original album version was a profoundly underwhelming experience. The bare bones of the song are possibly not great, to be honest.

Was just listening to Jeff Tweedy’s ‘Ballad of the Opening Band’ and probably should have had a Slim track on the solo ballot. Songs for Slim is pretty fun.

"treatment bound" is an alltime fave band-on-the-road song though i've always been confused by the implication that twin/tone records wanted a hit or even knew what a hit was. "yesterday's trash/too bored to thrash" is them in a nutshell.

i like that the top row of songs on the hootenanny cover have all now placed in the poll. next up: take me down to the hospital, run it and mr. whirly, none of which i voted for, all of which would make me smile.

the first time "we'll inherit the earth" made sense to me was when a christian rock band played it in the mediocre christian high school satire "saved" starring a 20something macaulay culkin. it's a good christian rock high school band song.

Love Treatment Bound so much. “Duluth to Madison!”

I missed this poll entirely — it’s for the best, I do not need to revisit my Replacements-loving years — but looking at this thread makes me realize I know their songs backward/forward/upside down because I listened to them so much.

I haven’t followed the rollout but I hope “Shiftless When Idle” places high — I still feel that one in a real and visceral and FUN way (compared to most of their songs)

Looks like I'm going to have to see "Saved"!

i like that the top row of songs on the hootenanny cover have all now placed in the poll. next up: take me down to the hospital, run it and mr. whirly, none of which i voted for, all of which would make me smile.

Still not sure if I prefer Love Lines or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgYXBmFH6Vk

Here, have another one.

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#46
I'm in Trouble
from Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash (1981)
Score: 94
Votes: 6 (0)
Youtube: audio track

One of my all time fave Mats tracks, always makes me want to pogo.

That one I had at 11.