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

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#33
If Only You Were Lonely
from "I'm in Trouble" single (1981)
Score: 175
Votes: 12 (0)
Youtube: audio track

I had “Take Me Down to the Hospital” at #22. Love the “eight of my lives” holding pattern before the big finale.

“If Only You Were Lonely” at #7, because it was their earliest more sensitive but not too sensitive song.

the way they turn what could've been a throwaway rant into a full-on anthem with the repeated "we don't wanna know"s is a nice turn.

Yes

"if only you were lonely" my #3. such a lovely and timeless song. it helped that i first heard it at the same time i was getting into george jones, and he and it have lived together in my head ever since. "there was liquor on my breath / you were on my mind" is a great line. the way paul says he's "dreaminin' of that smile. that surprising change into the chorus. fucking perfect.

Didn’t vote for Seen Your Video, but one of the joys on Let It Be in general and this song in particular is Tommy’s bass tone.

I have problems with the mix of Let It Be but Tommy always sounds great.

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#32
Waitress in the Sky
from Tim (1985)
Score: 183
Votes: 14 (1)
Youtube: audio track

can't imagine voting for this one, even though i like the rockabilly bounce.

So many great lines:
Sanitation expert and a maintenance engineer
Garbage man, a janitor and you my dear

i used to know a flight attendant & this song just makes me think of all the stories about crappy passengers she told

also it is v good but i did not vote for it

I like it okay but didn’t feel compelled to vote for it.
xp

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#31
Shiftless When Idle
from Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash (1981)
Score: 188
Votes: 14 (0)
Youtube: audio track

LIke it, but left it to others to vote for.

It's true, btw: I'm milking that particular photoshoot dry. Cuz it's awesome.

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)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, October 11, 2020

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#30
We're Comin' Out
from Let It Be (1984)
Score: 207
Votes: 12 (0)
Youtube: audio track

This one I don't really like. To me it's a dull spot on Let It Be and suffers in comparison to earlier similar material.

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#29
Takin' a Ride
from Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash (1981)
Score: 220
Votes: 12 (0)
Youtube: audio track

"Seen the Video" has my favorite changes in any Mats song.

This one I don't really like. To me it's a dull spot on Let It Be and suffers in comparison to earlier similar material.

― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, October 12, 2020 6:11 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i feel this, but think it has an important thematic role in the album, both in its lyrics and the way it turns the hard-and-fast formula inside out

that said, i didn't vote for it

There is a kind of West Side Story quality to some of it.

We used to sometimes refer to that one song as "Señor Video"

what really makes "we're comin' out" for me is the piano breakdown

^ word

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#28
Go
from Stink (1982)
Score: 225
Votes: 15 (0)
Youtube: audio track

Too low IMHO.

Indeed. I had it at #3.

re "we're comin out": i like how they announce on their final twin/tone album that they've got "one more chance to get it all wrong" and then make their major label debut with "time for decision to be made." i like to think paul was playing the long game even though it's always been more likely that the long game was playing him.

"waitress in the sky" is such a good satire that it's easy not to notice that it's satire. which makes for a great, problematic song. i voted for it.

"shiftless" - title good. song kinda. obviously. voted for that one too.

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#27
Achin' to Be
from Don't Tell a Soul (1989)
Score: 225
Votes: 16 (0)
Youtube: original promo vidoe
Youtube: audio track (Matt Wallace mix)

"promo video", obv.

Speaking of which...

That was one of my two token DTAS votes, way down in the Jungle Roomat the bottom of my list.

in the name of LL and also at my own behest

TOOOOOO LOW re “Shiftless When Idle”

Paul on Prince

You came to mind as I was posting "Shiftless" :) [XP: VG]

Also: I recorded such data, but I have forgotten to mention it, as it wasn't expressed much in the end but: with every DTAS track between 1-3 votes were explicitly said to be for the Dead Man's Pop renditions, namely Matt Wallace mixes.

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#26
Johnny's Gonna Die
from Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash (1981)
Score: 226
Votes: 13 (0)
Youtube: audio track

Cool, 'Achin' To Be' was on my ballot but I didn't think it'd make it once we got to #30. Some of my favourite tender Westerberg lyrics.

'Johnny's Gonna Die' sticks out like a sore thumb on Sorry, Ma - the further from punk.

Too low! I had it at #5

Incidentally, I was *determined* to shoehorn the Bob memorial bench in here somewhere. May as well be this mortality-related number.

And it does stick out on Sorry, Ma

johnny's gonna die, go, and takin' a ride were all on my ballot

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#25
Talent Show
from Don't Tell a Soul (1989)
Score: 249
Votes: 17 (0)
Youtube: audio track (DTAS)
Youtube: audio track (Matt Wallace mix)

i'm one of probably a thousand writers who at some point had the opportunity to ask johnny thunders for his thoughts on this one. iirc, johnny was not particularly impressed, and noted that he had not in fact died. yet :(

Paul on Prince

love every word of that

I’ll pour out a Too Low for Talent Show. That live version in Inconcerated is insane.

Brother of a guy who played in the regular Monday night gig of a band Steve Almaas has started long after Steve Almaas left at The Ludlow Street Cafe used to do sort of standup routine during his own musical performances at Manitoba’s in which he would often do a bit about people talking about Johnny Thunders death. “It’s a conspiracy!” he would quote them saying and then he would say “it’s a conspiracy he didn’t die sooner!” and would go on about how he often expected to see Johnny Thunders booted feet sticking out of the CBGB bathroom like the Wicked Witch of the East’s Ruby Red Slippered feet under Dorothy’s house in The Wizard of Oz.