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

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.

“Talent Show” was my other one from DTaS

_Paul on Prince_

love every word of that

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#24
Never Mind
from Pleased to Meet Me (1987)
Score: 261
Votes: 18 (0)
Youtube: audio track

in the name of LL and also at my own behest

TOOOOOO LOW re “Shiftless When Idle”

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, October 12, 2020 7:01 PM (forty-one minutes ago)

agree and thank you! that song is the only song about being a chronically restless person that i really identify with

speaking of, huge soft spot for "achin to be" based on a memory of sitting in my backyard on a hammock i had strung up myself and listening to my walkman and feeling understood for like 3 min <3 i did want to be him (based on my limited knowledge of what he was actually really like, which was definitively NOT how i wanted to be)

Best song on DTAS' second side until "Skyway."

er PTMM.

i had "never mind" very high, a very very solid power pop track

I had it at #26 but maybe could have been a little higher.

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#23
I.O.U.
from Pleased to Meet Me (1987)
Score: 267
Votes: 15 (0)
Youtube: audio track

Ah my PTMM tracks are coming in now!

sad but not surprised to see "waitress in the sky" place so low... i was the #1 voter.
(i had originally picked one of the more canonized tracks in my number 1 slot, but in the end, I had to vote my conscience: i've just enjoyed the hell out of that one over the years)

IOU kicks ass, easy vote

"i.o.u." was, for me, the perfect realization of their loud fast roots married to big $$ production and i wished they had kept exploring that path but maybe they didn't quite have it in 'em. it's an amazing last gasp. nirvana and butch vig pretty much picked up exactly where "i.o.u." left off.

also, i love the chorus that they make us wait till the end of the song to hear. nirvana never had *that* in them.

Yeah! And yet it somehow never occurred me to how late it comes until literally 10 minutes ago.

"occurred to me" rather.

I forgot this one - should have included it. Also forgot Color Me Impressed - I find Hootenanny wildly inconsistent so forgot about it.

I forgot this one - should have included it. Also forgot Color Me Impressed - I find Hootenanny wildly inconsistent so forgot about it.

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#22
The Ledge
from Pleased to Meet Me (1987)
Score: 279
Votes: 20 (0)
Youtube: origial promo video

"original promo". Geez.

Did you see that that footage was used three different times for three different songs?

I linked upthread under a mysterious name

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Already too far in the last for zing to work :(

I voted for “The Ledge,” had it at #25. Sometimes worry that it is a little cheesy but something about it sticks to me. It’s a little better done than it could be. Is it related to “Can’t Hardly Wait” somehow?

XP: Yes. And it's fabulous. Hehe. I mined the videos for stills weeks ago but I'd have preferred they didn't appear together like this. :)

i resented "the ledge" for hogging all the "pleased to meet me" radio play.

I'm not a fan of Westerburg's lead guitar, but it works here.

Good point. Are you spelling his name with a ‘u’ for any special reason?

i had the ledge as my #19, i really like it a lot

xpost feeling German

Oh is that the spelling in Heathers?

No idea what wizardry you collectively employed to engineer four PTTM tracks in a row...

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#21
Valentine
from Pleased to Meet Me (1987)
Score: 297
Votes: 17 (0)
Youtube: audio track

"Johnny's Gonna Die" is such a great, thoughtful song: there's a real person there under the caricature, it says, the same caricature they'd fall into themselves. Thought "Go" would be up near the top.

fourth ptmm track in a row and the third straight of my votes. valentine was top ten for me. it’s a powerhouse, comprised of three different choruses stacked atop one another

When listening to "IOU" for the first time in a long time for this poll, I was struck by how much it sounded like the Georgia Satellites, and then realizing 'of course' because they were buddy bands.

I was going to stop at 21, but I maybe I'll slip one further entry in if folks are still about...

Valentine and Talent Show both top 10 for me. Happy to see it place. Not worried about my other PTMM ‘hits’.

comprised of three different choruses stacked atop one another

Haha. Yes. I said something about "an endless series of bridges" or something the other day.

One one last entry for now...

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#20
Swingin Party
from Tim (1985)
Score: 302
Votes: 23 (0)
Youtube: audio track

Didn’t quite make the cut for me, but like it fine.

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