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

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.

PARTY DOWN THE LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE

Yup

I'll start rolling out the remainder in about... 18 hours.

voted highly for this. beautiful melody, glorious little doo wop guitar solo, and plenty of memorable lyrics.

“bring your own lampshade somewhere there’s a party” is a definite entrant in the opening lyric hall of fame

Lorde fans not representin'

Swingin Party was top 10 for me

Swingin' Party is one of my favorite mopey Mats numbers

I guess I need to hear Dead Man's Pop, huh? The original PTTM mixes sound pretty dire to me, which is one reason I voted for very little from that album

Dead Man’s Pop is a different mix of DTaS

So Paul has two sisters, his older sister Julie who was a flight attendant, and a younger sister Mary Lucia aka “Looch,” the DJ mentioned in the Prince anecdote, who also does podcasts like the one M@tt linked upthread about one of the Suicide Commandos or the one I just found with her (and Matos?) about Hüsker Dü, does voiceover work for Purina Puppy Chow and did the Audiobook for Trouble Boys.

i really like Swingin Party but I either didnt have room or cut it during the brutal ‘lifeboat’ round
:(

it’s very good tho, glad to see it in the 20’s

Mary is also Paul's 'shadow self' in the "Achin' To Be" video.

tell us more about this "lifeboat" round!

is this who is going to get eaten in the lifeboat first, if cannibalism becomes an option? or is not enough room in the lifeboat, one of your friends is going to have to die?

Not sure why I assumed Mehr's book wouldn't readily available here, across the ocean. Turns out there's a library copy 'on the shelf' 10 km away, for starters. Yowsah.

i go through each song & if i cant make a good argument for keeping it i throw it overboard & it gets eaten by sharks

I doubt I'll ever listen to the original Don't Tell a Soul again

xp

wait, so you're on the lifeboat, but you're tossing things overboard to the sharks if there aren't good arguments for them existing? tough but fair :D

i run a tough lifeboat

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lol vegemite

Mary is also Paul's 'shadow self' in the "Achin' To Be" video.

Could probably do with a summary about here...
                                                             pts     vts    #1s 
20  Swingin Party           Tim (October 1985)               302      23      0
21  Valentine               Pleased to Meet Me (April 1987)  297      17      0
22  The Ledge               Pleased to Meet Me (April 1987)  279      20      0
23  I.O.U.                  Pleased to Meet Me (April 1987)  267      15      0
24  Never Mind              Pleased to Meet Me (April 1987)  261      18      0
25  Talent Show             Don't Tell a Soul (January 1989) 249      17      0
26  Johnny's Gonna Die      SMFTTOTT (August 1981)           226      13      0
27  Achin' to Be            Don't Tell a Soul (January 1989) 225      16      0
28  Go                      Stink (June 1982)                225      15      0
29  Takin' a Ride           SMFTTOTT (August 1981)           220      12      0
30  We're Comin' Out        Let It Be (September 1984)       207      12      0
31  Shiftless When Idle	    SMFTTOTT (August 1981)           188      14      0
32  Waitress in the Sky     Tim (October 1985)               183      14      1
33  If Only You Were Lonely I'm in Trouble (August 1981)     175      12      0
34  Seen Your Video         Let It Be (September 1984)       160       8      1
35  I Don't Know            Pleased to Meet Me (April 1987)  149      12      0
36  Portland                DTAS era micellany               146      12      0
37  Take Me Down to the     Hootenanny (April 1983)	     138      10      0
38  Black Diamond           Let It Be (September 1984)       112       8      0
39  Careless                SMFTTOTT (August 1981)           106       7      0
40  I Hate Music            SMFTTOTT (August 1981)           104       8      0
41  Merry Go Round          All Shook Down (September 1990)  103      11      0
42  Hayday                  Hootenanny (April 1983)          101       7      1
43  Customer                SMFTTOTT (August 1981)           100       6      0
44  Tommy Gets His Tonsils  Let It Be (September 1984)        99       8      0
45  Run It                  Hootenanny (April 1983)           99       7      0
46  I'm in Trouble	    SMFTTOTT (August 1981)            94       6      0
47  Treatment Bound         Hootenanny (April 1983)           90       8      0
48  Sadly Beautiful         All Shook Down (September 1990)   87       7      0
49  Nightclub Jitters       Pleased to Meet Me (April 1987)   81       6      0
50  We'll Inherit the Earth Don't Tell a Soul (January 1989)  79       6      0
51  Fuck School             Stink (June 1982)                 79       4      1
52  Anywhere's Better Than  Don't Tell a Soul (January 1989)  78       6      0
53  I'll Buy                Tim (October 1985)                73       5      0
54  Don't Ask Why           SMFTTOTT (August 1981)            70       3      0
55  Love Lines              Hootenanny (April 1983)           65       5      0
56  Nowhere Is My Home      Tim era miscellany                61       4      0
57  Kick Your Door Down     SMFTTOTT (August 1981)            58       5      0
58  God Damn Job            Stink (June 1982)                 58       4      0
59  Asking Me Lies          Don't Tell a Soul (January 1989)  58       3      0
60  Buck Hill               Hootenanny (April 1983)           57       6      0

Catching up ... "Never Mind" was very high for me, I've always loved the way the words and music work together in that song. Paul sings "Never MIND" and the guitar doubles his voice. Jim Dickinson sure made them sound good. Same with "I.O.U.," the noise is so in your face, that song really rocks. "Swingin Party" is a big personal fave. "If being afraid is a crime we hang side by side" — such an empathetic lyricist for someone who was evidently such a jerk.

I didn't vote but I can say with confidence that "Takin' a Ride" is way too low.

Excited for the Top 20 :D

Worried for Gary’s Got A Boner not placing.

Not holding out much hope for Mr. Whirly either

I enjoyed selecting those Youtube tracks just now. Not even particularly representative perhaps, but you might be able to guess why I chose those...

Is it something like lowest placed track from the album (that received votes)?

Hahaha. I think they were mostly the highest ranked tracks that weren't going to be in the rollout per se. Just to spread the love around.

BUT I messed that up by expanding the rollout from 50 to 60 at the last minute, so we saw most of them between #50 and #60 anyway.

Cool, that’s what I thought at first but was confused by God Damn Job in there.

Good news for my deductive skills but bad news for boners.

I guessed the game was up when you mentioned 'Gary' and then that sentence. :)

Seeing as I'm still awake I may as well drop one now. I'll finish off the remainder in about 6 hours. Also: too low.

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#19
Kids Don't Follow
from Stink (1982)
Score: 316
Votes: 21 (0)
Youtube: audio track

I had it at #13.

yes!

I'm glad you approve of the way I ranked it.

'I didn't vote, but' is the 'well, actually' of ILM.

this was a top tenner for me, probably my favorite riff they ever put to tape.

yeah I love that song

btw I voted for both "Portland" & "Talent Show" (the latter was my #2 I think?). "Talent Show" is the one of the great openers: a mission statement that this band can't live up to, surprising no one.

Great description! I still haven’t listened to both of them carefully to compare.

"Kids Don't Follow"! i had it around the same spot in my ballot (#21) but it was one my favorite discoveries of this poll (hadn't heard Stink at all until a few weeks ago)