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

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

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fb/9d/ec/fb9dec58529cacd2997c936a423a1da8.jpg

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.

https://images2.imgbox.com/77/f2/oU8uclIw_o.jpg

#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)

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?

― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, October 12, 2020 9:30 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

CHW has a suicide lyric version and someone @ sire (iirc) thought there should only really be one suicide song on an album so they went w the ledge

One of my favorite versions of "Kids Don't Follow," where they impudently mash it up with U2's "I Will Follow":

https://youtu.be/3drH8fr11V0?t=2588

That's the show where Gene Simmons was in the audience, and Alex Chilton too, I think.

"Kids Don't Follow" is classic — otm about the riff — and has maybe the greatest intro of any punk song ever.

I wonder if that Minneapolis Police Dept. officer even knows he was immortalized.

Which part is Dave Pirner again?

haha totally didn't realize the cops were an actual recording, sounds like a parody of a feckless midwestern cop

Hel-l-o-oo

u guys ...hardcore lifeboat maybe got a little out of hand as i just realized this wasn’t on my ballot! ;_;

well its a classic anyway and it *would* have been on my ballot and imma flail dance anyway

Please see campreverb's most recent post itt.

no but...

sigh

You take the lifeboat
It don’t move at all like the deathboat
It’s got rungs to ascend like any other boat
*ducks*

lol

jeez I woke up snarky this am.

truthbomb though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Db6qxWyo0
Slightly relevant

ha, the only cover version i voted for was "another girl, another planet," the original of which is possibly my favorite song of all time.

Yeah, on many days it is mine as well. Ended up not voting for it, partly because The Replacements version is pretty sweet but not an improvement upon the original as "Black Diamond" seems to be.

yeah for whatever reason they really got this dread and longing out of a KISS song

I voted 'Another Girl, Another Planet' as well, it never really left the setlist after 87' or so, it really became an essential track for me.

I googled “Paul Westerberg is an asshole Trouble Boys” and I learned he blew some blow in a fan’s face before I wound up on Dangerous Minds where they excerpt a bit about a Houston show that ended in a riot. Nicest of all though is at the end of the article they have a February’86 Old Grey Whistle performance that I’d never seen of “On The Bus”. Peak Bob Stinson guitar leads.

https://youtu.be/yg9WUm3mYAs

Cool, thanks!