Ha! re: "Mr. Whirly"
BUT...was it directly inspired by the Beatles? Or by Tomorrow (featuring Bob's fave guitarist, Steve Howe)?
Compare the intros:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6gqN9HSa7U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TBwM6oz3Bg
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 13 July 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
This was posted elsewhere by Jason Jones at Rhino but apparently we shouldn't expect a Hootenanny box set due to lack of material. Bummer.
― birdistheword, Friday, 18 November 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
Unexpectedly, "The Twisted Art of Chris Mars"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmaw2DDeCQc
(Side note: Horseshoes and Hand Grenades is better than any Paul Westerberg album.)
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 01:54 (one year ago) link
Juxtapoz magazine did a lovely profile on Mars which focused solely on his incredible art at least 20 years ago. His pieces can sell for $25kUSD+, and I’m sure he’s made far more from them than he ever did in The Replacements
― beamish13, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 05:37 (one year ago) link
…
― The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 September 2023 00:50 (eight months ago) link
This ranking is pretty good imo but I'd move Hootenanny up from 6 to 4.
https://www.spin.com/2023/09/every-replacements-album-ranked/
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 22 September 2023 01:21 (eight months ago) link
I need to spend more time with Hootenanny. For some reason my brain classifies it as an EP and then I'm surprised when I see how many songs are on it. I only have it on vinyl and I got it after my big Replacements phase, so I haven't given it the attention it deserves.
There's a dude on the Hoffman Forums that works with Rhino on the new box sets, it might be Bob Mehr. But he was saying that there likely be some sort of a Hootenanny special release, it just won't be a big box set because he doesn't think there's enough stuff to justify that. But it sounds like an expanded release is in the cards.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 22 September 2023 01:50 (eight months ago) link
There’s so many Mats threads I probably should have revived the one Bob Mehr recently showed up on.
― The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 September 2023 01:59 (eight months ago) link
Xpost Stink should be above DTAS
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 September 2023 02:11 (eight months ago) link
Same here. It's a really good album with some of their greatest tracks.
― birdistheword, Friday, 22 September 2023 02:48 (eight months ago) link
Clemenza's Real Life Top 10: I heard "Unsatisfied" in the car today, but just the slow build at the beginning (same part used so brilliantly in Adventureland--bumper music for a talk show on the Zoomer station here. Bizarre; this is a station for plus-50s, which makes sense in terms of timeline, but this is not a station meant for plus-50s who bought Replacements albums.
― clemenza, Friday, 22 September 2023 02:52 (eight months ago) link
(missing end bracket there after Adventureland)
― clemenza, Friday, 22 September 2023 02:53 (eight months ago) link
really dislike Adventureland for its revisionist history soundtrack. no disrespect to the YLT score.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 22 September 2023 04:09 (eight months ago) link
We couldn't be farther apart there: love "Unsatisfied" and Husker Du especially.
― clemenza, Friday, 22 September 2023 04:43 (eight months ago) link
LOOK ME IN THE EYE AND TELL ME
― Psychocandy Apple Grey (Pyschocandles), Friday, 22 September 2023 06:47 (eight months ago) link
Bob Mehr's the best. His Mats book is one of the greatest music biogs I've ever read.
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Friday, 22 September 2023 08:31 (eight months ago) link
Yeah, I read it recently and it was great. It would have been really easy for the book to come across like a laundry list of fuck-ups, but it manages to avoid that.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 22 September 2023 10:14 (eight months ago) link
Out of interest, does the book specifically talk about their major 1987 London show I attended where Paul was so fucked up he couldn't even stand, let alone sing or play? Or was that just par for the course at that time and not worth its own mention?
― the arkansas ruggerclub (Matt #2), Friday, 22 September 2023 11:27 (eight months ago) link
No, nothing specific about that show. There were more details about the prior euro tour because it was their first time overseas. The 87 shows were noted as being more of the same with rowdy London shows but low turnout outside of that.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 22 September 2023 12:17 (eight months ago) link
Hootenany is my favorite but it might suffer from the bias of being the first Replacements record I bought
― joygoat, Sunday, 24 September 2023 17:49 (eight months ago) link
I have it as high as 3rd on some days. YMMV, but the thrash rockers add to the overall album for me, rather than, I dunno Red Red Wine or whatever.
― campreverb, Sunday, 24 September 2023 18:29 (eight months ago) link
November 15, 1987 @ Orpheum, Minneapolis. "Notes: during ‘Never Mind’ Paul falls off the stage. You can hear a thump in the recording. ‘Dude Looks Like A Lady’ (Aerosmith) is inserted during ‘Gary’s Got A Boner.’
I know it's been discussed here and elsewhere, but the reported relative lack of traction the Replacements had/have outside of America ... that's totally linked to the fact that the band's fucked up-ed-ness is fundamentally, even foundationally American, right? I can't think of a better metaphor for this country than a self-destructive, simultaneously effortlessly brilliant and accidentally brilliant band as apt to rip your heart out as fall off the stage, or offer galvanizing, generation-defining anthems alongside nods to late-era Aerosmith in the middle of a song about boners.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 21 October 2023 14:09 (seven months ago) link
I think it's that particular mix of decadence and unpretentiousness, though even by that standard there's not really anyone else like them in America, either.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 21 October 2023 14:18 (seven months ago) link
we're comin to your townwe're gonna fall right downwe're an American band
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 21 October 2023 14:21 (seven months ago) link