The Replacements: Classic or Dud?

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(FWIW, I did recently relisten to my Limited Warranty tape and WOW has that not aged well.)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 June 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link

are they a boy band?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Essentially. They had a big hit called "Beat Down Your Door" and then vanished (despite a really excellent song on their second album called "The Rain Fell" or something similar).

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

(They won Star Search in 1985, bio here.)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link

i just imagine them in stonewashed jeans and rattails, is that more or less correct?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link

they were more of a new wave band, though....We Minnesotans are very conscious of them because they WON STAR SEARCH and the local media had a field day with it.

When I was in elementary, our school had a contest where we had to draw these anti-smoking posters and slogan that we made up....If yours was selected as one of the finalists or winners, you got to go on a field trip to see Limited Warranty play a "Smoke Free Generation" show at the Metrodome! I didn't win.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha LIMITED WARRANTY PLAYED ONE OF OUR HIGH SCHOOL DANCES!!!

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Tonight it's been a year
We met each other here
Here I am all alone
As thoughts of you go on

Hear me cryin' out to you
You said, "Never, never would I leave"
Here's a tear from me to you
And maybe it will make you hear me

I loved you
You didn't feel the same
Though we're apart
You're in my heart
Give me one more chance
To make it real

In a dream you are here
You smile and hold me near
And in my heart I'll pretend
That you are hear again

Hear me cryin' out to you
You said, "Never, never would I leave"
Here's a tear from me to you
And maybe it will make you hear me

I loved you
You didn't feel the same
Though we're apart
You're in my heart
Give me one more chance
To make it real

Give me one more chance
To make it real

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link

those lyrics aren't that bad

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link

It was an old karaoke heavy with my XGF.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link

And that's Dave Pirner yelling at the cops in the beginning of "Kids Don't Follow," so that's already pretty cool.

That's brilliant! So that's him going "Hey fuck you man!"?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I just love that cop. He's like the weird threatening/amiable nerd.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link

How about "way overrated"?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 21 June 2004 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Ned, yep. That's him. More info here and here.

Dan, don't forget about Limited Warranty's classic tune "Victory Line."

― subgenius (subgenius), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha yes, I remembered that when I was looking for "Beat Down The Door" lyrics online. There is certainly a Limited Warranty niche that could stand to be filled on the Internet.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 June 2004 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Another Replacements show, a year later. I've decided to yell for "I'm in Trouble" until they play it. (They never did, not that night, but they pulled out "Otto.") Bob finally stomps over to my side of the stage and yells, "Not as much trouble as you're *gonna* be in, fucker!"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:45 (eighteen years ago) link

LIMITED WARRANTY
Wasn't that the name of Adam Sandler's Spandex-rock band in The Wedding Singer?

― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I hated them for twenty years and then I got a hankerin' to hear "Bastards of Young" and I bought the greatest hits and as it turns out they're pretty great once you don't have Robert Hilburn yellin' in yer ear every five minutes tryin' to tell you how Westerberg's a genius

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 21 May 2005 09:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Let It Be remains my favorite album of all time. I think I'd have to go through one seriously mentality-changing experience to change that. Like maybe have a kid or something.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 21 May 2005 12:36 (eighteen years ago) link

The bar we were at last night played "Color Me Impressed." Color me impressed.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 21 May 2005 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Utterly classic. Westy's voice is beautifully raw.

― dame Aunt Sally (dameauntsally), Saturday, 21 May 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Some Classic songs but their famous albums had some dud tracks.

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 22 May 2005 07:59 (eighteen years ago) link

When I first heard them ten years ago, when I was in college, they seemed like a revelation. I'm less enthusiastic about them now, but I'd have to call them "classic" for a handful of songs, at least. "Gary's Got A Boner" and "I Will Dare" have always been favorites.

― John Fredland (jfredland), Sunday, 22 May 2005 10:10 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

I have been listening to a song called 'Sixteen Blue'. I like it! When and where is it from?

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Let It Be, 1984.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Replacements = classic

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Look at me, back when I could write!

― The Original Jimmy Mod: Kind Warrior (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Thanks; when I said 'where' I think I actually meant 'where did they make it?' or 'whence do they come?'.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link

The current Magnet issue has a big write-up on the Husker Du / Replacements '80s scene in Minneapolis, compiling and sequencing quotes from band members, other band folk, industry people, etc. Worth the read. Also, issue # 55, w/ Paul Westerberg on the cover, has a good amount of info, if you want to follow up.

Heard the other day that the Twin/Tone albums (up through Let it Be) are going to be released before the year's up as 2cd versions. Even though the bonuses are likely to be stuff the fans have already booted, it'll be great to have the quality upped.

Pinefox - if you're a fan of more polished sounds (you like Lloyd Cole and Prefab Sprout, right?), you might check out the _All For Nothing_ comp from the Replacements' Sire years. _Tim_, the album after _Let It Be_, was their first for Sire.

― scamperingalpaca (Chris Hill), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Thanks, Scampering - it was kind of you to address my interests.

I think that this Replacements track is the only one I have heard in the years since I first heard a tape of them at university, c. October 1991. I didn't really love that tape. But I think it was the Replacements.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Mark has a classic OTM post upthread

― Keith C (lync0), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link

"Sixteen Blue" = Westerberg's answer to Big Star's "Thirteen"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, that makes sense! And makes it sound really good!

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link

replacements r grate!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Hearing "Sixteen Blue" when you actually were 16 = classic.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link

It really is ridiculous how many times I've reached for my Replacements CD's when I'm really drunk and should be listening to more recently acquired music. I mean can anyone pinpoint exactly when "Answering Machine" loses its appeal, for example?

― The Spiderwebbed Wilderness (Bimble...), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link

100% CLASSIC, MOTHERFUCKERS

― -Vest, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link

There are some seriously hysterical Dang Perry posts on this thread.

I used to love the 'Mats, but they haven't really aged well for me. Let it Be is one of those albums that's going to have a following amongst high-school juniors forever, but it sounds pretty played out to me now. Shockingly, Soul Asylum's Hang Time actually holds up better. I never really liked Tim, although I think that's a function of the production more than anything else. Stink and Sorry Ma still have some great moments, but (although I would never have said this at the time), I think that Flip Your Wig stands out the masterpiece of this particular twin cities subgenre.

― J (Jay), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't know if i still like the replacements. i put on tim in the car the other day and could barely stand to sit through any of the songs - they sounded so weary and generic and draggy, and not in a good way.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Absolutely classic. I can pull out any album from Hootenany through to Pleased To Meet Me and fall in love all over again at any given time. Not very many bands do that to me.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Their stuff hasn't aged well compared to some other bands.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link

everything til Tim i really like. i don't get the love for that album, it's really bland to my ears.

― latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:38 (eighteen years ago) link

i wonder if Tim could be in need of a major remix/overhaul. because i agree with most of the posts above saying that the production can be pretty strange and off-putting. but the Tim version of can't hardly wait on that 90s Sire comp sounds fantastic. maybe the mix is fixable? great songs, for the most part...

― tylerw, Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:45 (eighteen years ago) link

"You're mine, if you want toooooo . . . "

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 25 August 2005 08:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Pretty good through Tim.
Useless after that. Someday maybe somebody will explain to me why "I Will Dare" (which isn't even very catchy!) is considered a great song. But it definitely hasn't happened yet.

― xhuxk, Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:28 (eighteen years ago) link

And sorry, Sterl, but this: "If you don't love the 'mats, you never loved rock and roll. " is just plain silly. They were a pretty decent pop-punk band, then a pretty decent powerpop band, then not. But there were scores of better rock and roll bands in the '80s.

― xhuxk, Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link

(Actually, I haven't played Tim for years, though -- don't' even still own a copy; have the first records on CD now though -- so maybe J.D. is right about it up above. I definitely liked it at the time {put it in my top ten, even}, but even Let It Be when I put it on a couple months ago was a lot more lackluster and less energetic than I remembered. So it's possible they were wilting even by then, or possibly even by Hootenany. I'm inclined now to think that Sorry Ma may have actually been their best album, back when people were hyperbolically comparing them to Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers and stuff.)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link

the first FOUR records on CD, I meant.

― xhuxk, Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link

xhuxk, i wrote that like five years ago. i still think i love the mats, but i haven't actually listened to them in some time now.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm inclined now to think that Sorry Ma may have actually been their best album

which is why i nominated them on the "bands that have declined with each and every album" thread, or whatever that thread was.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

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