you are NOT kinda like an artist
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 September 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
it's that scene in high fidelity where john cusack dreams of dating a musician so he can be an in-joke in the liner notes, but a song
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 27 September 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
a dream too tire to come true
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 September 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
Some of y'all think too much attention is paid to lyrics ... until you don't. I think his melodies, riffs and hooks are super-sharp; Westerberg is an underrated (lead) guitar player.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 27 September 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
Fuck School IS a great song!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 27 September 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
Yes it is. What’s the matter, buddy?
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 September 2019 00:28 (four years ago) link
New production makes even “Achin’ To Be” easier to sit through.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 September 2019 00:31 (four years ago) link
Especially when it is not followed by “They’re blind.”
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 September 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
"Achin' to Be" is still a moronic song about a dude who can't write about a woman whose virtues have nothing to do with malehood.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, September 27, 2019 4:16 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
sigh
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 28 September 2019 01:07 (four years ago) link
Debate me.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 September 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link
I like "They're Blind" and "Asking Me Lies."
Oh, here's a downgrade on the new version, imo: I think "I'll Be You" is slower.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 28 September 2019 01:23 (four years ago) link
one quandary: Portland should have been on the album and would have been one of the best songs, but then Westerberg would have had to drop one of the best songs Talent Show because he recycled the chorus of Portland― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown)
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown)
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 28 September 2019 05:31 (four years ago) link
This post brought tot you by Too Much Whiskey.
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 28 September 2019 05:32 (four years ago) link
Tee Tot
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 September 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link
Making my way slowly through this. These Bearsville sessions not so hot. Wondering if “I Can Help” feat. Tom Waits is gonna be the Billy Swan song.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 September 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
This is so great, I'm really enjoying it. Westerberg really is a once in a lifetime songwriter and I wish he would release good-to-great new albums every year, but a) he hasn't been committed to it for a long time, and b) back when he did he was really spotty. I thought the I don't cares album was really, really great and hoped it would be a kind of new beginning but he (obviously) blew it again. When I think about him in those terms, it makes me sad.
I love "Asking Me Lies" and this new mix really kills it.
― cpl593H, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
“asking me lies” feels like it could’ve been covered really well by both prince and the afghan whigs
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 13:56 (four years ago) link
This was a really enjoyable listen. I saw them on the DTAS tour and the songs sounded a lot better live than on the record.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 14:04 (four years ago) link
I thought the I don't cares album was really, really great and hoped it would be a kind of new beginning but he (obviously) blew it again.
I agree with you about the IDCs album being great but how exactly did he 'blow it?' I think I'd blame general indifference and / or poor marketing long before I'd blame the artists in this case
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link
Did they even tour the album?
― cpl593H, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
xp I think the tour for this album was the opening slot w/ Tom Petty
― henry s, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
I think he meant the I Don't Cares album
For DTAS they did a stinnt opening for Petty and then a headlining tour. Royal Crescent Mob opened when I saw them.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
I remember googling it back, and then googling it now. I couldn't find a trace of it, a single setlist for any show.
― cpl593H, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
The headlining tour -- mostly small theaters -- was about a month before the Petty tour. They played the Aragon in Chicago; I had a ticket, but couldn't go at the last minute. I gave my ticket to a friend who bought me this shirt, which I think I still have somewhere.http://www.defunkd.com/public/upload/images/product_images/big/matmin_95151360955478.jpeg
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link
xpost Google harder
http://replacementslivearchive.blogspot.com/2014/02/may-3-1989-celebrity-theatre-phoenix-az.html
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:13 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah I see. I was indeed talking about the I Don't Cares album this whole time.
That is a great t-shirt though.
― cpl593H, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
The musical structure of the chorus outweighs any lyrical weaknesses
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, September 27, 2019 3:16 PM (five days ago)
this song really truly spoke to me as a young woman (age 14) trying to figure out wtf was going on -- what strikes me as funny now is that i did want to be him. i did not want to be his woman-object, i wanted to be HIM (only still be myself). i still think it's poignant & good. maybe not the 'mats everyone wanted but they were the 'mats i needed at the time.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
i was still a kid really, not a young woman. a girl.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
Hey wait, what about if he was not really singing about someone else but was actually mostly singing about himself? Wouldn’t looking at it that way that bring the song into better focus and improve it?
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
Which is already built into the song, innit, DO U SEE?
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
I know that this slant has just improved the song for me.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, October 2, 2019
this is awesome
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 22:11 (four years ago) link
what about if he was not really singing about someone else but was actually mostly singing about himself?
doesn't Westerberg say this outright in Trouble Boys?
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
Could well be, can’t remember. I was probably dazed from reading about another blown interview or tour bus trashing or maybe this piece of info was buried in between the two.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 22:58 (four years ago) link
Also, new remixes and live versions breathing, um, new life into this stuff and lifting every boat, such as this previously underappreciated gem.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
“Mostly singing about himself” sounds about right given what I know of the guy
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
Because who else would he bother to write or care about?
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 October 2019 00:06 (four years ago) link
Tommy and Bob
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 3 October 2019 01:20 (four years ago) link
Thats p much it tho
Alex Chilton? Which would indicate a certain orneriness is needed. Seems like Slim might fit the bill but not aware of any songs written about him.
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 October 2019 02:09 (four years ago) link
Too bad he never wrote a song about Lou Reed.
Still sniffing around the cheese baited in the trap by Alfred when he accused us of being guitar-centric rockists for wanting to hear the guitars on a Replacements record. We’re blind!
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 October 2019 02:11 (four years ago) link
Mostly singing about himself” sounds about right given what I know of the guy
Yeah, well, I love that degree of ambiguity that is key in the Replacements. Not being really sure of whether he's writing about themselves or the others, happy or sad, angry or forsaken, serious or funny. Most likely all of it, at the same time.
This is a great record, so close to the sound of "Pleased to Meet Me". "We'll inherit the earth" sounds like the same band that did "The Ledge" this time! "Achin' to be" and "Back to back" do the same thing with "Never mind"! And putting "I'll be you" at #2 is a great choice, it ramps up the album just when it needs it (like "Alex Chilton" in PTMM). I was always uncomfortable with having "Back to Back".
― cpl593H, Thursday, 3 October 2019 12:20 (four years ago) link
hahaha if we're gonna start hunting down songwriters that mostly sing about themselves gonna need a big reeducation camp
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 October 2019 12:46 (four years ago) link
Yeah well the ambiguity and confusion is what's key here; it's not as resonant or interesting if it's 100% clear.
― cpl593H, Thursday, 3 October 2019 12:51 (four years ago) link
You be me for a while and I’ll be you, why dontcha
― Three Borads and the HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 October 2019 13:18 (four years ago) link
finally i can call this my favorite replacements record and no one will look at me like i have two heads
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, September 27, 2019 2:26 PM bookmarkflaglink
Well now your favorite replacements record has two heads!
― pplains, Thursday, 3 October 2019 13:22 (four years ago) link
lol
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 October 2019 13:24 (four years ago) link