Yeah. I'd add "best thing that never happened" to the list of stuff that holds up against the mats.
But really, David Buckley said in his Ferry/Roxy bio that even the worst Roxy record is better than the best Ferry record. This applies to Westerberg too.
― cpl593H, Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
so the algorithm tells me my number two song for the year was the Maxwell’s version of “Can’t Hardly Wait.” I’ll take it.
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 December 2019 06:26 (four years ago) link
is there a thread for us all to post our “results” ?
― budo jeru, Friday, 6 December 2019 06:31 (four years ago) link
Think people are just using My Spotify playlists, let me show you them
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 December 2019 06:36 (four years ago) link
Maxwell's slow jam ride through "Can't Hardly Wait" is even better than Fine Young Cannibal's "Ever Fallen in Love", thanks for the tip!
― file of unknown origin (bendy), Friday, 6 December 2019 12:10 (four years ago) link
lol
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 December 2019 12:12 (four years ago) link
His this one been posted yet?https://thekey.xpn.org/2016/03/13/listen-replacements-rock-living-hell-upenns-houston-hall-1986/
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 February 2020 12:54 (four years ago) link
http://myfavoritealbum.libsyn.com/303-bob-odenkirk-on-the-replacements-sorry-ma-forgot-to-take-out-the-trash-1981
― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 May 2020 23:00 (three years ago) link
cool.
― budo jeru, Monday, 18 May 2020 00:20 (three years ago) link
That's great. I'm going to check the Better Call Saul thread and make sure it's there too.
― clemenza, Monday, 18 May 2020 00:36 (three years ago) link
Pleased To Meet Me box coming
https://store.rhino.com/artist/the-replacements.html
Following up last year’s DEAD MAN’S POP, PLEASED TO MEET ME (DELUXE EDITION) will be available as a 3 CD/1LP set and digitally on October 9! More than half of the music (29 of the 55 tracks) on this deluxe edition set is unreleased material, including demos, rough mixes, and outtakes, as well as Bob Stinson’s last recordings with The Replacements from 1986. Pre-order your copy and listen to six previously unreleased “rough mixes,” including “Alex Chilton,” here: https://Rhino.lnk.to/pleasedtomeetmeSeveral exclusive bundles can also be pre-ordered now at www.Rhino.com, which include a variety of limited edition items including a t-shirt, tote bag, iron-on patch, bumper sticker, placemat,and a cassette featuring a previously unreleased interview with Paul Westerberg recorded just before the release of the album.
Several exclusive bundles can also be pre-ordered now at www.Rhino.com, which include a variety of limited edition items including a t-shirt, tote bag, iron-on patch, bumper sticker, placemat,and a cassette featuring a previously unreleased interview with Paul Westerberg recorded just before the release of the album.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 July 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
i would wear that t shirt !
― budo jeru, Thursday, 16 July 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
Don’t even like that album that much but I would too.
― Isolde mein Herz zum Junker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 July 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
Could be interesting, though the six rough mixes are kind of underwhelming - the tracks themselves aren't bad, they've been issued before, but these rough mixes sound exactly like preliminary mixes that never would have made the album, nothing special.
And "Birthday Gal" (best heard on All for Nothing/Nothing for All) should have made the album. It would've been the logical album closer if "Can't Hardly Wait" had been included on Tim (also best heard on All for Nothing/Nothing for All).
― birdistheword, Friday, 17 July 2020 01:25 (three years ago) link
Considering most of the record was assembled on a Fairlight, I’m curious in what form the rough mixes exist: as tapes? As a collection of Fairlight discs? On a Fairlight hard drive?(I should note that I also have no idea how a Fairlight actually works, beyond the very basics.)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 17 July 2020 02:03 (three years ago) link
It's just a sampler, essentially. I don't think most of the album was assembled on a Fairlight at all. if the book is accurate I think Dickinson just used a sampler to, as needed, loop the best bits of the best takes. Which is to say, I'm sure there are lots of versions of the songs, just maybe not up to the (relatively) slick standards of the finished album.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 July 2020 02:08 (three years ago) link
Wonder what a Fairlight version of Birthday Gal sounds like.
― pplains, Friday, 17 July 2020 11:45 (three years ago) link
That riff is exciting when one of the guitars playing it or playing off it is played by Bob Stinson, kind of boring in any other hands.― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, August 1, 2019 9:37 PM (one year ago)
― Isinglass Ponys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 August 2020 21:50 (three years ago) link
Another track from the upcoming Pleased to Meet Me box set:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yUf2x5aK1c
Also, as many figured, a Rhino rep said they hope to continue doing these box sets as an ongoing thing, similar to Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series, though the well's going to dry up much faster since they only had seven albums and an EP to work with, of which two are now done. (Also, most likely they'll jump around in terms of chronology rather than continue moving backwards one album at a time.)
― birdistheword, Friday, 28 August 2020 23:49 (three years ago) link
can't wait to hear Stink without the strings
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
26 bonus minutes of Dave Pirner yelling at cops.
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 16:32 (three years ago) link
Has this been discussed anywhere yet? https://www.stereogum.com/2096712/josh-boone-replacements-biopic-nat-wolff-owen-teague/news/
― Orson Well Yeah (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
i saw chris r. the music writer for the strib say it was not real?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
Weird if that's true, it's being reported all over the place.
― Orson Well Yeah (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 17:51 (three years ago) link
Oh I see it's on his Twitter.
― Orson Well Yeah (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
Along with Surly closing their beer hall? WTF, no!
― Orson Well Yeah (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
There was some Replacements discussion on a Jason Isbell twitter thread (sorry, I love his twitter, more than his music, tbh), where, inevitably, someone brings up that they could have been huge, like the Stones. And Isbell, as a great songwriter, I think nails why that was never in the cards: "Those songs were just so damn deep." That is, as silly and insecure as he could be, Paul's best songs were the product of serious introspection, whether he'd admit it or not, and that kind of stuff rarely fills arenas. It's a good point, imo. "Unsatisfied" might be one of the greatest anthems ever written, but it's not the kind of anthem that sells records or tickets.
Also saw another related take on the thread that the Replacements were "all Keith Richards with no Mick Jaggers," which was sadly otm.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 28 February 2021 14:40 (three years ago) link
Yeah, more or less *sigh*
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 February 2021 15:24 (three years ago) link
Or even anyone who wanted to be a Mick Jagger. If you look at their contemporaries who broke bigger — U2, R.E.M., 10,000 Maniacs — they all had lead singers who filled that lead performer role in ways Westerberg wasn't comfortable with. The Replacements could never decide how much they wanted people to like them.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 28 February 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
And did their best to offend anyone who did. Oppositional attitudes like that rarely lead to career success in any field?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 28 February 2021 16:23 (three years ago) link
yepafter reading Trouble Boys and their almost pathological career self sabotage, my takeaway was less "why weren't these guys huge?" and More "It's a miracle and a testament to his songwriting that they ever got as big as they did"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 28 February 2021 16:35 (three years ago) link
Pretty much
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 February 2021 16:51 (three years ago) link
after reading Trouble Boys and their almost pathological career self sabotage, my takeaway was less "why weren't these guys huge?" and More "It's a miracle and a testament to his songwriting that they ever got as big as they did"
Same here. Their lives could have easily gone in another direction in a very, very bad way. Obviously they still had problems and Bob died from his, but if they had no musical or artistic talent whatsoever, I'm not sure what they could have made of their lives tbh.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 28 February 2021 18:41 (three years ago) link
Just found this Dallas Observer article on Chris Mars from 1995. It was written soon after Bob's funeral. I can understand why he doesn't like to talk about the 'Mats anymore given what he says here.
Sometimes, Mars half jokes, he wakes up in a cold sweat, still finding it hard to believe all the shit he pulled when he was a 17-year-old--riding half-drunk down the freeway on a motorcycle, sitting down every night behind his drum kit as the room spun around him, sharing the stage with a grown man who wore women's clothing. "It's kind of scary to think of some of the stuff I did and made it through, ya know?" he says now, 14 years after the Replacements formed.
Also had no idea there were reunion rumors right after Bob's death (or that AOL had a Replacements message board).
https://www.dallasobserver.com/music/no-mere-replacement-6404405
― birdistheword, Sunday, 28 February 2021 19:24 (three years ago) link
Can’t say I expected that Sorry Ma would get the boxed set treatment, but this looks pretty cool: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/replacements-sorry-ma-forgot-to-take-out-the-trash-box-set-1210479/
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 11 August 2021 23:35 (two years ago) link
It does! My favorite album by them by a long shot, but this may be more than even I need.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 11 August 2021 23:44 (two years ago) link
Rhino's Jason Jones (obviously an enormous fan) has been on other music forums discussing these box sets and answering questions. He kind of hinted Sorry Ma would be next when Pleased to Meet Me came out. He says he hoped to do a box set for every album (no answer whether Stink would get its own box set, but I'm guessing it'll be lumped in with Hootenanny), and he did indicate that he wouldn't go in strict reverse chronological order either, he would jump around and do a few anniversaries. Sorry Ma seemed like a very good bet since an anniversary would mean a whole lot more for a debut album.
Also, he said sales for Pleased to Meet Me actually exceeded expectations despite COVID slowing everything down, so that was a very good sign that more would be coming.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 12 August 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
Also, he said one box set per year seemed like a reasonable pace, but obviously that's not set in stone.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 12 August 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
Stink should have it's own boxset, podcast, and Netflix series
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 12 August 2021 15:42 (two years ago) link
And glow-in-the-dark stickers. I want stickers goddammit.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 12 August 2021 15:55 (two years ago) link
I'll settle for scratch n' sniff.
i am only a mid-level replacements fan but they're doing such a good job with these sets, glad that they keep on coming.
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 August 2021 15:56 (two years ago) link
Absolutely, though they seem to be at the mercy of whatever Twin/Tone or Sire recorded. (Even with at least one soundboard tape circulating, no relevant live shows were included on the Pleased to Meet Me set.) I'm especially looking forward to Tim (new mixes? "Nowhere Is My Home" finally from a first-generation master?) and there's definitely gems leftover from Hootenanny (the great, full band "You're Getting Married" that Bob vetoed). Let It Be's my favorite 'Mats album, but given the underwhelming bonuses on the 2008 CD, I'm not expecting the box set to be one of their best ones.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 12 August 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
I had no idea there was a "Pleased" boxed set.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 August 2021 16:10 (two years ago) link
Just a 7th St. Entry poster from April '81 on FB, and would you believe the 'Mats opened for Humble Pie (Marriott/Bobby Tench lineup)?
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 6 September 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
Sounds like a great show.
― tumblin’ dice outro (morrisp), Monday, 6 September 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
Saw a track off that new Sorry, Ma box, didn’t see more than that or Pleased Box. Had no idea about that Humble Pie show or that lineup.
― What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 September 2021 18:27 (two years ago) link
Sorry Ma Deluxe available 10/22/21
― What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 September 2021 18:29 (two years ago) link
Maybe I knew about Pleased box but forgot about it.
― What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 September 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
The Pleased box set did really well, but IMHO if you have All for Nothing/Nothing for All and the 2008 Rhino reissue of the album (and while I'm at it the Trouble Boys book), you probably don't need the box set, not unless you really need to listen to rough mixes and alternates.
― birdistheword, Monday, 6 September 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link