Tonight I'll be doing pull-ups on the toilet POLL - Artist Poll #104 - THE REPLACEMENTS Voting Thread

legend has it if you listen really closely to the cops breaking up the party at the beginning, you can hear 11-year-old Winona Horowitz doing a drug

"within your reach" seems like a song that could have been amazing with just like, 2 more hours practice on it

i think it's mainly the one finger one take keyboard part - i'd love to hear a remix that just removes it

but i get that it's part of the hootenanny experience, that's just how it goes at hootenannies

there's one beautiful moment near the end of 'left of the dial' where the bass does a little descending walking line and you want the song to continue like that for at least another minute (like what bruce does in 'thunder road') but it only happens once and then the song ends 10 seconds later.

haha, that's great. do you remember what you got instead?

sorry ma, forgot to take out the trash kind of rules! it's a little inconsistent, but kick your door down, customer, takin' a ride, shutup...

oh god, sorry ma is damn near perfect. let it be is my fave six days a week but at least one day week i can convince myself they were a shining example of a band that started out at their peak and every subsequent album is just a little worse than the one before, no exceptions, until don't tell a soul and all shook down, where they decided to hurry up and get worse that much faster.

shit hits the fans is the best live album in the history of rock prove me wrong

(i mean, yes, i will acknowledge that live at the apollo is better, but otherwise...)

am i crazy for thinking that "i don't know" reminds me a bit of the b-52s?

I’d have liked a B-52s version better!

stink and sorry ma fucking rule so hard

a real "upper mississippi shakedown" if you will

ums I bet when you hear Paul's "go" in "anyway I ain't got nowhere else to go" from Hangin' Downtown, it probably just sounds like a normal "go" to you and not the monophthongal /oʊ/ linguistic curiosity that it actually is

and I for one will not try and prove anyone wrong about Shit Hits the Fans being the best live album of all live albums. if you're in a rock band and there's not a recording of you shambling belligerently through a series of halfway-finished impromptu classic rock piss-takes, are you even really in a rock band?

...but will votes for different song versions (e.g., 'can't hardly wait') be combined?

Yeah, will combine votes. Definitely add a parenthetical note or whatever if you strongly favour a particular version. I've been recording that stuff. Particularly good idea if you wish to highlight a less widely heard take. (Which I guess in most cases means anything other than versions on the original issues of the conventional studio albums.)

if you're in a rock band and there's not a recording of you shambling belligerently through a series of halfway-finished impromptu classic rock piss-takes, are you even really in a rock band?

correct. except about the belligerence. some of those halfway finished piss-takes are acts of pure, unfiltered, unrehearsed love.

oh for sure, I guess I meant more the "belligerent" synonymous with "hammered"

:)

Ballot sent! :D

I didn't end up with a lot of Stink or Sorry Ma, but Hootenanny nearly lands as many as tracks for me as the big ones.
though I'm probably the only Otto voter.

I included a ridiculous number of Hootenanny tracks myself. Didn't really see that coming.

The number of ballots is safely into double digits already, with, er, *checks* 80 Replacements tracks and 37 'other' tracks getting the nod.

Incidentally, for anyone with niggling ballot regrets, amendments are no problem at all.

the burrito that defined a generation at 6:32 22 Sep 20

ums I bet when you hear Paul's "go" in "anyway I ain't got nowhere else to go" from Hangin' Downtown, it probably just sounds like a normal "go" to you and not the monophthongal /oʊ/ linguistic curiosity that it actually is

...haha yeah I mean. being from MN I have a lot of complex feelings about the Replacements but I mean, there's a connection that I feel really deeply even in times I'm not that into them.

i think ended up w 3 tracks from Sorry Ma and 3 from Hootenanny ... it was a v sad game of lifeboat, culling the master list :/

aside from "Gary's Got a Boner" as the clear number one, it's hard to rank them

Before I made my final cuts I had it down at the bottom of my draft ballot in the Novelty Nods section along with Buck Hill and Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out. Slept on it and ultimately chose the one true right-feeling wrong best song.

was so happy when they did Tommy Got His Tonsils Out at the big show at Midway Stadium in St Paul... playing a big last hometown show at a minor league baseball stadium that was about to be torn down is pretty much perfect

super cool you saw that! I'm still holding out hope for maybe one more pass-through of my town (and if I'm extra lucky, maybe even a Last Train to Clarksville)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFHghaktIno

Bash & Pop's Tiny Pieces is a little bit fabulous. And it's been repeatedly re-entering my head since the weekend. Hooray for discovering things 27 years late.

there's one beautiful moment near the end of 'left of the dial' where the bass does a little descending walking line and you want the song to continue like that for at least another minute (like what bruce does in 'thunder road') but it only happens once and then the song ends 10 seconds later.

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Yes

Sent my list in, pretty easy since they only have one good album and it is an EP

Bob’s trainwreck solo at about 00:50 on “We’re Comin’ Out”, open strings and all, is the greatest Replacements moment of all time (for today)

Bob is one of my favorite "outside" rock guitarists.

there's one beautiful moment near the end of 'left of the dial' where the bass does a little descending walking line and you want the song to continue like that for at least another minute (like what bruce does in 'thunder road') but it only happens once and then the song ends 10 seconds later.

You know I tend to think of Westerberg's solo career as a series of diminishing returns, but I've got close to 30 tracks without even getting into 49:00, which I think is brilliant. Admittedly, I love all the Grandpaboy stuff, Dead Man Shake in particular.
BTW Caryn Rose has a great piece on Salon about the 49:00 period: https://www.salon.com/2015/04/11/the_best_paul_westerberg_songs_you_never_heard_a_journey_through_his_surprise_2008_solo_gems/

Might there be appetite for additional slots on the solo/other ballot? Ten slots is kinda cramped for the volume of material, and many of you clearly know big chunks of it well. Happy to stretch it out to 20 if folks could use it...

Voted Replacements + Albums. wonder why my text wrapped above?
I'd appreciate an extra 10 on solo material, and think it could help the Bash+Pop and Chris Mars releases.

Should have had a top 10 replacements sound alike tracks

that's so meta

*touches nose*

Should have had a top 10 replacements sound alike tracks

or you could just start a goo goo dolls poll

nirvana

goo goo dolls sounded like all shook down and don't tell a soul. nirvana often resembled the twin/tone years, sometimes in their singles but also in the goofier incesticide stuff

or at least, listening to a lot of the twin/tone stuff with fresh ears, that's what i often think

"i'm worse at what i do best" is so westerberg it hurts

haha, yep

also, i truly have no idea how to handle the albums/releases part of this poll. 4-way tie for first?

hearing them play "darlin' one" live before dtas came out, i was convinced it was pretty much the greatest pop song ever written, an epic soft-rock masterpiece that could be played on AM radio and alt-rock radio alike for the rest of time, a signal of a new way forward for a band that would finally, for real this time, have actual hits, or, at the very least, it would be the song i could use to complain for the rest of my life about how the big bad world doesn't recognize real talent. christ was i disappointed when i actually heard it again, on record. there were entire sections of the song in my memory that seemed to have gone missing. hooks that only i remembered, and that i would soon forget. the production was just, oy. there was no sparkle. still a damn good chorus though.

do the alternate mix or live milwaukee '89 version on Dead Man's Pop come close to what you remember?

sadly, no. i've gone thru various versions over the years in search of what i thought i heard and no dice. my rosebud version was from 1987 tour.

*dream sequence*
*terrence malick whispers*

...they said it was the perfect performance...

lol