I hate ILoveMusic, it's got too many POLLS - Artist Poll #104 - THE REPLACEMENTS - RESULTS

Correct.

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#25
PAUL WESTERBERG ‎– Love Untold
from Eventually (1996)
Score: 56
Votes: 2 (0)
Youtube: original promo video

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#24
PAUL WESTERBERG ‎– Mr. Rabbit
from Stereo (2002)
Score: 56
Votes: 2 (1)
Youtube: audio track

Another first-place vote there.

Incidentally, there was another off-by-one error in the opening post. 12 voters in this category, not 11.

I'm really digging this part of the roll out, it puts a spotlight on lesser known gems

Thanks again Nag

I'll dash away briefly for breakfast. In the meantime here's Tommy demonstrating a flagrant disregard for occupational health and safety.

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#24
BASH & POP ‎– Fast & Hard
from Friday Night Is Killing Me (1993)
Score: 59
Votes: 3 (0)
Youtube: audio track

^ That was #23; trust the image.

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#22
TOMMY STINSON ‎– Not a Moment Too Soon
from Village Gorilla Head (2004)
Score: 62
Votes: 2 (0)
Youtube: audio track

I've had "Noooot a moment... too soon" swimming around inside my head all week.

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#22
PAUL WESTERBERG ‎– Things
from 14 Songs (1993)
Score: 62
Votes: 2 (1)
Youtube: audio track

^ #21, dammit.

I believe I was the first-place vote here, fairly lazily. It feels like I've dug the pretty yet kinda morose vibe since I was a baby.

An enlightened (?) attitude towards “errors”, flubs, “mistakes”, and perfection for me was part of their charm and part of what made them unique. The anti-Steely Dan maybe? Something like that anyway.

Let's say that my incessant typos are a crucial extension of that.

A slightly tricky one...

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#20
PAUL WESTERBERG ‎– Outta My System (2008) / THE I DON'T CARES - Outta My System (2016)
from 49:00 (2008) and Wild Stab (1993)
Score: 64
Votes: 2 (0)
Youtube: Paul Westerberg / The I Don't Cares

The only merger I ended up going ahead with. One vote for The I Don't Cares and another for "49:00" where the 'Outta My System' segment was explicitly cited as a major reason for its appearance.

I couldn't find an suitable index within "49:00" just now. Maybe one of you has such information at hand? LOL

Okay, it starts just before the 26:00 minute mark.

http://www.paulwesterberg.com/music/solo-albums/4900-505-mp3-2008/

:)

I demand typos and randomly ranked 70s AM Radio staples for the remainder of the rollout!

Very well then, hopefully there's a bbcode error in this markup, for starters...

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#19
PAUL WESTERBERG ‎– Best Thing That Never Happened
from Suicaine Gratifaction (1999)
Score: 64
Votes: 2 (1)
Youtube: audio track

*triple-checks spelling of the album title*

“My Dad” sounds like “Positively 4th Street,” no?

I can definitely hear that now that you mention it.

"Outta My System" actually first appeared on Peter Gammons's 2004 jock rock compilation album Hot Stove, Cool Music Volume 1 alongside fellow jock rockers The Pearl Jam, The Allan Brothers Band, and The Little Feats. So technically Paul got it outta his system 3 times (49:00 version's the best though)

Jock rock!

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#18
GRANDPABOY ‎– Silent Film Star
from Mono (2002)
Score: 66
Votes: 3 (0)
Youtube: audio track

^ I like it but it's not exactly a #metoo anthem ("you oughta be a silent film star / keep that pretty little trap shut")

typical jock rocker

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*#26
PERFECT - Better Days
from _Once, Twice, Three Times a Maybe_ (2004)
Score: 55
Votes: 2 (0)
Youtube:* audio track🕸

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#17
PAUL WESTERBERG ‎– Waiting for Somebody
from Singles soundtrack (2002)
Score: 67
Votes: 3 (0)
Youtube: audio track

Obviously Singles wasn't 2002. Grrrr.

Westerberg felt properly famous in my neck of the woods at this point. I'd probably heard maybe two Replacements songs by then but I doubt this song made further exploration seem an urgent necessity.

I really like both his tracks from Singles soundtrack even though they are v corny

but also: i first heard them when i was 16 and didnt know who Paul Westerberg even was

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#16
GRANDPABOY - Let’s Not Belong Together
from Mono (2002)
Score: 69
Votes: 3 (0)
Youtube: audio track

XP: It's possible my juvenile perceptions of "properly famous" are skewed. Might just mean "on high rotation on JJJ and RRR for [what I misremember as] a full year." :)

I cannot STAND Westerberg's Singles singles. At the time the mythos around him had swelled such that by the time I heard it and "Dyslexic Heart" I couldn't believe he was supposed to be this Master Songwriter.

Okay, I shall stop for now. I'll hopefully post the remainder of this bit at a similar time tomorrow.

I sense that folks are keen to get to the Replacements proper. I'll a make slow start on that on the weekend, but I suspect that will mostly be next week. I don't think I've even seen the final numbers there yet. No idea what ultimately made it the lowest placings in the top 50. (Top 60?)

Great rollout and graphics Nag! Excited for the rest.

* extracts Replacements numbers and selfishly considers whether there are enough personal favourites between #50 to #60 to warrant a longer rollout, lol *

That is totally the polltaker's prerogative. Go to 70 if you want!

Alfred, I agree about "Dyslexic Heart," which is a not very good song with a terrible core metaphor. But I like "Waiting for Somebody," it's catchy and breezy despite the angst.

Also, I like "Let's Not Belong Together," glad two other voters did too!

I'll drop a couple of tracks now and return for the thrilling conclusion about 7 hours from now.

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#15
PAUL WESTERBERG - Baby Learns to Crawl
from Stereo (2002)
Score: 76
Votes: 3 (0)
Youtube: audio track

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#14
GRANDPABOY - AAA
from Mono (2002)
Score: 76
Votes: 3 (1)
Youtube: audio track

Meanwhile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdaXTSseXHc

Short, amusing thread of mostly haters. Contains the lyrics to "Left of the Dial" some of which I never could decipher. jON r U viewing the CA-REER TrAjEcToRy of THE REPLACEMENTS within proper CONTEXT?

"I headed up north"? I always thought it was "Cadillac Walk," in a nod to Mink DeVille.

Just noticed this, DeRo and Craig Finn's lists are heavy on the Sorry Ma.
https://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2016/07/04/the-replacements-best-songs-according-to-those-who-knew-them-critics-the-current-staff-an

Wow, that thread. I love a “boring“ record as much as I love anything in this big dumb, chintz-worshipping world, evidently. “You’re all wrong and I’m right” ‘til the day I die.

shoot, i glanced at that list and wish i wouldn't have. i don't really have a good idea of what the consensus Replacements fan fave songs are. some of them i can guess (the big PTMM songs, anthems like Bastards of Young that were played on SNL and radio and such), but i always enjoy the element of surprise

xxp
Interesting. Thinking that Paul’s songwriting chops were there from the beginning, he didn’t get better, he just widened his subject matter, became more “sensitive,” presumably learned a couple of chords, etc. Compare, say, The Go-Betweens.