In answer to your question, not mine.
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 October 2020 22:37 (three years ago) link
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#53I'll Buyfrom Tim (1985)Score: 73Votes: 5 (0)Youtube: audio track
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 9 October 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
Even I didn’t vote for “Askin’ Me Lies”
― All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, 9 October 2020 22:41 (three years ago) link
About the new PTMM boxset: “More like Pleased To...meh.”
― rattle, Friday, 9 October 2020 22:45 (three years ago) link
Lol x 2
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 October 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
No comment on "I'll Buy"? Everyone's over with Bob Mehr? :)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 9 October 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
Not I.
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 October 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
i love I’ll Buy!!! #17 on my hit parade
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 October 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
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#52Anywhere's Better Than Herefrom Don't Tell a Soul (1989) Score: 78Votes: 6 (0)Youtube: audio trackYoutube: audio track (Matt Wallace mix)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 9 October 2020 23:03 (three years ago) link
Curious as to how much of Let It Be, Tim, and Pleased to Meet Me missed the top 60. The only song I really don’t like from those records is the one that Westerberg didn’t write.
― aphoristical, Friday, 9 October 2020 23:03 (three years ago) link
to me it’s punk rock Buddy Holly and I’m all for it
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 October 2020 23:04 (three years ago) link
“i’ll buy” that is
I quite like "I Buy" myself. I seem to forget it exists though, out the context of the album. Unfairly, I'd say.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 9 October 2020 23:05 (three years ago) link
my ballot mostly comes from a place of crushing deeply on paul
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 October 2020 23:06 (three years ago) link
god damn job was my #5. the pinnacle of punk mats for me. play a blues song fast and loud. swing it a little. drink a lot. shout out loud some of the most basic complaints of human existence. that song has been a lifelong companion, and not only at times when i did in fact need a god damn job and/or a god damn girl, but it was definitely there for me at those times, of which there have been a few.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 9 October 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
In other words, it's almost a LFR version of a Shaggs song.
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 October 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
lovelines is a terrible idea for what do at band rehearsal when you've run out of other ideas, and they commit themselves to that terrible idea way beyond what anyone should. over the course of thirty plus years it's gotten better with every single listen. i adore it.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 9 October 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
(xp) haha. it's a shaggs song played in tune.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 9 October 2020 23:14 (three years ago) link
This is safe space for DTAS enthusiasts. I for one would appreciate treatises on each DTAS track that places.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 9 October 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link
I might do that! But I didn’t vote for either of its placements so far. I like sad Replacements.
― All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, 9 October 2020 23:22 (three years ago) link
fcc OTM X 2
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 October 2020 23:24 (three years ago) link
"Lovelines" is urgent and key 'Mats, for exactly the reasons fcc describes and that's why I prefer the earlier albums to the later ones. Even the throwaways are thrown away in such a deliberate knife-edge balancing act that the those albums are perfectly lethalimperfect.
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 October 2020 23:28 (three years ago) link
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#51Fuck Schoolfrom Stink (1982) Score: 79Votes: 4 (1)Youtube: audio track
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 9 October 2020 23:30 (three years ago) link
Posting wude words on the internet in large typefaces FTW.
Their most eloquent chorus, surely.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 9 October 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
What's the matter, buddy?
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 October 2020 23:33 (three years ago) link
:)
Alright. That's all I had planned just yet. Might post a mere trickle of entries over the weekend but weekend rollouts are generally not terribly successful.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 9 October 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link
I just remembered that Jim Dickinson produced some Poi Dog stuff #OneThread
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 October 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
perfectly imperfect
would work as a title for a comp of all the stuff that didn't make the other comps. would work for the other comps, too, come to think of it.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 9 October 2020 23:46 (three years ago) link
The Poi Dog guys said Dickinson told them he could never get a clean take out of the 'Mats because they were too many sheets to the wind so he had to splice a few takes together #OneThread
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 October 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
The two guitar players freaked out when Dickinson played at SXSW with his kids backing him up and Luther Dickinson was on fire. #OT
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 October 2020 00:02 (three years ago) link
Summary so far pts vts #1s 51 Fuck School Stink (June 1982) 79 4 152 Anywhere's Better Than Don't Tell a Soul (January 1989) 78 6 053 I'll Buy Tim (October 1985) 73 5 054 Don't Ask Why SMFTTOTT (August 1981) 70 3 055 Love Lines Hootenanny (April 1983) 65 5 056 Nowhere Is My Home Tim era miscellany 61 4 057 Kick Your Door Down SMFTTOTT (August 1981) 58 5 058 God Damn Job Stink (June 1982) 58 4 059 Asking Me Lies Don't Tell a Soul (January 1989) 58 3 060 Buck Hill Hootenanny (April 1983) 57 6 0
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 10 October 2020 00:04 (three years ago) link
Big respect to whoever voted "fuck school" their #1
― bunny slopes, Saturday, 10 October 2020 00:17 (three years ago) link
51 fuck school52 fuck here53 fuck you buying54 fuck asking why55 fuck normal ways of finding love56 fuck homes57 fuck doors58 fuck jobs59 fuck lies60 buck hill
― the burrito that defined a generation, Saturday, 10 October 2020 00:19 (three years ago) link
xp seriously, I wanna know who that is and how much student loan debt they have
― the burrito that defined a generation, Saturday, 10 October 2020 00:20 (three years ago) link
That’s a brilliant ranking.
― campreverb, Saturday, 10 October 2020 00:21 (three years ago) link
respect
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 October 2020 00:33 (three years ago) link
whoever voted it as number one is truly in touch with the spirit of the band
― covidiot wind (voodoo chili), Saturday, 10 October 2020 00:47 (three years ago) link
Didn't vote for it because I knew someone else would.
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 October 2020 00:58 (three years ago) link
Glad God Damn Job made the cut, it was my no. 31 and hated to cut it.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 10 October 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
Red light, red light, cut it!
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 October 2020 01:34 (three years ago) link
I didn't vote for "Asking Me Lies," but I actually like it. I used to hate it, but Dead Man's Pop became a good reason to re-evaluate it. The new mix is an improvement - it actually sounds more like the 'Mats proper - but it made a hell of a lot more sense knowing they were big Jackson 5 fans. So the 'Mats do their take of a Jackson 5 number, and I can dig what Westerberg hears in their music because it's pretty much what I hear in a good Jackson 5 number.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 10 October 2020 04:18 (three years ago) link
I never saw the 'Mats back in the day, but when I saw the "reunion," one of the highlights was when they did "Nowhere Is My Home," and even better a lot of people around me at least knew enough of the words to shout along with the first chorus. Not bad for something that criminally languished as an obscure, out-of-print cut for several decades.
I don't know if the master or multi-track tapes wound up in the river, but it's a shame it only exists as a so-so dub from a vinyl copy. It could really use a better mix to bring out some of the muscle, but it's still a great track, I love it - the guitar riff, the choruses, everything. It really should have made Tim.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 10 October 2020 04:25 (three years ago) link
if you write the lyric "at a Mexican bar mitzvah for 700 years" then you are good at writing lyrics
― the burrito that defined a generation, Saturday, 10 October 2020 05:35 (three years ago) link
Just a couple more to consider at your leisure...
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#50We'll Inherit the Earthfrom Don't Tell a Soul (1989) Score: 79Votes: 6 (0)Youtube: audio track (DTAS)Youtube: audio track (Matt Wallace mix)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 10 October 2020 13:08 (three years ago) link
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#49Nightclub Jittersfrom Pleased to Meet Me (1987) Score: 81Votes: 6 (0)Youtube: audio track
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 10 October 2020 13:09 (three years ago) link
Don't mind "Nightclub Jitters" but it didn't make the cut.
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 October 2020 13:22 (three years ago) link
Heh, had to go back and check my ballot since for all I know it could've snuck on at the bottom.
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 October 2020 13:23 (three years ago) link
“I’ll Buy” didn’t make my ballot because it always reminded me of that Del Fuegos beer commercial which had come out a few months before Tim was released. I always conflate the two in my head.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 10 October 2020 13:44 (three years ago) link
I voted Asking Me Lies, it's a fun Jackson 5/Lynyrd Skynyrd (another influence) homage, and I love Tommy's backing vocals on it.This seems like the 'pick your favorite filler' part of the poll, and one man's 'Asking Me Lies' is another's 'I'll Buy'.
― campreverb, Saturday, 10 October 2020 14:01 (three years ago) link
Tim was my introduction, listened to the whole album blind, and the “you had me at” moment may very well have been I’ll Buy’s “Movies are for retards like me and Maybelline.” Just absolute perfection in the way it rolls off the tongue.
― rattle, Saturday, 10 October 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link