what a fucking great song
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:08 (three years ago) link
This one I ultimately didn't vote for. It hasn't held up for me as much as my other Tim favorites. Some great lines, tho.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:09 (three years ago) link
dream unfulfilledgraduate unskilled4 words ..what a writer
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:09 (three years ago) link
Had that at #17. Getting colder!
― Garu’s Got a Rona (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:11 (three years ago) link
I'll say this much about Paul, that guy exemplifies the phrase "turn of phrase," because boy does he have 'em.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link
anyone seen the doc about mats’ fandom by the same name from a few years ago? its really good imo, still streaming on prime i think
― Garu’s Got a Rona (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link
SNL is the definitive performance of this song. It’s just so powerful.
― thewufs, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link
"unsatisfied" was my number one. uncharacteristically grand and nearly the entire track is that chorus but what a chorus!
"bastards of young" is good but not quite top tier for me so i'm glad that it's not higher than this
― ufo, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:14 (three years ago) link
I like the top ten so far but Androgynous should have placed much higher
― Brad C., Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:22 (three years ago) link
Top 4 all totally respectable choices, tho none were in my top 10.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
i suddenly hate my ballot ;_; i didnt even vote for unsatisfied & put bastards at #28 #failbut back to answering machine, a thing i really love about the Mats & paul’s writing especially is the minutiae of life that he includes. the songs feel like such a lived experience of the 80’s in a way that isnt nostalgic but factual idk
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
bastards of young was my In into the Replacements. for a long time, i just associated them with that song. loved the SNL performance (one of the reliably more findable videos from early Youtube days), loved the toss-off video (bruce springsteen did a cover of the video a few years later with "brilliant disguise", but he added his a human body to the shot). the raw thrill of it has somewhat worn off through overplaying it through my 20s, but even now, the first verse still rips so hard
God, what a mess, on the ladder of successWhere you take one step and miss the whole first rungDreams unfulfilled, graduate unskilledIt beats pickin' cotton and waitin' to be forgotten
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
the songs feel like such a lived experience of the 80’s in a way that isnt nostalgic but factual
Which has to do with the details, like you say. Not just a lived experience of the '80s but a lived experience of the '80s for a lower-middle-class guy in Minneapolis who isn't sure what to do with himself.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
I think "Bastards" was the only Replacements song I definitely knew was a song by a band called the Replacements for a looong time. The video popped up on Rage from time to time and I thought it (principally the video, initially!) amazing as a youngster.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
https://images2.imgbox.com/2c/c7/MnHwOLlk_o.jpg
#4 Can't Hardly Waitfrom The Shit Hits the Fans (live, 1985) and Pleased to Meet Me (studio, 1987) Score: 828Votes: 36 (4)Youtube: promo video
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:29 (three years ago) link
Youtube: Tim version!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:32 (three years ago) link
best part of bastards is the beginning, worst part is the end.
the middle is pretty sweet
― covidiot wind, blowin every time you lift your mask (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:32 (three years ago) link
There is one in the top 3 I'm drawing a blank on, but there goes my #1.
― campreverb, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:33 (three years ago) link
Left/Chilton/Dare in some order
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
the joe pera joke about “baba o’riley” applies to “bastards of young” too, i think. they realized they wrote a perfect song, panicked, and added that coda
― covidiot wind, blowin every time you lift your mask (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:38 (three years ago) link
Had "Can't Hardly Wait" at #16, despite issues with the officially released studio version.Bacobits OTM.
― Garu’s Got a Rona (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:38 (three years ago) link
Chilton is the one I'd lost track of, in the 20s on my ballot.
― campreverb, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:44 (three years ago) link
the line "i'll be home when i'm sleeping," with the iii chord on "sleeping," is absolutely everything. my #2.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:45 (three years ago) link
I should say that:
- two "CHV" votes were emphatically for the Tim-era demo.- The TSHTF version is contained in the Youtube clip of the whole album, near the start of the thread.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:47 (three years ago) link
I'm glad Pleased To Meet Me is holding its own. It was my first Mats album - I rescued it from a bargain bin. I was prepared to take a chance on the 'Mats, even though I wasn't impressed by the only other Westerberg songs I knew - his two songs on my sister's copy of the Friends soundtrack.
― aphoristical, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:47 (three years ago) link
XP: "CHW", even
lol there has got to be a short list of perfect songs with weirdly dumb or out of place codas. Bastards of Young, Baba O'Riley, Zep's The Ocean...
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:49 (three years ago) link
https://images2.imgbox.com/91/8d/pPvUt3lz_o.jpg
#3 Left of the Dialfrom Tim (1985) Score: 857Votes: 36 (5)Youtube: original promo video
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:52 (three years ago) link
is it weird that my favorite thing about "left of the dial"is the stick clicks? wasn't going to vote for it. but then i relistened to make sure.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:54 (three years ago) link
fucking anthem
― bunny slopes, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:55 (three years ago) link
can't argue at all with #1 and #2, one of which was my #1.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:56 (three years ago) link
"Left of the Dial" was my #1. Five to one, baby.
― Garu’s Got a Rona (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:57 (three years ago) link
so in 2012 my students at the station recorded their version for College Radio Day. It moves me.
youtube.com/watch?v=_so4E2ttTOw
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:58 (three years ago) link
― bunny slopes
hell yeah! my #2. left of the dial --> Can't Hardly Wait is a great live move too
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link
I guess Warner Bros muted the sound! Oh well. Dig the images.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link
Wasn't expecting this so high - it kind of sneaks up since it's not an anthem like 'Hold My Life' or 'Bastards', or an emotional gut punch like 'Here Comes A Regular'.
― aphoristical, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link
another thing about "left of the dial": that wasn't a phrase that people used before that song, as far as i know. they invented that. possibly one of their most lasting influences!
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 01:01 (three years ago) link
Suzanne Vega had left of center about the same time too. Lots of left happening.
― aphoristical, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 01:02 (three years ago) link
but left of center was more of a general cultural/social positioning. left of the dial was specific to radio, and radio embraced it.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 01:04 (three years ago) link
Idk. This was my #1 - I saw Joe Pera mentioned above and this song does a similar thing. Once that opening guitar chimes in ...
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 01:04 (three years ago) link
i wasn't expecting it so high either but it's where i had it so i'm very glad
― ufo, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 01:04 (three years ago) link
That it’s a track 9, generally not a showcase kind of spot, too.
― rattle, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 01:06 (three years ago) link
"Left of the Dial" was my #1 ... it's perfectly of its moment, like a photograph, but also a culmination of college radio before 1985
― Brad C., Wednesday, 14 October 2020 01:14 (three years ago) link
I did just listen to it - the version in my head is much more mid-tempo and restrained than the actual version is.
― aphoristical, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 01:14 (three years ago) link
Left of the Dial is their best song, anthemic, longing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link
The competition for #2 through #4 was pretty close. They were jiggling around constantly. Another couple of ballots and those four could have been reversed again. But #1's lead over the rest has been significant and entirely consistent since the pool of ballots was very small.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
i had Left of the Dial in the lower part of my ballot but its still v good/great
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
https://images2.imgbox.com/0d/c4/cbuXl1sr_o.jpg
#2 Alex Chilton from Pleased to Meet Me (1987) Score: 874Votes: 35 (4)Youtube: audio track
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
Watching Color Me Obsessed now. Pretty interesting. Quite a few name interviewees.
― Garu’s Got a Rona (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link
I NEVERRR TRAVEL FAAAAAAAARRRRRWITHOUT A LIIIITLLLE BIG STAAAAAAR
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 01:19 (three years ago) link