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

yes

Why at night did Bob Stinson get all Yessed Out?

Chris Squire was a John Entwistle fanatic, and Bill Bruford hated Keith Moon. It's all a rich tapestry.

Reminds me of this old thread

Really do feel this band and its members are some sort of patron saints of mental illness. In addition to your, um, garden variety Hazelden alcoholism you also get Bob’s schizoaffective disorder and the schizophrenia in the Mars family.

yeah you’re not wrong

In other news, searching for my own playlist that I created to hold my Top 30, I accidentally came across this nifty playlist from Rhino: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7vOozeS5X4C3c69YKEop4L?si=kzGPqXp8QPyfgAMnm4Aebg

Gee, even the edition of Trouble Boys I have here calls that Westerberg album Suicaine Gratification. Three times over.

Got about 3.7K hits for the correct spelling and 2K for the wrong one, so yeah

And 7K for "Suiciane" so maybe other misspellings as well!

SUICAINE GRATIFACATION

(Belongs on The Flashy Crawl on Biryani Carts, Convenience Stores, etc.)

Suicaine Gratificati

suicaine grat

Suicune is a legendary Water Pokémon.

Genealogy for Paulus Suicain

Hindrik Suicka (b. - c.1724) - Genealogy - Geniwww.geni.com › people › Henrik· Translate this page
Father of Matts Henriksson Suickain; Petrus Suickain; Paulus Suicain and Thomas Suickain Brother of Johan Henriksson Suicka.

Americaine Graffiti

Someone should sue Paul for nuisance
god i hate that album title, misspelled

misspelled or correctly spelled, thst should have said

B-b-but, VG, have you ever thought that maybe Paul likes being a nuisance god?

Also, to be clear, I didn't actively seek out Mehr's spelling of that title. LOL. Got the book and inexplicably found myself reading the epilogue first.

http://www.furious.com/perfect/westerberg.html

^Good piece, some thoughts of which Matt Wallace agrees on, going by this (grumpy) user review/response (!) to allmusic's review of Westerberg's 14 Songs.

I didn’t even have a chance to read that article yet. Found it whilst looking up Guralnick, didn’t realize he was comparing Westerberg to Elvis.

Is that a false/erroneous parallelism, last name to first name?

Out on the street for a living

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdsnpIbBB8o

Gee, Mehr notes that they recorded "First Steps" (#11 in the 'other' poll) during the DTAS sessions! That song could only have improved that record. And "Trouble on the Way" should have been on PTMM. I don't get why Tommy songs never got the nod. (Not even as outtakes of interest on reissues until 2020! I mean, even Mars got "All He Wants to Do is Fish" on All for Nothing.)

^ Oh wait, I forgot "Satellite". Never mind!

Xgau in Color Me Obsessed: “Yes, I would go along with every grade except that casual listening to Hootenanny suggests that maybe it could be better than a B+.”

Think the guy talking about the fight in New Haven is mixing up two different shows.

Trying to remember, did "Heartbeat, It's a Lovebeat" originally come out as part of an "I Will Dare" EP or something?

Thought “20th Century Boy” was on that EP as well, now they are listed as Outtakes.

That was my understanding re: "Heartbeat, It's a Lovebeat." I think you're right about "20th Century Boy" though.

eg. https://www.discogs.com/The-Replacements-I-Will-Dare/release/1164440

It's kinda impressive how few actual b-sides etc they had, really, over a decade.

Yeah about the B-sides.

Wonder if I saw them do “Heartbeat is a Lovebeat” back then or if somebody had a bootleg of the outtake.

I remember seeing them do “Hitchin’ a Ride” and was worried as the years wore on that I mixed it up with “Takin’ a Ride” until it appeared on For Sale.

Something so melancholy about “Talent Show.” It’s like an Elliott Smith song.

"It's too late to take pills, here we gooooooooooo..."

I had no idea about the International Rock Awards performance before Trouble Boys. (ie. a couple of weeks ago, for me.) Melancholy was certainly the prevailing vibe by that point in the book.

i've been reading and really enjoying the Trouble Boys bio. also, i'm a fool for not realizing "Johnny's Gonna Die" is about Thunders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYmVfF3WX_Q

I loved the behind the scenes stuff about that awards show: Clapton showing them how iron a suit, Dave Edmunds' death stare etc.

"How to iron"

Haha, yes. Edmunds' death stare went unexplained IIRC. I'd like to think he somehow heard and disapproved of the basement rendition of "Trouble Boys" mentioned early in the book.

I totally saw that telecast when it was on. I remember living colour doing a really crazy version of Johnny B Goode.

Are there other tunes besides “Johnny’s Gonna Die” where Bob and Paul both solo? Weird how Bob takes the Sterling solo and Paul takes the Lou solo.

There's lots of good Bob-tastic stuff apart from his solo though, kind of like on the "Can't Hardy Wait" from For Sale where he doesn't even solo.

So hey, guess who turned up as my number 2 artist in the Annual Algorithmic Lookback the other day.

Yeah this poll boosted them to #4 for me.

#1 for me. (The top 5 were all poll-related, I think: Cramps, Prefab Sprout, etc. I'm not much of a binge listener otherwise.)