Hootenany is my favorite but it might suffer from the bias of being the first Replacements record I bought
― joygoat, Sunday, 24 September 2023 17:49 (seven months ago) link
I have it as high as 3rd on some days. YMMV, but the thrash rockers add to the overall album for me, rather than, I dunno Red Red Wine or whatever.
― campreverb, Sunday, 24 September 2023 18:29 (seven months ago) link
November 15, 1987 @ Orpheum, Minneapolis. "Notes: during ‘Never Mind’ Paul falls off the stage. You can hear a thump in the recording. ‘Dude Looks Like A Lady’ (Aerosmith) is inserted during ‘Gary’s Got A Boner.’
I know it's been discussed here and elsewhere, but the reported relative lack of traction the Replacements had/have outside of America ... that's totally linked to the fact that the band's fucked up-ed-ness is fundamentally, even foundationally American, right? I can't think of a better metaphor for this country than a self-destructive, simultaneously effortlessly brilliant and accidentally brilliant band as apt to rip your heart out as fall off the stage, or offer galvanizing, generation-defining anthems alongside nods to late-era Aerosmith in the middle of a song about boners.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 21 October 2023 14:09 (six months ago) link
I think it's that particular mix of decadence and unpretentiousness, though even by that standard there's not really anyone else like them in America, either.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 21 October 2023 14:18 (six months ago) link
we're comin to your townwe're gonna fall right downwe're an American band
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 21 October 2023 14:21 (six months ago) link