The Replacements

dcfaithful

I searched and didn't find anything. I think it's mandatory that this band needs a thread. The Replacements rule, plain and simple. I took my dog Zeke on a walk yesterday in the hot sun and listened to Pleased To Meet Me... damn, I honestly thing these guys didn't put out a bad record.

So, here's the thread for The Mats. Hopefully this one stays alive - this is a band that shouldn't be overlooked. I discovered them a few months ago (late yes, but better late than never).

A number of musicians have noted The Replacements as being a huge influence. In my opinion, I think The Replacements are highly underrated. But, I didn't grow up during their day, so maybe I missed the well deserved hype.

I seriously can't get enough of Tim

let's discuss The Mats!

2-feign-reluctance

DEAR GOD!! LOTS OF VIEWS AND NO REPLIES!!?? Paul Westerberg and The Replacements are a huge reason why I picked up the guitar. Tim is a classic and a regularly spun record in the Lee home. I think the later Replacements stuff sounded less like the classic sound and more like Paul aching to get solo.

2-feign-reluctance

Best thread ever. Worthy of a second post!!

dcfaithful

2-feign-reluctance wrote:

Best thread ever. Worthy of a second post!!

Thank you! I was getting curious as to why there was no replies on a thread about such a great band.

dcfaithful

2-feign-reluctance wrote:

DEAR GOD!! LOTS OF VIEWS AND NO REPLIES!!?? Paul Westerberg and The Replacements are a huge reason why I picked up the guitar. Tim is a classic and a regularly spun record in the Lee home. I think the later Replacements stuff sounded less like the classic sound and more like Paul aching to get solo.

I'd have to definitely agree with you. While I still like All Shook Down, if I didn't know it was a Replacements album, I'd think it was Westerberg solo...

Tim though... oh my god, what a great album. Seriously, this band is fucking awesome.

I'm just going to throw this out there... Cluthe/Lee should do an "Androgynous" cover.

jamburger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl9KQ1Mub6Q

:!:

keeponrockin

On my list of 'bands I need to get into'.

dcfaithful

jamburger wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl9KQ1Mub6Q

:!:

Such a great song.

dcfaithful

keeponrockin wrote:

On my list of 'bands I need to get into'.

The sooner the better my friend.

JOEJOEJOE

One of my top 3 bands of all time. I was lucky enough to see them a bunch of times between 1984 and 1991....always a great live show, full of power, passion and wreckless abandon. They had such a great arsenal of songs so their shows were always celebratory when they belted out Bastards of the Young, Left of the Dial, I.O.U. and Hold My Life, all in succession. Damn, this brings back some great memories.

They usually played the Hollywood Palladium, so the floor would always be jumping!

So many great songs...Talent Show, The Ledge, Can't Hardly Wait, Answering Machine, Color Me Impressed, One Wink at a Time....way too many to list!

For the record, All Shook Down was pretty much a Paul solo album.

dcfaithful

JOEJOEJOE wrote:

One of my top 3 bands of all time. I was lucky enough to see them a bunch of times between 1984 and 1991....always a great live show, full of power, passion and wreckless abandon. They had such a great arsenal of songs so their shows were always celebratory when they belted out Bastards of the Young, Left of the Dial, I.O.U. and Hold My Life, all in succession. Damn, this brings back some great memories.

They usually played the Hollywood Palladium, so the floor would always be jumping!

So many great songs...Talent Show, The Ledge, Can't Hardly Wait, Answering Machine, Color Me Impressed, One Wink at a Time....way too many to list!

For the record, All Shook Down was pretty much a Paul solo album.

Hold My Life, Left of the Dial, Bastards Of Young... all some of my favorite songs by them. Thus, being why Tim is probably my favorite record, but again reiterating that The Replacements entire discography is just so damn good.!!

dasvidana

I loved the Replacements back in the day and listened to Let It Be around the clock in 1984. I was hooked on Unsatisfied, many due to adolescent angst. I've often thought that Wishlist reminds me of Unsatisfied in that the narrator ruminates throughout the song. I love its simplicity. I Will Dare was awesome too.

dpmay

keeponrockin wrote:

On my list of 'bands I need to get into'.

maybe start with pleased to meet me.

alex chilton is amazing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RYQ8Y-ObMw

dpmay

dcfaithful wrote:

Now, I like Paul's solo material... but I just don't think even 14 Songs can hold a candle to Tim or Let It Be.

have you heard 49:00... ? do you know of plans for another release? i'd like to get it by, ahem, legit, means...

it's rad.

dcfaithful

dpmay wrote:

dcfaithful wrote:

Now, I like Paul's solo material... but I just don't think even 14 Songs can hold a candle to Tim or Let It Be.

have you heard 49:00... ? do you know of plans for another release? i'd like to get it by, ahem, legit, means...

it's rad.

I have not heard 49:00.

dcfaithful

dpmay wrote:

keeponrockin wrote:

On my list of 'bands I need to get into'.

maybe start with pleased to meet me.

alex chilton is amazing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RYQ8Y-ObMw

Great song! It was on repeat a lot of yesterday and is what prompted this thread.

Goatboy

Love them. Tim has to be my favorite album but I'd like to put in an honorable mention for Don't tell a soul. "Talent Show", "Achin to be" and "I'll be you" are great songs. Love the black diamond cover on let it be as well. I listen to their records on a regular basis including pauls solo stuff...14 songs and eventually mostly.

my ranking would go:

Tim
Don't tell a Soul
Let it be
Pleased to meet me
All shook down

2-feign-reluctance

I'm just going to throw this out there... Cluthe/Lee should do an "Androgynous" cover. [/quote]


Hmmmmmm.....stay tuned.

dcfaithful

2-feign-reluctance wrote:

I'm just going to throw this out there... Cluthe/Lee should do an "Androgynous" cover.

Hmmmmmm.....stay tuned.[/quote]

:thumbup:

dpmay

dcfaithful wrote:

dpmay wrote:

dcfaithful wrote:

Now, I like Paul's solo material... but I just don't think even 14 Songs can hold a candle to Tim or Let It Be.

have you heard 49:00... ? do you know of plans for another release? i'd like to get it by, ahem, legit, means...

it's rad.

I have not heard 49:00.

oh man, you should try to find it - it's about the best solo westerberg stuff i think i've heard...

dcfaithful

dpmay wrote:

oh man, you should try to find it - it's about the best solo westerberg stuff i think i've heard...

I'll put it on my hunting list! :thumbup:

dcfaithful

Bump because The Replacements are fucking awesome and shouldn't fall down past page 1.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jlqfRTFlxU

PearlJamaholic

The Replacements. The band that took away pj's title of 'my favorite band.' I discovered this band a few years ago during a really depressing time. They hit notes pj never did for me. Westerberg is the man. i was so glad to see the reissues get some of the hidden gems on them the other year. sad to know that the reissues undersold what they hoped cause my understanding was there was plans for a 'mats boxset or even reissues for westerberg albums.

westerberg did mention something in a recent interview that sounded like maybe a boxset might happen.... i sure hope 'only if we must' gets an official release.

skyway. maybe the best song every written.

for those keeping score since 49:00 paul has released some other random things here and there. mostly all digital releases

1 song - 5:05
2 or 3 songs - 3oclockcreep
1 song - bored of education
3 songs - dgt
an ep - pw & ghost gloves cat....
single - mr f (vinyl)
like 49:00 - grandpaboys last stand & grandpaboys last stand epilogue

JOEJOEJOE

Paul Westerberg makes some cameo appearances in the new Glen Campbell video

PearlJamaholic

JOEJOEJOE wrote:

Paul Westerberg makes some cameo appearances in the new Glen Campbell video

ghost on the canvas is a westerberg song that was on the recent ep. havent heard glens version of it yet though.

MysteryTrain

PearlJamaholic wrote:

JOEJOEJOE wrote:

Paul Westerberg makes some cameo appearances in the new Glen Campbell video

ghost on the canvas is a westerberg song that was on the recent ep. havent heard glens version of it yet though.

No wonder. I always thought it was a song he wrote for Glen Campbell's last album.

dcfaithful

PearlJamaholic wrote:

The Replacements. The band that took away pj's title of 'my favorite band.' They hit notes pj never did for me.

I can relate so much to this right now. The Replacements have officially stolen my heart as of late.

spnoone

i didn't discover the replacements until don't tell a soul and never got to see them live. it's easily my biggest music-related regret. for me, let it be> tim> pleased to meet me was as good a 3 album run as any band's ever had.

somewhere on the hold steady's message board is a link to a tommy interview where he explains paul's inability to leave the baggage behind is why the reunion will always be a longshot. plus, chris got rich making creepy paintings and lost interest in music, tommy has the gnr gig, and frankly, old, angst-free and sober, who needs it? they weren't built to last, and that's part of their beauty. paul still plays the mats tunes when he crawls out of his cave. we just need to wait for his bank account to dwindle and he'll tour again soon enough.

i get the strong impression paul's a casualty of the post napster music industry. i think he could still write 20 should've-been-hits a year, but we're not hearing it because he doesn't see the upside in laboring over the craft of it. albums are dead. i think 49:00 is proof of that. it's 20 unfinished songs mashed together and sold for 49 cents, with just enough unlicensed covers to make sure it got pulled and never heard.

also, do most think all shook down really sounds that different than don't tell a soul? it doesn't to me. i've never understood why everyone has to call that one a solo album just because tommy and chris aren't on every track. besides, the solo albums ARE just as good. dead man shake is the only bad solo album he's made, and even then he had the sense not to put his name on it. i'm rambling now. the end.

dcfaithful

spnoone wrote:

i didn't discover the replacements until don't tell a soul and never got to see them live. it's easily my biggest music-related regret. for me, let it be> tim> pleased to meet me was as good a 3 album run as any band's ever had.

somewhere on the hold steady's message board is a link to a tommy interview where he explains paul's inability to leave the baggage behind is why the reunion will always be a longshot. plus, chris got rich making creepy paintings and lost interest in music, tommy has the gnr gig, and frankly, old, angst-free and sober, who needs it? they weren't built to last, and that's part of their beauty. paul still plays the mats tunes when he crawls out of his cave. we just need to wait for his bank account to dwindle and he'll tour again soon enough.

i get the strong impression paul's a casualty of the post napster music industry. i think he could still write 20 should've-been-hits a year, but we're not hearing it because he doesn't see the upside in laboring over the craft of it. albums are dead. i think 49:00 is proof of that. it's 20 unfinished songs mashed together and sold for 49 cents, with just enough unlicensed covers to make sure it got pulled and never heard.

also, do most think all shook down really sounds that different than don't tell a soul? it doesn't to me. i've never understood why everyone has to call that one a solo album just because tommy and chris aren't on every track. besides, the solo albums ARE just as good. dead man shake is the only bad solo album he's made, and even then he had the sense not to put his name on it. i'm rambling now. the end.

Don't Tell A Soul and All Shook Down are great, still Replacements album in my eyes. And yes, even though it sounds like a solo album... what's the problem? I agree with you that his solo albums are just as good. Westerberg is underrated in his own right as a solo musician, but I kind of like it that way.

14 Songs will forever be a staple in my music collection. Not to mention Let It Be, Tim, and Pleased To Meet Me... but truthfully I love all the Mats stuff. I love that they can get fast, loud, sloppy and punkish, and yet crank out a fucking awesome ballad. I love your point about them not being built to last and I also agree that that is the beauty of The Replacements. Something that good can't last forever, because it won't be good forever. What they've left us is enough.

I've been surprised over time to read how many and what musicians cite The Replacements as a major influence. Musicians I would've never thought would've been taken by The Mats.

Naive me also didn't know that "Portland" was a Mats song when I heard Middle Brother's version.

I recently just got 49:00, and I haven't made it through the whole thing, but I like Paul's idea and concept behind it. The overall point to it, much like you pointed out.

Fuck yeah, The Replacements.

JOEJOEJOE

This is a set list from their last tour. I was lucky enough to have seen them a bunch of times. When they kicked it into high gear, they were amazing! They are definitely one of the most underrated American bands of all-time!


1.I Will Dare
2.Bent Out of Shape
3.Achin' to Be
4.Another Girl, Another Planet
(The Only Ones cover)
5.Merry Go Round
6.Happy Town
7.Nightclub Jitters
8.Someone Take the Wheel
9.Swingin Party
10.One Wink at a Time
11.Skyway
12.When It Began
13.Waitress in the
14.Kiss Me on the Bus
15.Talent Show
16.Valentine
17.Nobody
18.Asking Me Lies
19.Hey Good Lookin'
(Hank Williams cover)
20.Little Mascara
21.Answering Machine
22.I'll Be You
23.Can't Hardly Wait
24.I Don't Know
25.Bastards of Young

dcfaithful

JOEJOEJOE wrote:

This is a set list from their last tour. I was lucky enough to have seen them a bunch of times. When they kicked it into high gear, they were amazing! They are definitely one of the most underrated American bands of all-time!


1.I Will Dare
2.Bent Out of Shape
3.Achin' to Be
4.Another Girl, Another Planet
(The Only Ones cover)
5.Merry Go Round
6.Happy Town
7.Nightclub Jitters
8.Someone Take the Wheel
9.Swingin Party
10.One Wink at a Time
11.Skyway
12.When It Began
13.Waitress in the
14.Kiss Me on the Bus
15.Talent Show
16.Valentine
17.Nobody
18.Asking Me Lies
19.Hey Good Lookin'
(Hank Williams cover)
20.Little Mascara
21.Answering Machine
22.I'll Be You
23.Can't Hardly Wait
24.I Don't Know
25.Bastards of Young

That's a pretty fucking awesome set list. Including Alex Chilton, Left Of The Dial, Hold My Life, and Favorite Thing would've made it unbelievable.