The Replacements

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.

dcfaithful

Goatboy wrote:

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

Don't Tell A Soul rocks. Definitely an album not to be overlooked.

dcfaithful

Should we do the "Rank 'Em: " to The Replacements? :? :P

Tim
Pleased To Meet Me
Let It Be
Don't Tell A Soul
All Shook Down
Hootenanny
Sorry Ma... Forgot To Take Out The Trash

PearlJamaholic

Are there any Mats bootleg collectors here? Ive been downloading every show I find posted on Dime for a few years and the other year after the reissues came out I put together all the studio unreleased stuff that didnt make the the reissues but once I finished that I decided I wanted to do a live covers collection. I know Im missing alot of Replacements shows but I have started piecing it together again. No idea how long it will take to finish this but if anyone else has shows maybe I can get a copy of anything I dont have.

dcfaithful

PearlJamaholic wrote:

Are there any Mats bootleg collectors here? Ive been downloading every show I find posted on Dime for a few years and the other year after the reissues came out I put together all the studio unreleased stuff that didnt make the the reissues but once I finished that I decided I wanted to do a live covers collection. I know Im missing alot of Replacements shows but I have started piecing it together again. No idea how long it will take to finish this but if anyone else has shows maybe I can get a copy of anything I dont have.

Unfortunately, I do not have any Mats bootlegs, haven't really done much of a search for them honestly. However, if you're interested in sharing what you have ... that'd be cool.

PearlJamaholic

dcfaithful wrote:

PearlJamaholic wrote:

Are there any Mats bootleg collectors here? Ive been downloading every show I find posted on Dime for a few years and the other year after the reissues came out I put together all the studio unreleased stuff that didnt make the the reissues but once I finished that I decided I wanted to do a live covers collection. I know Im missing alot of Replacements shows but I have started piecing it together again. No idea how long it will take to finish this but if anyone else has shows maybe I can get a copy of anything I dont have.

Unfortunately, I do not have any Mats bootlegs, haven't really done much of a search for them honestly. However, if you're interested in sharing what you have ... that'd be cool.

http://db.etree.org/PearlJamaholic#a28657

I havent updated it in awhile, maybe I should since I have a few more Mats stuff not there. If you us dc++ I go to the pink floyd echoes hub pretty often.

spnoone

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... z28qi0eGHh

the annual "maybe". more importantly, we're getting a new mats ep soon. and there's a new paul song for free. and the interview is great.

PearlJamaholic

If Paul and Tommy tour i'll be there but if it never happens i won't be disappointed. Paul has been pretty clear for years he doesn't want to, so he never gave us fans hope so he isn't really letting anyone down.

Heard the new song the other week and its pretty good, right in line with the stuff off of Ghost Gloves... which i thought was a great little EP.

JH6056

They played my college once. Word got back to the head concert organizer guy that a couple nights earlier Bob Stinson was so drunk he'd come out for the encore with nothing on but his guitar. For some reason that really freaked the organizer guy out, and when the band got there he had something like 20 take out coffees delivered to their dressing room (I guess we didn't have a coffee machine in our auditorium??).

When someone explained to the band why they'd gotten the coffee, they were rather annoyed. I now know what a room looks like after 20 cups of coffee are thrown against the walls. But no one came out nude... and they absolutely rocked!

Indifference71

Been listening to these guys a lot lately....can't believe it took so long for me to discover their greatness. They fucking rock.

brianlux

Indifference71 said:

Been listening to these guys a lot lately....can't believe it took so long for me to discover their greatness. They fucking rock.

Yes! I well remember the night I was watching SNL (hosted that night by the great Harry Dean Stanton!) and some band called the Replacements whom I'd never heard of was on and played a couple of songs that woke me right up! Despite that the behavior of those boys basically got them banned from SNL (though Paul Westerberg did appear a few more times), those performance still hold up great for me. Here's one of the numbers (and if anyone can find a vid with better resolution, please post it):

https://myspace.com/theallmightygod/video/replacements/32915228

Been a big fan ever since!