Sweet discussion on Can’t Hardly Wait
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Aquarium Drunkard has an awesome, awesome discussion of Can’t Hardly Wait (and even a Part II). Read all the comments, and prepare to lose a chunk of your afternoon.
I love Can’t Hardly Wait (I have 26 versions of it in my iTunes, and that’s only because I am too lazy to go cherry pick the song out of the rest of the bootlegs laying around). It’s in the all-time top three Holy Triumvirate of iconic ‘Mats songs (along with Left of the Dial and a song that I usually slot in depending on my mood).
Go read the discussion, you’ll be happy you did.
Tags: Can't Hardly Wait, Left of the Dial
Surprising list of the day- top 10 songs used on Jackass
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johnny knoxville’s top 10 songs used on jackass
I’m not gonna tell you which song it was. However, I did really like this side note:
* On a side note, I fucking love The Replacements, and prolly the biggest compliment I ever received was from Tommy himself. He really likes jackass, and one time in a bar he said, “If my brother Bob were still alive he would have loved it, too.” Man, that made me happy then and it makes me happy now.
Tags: Treatment Bound
In the Blogs: The quality not quantity edition
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Comedy Central has a list of the Five Funniest Replacements Songs. Oddly enough, “Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out” and “Gary’s Got a Boner” are not on the list.
DFactor points out that Tommy’s got second billing on the Chinese Democracy myspace page. You can also listen to a stream of the album. Are you gonna buy it?
Wild Tyme has a good piece on Our Man Paul’s 49:00.
The Current’s Musicheads are making a list of singers who aren’t “good” but who you love anyway. Check the comments to see who made the list (I did not make the list).
And another thing, that poll over there ——> there is a ONE VOTE DIFFERENCE. I think in the spirit of all things Minnesota, we should have a recount. What say ye?
Tags: 49:00, Chinese Democracy, Funny 'Mats Songs, paul westerberg, tommy stinson
In the Blogs: Kiss Me on the Bus is on the radio right this second edition
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Jim Walsh has nice conversation with Chris Mars about art and his fabulous book Tolerance.
In case you missed it in the comments, you can hear our own DFactor covering Color Me Impressed.
Also from the comments, Useless Doug points us to his treatise on TV on the Radio, pop music and The Replacements.
MN Speakers weigh in on their favorite Minnesotans. I did not make the list.
Seems Our Man Paul helped Rolling Stone pick the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. I did not make that list either.
The Beat Patrol has posted a 1993 article by Ira Robbins: Paul Westerberg Comes in from the Ledge.
Tags: Chris Mars, color me impressed, jim walsh, paul westerberg, Tolerance
In the Blogs: The go read a book edition
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There ain’t much going on in blogland. Jim Walsh wrote about Chris Mar’s Tolerance for the MinnPost and Aquarium Drunkard has a phenomenal write up of the Sire-years reissues. And about 1000 vacuous bloggers put their iPods on shuffle and randomly listed 10 songs without any context whatsoever.
Go read a book. I’ve just started Juliana Hatfield’s memoir When I Grow Up (thanks to her publisher for sending it to me). It will probably make it into the Westerberg Bookclub. I’m only 15 pages in and she’s already mentioned the ‘Mats.
What are you reading?
Tags: Chris Mars, jim walsh, Juliana Hatfield, westerberg bookclub
In the Blogs: The back from hiatus edition & Bonus video!
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Our own Zook ran across this article in the Jersey Beat about the reissues and said it was nice to see someone talking about Don’t Tell a Soul. I haven’t read it because I am too busy making my award-winning chili.
Everybody and their sister have reviewed the recent reissues, here are a few:
Blurt
Dusted
iF Magazine
The Boston Phoenix
I’ve been reading a lot about Jeremy Messersmith and I have yet to actually listen to his music (because I am laaazzy), but I did catching this little bitty snippet of Skyway:
That’s all I got this week, because I’m much too something today to be in the mood to read through 39,396 iPod shuffle lists to find any real content.
Tags: Don't Tell a Soul, Replacements Reissues, Skyway
Thought about postpoing this until the economic situation was fixed but then changed my mind
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The Village Voice’s Sound of the City blog has a new Q&A with Laurie Lindeen and includes this gem:
Was there anything you included that upon reflection you’d have preferred to leave out?
When I got the final edits, I got a long letter from my editor saying something like either you develop the characters of your father and Paul or leave them out—of course, those are my two most complex, confusing relationships. I’m so naïve sometimes…some people focused on the 10 out of 321 pages Paul appears and decided the book was about bagging a rock god. I thought I left plenty of red flags in there? I do regret the things that my very private mom found difficult to see in print, but I’d still leave them in.
Ted Barron the photographer who took the picture of Our Man Paul and Alex Chilton featured in the liner notes for the re-issued Pleased to Meet Me talks about the night the picture was taken.
Tags: Alex Chilton, Laurie Lindeen, paul westerberg, Please to Meet me
In the Blogs: The one with only one link to an actual blog
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The Memphis Flyer has an interview with Jim Dickinson, producer of Pleased to Meet Me.
Flyer: How did you get the assignment to work on Pleased To Meet Me?
Dickinson: Through their management. I don’t think the Replacements knew who I was. What bass player Tommy Stinson told me later — they’d just fired lead guitarist Bob Stinson [Tommy's brother] — was that they’d come to Memphis to break up. They’d had it planned that they were going to kind of theatrically combust. But we got to cutting demos, and it started working. They had never played as a trio, but it seemed to work, and so we started the project.
And the Louisville Courier-Journal provides a guide for rediscovering The Replacements.
New York magazines recommends the re-issues.
Okay, this piece from a blog called Lakes and Trees about visiting Minneapolis and playing “Where’s Westerberg?” made me laugh.
Tags: Jim Dickinson, paul westerberg, The Replacements reissues
In the Blogs: A bunch of stuff that defies description but is entertaining nonetheless
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Rhino’s got a listening party going for the next four Replacements’ reissues due out next week. And according to one Mr. Jay Taco the demo of Kiss Me on the Bus is good (fuckballs good, apparently).
In case you missed it in the comments, Robert from Mulberry Panda has an extensive (and good) piece about 49:00, 5:05 and working with record labels and producers.
The wonderfully-named Model Citizen . . . Zero Discipline has an engaging piece called The Nils & The Sad, Sad Story of Alex Soria (who was apparently called the Canadian Paul Westerberg).
I am not sure what a Fool’s Brigade is or what their benefit is for, but you can vote for The Replacements to be honored at it.
Sonic Slang thinks Bored of Edukation is the best of the downloads Our Man Paul has released this summer.
Goodnight to the Rock & Roll era compares Westerberg’s recent productivity to Ryan Adams and asks a great question about why blogs are hailing the low price of the music and still hosting free mp3s.
In other tangential news, my nephews came over this morning and immediately discovered Chris Mars’ Tolerance on my coffee table. As I mentioned the paintings are a bit on the dark and scary side.
At first I tried to grunt my disapproval because I try not to speak before 9 a.m., and it was 7:30 a.m., but they were either ignoring or misinterpreting the grunts.
“Guys, you might not like that,” I said. “It’s a little scary.”
“We love scary!” They said and started flipping pages.
“Ohh look,” Liam, who is 3, said. “It’s a bat!”
“It’s a Halloween book,” Nolan, who is 4, screeched in delight. “I love Halloween.”
Soon after my lap was full of little boys and a big artbook that wasn’t really about Halloween but that they loved discussing any way. It was weird, that little kids could see something so different than I did. The counted pumpkins and skeletons and basically thought the book was the best thing ever, and it caused them to jump up and down with great gobs of glee shouting “Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!”
Tags: 49:00, Alex Soria, bored of edukation, Chris Mars, The Replacements reissues
In the Blogs: Slim Pickin’s and questions of punctuation
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In case you missed it, Pitchfork has a great write up of the upcoming reissues of Tim, PtMM, Don’t Tell a Soul, and All Shook Down [September 23] and includes demos of Kiss Me on The Bus, Photo, and Talent Show.
I am quickly becoming a huge fan of 23/6. Here the offer an hilarious post-RNC roundup of things to pack, things they saw, and how the RNC compares to the Minnesota State Fair (pay special attention to that packing list).
(editor’s aside: is it bad that I am letting my nephews age 3 and 4 listen to Kings of Leon’s “Sex on Fire?” I mean just the mere mention of the word sex will not cause their ears to melt off or anything, right?)
The Beat Patrol does a nice write up for Our Man Paul’s 1996 release, Eventually and he likes it way, way more than I ever did. Eventually remains my least favorite of all of Westerberg’s albums.
It’s slim pickins (how does one punctuate that word) in blogland. I am sure things will pick up once the reissues come out, or if Westerberg decides to release some sort of magnum opus consisting of nothing but 66 minutes of him reading the Yellow Pages while will get a 9.8 from Pitchfork and land him at the top of Pazz and Jop poll.
Tags: All Shook Down, Don't Tell a Soul, Eventually, paul westerberg, Pleased to Meet Me, Tim
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