In the Blogs: The I will try not to talk politics just for you Edition
By Jodi | Filed under In the Blogs | Comments (17)
Oh, first of all, I heard (Tell Me) Who You Gonna Marry on 89.3 The Current today (yesterday when you’re reading this). I nearly fell out of Ruby (my truck) for two reasons. 1.) Barb Abney called it “Tell Me Who You Gonna Marry. (take that you Terri lovers) and 2.) I just hadn’t heard anything off of 49:00 on the radio.
Filter magazine revisits the Replacements.
WNYC’s Sound Check blog weighs in on Minnesota’s musical muscle.
Aquarium Drunkard reviews 3oclockreep.
Here’s a random (apolitical) aside. Why is everyone so unsure/surprised that Tom Waits appears on 3oclockreep. Has the Internet collectively forgotten about “Date to the Church?”
Hoboken Rock City reminisces about the Replacements after learning of Steve Foley’s death.
DFactors’ got a bit about the latest release. His post makes me laugh, but then I am generally a fan of his writing.
Also, for the record, my dander is not up. I am just questioning. I am inquisitive and rancorous by nature. I just find all these garage cleaning sort of releases odd. I mean, it’s weird, isn’t it? I had something else I was going to say and now I forgot it. I blame DFactor and the dander.
I really like the enthusiasm behind this post on Art Voice about the release of 3oclockreep.
Box of Clams has a great post questioning the “what does it all mean”ess of Westerberg’s digital download releases.
Look I made it all the way through and didn’t make you sit through one political rant. Consider yourself lucky.
Tags: 3oclockreep, 49:00, paul westerberg, Steve Foley, the replacements
With my boot I signed for us all, or how I’m hearing Finally Here Once
By Jodi | Filed under Record Review | Comments (10)
With apologies, I would like to politely disagree with Jim and Jay regarding Finally Once Here. If you go read the comments on that lyrics pages, you’ll see that these er, gentlemen, find this new song off 3oclockreep to be a sad ending or sequel to either “Bastards of Young” or “Achin’ to Be.”
They are wrong (and if you don’t realize that I am only teasing then you need to go elsewhere). I, however, hear the song differently. What I hear is an artist a little bit puzzled by his place in the new musical landscape. He is singing to (well literally it sounds like he’s singing to an actress) but in my interpretation he is using the playhouse as a metaphor for the music business.
He’s singing to some sort of (again in my mind) girl with guitar and a dream, someone who sings sad songs that nobody listens to. And he’s like, “I totally get it. I was finally here once.”
He goes on to explain that he used to be the happy, go-lucky good time guy, and now he’s being portrayed as a sad shut-in. And, the coup de grace, he accepts that not only was he finally here once, but he was here well before your time and well before his time.
To me it’s a song about being a little puzzled about where you fit now, because you used to be the dude/chick who was ahead of the game and now they just think you’re a hermit. To me it’s not sad so much as searching. Which is kind of why I always dug Our Man Paul’s songwriting, so much longing that’s so damn relateable.
So how wrong was I?
Tags: 3oclockreep, Finally Here Once, paul westerberg
Good God Almighty, let’s give praise to TuneCore Customer Service
By Jodi | Filed under Thx the mgmt | Comments (6)
As many of you who follow the comments know I had a few issues with getting 3oclockreep. It seems that when you use a PayPal e-check you have to wait roughly a fortnight for it to clear before you can download your music. Which sort of defeats the purpose of the instant gratification that digital download provides, right?
Sure, you say, just use the Google Checkout idiot. Riiggght. I tried that, about 93,183 times, and I kept getting a funky error.
Just buy it again, dumbass, you might say. I thought of that too, because, well it’s only $4. But then I remember that I don’t actually have a job and while it is only $4, I couldn’t make myself do it.
So I e-mailed TuneCore’s customer service begging them to cancel the stupid e-check order and allow me to buy it with my credit card. AND THEY DID!
Not only did they help me out, but after I had so many problems with Google Checkout they offered to help me out some more. Lucky for them (and double-plus lucky for me), I figured out how to get PayPal to use my damn debit card to let me get the songs RIGHT NOW. Because it’s been like 24 entire hours and I didn’t have them. I was going a little bit on the bonkers side of batshit insane. I am impatient if nothing else.
And in this digital age, I don’t think we often hear about the customer service wins. We always hear about the nightmares. But this, this was a win and I think TuneCore deserves some props for helping out a slightly-imbalanced Westernerd who needed a fix.
Now I am going to go listen to these songs on repeat and report back later, probably with lyrics.
Tags: 3oclockreep, TuneCore
New Paul Westerberg: 3oclockreep & Finally Here Once
By Jodi | Filed under In the News, Media | Comments (52)
You can download the album which is called “3oclockreep” from Tunecore for $3.99. It consists of two tracks, one called “3oclockreep” which clocks in at 20:08 and the other called “Finally Here Once” which comes in at 3:27. I think Our Man Paul is trying to nickel and dime us to death. I haven’t downloaded either song yet. But I think something must be up, I mean this is odd.
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