Sweet discussion on Can’t Hardly Wait

By Jodi | Filed under Can't Hardly Wait, In the Blogs | Comments (2)

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.

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Read more | Comments (2) | | August 12th, 2009

Video Thursday — The Gaslight Anthem dude does Left of the Dial

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Not bad, not bad at all.

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Read more | Comments (3) | | May 1st, 2009

Three things for your Saturday

By Jodi | Filed under In the News | Comments (0)

1.) In case you missed it, Graeme Thompson (author of I Shot a Man in Reno. . . ) had a great piece in the Guardian UK about the ‘Mats. This is one of my favorite bits:
Westerberg’s creative division caused considerable internal tension. Tommy Stinson recalls that the band, particularly Bob Stinson, were uncomfortable playing Westerberg’s more introspective material. “We were full of testosterone, drugged-up drinking kids, and here’s Pauly with some fucking torch ballad. It was like, ‘Who wants to hear that shit, dude?’”

2.) Remember that sweet cover of Skyway by Baby Scream? Well he’s put out a record of called Nobody Seemed to Care that includes covers of Bastards of Young and Sadly Beautiful (you can listen to samples here).

3.) I am shocked, SHOCKED!, that Bastards of Young beat Left of the Dial in the cage match. There’s a new match over there now.

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Read more | Comments (0) | | October 25th, 2008

In the Blogs: Holy Baloney the ‘Mats are everywhere edition

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In the Blogs

Over at Minn Post Jim Walsh offers up a glimpse at the liner notes in the ‘Mats reissues coming out next week.

Earlier this week, local TV Station WCCO did a pretty nice, lengthy piece on Laurie Lindeen calling her the “coolest lunch lady.” Includes a very awkward Westerberg family picture, and snippet from the Fakebook event last summer.

VH-1 is offering up a stream of Let it Be (Deluxe Edition).

The Village Voice weighs in on the ‘Mats reissues.

Paul Westerberg — An American Hero.

Carrie Brownstein lists her 11 favorite ‘Mats lyrics over on NPR.

In non-’Mats news, I am babysitting my nephews Nolan, 4, and Liam, 3. They are cleaning the bathtub because they want to. Is that bad?

Hitsville is listing songs about rock and gets to Left of the Dial.

P.S. There’s still time to vote in the first round of ‘Mats Madness.

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Read more | Comments (8) | | April 16th, 2008

Video Tuesday — 7 Ages of Rock

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Merry Christmas Westernerds far and wide. Happy Tuesday for you who do not celebrate this holiday. I spent this weekend cleaning up Supergenius HQ and watching the 7 Ages of Rock. It’s a 7-part BBC documentary that while a little UK-centric still manages rickety rock the Casbah. You can watch it online over at VH1 Classics.

And you can see this itty bitty clip with a nice little ‘Mats song right here!

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Read more | Comments (2) | | December 25th, 2007