Celebrate Let it Be’s 25th Anniversary at First Ave.
By Jodi | Filed under Books, Upcoming Shows | Comments (11)
Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Let It Be and the paperback release of The Replacements: All Over But The Shouting at 7 p.m. on Friday, November 27th at First Ave. Tickets are $6 in advance and $8 at the door. The event is also a benefit for the Twin Cities Music Community Trust and will feature:
The Let It Be House Band
The Idle Hands
Gospel Gossip
High On Stress
Jennifer Markey
Jeremy Messersmith
Martin Devaney
Ashleigh Still
Stook!
The Bottom Forty
The Tisdales
Patches and Gretchen
The Hard Left
And probably much, much more. You can get all the details at on First Ave’s site here.
Tags: all over but the shouting, Let it Be
Blender’s 100 Greatest American Albums Ever
By Jodi | Filed under In the News | Comments (2)
Pop Candy points use to Blender’s 100 Greatest American Albums of All Time. Don’t worry you won’t have to click too many of the next, next, next cockamamie navigational trick used to pump up page views to get to The Replacements. Really, the expect us to click that button 100 times. What the hell?
But I am already question the veracity of this list, and I’m only on 96. Because they rank The fucking Doors and Kid Rock above Let it Be. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
Some click that next button for an hour and then come back and tell us what is #1. I’m too ADD to get past 85.
Tags: Let it Be, the replacements
Mats Madness – That’s All Folks
By Some Guy | Filed under 'Mats Madness | Comments (7)
Well it ain’t lost yet so it’s gotta be a winner.
Let It Be, dominant throughout the whole tournament, prevailed 38-25 over Tim in the championship match. What put Let It Be over the top? Was it the reissue, Jodi’s campaigning, or Lay It Down Clown? Check out how the final bracket shaped out as you try and imagine a Mats’ cover of “One Shining Moment:”
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Tags: 'Mats Madness, Let it Be
Video Tuesday — Campaigning at the polls edition
By Jodi | Filed under Seen Your Video | Comments (0)
Random Aside: When I was a kid (think like 11-years-old) I used to listen to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” every night while gazing fondly at the liner notes. I convinced myself that Michael and Paul McCartney were singing “The Girl is Mine” about me. Because, you know, why not? I spent a lot of time worrying about how I was going to tell Paul that I loved Michael more.
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Tags: Let it Be, the beatles, Video
Mats Madness Championship
By Some Guy | Filed under 'Mats Madness, Uncategorized | Comments (11)
And then there were two…
Well not literally those two obviously, but their namesakes. It’s Let It Be vs Tim for the the championship. And you thought deciding between All Shook Down and Hootenanny was tough! Voting open till end of day Wednesday. Thursday we crown a champion.
Tags: 'Mats, 'Mats Madness, Let it Be, the replacements, Tim
An Open letter to Sorry Ma
By Jodi | Filed under Thx the mgmt | Comments (5)
Dear Sorry Ma,
The Poll has decided conclusively that you’re the Ralph Nader of the ‘Mats discography. Nice try taking me on. I’m gonna have to do something about that pesky Tim getting in my way. Sorry loser!
Love you in the fall,
I Will Dare and the rest of the Let it Be gang.
Tags: Let it Be, Sorry Ma Forgot to take Out the Trash
In the Blogs: I think this makes two weeks in a row, go me!
By Jodi | Filed under In the Blogs | Comments (3)
Did you know that Chris Mars had some of animations of his work on his web site? I didn’t either.
I cannot resist anything that mentions both Billy Joel and Paul Westerberg. Now you know my dirty secret.
On the KEXP blog one reader chronicles his quest to read all the 33 1/3 books and talks about the Let it Bes (beatles and ‘mats).
This has nothing to do with anything, but I am reading a really funny book called Rock On: An Office Power Ballad by Dan Kennedy which is about this poor marketing wonk who gets a job at Atlantic Records right as the record industry begins to disintegrate. What does this have to do with paul westerberg.net? Well it starts out with a nice little quote from Bastards of Young. That is all.
Oldmankase offers up some knowledge from Paul Westerberg.
Douglas Coupland, Paul Westerberg, and Obama . . what do they have in common? Find out here.
Tags: 'Mats, 33 1/3, Dan Kennedy, Let it Be, Obama, the replacements
Billboard says ‘Mats reissues due April 22 here’s the track lists
By Jodi | Filed under In the News | Comments (18)
Here are the track listings according to Billboard (previously unissued tracks marked with *):
“Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out the Trash”:
“Raised in the City,” live, 1980 – demo*
“Shutup,” live, 1980 – demo*
“Don’t Turn Me Down,” live, 1980 – demo*
“Shape Up,” live, 1980 – demo*
“You Ain’t Gotta Dance,” studio demo*
“Get on the Stick,” studio demo*
“Oh Baby,” studio demo*
“Like You,” outtake*
“Get Lost,” outtake*
“A Toe Needs a Shoe,” outtake*
“Customer,” alternate take*
“Basement Jam,” rehearsal*
“If Only You Were Lonely”
“Stink”:
“Staples in Her Stomach,” outtake*
“Hey, Good Lookin’,” outtake*
“(We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock,” outtake*
“You’re Getting Married,” solo home demo*
“Hootenanny”:
“Lookin’ for Ya”
“Junior’s Got a Gun,” outtake – rough mix*
“Ain’t No Crime,” outtake*
“Johnny Fast,” outtake – rough mix*
“Treatment Bound,” alternate version*
“Lovelines,” alternate vocal*
“Bad Worker,” solo home demo*
“Let It Be”:
“20th Century Boy”
“Perfectly Lethal,” outtake*
“Temptation Eyes,” outtake*
“Answering Machine,” solo home demo*
“Heartbeat — It’s a Lovebeat,” outtake – rough mix*
“Sixteen Blue,” outtake – alternate vocal*
Any surprises? Disappointments? What say ye Westernerds?
Tags: 'Mats, Hootenanny, Let it Be, reissues, Sorry Ma, stink, the replacements
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