Can you hear children by the millions screaming for Alex Chilton?
By Jodi | Filed under Record Review | Comments (7)
I still haven’t gotten the reissues but Flowering Toilet is showing that the sound quality on the Pleased to Meet Me reissue is actually worse than the original. Have any of you noticed any problems?
Do you have to have really good ears to notice this kind of thing?
Tags: Pleased to Meet Me, The Replacements reissues
In the Blogs: The one with only one link to an actual blog
By Jodi | Filed under In the Blogs | Comments (10)
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
Some things to get you pumped about tomorrow’s reissues
By Jodi | Filed under In the News | Comments (0)
First of all, the Newsday story that features this gem:
So will the college-rock standbys reunite, perhaps?
“I think we still exist in some sort of fragmented form,” Westerberg says. “It’s just a question of whether he and I can ever get together again … that’s how close we are, I can’t even mention his — name.”
Typical Westerberg. He’s talking about his longtime bassist and foil, Tommy Stinson. “One day Tommy wants to sue me, the next he wants to jam. I think he’s in the jamming mood this week, but by the time he gets here we might just meet and fight.”
And then there are Bill Holdship’s liner notes for the reissued Pleased to Meet Me, which got the ax because they wanted different writers for each CD’s notes and they were gonna use Holdship for Don’t Tell a Soul.
Tags: All Shook Down, Don't Tell a Soul, paul westerberg, Pleased to Meet Me, The Replacements reissues, Tim, tommy stinson
In the Blogs: A bunch of stuff that defies description but is entertaining nonetheless
By Jodi | Filed under In the Blogs | Comments (4)
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
49 minutes of new music in less than 48 hours
By Jodi | Filed under PW News | Comments (9)
The Strib has a list of the bonus material that will be available on the September reissues of The Replacements’ Sire records, and in the comments mentions that on Saturday, July 19th there will be 49 minutes of NEW (I think) Paul Westerberg music available for download for only 49 cents.
Check back on Saturday to find the link to where you can download the 49 minutes of gloriousness.
P.S. If you didn’t see it in the comments DFactor has the YouTube videos of the Captiol Paul Westerberg documentary posted on his site. Sweet!
Tags: 'Mats, paul westerberg, the replacements, The Replacements reissues
To while away the time before tomorrow, read about resissues reviews, Jesperson interviews and way way more
By Jodi | Filed under In the Blogs | Comments (8)
First of all, don’t forgot to vote for the best ‘Mats record before it’s too late!
Pitchfork gives the resissue of Let it Be a perfect 10 (told you Let it Be was the best. One of these days you will all listen to me and my infinite wisdom. Rolling Stone only gives it 4 stars.
VH1 lists 10 Great Songs by The Replacments, five (yes FIVE) of them are off of Let it Be.
If you only read one thing this week, read Teenage Kicks’ kickass interview with Peter Jesperson. Part 1 and Part 2.
Bill Deville of 89.3 The Current gets all excited about the reissues.
If you haven’t read it yet, Reuters has a great, great, great, great interview with Paul and tommy about the reissues.
What I like the most about this recollection of a Replacements’ concert, is not that the author, Jim, doesn’t really remember much it’s that the ticket cost $2.50.
A columnist in North Dakota rakes leaves and reminisces about the ‘Mats.
Tags: 'Mats, Peter Jesperson, the replacements, The Replacements reissues
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