Many of you know of my disdain for The Replacements. out of the money
behind Husker Du, Prince, and The Time in my book.
I decided to give them another chance and ordered the mid career three:
Let it Be
Tim
Pleased to Meet Me.
Let me just start by posting another such grouping:
Bee Thousand
Alien Lanes
Under The Bushes, Under The Stars.
Sorry Westerberg, Pollard rocks you off the planet.
However, the albums held up better for me than I remembered.
Let It Be
O.K. but let's face it, it's really just a youthful Americanized Faces rekkid.
Tim
Back in the day all I remember was "Kiss Me on the Bus" and the waitress thingy.
Shouldn't an ex-Ramones have made a harder edged record.
"Left of the Dial" and "Here Comes A Regular" were revelations this time around.
Pleased to Meet Me
This is the one I kinda liked back then and have on vinyl. But don't get me
started on Alex Chilton, Gorjus!
"Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home,
'Cause my baby wrote me a letter."
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Cool site - I hope to keep seeing lots of the cool stuff. I'm going to be listening to Pollard & Co. on my way to the remote regions of NE MS this evening. (no Under The Bushes Under The Stars - sigh)
Happy Trails to you. I'm off to Fairhope, AL to hook up with the folks midmorning tomorrow.
JGN,
Since I know the latish Dü albums (New Day Rising on) much better we're talking at cross purposes here. I get the emotional thing, although I'd argue that 1) a little "Ice Cold Ice" adds some needed bite thus my disdain for the record that the ex-Ramone produced, but our aesthetics might just differ on this point and 2) there's an awful lot of feeling in songs like "The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill," "Keep Hangin' On," "Don't Want to Know if You are Lonely?", and pretty much all of Warehouse Of course, since the three named songs are by Grant hart, maybe what we're talking about is a difference over Bob Mould, hmm.
have you ever heard their covers of "Eight Miles High," "Loves is All Around," and "Helter Skelter." The last contrast nicely with Siouxsie Sioux's slow burn by blasting through at a 9,000 rpm redline.
Don't know if you knew that the only concert on harvard campus while I was an undergrad (not counting our Freshman mixer featuring The Cars!; rich smug bastahd school) happened in Spring 1984 REM as openers a week before Reckoning dropped in support of Hüsker Dü. It was at the IAB where they ahd just put in an expensive new floor which immediately got trashed by all the slush and crap people dragged in on their LLBean duck shoes and Sperry Top Siders.
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