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Post by holeinthedrapes on Jan 3, 2017 19:03:45 GMT -5
Great songs on what is a great album. My vote goes for Eyes Like Sparks. So few words that make such a clear message. Love it.
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Post by holeinthedrapes on Sept 18, 2016 22:13:59 GMT -5
Just put on the Sunday Night Football game on NBC and they played Alex Chilton heading to commercial.
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Post by holeinthedrapes on Jun 28, 2016 22:58:32 GMT -5
James Earl Jones?
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Post by holeinthedrapes on Jun 17, 2016 9:37:00 GMT -5
Bob clearly was important in the band. But the heart of a band is it's creative force, and that was largely Paul followed by Tommy. The soul of a band is what drives that creative force. It seems like Bob fits that description as his dysfunction seemed to drive the dysfunction of the others which led to the bands identity.
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Post by holeinthedrapes on Jun 9, 2016 12:49:49 GMT -5
Just finished reading the book. Read it over the course of three days, which is not easy in the course of running my four kids around. One of them even yelled at me when I was reading at a red light. I found the book to be captivating. Most of the book was new for me, so that may have been what made it as good of a read as it was for me. I should probably explain that I became a fan backwards. I was a Westerberg fan first. I read a Rolling Stone review for 14 Songs and thought it might be something I'd like. I bought it, loved it, then worked my way back through the Replacements. So, my basis for the Replacements was solo Westerberg. I love All Shook Down, even though it seems generally looked down upon by Replacements diehards. For me, it's about the music. If I only listened to music of people I respected I would spend my days listening to the Vienna Boys Choir, and that's not going to happen. What I tak out of the book is that they were simply not very likable as a group. Pretty disrespectful, seemingly acting without a conscience. They lived a gang mentality. Pretty tough and unruly together as a way to mask their insecurities but scared shitless of themselves individually. It was inevitable that as they burned themselves out (Bob) or matured out (Mars) they would be out of the band. Invitably the band was not destined to last beyond the guys reaching 30. Once there were marriages and children, the game had to be over.
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Post by holeinthedrapes on Jul 31, 2015 23:39:53 GMT -5
Went with my wife to see the movie Paper Towns tonight (not nearly as bad as I expected). Opening of the movie has a remake of Swinging Party, apparently by a band called Kindness.
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Post by holeinthedrapes on Jul 3, 2015 23:08:34 GMT -5
Quoting Springsteen on the Westerberg board? Well done.
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Post by holeinthedrapes on Jan 4, 2015 17:02:35 GMT -5
A tour supporting a new album perhaps?
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Post by holeinthedrapes on Oct 14, 2014 19:54:24 GMT -5
I have always heard it as a love song of the misfits. Let's not belong, together. We don't really fit in with the worlds we are thrust into. Furthermore, we don't really even make sense together, but let's give it a shot anyway. Those are my two cents at least.
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Post by holeinthedrapes on Jul 9, 2014 19:50:56 GMT -5
Heard Dyslexic Heart in a grocery store on the Jersey shore a couple of weeks ago.
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Post by holeinthedrapes on May 24, 2014 2:30:39 GMT -5
Hmmmmmmmm................ Tough call. I would probably go with Love Untold. If it had been recorded by somebody else it would have been a #1 hit.
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Post by holeinthedrapes on May 10, 2014 12:48:09 GMT -5
Heard Dyslexic Heart at the Kroger in Jessamine County, KY last night.
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Post by holeinthedrapes on Jan 23, 2014 22:16:03 GMT -5
Wiser, I'm not sure why you think Slim or the Replacements would be out of Springsteen's comfort zone but I would say they are not. As varied as his sound has been over his 40+ years career, his listening tastes are even more diverse. I remember Curt Loder once asking him about his musical tastes and making a joke about Abba and Springsteen looked at him with kind of an annoyed look and said something to the effect of really liking them. He has a love for the punk/garage music of the 70s and 80s.
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Post by holeinthedrapes on Jan 21, 2014 13:20:37 GMT -5
Neat to see Springsteen having something nice to say about Slim. Springsteen and Westerbeegwould be at the top of my list for listening to. Very different approaches. I would bet that Springsteen wishes he could write a song like Within Your Reach or Bastards of Young. Just not his style. For those saying they don't like any of his newer stuff, I would suggest giving Magic a repeated listen. In my opinion, it's his best album since Darkness.
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Post by holeinthedrapes on Dec 21, 2013 20:39:16 GMT -5
Bookmark is a great song.
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Post by holeinthedrapes on Nov 24, 2013 22:42:40 GMT -5
Heard Nobody in the grocery store yesterday. Took me a little while to figure it out because it was so unexpected.
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Post by holeinthedrapes on Nov 3, 2013 10:21:21 GMT -5
Grandpaboy Paul Westerberg. He's one of those guys that goes by his middle name.
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Post by holeinthedrapes on Oct 17, 2013 18:10:19 GMT -5
I loved that. And you are certainly not the only college football/Replacements fan. That article reminds of a TV show pilot a friend and I once wrote about 20 years ago. Every episode was going to include a Westerberg lyric in it. The pilot episode had a character talking about a girl he was falling for and tells his friend that "She's my white pearl in a sky of ebony". Wish we had followed through on that.
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Post by holeinthedrapes on Oct 13, 2013 19:23:32 GMT -5
who would introduce them? Alex Chilton on behalf of those that inspired them and Curt Cobain on behalf of those they inspired.
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Post by holeinthedrapes on Oct 10, 2013 8:18:01 GMT -5
I believe part of Paul's reluctance to hit the road in the recent past has a bit to do with his desire to be home raising his son. At a certain point the kids don't really want you around as much as you want to be around them. That could be a gentle nudge towards the road.
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