timsch
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Post by timsch on Nov 9, 2007 8:57:02 GMT -5
This may ramble but follow me. Everyone on this board had that "I get it moment" when you just knew that this band made the greatest thing you had ever heard coming out of the speakers.
My story goes like this. My younger brother buys Hootenanny when it comes out. At the time, I'm listening to the swan song of the Clash and Black Flag, X, etc. A couple of the loud fast rules songs on Hootenanny strike my fancy but on the whole I think the album is kind of a joke. Fast forward a couple of years and I'm doing the coporate sales thing and spending a lot of time driving on the road. A buddy of mine makes this mix tape. I pop it in and the first thing that blairs out of the speakers is "Nevermind". I literally pulled the car over to find a pay phone, rang my buddy up and said, " Who in the hell is this".
From that moment I felt like I had been hit by a lightning strike. In three and a half minutes, The Replacements gave voice to everything I felt. To this day, I have never heard a more perfect rock single. The lyrics, tempo, melody, everything. The song has it all and as a guitar player, when you dissect it, the song is extremely complex. Maybe thats the genius of it. This really complex piece sounds really simple and direct.
What was your " I get it" moment? ;D
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Post by FreeRider on Nov 9, 2007 11:45:28 GMT -5
I remember this one radio station playing this lovely acoustic piece, I could never catch the song in its entirety or find out who it was. It was "Here Comes A Regular". When I finally found out who it was, I went out and bought PTMM. At that time, I sort of heard about this band, but had never really heard anything by them. I had no clue as to their previous material.
So my "I got it" moment was when I finally heard the entirety of "here comes a regular" and the rest of the songs on PTMM. The Ledge, Valentine, Alex Chilton, IOU...from there, I was hooked. I remember thinking, yeah, this is college radio stuff, but somehow better than college radio stuff. Their sound was just different and it was refreshing from the usual AOR playlists on the radio.
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Post by Nevermind(2) on Nov 9, 2007 15:14:40 GMT -5
No, there has never been a better song than "Nevermind", but be careful, scooteR may want to take a poll.
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Post by thetwilitekid on Nov 9, 2007 15:38:31 GMT -5
Can't remember if I listened to an older cousin's copy of Let It Be before or after this, but seeing this video on MuchMusic at 8 1/2 years old is very concrete in my memory. (of course, being 8, had a short attention span, and never actually got Tim or any Mats album for that matter until I saw the video again, plus the other two like it, until 10 years later.) But, I'm pretty sure in the winter of 1986 - "I got it."
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Post by scoOter on Nov 10, 2007 9:22:57 GMT -5
No, there has never been a better song than "Nevermind", but be careful, scooteR may want to take a poll. that is a distinct possibility. (i forking love that song. is it the best one ever? i don't know or care. i just know that i forking love it.) |
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Post by DDog on Nov 12, 2007 22:48:04 GMT -5
Alot of 'Mats tunes struck the "I GET IT" chord in me...I distinctly remember hearing my first Replacements tune on a mix tape given to me by a buddy around '86 - it was Kids Don't Follow and I ran out and bought everything I could find of the Replacements at the time. KDF stuck it to me.
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Post by deebee76 on Nov 12, 2007 23:59:50 GMT -5
Every little thing about "Never Mind" is impossibly good.
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Post by SnowCover on Nov 13, 2007 0:35:08 GMT -5
In the tenth grade I raided my parents' record collection. I'll never forget it. The first Replacements record I put on was Sorry Ma. That's when I 'got' punk. The sound was so new to me at the time. Things haven't quite been the same since...
PS The first record I played was The Man Who Sold the World. Good times.
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Post by bigbak on Nov 22, 2007 10:53:04 GMT -5
I think I've told this tale before. My friend Rick (he was attending Otis/Parsons in L.A. at the time) sent me a mix tape (all the tunes recorded off the Rodney on the 'ROQ show with a cheap cassette recorder) back in '84. A couple of Mats tunes were on it, and I was instantly fixated. Let It Be was released soon after I rec'd that tape. I listened to Answering Machine as if my life depended on it.
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Post by TomT on Nov 23, 2007 9:06:14 GMT -5
I fixated on Answering Machine too when I got LIB probably in early 1985.
I didn't appreciate Nevermind until I was through fixating on several others off of PTMM first. It's really a great song and should have been on the best of.
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Post by prine on Nov 24, 2007 16:58:37 GMT -5
I had a friend who put on Let It Be back in the day and I didn't take much notice except for Unsatisfied, which kinda stuck with me just because it was so bare and unvarnished. But I was still into punk and hardcore back then.
Four years later I heard the combo of I Will Dare and Favourite Thing and that was it. The hairs stood up and the light went on.
I honestly still believe that the one-two punch of those two songs, the way they cut together like that, is some of the best shit I've ever heard.
Favourite Thing is still my favourite Mats song, and that's saying something.
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Post by nazareth on Nov 25, 2007 20:50:42 GMT -5
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Post by MWells on Nov 25, 2007 23:22:20 GMT -5
Brilliant. Genius. Life-changing. And in the immortal words of the late great John Peel, "I love this song to the point of madness".
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Post by Veets on Nov 29, 2007 13:46:53 GMT -5
No, there has never been a better album than Nevermind.
SLTS, In Bloom, Come As You Are, Lithium, etc. They all rock. ;-)
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Post by erics on Nov 29, 2007 17:47:13 GMT -5
I got it when I was working at Kinko's in Eau Claire, Wisconsin (about 90 minutes east of MPLS). This was 1991. Some co-worker left a cassette of Let It Be (side 1) and the Peppers' Freakey Styley (side 2) near the store boombox. It was an early version of file sharing.
I had heard of the 'Mats but was not a fan. That changed when I heard We're Coming Out. At that time I loved heavier, funky, punky music and that opening riff just grabbed me. But when it broke down in the middle to finger snaps, keys and vocals - that was it. Then the crescendo to the noise ending was a perfect capper.
Now I think Favorite Thing is my favorite on that album. Nevermind is a good song but I've always been partial to the next song on PTMM, Valentine.
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Post by grandpaboysfriend on Nov 29, 2007 21:43:17 GMT -5
Nevermind is a good song but I've always been partial to the next song on PTMM, Valentine. Me too!!! |
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timsch
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Post by timsch on Nov 30, 2007 9:03:21 GMT -5
Must admit that Nevermind is not my favorite Mats song. Its just that it was the first one that hit me with the power of the Replacements. As such it has a special place in my heart.
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Post by smoothdoggy on Nov 30, 2007 19:22:13 GMT -5
Nevermind is a good song but I've always been partial to the next song on PTMM, Valentine. Me too!!! Agreed. Actually there are quite a few two-fers that I love. Nevermind, Valentine. I Will Dare, Favorite Thing. Left of the Dial, Little Mascara. |
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Post by smoothdoggy on Dec 2, 2007 1:57:41 GMT -5
Incidentally, Paul did a great version of 'Nevermind' at the Indianapolis stop of the Come Feel Me Tremble tour in 2002. Always wanted to find a tape of this show for this very song, but no luck...
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Post by GoddamnJob290 on Dec 2, 2007 12:03:26 GMT -5
I was 15, experimenting with all kinds of music through the magic of file sharing, back in 2001. I downloaded everything--cheeky dance pop stuff, Ozzy (Party With the Animals!), black metal (Venom, Cannibal Corpse) and punk (The Clash-I Fought the Law).
One song enticed me via the title: The Replacements-Shit, Shower, Shave
I remembered them from a Johnny Rzeznik quote: "Everyone says we sound like the Replacements..."
I liked the Goo Goo Dolls then (still do now), but they were too syrupy for me to really love them. I liked Nirvana too, but also didn't love 'em.
I downloaded the song, which I later found out was actually called "Left of the Dial".
It was pretty much the best thing I ever heard---the fuzzy guitar sound, the superior melody, the lyrics that invoked such emotion but gave away hardly any details, the energtic performance, Chris Mars' pins-and-needles-to-rapid-fire drumming, the bouncy bass, and, of course, Paul's voice, at his raspy best.
I knew nothing about the band, their history, or even what the name of the song really was, but I played that live version over and over again for months until I started buying all their records that November, starting with "Sorry Ma" and "Let It Be".
That's pretty much where my current musical tastes spring from. Without that live version of "Left of the Dial", I might not have discovered the Huskers, Dinosaur Jr., Two Cow Garage, Drive-By Truckers, Posies, Buffalo Tom, Juliana Hatfield, Neutral Milk Hotel, Lucero, Mudhoney, Bob Dylan, etc..
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