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Post by cellarfullofnoise on May 5, 2005 10:19:12 GMT -5
Post any mini-reviews of Besterberg here, the ones way too small to deserve their own threads. Besterberg: The Best of Paul Westerberg" (Rhino/Warner Bros) holds 20 tracks by the Replacements dude, including two previously unavailable. A-minus www.seacoastonline.com/calendar/5_05cds.htm I guess that wouldn't even count as a review except for the unexplained grade. |
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Post by cellarfullofnoise on May 16, 2005 1:42:06 GMT -5
Soundtrack to summer — the Houston mix By ANDREW DANSBY Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle ... Paul Westerberg's new anthology Besterberg, which skims the best material from his uneven solo career, skipping his "debut," the Replacements' All Shook Down. www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/ae/music/jump/3180035 |
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Post by FirstAveFiend on May 17, 2005 14:47:17 GMT -5
"Besterberg: The Best of Paul Westerberg" (Rhino/Warner Bros) holds 20 tracks by the Replacements dude, including two previously unavailable.
Replacements "dude." Someone put a lot of thought into this blurb. Thanks Pioneer Press.
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Post by cellarfullofnoise on May 17, 2005 22:06:17 GMT -5
"Besterberg: The Best of Paul Westerberg" (Rhino/Warner Bros) holds 20 tracks by the Replacements dude, including two previously unavailable. A- www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/living/11664735.htmoops, same as the Fiend's ... except for the grade. I think that mini-review was supplied to a lot of papers via a wire service, even though in this case it is supposedly "by" a philly staff writer |
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Post by kgp on May 27, 2005 17:16:55 GMT -5
I'm not actually going to buy a copy of Blender but this month's gave Besterberg four stars and probably the most positive review of any of his solo albums.
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Post by allshookup on May 28, 2005 10:45:38 GMT -5
I'm not actually going to buy a copy of Blender but this month's gave Besterberg four stars and probably the most positive review of any of his solo albums. I... uh... *ahem* subscribe to Blender. Here you go: The mature work of a permanent adolescent and rock romantic by Eric Weisbard In the Replacements, the probing, unreliable Minneapolis punk band he led, Paul Westerberg's theme was "I Will Dare." Solo and disappointed, it became "World Class Fad" or "It's A Wonderful Lie," not nearly as romantic. But Westerberg's fixation remains the way adolescence, or rock & roll, or art and love, make hope sacred. He's just living on the other side of the blessed moment. So while he'll always be frustrated, and frustrating, he's also carved out a niche as singular as the glazed melodies and offhand profundities he applies like hairspray to his restrained-tempo, ringing-guitar pop. And lines like "He wants to play Romeo and Juliet / I'll play Peter Perrett" (leader of the Only Ones, another world-class lost band) explain why in the end he mostly became a heartland rocker for punk rock collectors. |
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Post by cellarfullofnoise on May 28, 2005 11:05:21 GMT -5
The mature work of a permanent adolescent and rock romantic by Eric Weisbard So while he'll always be frustrated, and frustrating, he's also carved out a niche as singular as the glazed melodies and offhand profundities he applies like hairspray to his restrained-tempo, ringing-guitar pop. And lines like "He wants to play Romeo and Juliet / I'll play Peter Perrett" (leader of the Only Ones, another world-class lost band) explain why in the end he mostly became a heartland rocker for punk rock collectors. Spraying hairspray on a glazed niche you just carved? Niiice image. SHE wants to play Romeo and Juliet, I'm playing Peter Perrett. She. A heartland rocker for punk rock collectors? John Cougar for the safety pin set? God does that hurt. |
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