random replacements sighting of the day

[butzodaddy]

Mary Lucia introducing a song by Martha Wainwright: "I can't imagine what it's like having a talented older brother" (tongue firmly in cheek)

[cellarfullofnoise]

TIME F-ING MAGAZINE

no not a show review, or a Besterberg feature, or man of the year ... just another one of those "sounds like pw" references, this time in a review of the new album by Spoon, but elaborated in a weird way:

The final understated touch is Daniel's singing. Most of the songs appear to be about love, or a lack of it, although his lyrics are pretty vague. ("I'm looking through you/ You know who you are," he offers on My Mathematical Mind.) When something as generic as "I got a feelin' it didn't come free/ I got a feelin' and then it got to me" floats by, you might wonder a bit about his depth, but in Daniel's dry croak, generalities and absurdities seem to take on meaning. He sounds a bit like Paul Westerberg, but Daniel's irony stems from an excess of feeling, not an absence of it (think of the difference between Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum), and his cadence makes words feel hard earned and universal. Being beaten down by love is an old act, of course, but then so is rock 'n' roll. Gimme Fiction has an amazing way of making both feel new. --By Josh Tyrangiel
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1059039,00.html

[gravy]

This is more of a "non" sighting...

All the stink about the dude from System of a Down
dropping the F bomb on SNL & they mention all the other times it has happened without Paul's "motherfucker" being included...

even in depravity, the mats get overlooked....

[cellarfullofnoise]

cellarfullofnoise said:

TIME F-ING MAGAZINE

no not a show review, or a Besterberg feature, or man of the year ... just another one of those "sounds like pw" references, this time in a review of the new album by Spoon, but elaborated in a weird way:

The final understated touch is Daniel's singing. Most of the songs appear to be about love, or a lack of it, although his lyrics are pretty vague. ("I'm looking through you/ You know who you are," he offers on My Mathematical Mind.) When something as generic as "I got a feelin' it didn't come free/ I got a feelin' and then it got to me" floats by, you might wonder a bit about his depth, but in Daniel's dry croak, generalities and absurdities seem to take on meaning. He sounds a bit like Paul Westerberg, but Daniel's irony stems from an excess of feeling, not an absence of it (think of the difference between Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum), and his cadence makes words feel hard earned and universal. Being beaten down by love is an old act, of course, but then so is rock 'n' roll. Gimme Fiction has an amazing way of making both feel new. --By Josh Tyrangiel
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1059039,00.html

So, Time Magazine is saying:
- Paul Westerberg also has a dry croak?
- Paul Westerberg is being ironic about love?
- Paul Westerberg has a lack of feeling?
- Paul Westerberg is like Robert Mitchum? (In which movie, "Night of the Iguana" or "Cape Fear"?)
- Paul Westerberg's words aren't hard earned and universal?

[michaelb]

cellarfullofnoise said:

So, Time Magazine is saying:
- Paul Westerberg also has a dry croak?
- Paul Westerberg is being ironic about love?
- Paul Westerberg has a lack of feeling?
- Paul Westerberg is like Robert Mitchum? (In which movie, "Night of the Iguana" or "Cape Fear"?)
- Paul Westerberg's words aren't hard earned and universal?

paul westerberg is like robert mitchum in "night of the hunter".... for certain.

michaelb

[Kathy]

michaelb said:

paul westerberg is like robert mitchum in "night of the hunter".... for certain.

michaelb

He has 'Love' and 'Hate' tattooed across the knuckles of hands?

[cellarfullofnoise]

Kathy said:

He has 'Love' and 'Hate' tattooed across the knuckles of hands?

I think it's 'Love' and 'Like' so he can menace people by saying "how'd you like to be between Love and Like"?

or maybe it's Stereo and Mono carved into his elbows?

[Cotton]

checking the recent torrents at DaD, I came across a Shawn Colvin & Mary Chapin Carpenter show from June of '03. www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=41655

SC & MCC do a cover of "Even Here We Are".

This cover may have already have been mentioned on another thread... but I'm dl'ing it just for a listen.

[cellarfullofnoise]

Roll over Keef and tell Bob Dylan the news??

From an interview with Jakob Dylan in the Birmingham Alabama paper:

Q. It's pretty well known that some of the musicians you admire are Elvis Costello, Tom Waits and Paul Westerberg. What is it about their music that turns you on?

A. Well, when you mention them, you're talking about wildly different characters writing from extremely different points of view. Each has carved out a niche. The words they write sound like they should be performed by them, and them alone. They are great songwriters, period. Classic, timeless songwriters.

Q. They're smart guys, too. Their lyrics can surprise you.

A. Yes, and they have completely surpassed their own influences.

[angela]

New Q Magazine:

Top 50 Tracks to Download this Month

28. Knockin' On Mine - Paul Westerberg

Highlight of revered US songwriter's and ex-Replacement's solo retrospective.
Available on: Besterberg (Rhino album)


ETA: you know, that 'Replacement's' bit is grammatically incorrect, isn't it? I just transcribed it exactly the way it was written in Q. I think they need a better proofreader.

[kgp]

KDHX's Monday Morning show Rocket 88 played 'Runaway Wind'--first local media sighting of Besterberg--with a few insightful comments from host Darren Snow. According to Darren 'Runaway Wind' wasn't the hit it should have been due to Soul Asylum scoring with 'Runaway Train'. One former post -punk, guitar based ballad with 'Runaway' in the title is enough.

Here's what he wrote on the station's website:
A supposed best-of comp that omits "First Glimmer" and "Mamadaddydid." Paul's liner notes are enlightening, however. Turns out Keith Richards is apparently a fan.

Darren's always been pretty good to Paul. So on the offhand chance he's lurking, 'Hi Darren!'

[kgp]

angela said:

ETA: you know, that 'Replacement's' bit is grammatically incorrect, isn't it? I just transcribed it exactly the way it was written in Q. I think they need a better proofreader.

Alert Lynne Truss.

[mrblasty]

Not really a replacements sighting, but a mats reference:

I was watching a videotape of an old X show, probably from the mid 80's.
They're playing "True Love Pt. 2" , and get to the part where they start singing lines from different songs:
"Bebop-a-lula she's my baby"
"I've been working on the railroad"
etc..
John Doe then ad-libs "Wild in the Streets", followed be "I'm a customer, I'm a customer".

I thought it was kinda cool.

[kgp]

From Joey Goebel's novel Torture the Artist:

...the job required interaction with other employees, though, which is how he became best friends with an eighteen-year-old named Neil Elgart. The boys established a rapport after Vincent heard Neil quoting a Replacements song. They shared identical taste in music, as well as disgust for the same popular musicians and actors of their day.

The premise of the novel is a group named the New Renaissance, an organization that hopes to improve the banality of mainstream culture by manipulating young, talented prodigies into creating art through misery, hires ex-musicain and misanthrope Harlan Eiffler to torture (unbeknownst to him) Vincent Spinetti, one of its most talented students. His first act of torture is killing Vincent's beloved pet, a terrier named Wynona, whom Vincent later writes a song about. Bonus points for the Wy/Winona as muse connection.

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Last night I saw a band at my friends bar & he's a big mats fan, so the band did soundcheck with "Achin to be "minus the vocals.... & a few smatterings of "Alex Chilton" & "Can't Hardly Wait" ... they dedicated Folsom Prison Blues to Joey Ramone in honor of his b'day..#nosmileys

[cellarfullofnoise]

From "Going Mobile: How cruising the western suburbs can lead to a great rock band, and other secrets from a Jeep tour of the Twin Cities with the Hold Steady's Craig Finn"
by Nate Patrin
City Pages (MPLS), May 25, 2005


Despite Finn's early affinity for the Replacements (a pivotal moment in his life involved a deal with his dad to mow the lawn in exchange for a ride to Oarfolkjokeopus to pick up Let It Be) and a 7th-grade-onward guitar tutelage under the Suicide Commandos' Chris Osgood, Finn admits that he wasn't as hasty as your typical punk-epiphany case to jettison classic rock."We've all grown up with rock riffs from day one and our generation has been exposed to that. Zeppelin is still an absolute constant and an absolute part of growing up. You spend a lot of time in your car, especially as a teenager; it was kinda like your one little space, driving around, and KQ was probably the best you could get."

Just the type to support the hardcore scene while keeping one ear turned to his birth year of 1971, Finn gave the record store Extreme Noise a minor boost by buying all the $2 Zeppelin and Doobies records that the jaded punk clientele unloaded during the shop's start-up days. "Styx became my favorite band before MTV came out," he says, discussing the mysteries of juvenile pop fandom. "And I didn't really understand it until you could watch it that Styx and the Ramones were two totally separate things."

One kid in his accelerated math class saw "THE REPLACEMENTS" written on Craig's folder and asked him if he liked Black Flag. "I was like, 'I don't think I like that. It seems like it's too heavy.' And he was, 'Dude, I don't think you know what you're talking about.' Then he made me a tape of a bunch of stuff, and it turned out I was already listening to punk rock. I knew Hüsker Dü, too, I just thought it was 'local music,' which was something else."

www.citypages.com/databank/26/1277/article13324.asp

[kgp]

Borders had Besterberg on the big shelf. Groundbreaking stuff, I know.

[TheWildOne]

From the May 26-June 1, 2005 edition of HoustonPress magazine, in the Music section:

Take Me Out...
...to the ball game. Lauding baseball-in-rock's finest moments.
By Rob Trucks

Published: Thursday, May 26, 2005

You need look no further than a John Hughes movie (or your own adolescence) to realize that jocks and freaks don't really mix. But occasionally the seemingly disparate paths of pro athletes and musicians do cross, from jocks trying to be rockers (Jack McDowell, Scott Radinsky) to rockers honoring jocks (Yo La Tengo, Koufax). But the queen of guitar-strumming baseball fandom is definitively Barbara Manning, whose solo record One Perfect Green Blanket announces its presence with a cover painting of a well-manicured ball field; she also cut the Baseball Trilogy EP for Matador back in '93. Her "Dock Ellis" also figured well in our artist poll of the best baseball tunes ever. With the Astros giving us nothing but the blues, enjoy these songs instead.

[Several artists are quoted, including PW:]

Paul Westerberg, ex-Replacements
[favorite team] Minnesota Twins

"Take Me Out to the Ball Game," man. I mean, there's no other.

See the entire article at www.houstonpress.com/Issues/2005-05-26/music/music3.html.

[steve mac]

Dickie Barrett played "Tommy gets His Tonsils Out" this morning on Indie 103.1.

[kgp]

1. From The Sex Revolts by Simon Reynolds:

p. 256
...Phair's critical succés d'estime is based on the way she manages to inhabit garageland rock 'n roll yet inflect it with a confessional vulnerability. More specifically, she has feminized an alternative rock tradition usually associated with men: the geeky songsmith a la Elvis Costello or Paul Westerberg of the Replacements.

this was written in '96 before Liz decided the best way to sell records was to straddle a guitar naked.

2. From Skyscraper #11 Summer 2002 (stack of old magazines at a used record store), an interview with Anthony Roman from Radio 4:

...Everything got so ironic--indie rock, indie film. I don't have time for that and I am not interested in how clever you are. The Replacements were one-hundered percent honest lyrically. You could tell through Paul Westerberg's vocal style that he means it. Many of those (indie) bands don't mean it...From Hootnanny to Pleased to Meet Me, I will put Westerberg against Dylan, Lennon or anybody. He is a massive influence.

3. Yesterday I heard 'I Don't Know' as part of a block of songs with maniacal laughter. I forget what the other two were.