random replacements sighting of the day

[Wolfdog]

This has got to be the strangest PW mention I have seen in the press.

From an article about the FIFA World Youth Soccer Tournament....

Of course, there were some wobbles. Goalkeeper Quentin Westberg, signed to FC Troyes from France, spent much of the first half playing more like Paul Westerberg, looking very nervous and uncertain, particularly against crosses.

www.ussoccerplayers.com/exclusives/479596.html

[Kathy]

Damn you Wolfdog, I was just gonna post that, how funny is that one?

[TomT]

SOMEBODY out there is a fan.

Pretty cool.

[Huxley]

June 02, 2005 at the North Star Bar in Philly, Marah opens their set with Can't Hardly Wait. It set the tone for the whole show. I read an article that described them as Pleased to Meet Me with Sprngsteen at the mike. Great, Great band.

[Smorgasberg]

I recently bought the first season of Scrubs on DVD. I had an episode playing, but I was doing other things and not paying close attention. Suddenly, I realized they were playing "Happy Town" from All Shook Down in the background during a scene.

[mrblasty]

smorgasberg said:

I recently bought the first season of Scrubs on DVD. I had an episode playing, but I was doing other things and not paying close attention. Suddenly, I realized they were playing "Happy Town" from All Shook Down in the background during a scene.

I think they also used "Attitude" for the opening sequence of one of the shows.

[Smorgasberg]

mrblasty said:

smorgasberg said:

I recently bought the first season of Scrubs on DVD. I had an episode playing, but I was doing other things and not paying close attention. Suddenly, I realized they were playing "Happy Town" from All Shook Down in the background during a scene.

I think they also used "Attitude" for the opening sequence of one of the shows.

Know what, now that you mention it, I'm pretty sure that's what I heard, not Happy Town. Good catch.

[allshookup]

Blender Magazine July 2005
Rock & Roll Know-It-All: the Guide to New Wave

AMERINDIE 1980-1988
American punk bands built a network of independent-minded clubs, radio stations and record stores, through which a second, scruffier American wave of low-budget pop weirdos found fame or something like it. VIOLENT FEMMES' geeky, coffee-nerved 1983 debut featured "Add It Up" - taken to heart by every horny teenager in the country - and eventually went platinum. Paul Westerberg's cigarettes-and-alcohol rasp in THE REPLACEMENTS and Black Francis's rabid howl in THE PIXIES both seemed like punk voices - but were quickly embraced by fans of their spikier U.K. New Wave brethren. Amerindie's biggest commercial leap came from R.E.M. - initially just an Athens, Georgia, party band with a tingling guitar sound and a singer nobody could understand. See also: The Feelies, Pere Ubu, Pylon, the dB's

[angela]

The new Spin has an article about the 100 greatest albums 1985-now. Guess which Replacements album makes the top 100, coming in at #32? That's right, Tim.

(I'm conveniently ignoring the fact that Let It Be came out in 1984, thus eliminating it from eligibility.)

[SnowCover]

I was at a record store in Seattle and the lady behind the counter said that Paul did an instore there.

[Shell]

I couldn't find the Twinkies at the store today.

[kgp]

Chuck Klosterman's new book Killing Yourself to Live has a few pages about Bob. Actually it's more about Klosterman's friend, a big Replacements fan, who dies of cancer.

[angela]

The new Magnet (July/Aug) has a cover store called "Husker Du, The Replacements, Minneapolis: The Rise and Fall of the 80's Scene." Husker Du are on the cover and the article is quite a long oral history in two parts. I haven't finished it yet, but so far it's quite good...

[gravy]

I saw the get up kids friday in New York & after the obligatory "this is a song by a band we all love.."
they covered "beer for Breakfeast.... nice....

[beerska]

I'm sure everyone by now has noticed the Replacements listed in "School Of Rock" on the rock roots tree he draws on the chalkboard. Heres to influencing a new generation.

[SnowCover]

When I was on the cruise and no one had heard of The Replacements, I made sure to point them out on the blackboard when we were watching School of Rock.

[SnowCover]

On the somethingawful.com message board my avatar is the album cover of Mono. Well tonight someone posted with:

Complete sidetrack, but I have the polaroid your avatar was made from in my office.

Well I talked to them on AIM, and they work at Vagrant. They asked me for my address and said they'll look in the warehouse for something. I don't think they'll be sending me the polaroid, but I'll probably get something cool.

[GoddamnJob290]

In the new Replacements/Husker Du issue of Magnet, there's also a small section on the Posies (with the new album coming out and all), mainly a brief overview of their history. The subject of the shows they played with the Replacements is touched upon in a paragraph:

Opening for the Replacements in 1991 proved to be anticlimactic for the Posies. "They had reached a level where there just wasn't much left at that point," says (Jon) Auer of a bill he'd rather forget. "And we weren't anywhere near the peak of our performance or togetherness at that point."

Kind of gives a weird little image---the Replacements falling apart while the Posies were still trying to get their shit together. Rock and roll changing of the guard, I suppose.

[butzodaddy]

Sister Mary spinnin' Man Without Ties on The Current

She must be smilin' too

[FreeRider]

Last nite in this faux corporate Irish pub in DC, I hear over the din of the crowd noise, "I'll Be You" over the PA system. They must have some sort of satellite radio or pre-programmed music piped in. This is the second time I've heard them at this bar. Even though I had a few pints, I was able to pick them up over the noise in a heartbeat. I felt so superior to everyone in the place for having done so.