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Post by kgp on Jul 5, 2005 18:16:15 GMT -5
Bob Mould in the latest issue of Harp:
Harp: While it must be flattering for you to hear these bands who have enjoyed great success use you as a reference point has there ever been a moment where you said, 'I was 10 years too early? ' Paul Westerberg has talked about that with bands like the Goo Goo Dolls?
Bob Mould: No, because if somebody like Frank Black is telling people the reason he brings this gift to their life is because of something I did, what more are you going to ask for? Or Kurt acknowledging that he came to all those Husker shows in Seattle in '86 an '87. Money would be nice, but look what all that notoriety did to Kurt. And look how hard a time Paul's had handling what limited success he's had. Can you imagine if he'd had major success? [makes a gun gesture with his hand and points to his head] He should be grateful he got as big as he did.
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randolph500
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Post by randolph500 on Jul 6, 2005 4:52:18 GMT -5
We must organise a boycott.
Save the Paul! Stop buying his records! Now.
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Post by A Regular on Jul 6, 2005 9:45:14 GMT -5
On the Saved DVD, the audio track that has actress commentary, Ms Mandy Moore mentions that its a replacements song during the prom.
On the director's commentary they mention that they had no song three days before shooting, and that all the Christian bands had turned them down. Stipe gets name dropped for having a discussion with the directors, and they don't come out and say it, but imply that Stipe was the one that steered them to a Mats song.
And yes, I watched the first 30 minutes of Heathers after seeing Saved again.
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Post by butzodaddy on Jul 6, 2005 11:38:11 GMT -5
We must organise a boycott. Save the Paul! Stop buying his records! Now. We need one of those magnet ribbon stickers "Support Paul, Stop Buying His Records!"  Is Mould full of himself? |
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Post by Shell on Jul 6, 2005 11:48:42 GMT -5
Over the weekend I went shopping and the store had a glass display case inside the checkout counter. They used newspaper as the background to the display and right on top was the ad for Paul's show at the Rave this April.
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Post by kgp on Jul 6, 2005 17:10:23 GMT -5
We need one of those magnet ribbon stickers "Support Paul, Stop Buying His Records!" Is Mould full of himself? Is he? I mean, really. I've read very little about the man other than the usual control freak alligations. I understand what he's saying but no one can predict who's going to self-destruct. Kurt Cobain had obvious problems that probably had little to do with his mega-stardom. More from that same interview (remember, I'm only the messenger): Bob: I thought the Clash were really strong live--they really impressed me just being like a machine. With Husker Du you could pretty much guarantee that you were going to get your head torn off. It wasn't going to slip into doing covers, and we weren't going to end in some stupid, you know...Harp: A drunken wrestling match like the Mats? Bob: Yeah, and it could be argued that the Replacements on their good nights might have been a little better, but they just weren't consistent. Our work ethic was strong. And we had two strong songwriters. Husher Du's place in history? I don't know. Pretty important, I would guess. |
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Post by randolph500 on Jul 6, 2005 18:31:54 GMT -5
I always thought asses were for sitting on. Bob Mould it seems can perform ventiloquism as well...
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Post by cellarfullofnoise on Jul 8, 2005 10:08:13 GMT -5
The new radio station in MPLS that PW's sis DJs at played Big Star back to back with what must have been the version of Can't Hardly Wait that Alex Chilton produced. Hadn't heard it before although I have a CD that was supposed to have that version.
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Post by FirstAveFiend on Jul 11, 2005 13:13:54 GMT -5
On Friday I heard A Star Is Bored on the Current. Never thought I'd hear that one on the radio.
Also on Saturday I went to the Basilica Block Party and Better Than Ezra attempted Here Comes A Regular. I didn't see anyone around me singing along. Kind of sad.
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Post by GtrPlyr on Jul 11, 2005 13:48:13 GMT -5
Last night while driving home, the Toronto "alternative" station "The Edge" played "I Will Dare." I nearly drove off the highway in shock. I think I had the radio cranked to a 11 for those 3 or 4 minutes the song was on. The radio program was broadcasting from a downtown bar, so a few hundred people were forced to listen to some Mats for a bit too. Most probably wondered who the hell that was sandwiched between The Smiths and The Cure.
Today while reading a record review in Paste Magazine, I came across this bit:
"Various Artsists - Yellow Pills: Prefill
In some parallel universe, the mostly unknown proto indie rockers on this late-'70's/early-80's compilation--rather than R.E.M. and The Replacements--were the lo-fi visionaries who brought the underground revolution to the masses.
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Post by Break on Jul 12, 2005 16:06:18 GMT -5
Review from The Onion:
Chuck Klosterman
Killing Yourself To Live: 85% Of A True Story (Buy It!)
Chuck Klosterman is the kind of guy who calls Rod Stewart "the single-greatest male singing voice of the rock era" and really means it. To people who think he's just being ironic, Klosterman asks, "Why would I want people to think that I like someone I do not actually like? What possible purpose would that serve?" It may be too much to say that Klosterman is on a mission to save rock 'n' roll from irony, but the Spin critic clearly favors sincerity. For his new book, Killing Yourself To Live, Klosterman traveled across America, visiting the sites where rock stars died, and though he cracks plenty of jokes about the hopelessness of Sid Vicious and the pileup of dead rockers in Seattle, he also writes at length about why The Replacements' "Bastards Of Young" and Ace Frehley's "New York Groove" both make his eyes well up.
Killing Yourself To Live is only tangentially about music, whatever its stated premise. As Klosterman drives across the country, he writes a mini-travelogue: America as experienced by someone trying to get from state to state as quickly as possible. He also spends a lot of time thinking about ex-girlfriends, and how they got that way. Klosterman has always written as much about himself as about pop, but this is easily his most self-indulgent book, since he's rarely using himself to make points about pop. His insights are missed, because few critics are as good at cutting to the heart of what music means without caring overmuch about, as Klosterman describes it at one point, "being right."
But though his thoughts are a little scattered, Klosterman still arrives at a kind of accidental theme, having to do with whose legacy endures, and what moments in our lives we keep returning to. He brings these ideas together at the end, while standing outside Kurt Cobain's house, where he suggests that people who remember the day Cobain shot himself often overestimate how much they loved Nirvana the day before. It's an arrogant, presumptuous correction of the critical record, but it's not intended to be mean. "Not that these self-styled revisionists were lying," Klosterman writes. "It's more that they really, really need that notion to be true." And as always, while explaining how revering Nirvana transforms those who do it, Klosterman implicates himself, his culture, and the whole concept of rock fandom. He's killing his artform, in hopes of reviving it. —Noel Murray
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Post by cford on Jul 12, 2005 16:18:09 GMT -5
While driving to work through my yuppie-fied neighborhood a couple of weeks ago, I spotted some old turd jogging in a Paul Westerberg t-shirt (2005 tour).. I almost stopped..
CF
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Post by TomT on Jul 12, 2005 20:27:19 GMT -5
I didn't see it but Mrs. T said during an episode of Dead Like Me (on Showtime) a character walks into a bedroom and says "Color me impressed!."
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Post by kgp on Jul 12, 2005 20:39:34 GMT -5
I turned on VH1's Tuesday Two-Play when I got home and they were playing 'Alex Chilton' and 'I'll Be You.'
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Post by kgp on Jul 12, 2005 20:42:28 GMT -5
While driving to work through my yuppie-fied neighborhood a couple of weeks ago, I spotted some old turd jogging in a Paul Westerberg t-shirt (2005 tour).. I almost stopped.. CF I saw a guy wearing a 'What Me Worry' shirt--the real mad magazine kind--and I (almost) said, 'Hey look, a PW shirt.' Contrary to my posts, I'm usually not this stupid. |
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Post by randolph500 on Jul 13, 2005 7:33:41 GMT -5
Uncut Magazine (August) in the UK has a special feature on REM and they feature on three different covers. The Replacements are namechecked everywhere and "I will dare" features on the free CD compiled by Pete Buck.
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Post by allshookup on Jul 14, 2005 16:06:11 GMT -5
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. From that same issue's Letter from the Editor: So, just to reiterate before you fire off an angry "But what about...?!" letter to the editor, this is not a tribute to the best albums of all time. If it were, then of course we'd include Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures. We'd cite R.E.M.'s Murmur, in addition to Automatic for the People (No. 85). We'd replace the Replacements' Tim (No. 32) with Let It Be, then rank the latter even higher. |
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Post by kgp on Jul 16, 2005 17:04:07 GMT -5
I noticed Prozac Nation on the new releases shelf at Hollywood Video today. Didn't investigate any further; don't know if one of Paul's songs is in the movie. (As Far As I Know? Let the Bad Times Roll?) It's not like I actually wanted someone to see me pull this movie off the shelf.
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Post by FreeRider on Jul 16, 2005 22:43:08 GMT -5
To ride along on Break's post about "Killing Yourself to Live" by Chuck Klosterman, the Washington Post's review (7/13/05) writes:
In one particularly moving passage, Klosterman visits the apartment where the Replacements guitarist Bob Stinson died of an overdose. Leaving, he is bowled over by memories not of Stinson, but a dear friend who died of cancer a year earlier and was a huge Replacements fan. Now Klosterman can't listent to "Bastards of Young" without weeping...
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Post by Placemat on Jul 17, 2005 11:11:30 GMT -5
We must organise a boycott. Save the Paul! Stop buying his records! Now. We need one of those magnet ribbon stickers "Support Paul, Stop Buying His Records!" Is Mould full of himself? Doesn't sound like that to me. I'd say his comments regarding Paul's success are insightful. Could Paul handle the lime light? Now or then? I have my doubts... |
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