random replacements sighting of the day

[angela]

allshookup said:

catbox said:

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.

Yes, yes, I know, but they couldn't and they didn't so pppppppptttttttttt.

[angela]

randolph500 said:

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.

Actually, I Will Dare is on Mike Mills' picks cd. Unfortunately, the Buck cd came with mine. I guess I should be happy it wasn't Stipe's though... I loathe REM.

[hudson99]

Yesterday my son and I were eating at a Chinese buffet that generally plays really bad 80's stuff in the background. All of a sudden a recognizable riff came on. "No, it couldn't be," I said to my son. Then that unmistakable voice...it really was "Mamadaddydid", one of the most unlikely songs to be heard at a restaurant such as this.

[allshookup]

I found this buried on Joe Ely's website, from a log of every show played from 1974 to now.

July 31, 1981: Begin our first TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS tour. Our bands compliment each other well. One of their guys says: "We need someone who will challenge us every night."

Not exactly a Replacements sighting, more an omen...

[A Regular]

I can see one of the heartbreakers saying that, but not really believing it. Don't the headliners, in secret, want the opeing act to bust so the main act looks better when they hit the stage?

I mean, who would want to follow jerry lee lewis, right chuck?

[KingArchie]

On David Letterman show tonight the played a bit on "week in review" dealing with a joke anout Taco Bell and eating in the car. Anyhow, throughout the bit they played "Loose Ends" by Bash n Pop. Pretty cool.

[Wolfdog]

went ta see steve poltz in mpls...he executed a very excelllemt cover of skyway. he also worked in a bit of prince's DSMR in the middle of his cover of tlc's waterfalls.

[allshookup]

from supersuckers.com

But for us, the goals have gone from being a Van Halen-sized rock monster to being a Replacements-style songwriting machine...

[mrblasty]

I was watching the morning news yesterday, and they had a segment on an art program for people with physical and mental disabilities.
Playing in the background was Mr Rabbit . Not the PW version, but an accoustic version done by some artist unknown to me. It was played and sung in a way that it would seem would appeal to children.

I kinda prefered this to the PW version.

[kgp]

Not much of a sighting but my local library now carries a copy of Once, Twice, Three Times a Maybe.

Also I was in a high-end junk store, spied a rack of brightly patterned shirts and thought: hey, there's Paul's wardrobe for the next tour.

[thetwilitekid]

I just remembered this today while listening to "Hold My Life:"

Some guest on Conan or some show like that used the phrased "down on all fives." The weirder thing was that it was censored, as you couldn't hear the 'fives' part. It took me years to figure out what down on all fives even meant. Weird that it'd be censored as I've never heard anyone use it before.

Maybe it was really just in a dream I had, I don't know.

[Shell]

Went to a Madison Mallards baseball game tonight (minor league team) and Beer For Breakfast was played as the "pump up music."

[allshookup]

A couple in the July 28 Rolling Stone -

From a Karl Mueller appreciation: Emerging on the heels of local groups such as Husker Du and the Replacements, Soul Asylum brought their own heartland-rock flavor to the city's post-punk scene.

From a quick article about the Hold Steady: "The Replacements were a bar band too," says Finn, who caught early 'Mats shows as a teenager in their shared hometown of Minneapolis.

[A Regular]

2 more from the new Rolling Stone;

MPLS mentioned as the 9th best town to attend college AND be involved in music.... 400 Bar mentioned as was the owner being a former Replacements roadie.

Let It Be is given a 5 star review in the records section, and Unsatisfied is noted as the best song PW has ever written. I'm not sure if its the best he's written, but it might be the best he has ever sung.

[mrblasty]

The Replacements get a mention in this article from Rollingstone.com, about the new Big Star cd:

www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7520694

[Marz]

Last night , at the Blue Monkey in Memphis, whilst waiting for 40 Watt Moon to start playing, Skyway played...

40 Watt Moon was excellent, btw!

[A Regular]

And while Cervenka reluctantly enjoys her status as one of rock ’n’ roll’s most famous females, pop culture as a whole completely confounds her. Particularly how the music biz eats its own tail.

“What hasn’t been done now?” Cervenka says. “It’s harder when you can’t create in a vacuum. [In the late ’70s and early ’80s] you had the Replacements in Minnesota, the Ramones in New York and X in L.A. — we had never heard each other. We were not influencing each other. There are a lot less opportunities to isolate yourself these days. It’s like trying to invent a new kind of wine. How do you do that?”




www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=8054




And John Doe referenced Folker on Friday night, does that count?

[FirstAveFiend]

The bartender tonight played Rattlesnake for me. He always brings in mix tapes to play but knows I'm a Mats fan and switched tapes as I walked in the door. Good song to hear in a bar.

[cellarfullofnoise]

i saw my first rattlesnake in the wild about a week ago. wondered what made paul think of one back then. I think he likes the "a" sound (rat a rat a rat a rattle rattle rattle rat, or however that part goes ... see bad/class fad)

[kgp]

Heard 'Love Untold' this morning followed by Merle Haggard's 'Misery and Gin'. I wasn't fully awake and I think I hallucinated a little that Paul did his 'outlaw country' album.