random replacements sighting of the day

[cellarfullofnoise]

kgp said:

I would have never pegged Bill Callahan as a Replacements fan.

I'm getting confused ... what's the guy's name who draws that off-color, single-frame comic that runs in some alternaweeklies? All I can think of is he's disabled and his name is something like Callahan.

Are those Willpower comics online anywhere?

[kgp]

newspaperchris said:

I'm getting confused ... what's the guy's name who draws that off-color, single-frame comic that runs in some alternaweeklies? All I can think of is he's disabled and his name is something like Callahan.

Are those Willpower comics online anywhere?

Bill Callahan is the leader of Smog, or is Smog, I guess. He penned the Willpower zine. Honestly, this is the first time I've heard of it.

I know who you're talking about, and I don't think it's the same guy.

[A Regular]

At Lucinda Williams' website, she has a section called Lucinda's Picks, and about 10 different fairly recent albums scroll through. Folker is one of them.

www.lucindawilliams.com/

[allshookup]

The Top 500 Songs (Since 1980) - Blender October 2005

95 . Unsatisfied . The Replacements . 1984
Midwestern punk-poet howls from a snow fort of the soul
The Replacements' Minneapolis was a dead-end hamlet only made bearable by whiskey and crude jokes. That kind of frostbit isolation provided this petulant anthem of despair from 1984's Let It Be, full of echoing guitar that sounds as if it was recorded in a rusty grain elevator. The best part: Westerberg is so helpless he can't even claim his own unhappiness, croaking, "Look me in the eye, then tell me/that I'm satisfied."

191 . Bastards of Young . The Replacements . 1985
College-rock heroes give success the middle finger
Any college kid rebutting the Reagan-endorsed vision of 80's achievement had a custom-made anthem here. Paul westerberg's rallying cry finds euphoria in defeat. It was set to trigger the band's mainstream breakthrough, but they kayboshed it by releasing an MTV-confounding video showing nothing but but a stereo, and swearing drunkenly on SNL.

331 . Waitng for the Sun . The Jayhawks . 1992
Twin Cities alt-country vets' dark travelling song

394 . Celebrated Summer . Husker Du . 1985
Earthshaking Minneapolis indie-punks rage against the school bell

430 . Closing Time . Semisonic . 1998
Minneapolis alt-popsters offer up hummable barstool philosophy

494 . I'll Be You . The Replacements . 1989
The band's lone Top 200 hit, about "a rebel without a clue."

[cellarfullofnoise]

I like the snow fort of the soul but grain elevators don't rust.
A bit low on the husker, but good song.
494 ... finally I'll Be You gets some respect!

[SnowCover]

A kid I work with looks like he could be related to Paul Westerberg.

Worst random Replacements sighting ever.

[Shell]

mrtambourineboy said:

A kid I work with looks like he could be related to Paul Westerberg.

Worst random Replacements sighting ever.

You must take a picture of him at any cost.

[kgp]

From an interview with the Long Winters' John Roderick in my local alternative newspaper, Riverfront Times:

"That drunken Midwestern guy with a Telecaster who slops his way through lovelorn songs in a fake Southern accent thing, I never really got into. Ryan Adams is doing the exact same thing now. I admit they have moments of rare beauty, but the aesthetic of standing around in thrift-store cowboy boots waiting for a liver transplant is really, really played out. Invariably they become parodies of themselves. I got the feeling that 'Dyslexic Heart' was Paul Westerberg sitting down and thinking, 'I should write a song with the word "dyslexic" in it.'"

That's so not true. Paul hardly ever wears boots.

[jd19jd]

Book Mention: "Within Your Reach" is mentioned in Gorman Bechard's 'Ninth Square'. A really cool novel set in New Haven.

[Kathy]

jd19jd said:

Book Mention: "Within Your Reach" is mentioned in Gorman Bechard's 'Ninth Square'. A really cool novel set in New Haven.

Have you read his other book "The Second Greatest Story Ever Told"? The Mats are characters in that one. It's OOP but you could find on eBay or at the library.

[jd19jd]

admin said:

jd19jd said:

Book Mention: "Within Your Reach" is mentioned in Gorman Bechard's 'Ninth Square'. A really cool novel set in New Haven.

Have you read his other book "The Second Greatest Story Ever Told"? The Mats are characters in that one. It's OOP but you could find on eBay or at the library.

I've looked and looked with no luck. I haven't tried ebay.

[mrblasty]

I've looked and looked with no luck. I haven't tried ebay.

www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?S=R&qisbn=0806512636&qsort=p&siteID=OmE0YUiQlCg-6RNgTJ0oXLClvpuaJp.UCQ

www.biblio.com/details.php?dcx=14396674&src=frg

www.a1books.com/cgi-bin/mktSearch?act=showDesc&code=froogle&ISBN=0806512636

www.secondtimebooks.com/si/280884.html

[allshookup]

jd19jd said:

I've looked and looked with no luck. I haven't tried ebay.

I buy lots of books, and you can find tons of great used books at budget prices on half.com and amazon.com

[kgp]

Amazon has twenty copies, used, about $9 and up. I've had pretty good luck buying used books from Amazon.

I found it at the library, too.

[cellarfullofnoise]

"Paul Westerbergs" in an article on the new Big Star album in the Memphis Commercial Appeal (greatest newspaper name in the U.S.). See Big Star thread in Misc.

[cellarfullofnoise]

POP/ROCK

The New Standards are a trio of familiar Twin Cities names -- keyboardist Chan Poling (the Suburbs), bassist John Munson (Semisonic) and vibraphonist Steve Roehm -- who play familiar songs in wholly unfamiliar but surprisingly infectious and affectionate ways. Their debut CD, produced by Munson's old bandmate Dan Wilson, includes remakes of "All the Young Dudes,"Only Love Can Break Your Heart," the Replacements' "I Will Dare," Beck's "New Pollution" and a certain Suburbs song you might know, all stripped down to jazzy (but not lounge-guy cheesy) ballads. One of the most fun new bands around. (8 p.m. today-Sat., Dakota Jazz Club, 1010 Nicollet Mall, Mpls. $10. 612-332-1010.) (C.R.)

[Rene']

I don't know if this is old news or not (I've never noticed it before) but, I'm watching SNL right now and, when they went to commercial break earlier, they flashed to a street scene showing a utility pole covered with show posters. The most prominent one was "Tommy Stinson".

[kgp]

I watched a bit of Hype! this morning, a documentary on the Seattle music scene. Actually, this was my third attempt at watching it in its entirety, and again, I didn't make it. I guess I find two hours of Seattle grunge too taxing for my delicate pop sensibilities.

Anyway... The Young Fresh Fellows had a short cameo in the film. There's a Replacements connection in there somewhere. I kept expecting a nod to Minneapolis as the original Seattle (or maybe the new Athens), but nothing.

[turtle]

rk442 said:

I don't know if this is old news or not (I've never noticed it before) but, I'm watching SNL right now and, when they went to commercial break earlier, they flashed to a street scene showing a utility pole covered with show posters. The most prominent one was "Tommy Stinson".

I saw that too. Don't know if that was just a lucky break for Tommy or tommy's got a fan at SNL.

Also, I walked into Jimmy Johns to get some subs and was greeted with "Left of the Dial" blaring at me. I Said to the guys behind the counter "Cool, you guys are into Tim!" and they looked at me like I was from another planet. They said it was just some satellite station.

[cford]

rk442 said:

I don't know if this is old news or not (I've never noticed it before) but, I'm watching SNL right now and, when they went to commercial break earlier, they flashed to a street scene showing a utility pole covered with show posters. The most prominent one was "Tommy Stinson".

Tommy is getting alot of mileage out of that pole...SNL has been showing that for months.

CF