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Post by troublkepnyerhedup on Jan 6, 2005 22:59:12 GMT -5
in the movie "Anchroman" (which i watched tonight and is damn funny), they had the song Sunshine (Go Away Today). it wasn't the paul westerberg version, i guess it's buy the original guy. i didn't know it was a cover until right now. ... and how do you feel about that? |
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Post by jodi, queen of the underground on Jan 6, 2005 23:09:04 GMT -5
... and how do you feel about that? duped and cheated, somehow my life feels like a sham now. |
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Post by allshookup on Jan 9, 2005 11:59:19 GMT -5
I found this in "The Beastie Boys Companion - Two Decades of Commentary" by John Rocco. This was part of an interview done for Creem magazine, June 1987. I don't know if it was ever printed.
When the 'Mats showed up in LA after recording "Pleased To Meet Me" in Memphis, we drunkenly goaded them into commenting on the Beasties: "They could use a good swift kick in the groin," Tommy Stinson laughed. Later, we asked Westerberg if the Replacements had gone to Graceland. "No," said Paul. "Elvis used to live there. It was too depressing. I thought it would be in bad taste. I didn't want to go in there." Well, the Beastie Boys had gone there and made a big thing of it when they were in Memphis.
"Yeah, but the Beastie Boys are crass assholes," said Paul. "C'mon, I'll fight 'em right now, goddammit! We're classy assholes."
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Post by troublkepnyerhedup on Jan 10, 2005 10:43:19 GMT -5
From the Washington Capitols professional hockey team's online diary (http://www.washingtoncaps.com/news/index.cfm?cont_id=268329):
Postcards From The Road, Dec. 31
by Mike Vogel
GRAND FORKS, ND -- A Thursday storm dumped several inches of snow and several hours worth of freezing rain on the Grand Forks area, making travel a dicey proposition at best. The road from Grand Forks north to Canada was closed because of the weather, leaving some Northerners to spend some extra time in the area.
Saturday brings another batch of wintry weather; five to nine inches of snow are expected and winds will hover between 15 and 25 mph.
Good thing then, that yours truly arrived here in Grand Forks on Friday, the lone “off day” of the 2005 World Junior Championship Tournament. The trip from Baltimore to Minneapolis (hitting the Twin Cities on Paul Westerberg’s birthday) was uneventful but the connecting flight to Grand Forks was delayed because the flight attendant was flying down from Duluth and her flight from that northern Minnesota city to the Twin Cities was delayed.
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Post by allshookup on Jan 17, 2005 20:23:00 GMT -5
Saturday night I went out to see a band in a local bar. 3 guitars, bass, drums. They were all good players: fun and loose in a Stones / Faces kinda way. They did a bunch of originals and mostly mid-tempo covers, stuff like "No Expectations" and Neil Young's "Let's Go Downtown."
On their break, I asked one of the guitar players if they did any Replacements songs and he said no. But when they all got back to the stage, I could hear them talking about chord changes and who would solo when, and then they broke into those opening chords of "Can't Hardly Wait"! One guy knew it and taught it to them on the spot! Mind you, they did it 1st verse / chorus / 1st verse again / chorus / 1st verse yet again / chorus / many outro solos - so, in a way, it sounded more like the Mats than they intended.
That band - that night - in that bar - playing that song - shit, that was the happiest I felt all week.
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Post by troublkepnyerhedup on Jan 19, 2005 0:51:56 GMT -5
part of a very long post at alt.usage.english
From: "lightbulb"
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:12:25 -0500
For example, if I wanted to look up the coolly melodic new Paul Westerberg
song "As Far As I Know" I could enter the quoted song title and deal with
thirty-one million hits. Or I could Google <"as far as I know" +westerberg>
and deal with nine thousand nine hundred hits. If I wanted the lyrics of
the song I could enter <"as far as I know" +westerberg +lyrics> and deal
with 493 hits. I realize that this example is off topic, but in pointing
out the methods used to search Google I think I have shown that it is a tool
that can be used to uncover fairly specific quantifications of certain words
or phrasings.
Mike
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Post by paulie on Jan 19, 2005 7:52:17 GMT -5
grabbed a old issue of Rolling stone to read in bed and the first thing in random notes was billy joe armstrong saying he would most like to jam with Paul Westerberg
'cause paul could teach him some good cover tunes and the randomly flipped to the back of the mag and stumbled upon Rhinos release of "left of the Dial" a 4 disc set of 80's and 90's alternative scene. there was even a elvis costello review and a full page ad for the rerelease of London Calling.in 2005! i couldnt believe it. i started lokking for the camera cause i thought i was being punked!
october 2004 issue
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Post by SnowCover on Jan 19, 2005 16:02:46 GMT -5
grabbed a old issue of Rolling stone to read in bed and the first thing in random notes was billy joe armstrong saying he would most like to jam with Paul Westerberg 'cause paul could teach him some good cover tunes and the randomly flipped to the back of the mag and stumbled upon Rhinos release of "left of the Dial" a 4 disc set of 80's and 90's alternative scene. there was even a elvis costello review and a full page ad for the rerelease of London Calling.in 2005! i couldnt believe it. i started lokking for the camera cause i thought i was being punked! october 2004 issue In the newest issue of Rolling Stone different artists are asked what their dream concert bill would be. Billy Joe Armstrong says "Green Day, ofcourse, with the Clash, the Replacements, and the Who." |
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Post by allshookup on Jan 20, 2005 13:49:42 GMT -5
In the newest issue of Rolling Stone different artists are asked what their dream concert bill would be. Billy Joe Armstrong says "Green Day, ofcourse, with the Clash, the Replacements, and the Who." You can find me in the Beer Garden during Green Day and the Who. |
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Post by FirstAveFiend on Jan 20, 2005 13:52:39 GMT -5
You can find me in the Beer Garden during Green day and the Who. Ok I can give you that for Green Day, but the Who? I don't know how you can knock them. |
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Post by allshookup on Jan 20, 2005 13:58:05 GMT -5
Ok I can give you that for Green Day, but the Who? I don't know how you can knock them. I saw them in 1979 or 80, and they were great - I just don't want to see them now. |
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Post by FirstAveFiend on Jan 20, 2005 14:29:13 GMT -5
Well I'm guessing that with his wish it would be the original line up. I refused to go see the Who when they recently toured. No matter how much I love that band I'm not going to go to them minus two. Keith was the best drummer period. And with the death of John it just didn't seem right to see half the band.
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Post by allshookup on Jan 20, 2005 14:49:26 GMT -5
Well I'm guessing that with his wish it would be the original line up You win. I'd like to see the Mats with Bob, the Clash with Joe, and the Who with Keith and John. But I'll still wait in the lobby during Green Day. |
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Post by FirstAveFiend on Jan 20, 2005 14:54:37 GMT -5
But I'll still wait in the lobby during Green Day. Most definitely. I think most people on this board are aware that I don't particularly care for Green Day. |
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Post by Kathy on Jan 22, 2005 13:40:03 GMT -5
My most unlikely Mats/PW sighting/sounding was when I was in New zealand, in a very small town, wandering in and out of shops kinda aimlessly, and I went into a little antique store and the owner was playing Paul's cover of "Nowhere Man". Took me a minute to synthesize what i was hearing cause the context was so bizarre.
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Post by cellarfullofnoise on Jan 23, 2005 2:34:53 GMT -5
On the back of a box of Flavorite (store brand) Crispy Rice cereal: Animals Freaky Feats & Facts 3. I am a real animal living today, although no one has ever seen me in my natural habitat. My eyes are the size of hubcaps, the largest in the animal kingdom. My mouth is a strong parrotlike beak and my tongue has teeth on it. I can possibly grow to 75 feet long and weigh several tons. What am I? (Answer: a giant squid) So now we know what "Time Flies Tomorrow" is about.  |
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Post by allshookup on Jan 25, 2005 10:45:54 GMT -5
From an essay in Chuck Klosterman's excellent Pop Culture analysis Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, on the travails of coaching a ten- and eleven-year-old Little League team:
"I mean, these little guys didn't want to spend two months chasing a stupid leather sphere through the stupid green grass in stupid right field; they just wanted to do something that kept them under the radar until they got to tenth grade, when they could quit pretending they cared about sports and start listening to Replacements cassettes."
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Post by Placemat on Jan 25, 2005 16:54:17 GMT -5
Let the missus control the stereo the other night (what? I can be sensitive). She chose an Indigo Girls live CD. This 2 disc set features songs from a # of different shows.
During a song on the second disc, one of the Girls introduces the song with:
“This song was a ballad until…I heard the Replacements”.
Made my ears perk up. ‘Coarse the song didn’t sound very Mats like, but an odd tip of the hat nonetheless.
Also, anybody remember the TV show "Day By Day"? Can't remember too much about it other than that Seinfeld chic was on it.
Anywho, there was an episode with Norm (of Cheers fame), & he goes off on the Mats greatness. Very cool, if my memory is correct.
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Post by cellarfullofnoise on Jan 26, 2005 10:51:01 GMT -5
one of the Girls introduces the song with: “This song was a ballad until…I heard the Replacements”. Also, Norm (of Cheers fame) I can guess exactly which Indigo Girl that was: the one with brown hair. Also, didn't Norm (of Cheers fame) gush praise on Paul in person once? |
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Post by allshookup on Jan 26, 2005 13:32:28 GMT -5
Here's one from the "some truths are self-evident" file:
(Taken from Burl Gilyard's review of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, in the book Kill Your Idols)
"Naturally, if the songs hadn't become ubiquitous, we'd hear the music differently today. If Let It Be by the Replacements had sold thirty-five million copies, you'd hear that album differently, too."
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