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Post by scoOter on Sept 26, 2006 15:59:33 GMT -5
rj & nazareth basically hit it out of the park.
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Post by scoOter on Sept 26, 2006 10:45:21 GMT -5
Jr's shorts=new pic guard i'm glad i wasn't the only one to pick up on that. |
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Post by scoOter on Sept 26, 2006 7:34:21 GMT -5
awesome.
(i want video!!!!)
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Post by scoOter on Sept 23, 2006 8:10:36 GMT -5
I think Paul & Tommy should repay us with a show at the 400 or something. YES! my name is scooterboy, and i approve this message. |
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Post by scoOter on Sept 21, 2006 8:07:02 GMT -5
it doesn't surprise me in the least paul prefers the pistols to the clash. that said, i prefer the clash to the pistols. like by the hugest degree imaginable.
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Post by scoOter on Sept 19, 2006 14:04:33 GMT -5
somehow i KNEW my initial response would spark something. i don't think winona is a whore if she sleeps with dudes anymore than i think of myself as a whore. i called her a "rock & roll whore" because of her tendancy to sleep with rockarollers repeatedly without learning a lesson about maybe there are other people to sleep with. like me, for example.
and it isn't virulent hatred. i just don't like her movies all that much, but mostly i was just making fun of her for repeatedly sleeping with basically the same guy.
and i have NO problem with people wanting to bang musicians. hell, i have wanted to get into jane weidlin's good graces for the better part of two decades now.
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Post by scoOter on Sept 19, 2006 11:00:31 GMT -5
Blender lists a bunch of Rock N Roll Firsts like first album to print lyrics (Sgt. Pepper's), first double-album (Blonde on Blonde) and this tidbit: 1989: First Rock Star to Date Winona Ryder PAUL WESTERBERG The Replacements frontman’s fling with Ryder kicks off the latter’s obsession with scruffy rock stars. She’d later move on to a series of suitable Westerberg stand-ins, including Soul Asylum’s Dave Pirner, Ryan Adams and Pete Yorn. what a dumpy little rock & roll whore. seriously, winona. branch out. |
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Post by scoOter on Sept 27, 2006 7:46:50 GMT -5
in case anyone needs more options in mpls, cheapo has 10 copies at their lake st. location.
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Post by scoOter on Sept 19, 2006 11:27:53 GMT -5
oh my god, awesome! i was just wondering on another thread if i could hear "wild as i wanna be" by paul. that IS what i am hearing, right? If you have a turntable and $10, you're in business  now, to find the damn thing! the record, i mean. i gots me a record playing hi fi. |
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Post by scoOter on Sept 19, 2006 10:59:35 GMT -5
oh my god, awesome! i was just wondering on another thread if i could hear "wild as i wanna be" by paul. that IS what i am hearing, right?
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Post by scoOter on Dec 30, 2006 13:13:08 GMT -5
I think, too, that those critics who label the Replacements' music as suburban are confusing "Midwestern" with suburban. you got that right. and i suppose that this is the bone of my beef with the tagging of the 'mats suburban: it is ultimately a coastal elitist thing. "how can a band from fly-over country be urban? when do they even have time to cut records? what with the planting & harvesting & barn raising?" look, once you have an urban area of over a million people the differences between nyc & that place are a matter of degrees. i'm not saying nyc isn't a great place, but you can find most all of the same things in milwaukee or st. louis. just not in the same numbers. |
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Post by scoOter on Dec 30, 2006 12:08:29 GMT -5
For whatever reason, the Replacements resonated with alienated suburban kids, or alienated suburban rock critics enough to have that label affixed to them. this makes some sense, and it sort of proves my point: replacements are tagged "suburban" because of the bands & fans they spawned. anyway, tarzan, you got into a whole lot of issues with your post, and i felt a little like you were attacking me. it probably wasn't the case, but to respond: i think it is racist to equate city with black*. that's all. it is equally racist to equate suburban with white*. if not out & out racist, it is certainly myopic. it's simply not that easy. i mean, look at the beastie boys. they are pretty white, but still very urban. yet, they appeal to a lot of white college kids (i certainly love paul's boutique). what about bad brains, then? i love them, too. luscious jackson, too, is an interesting example. at least on "natural ingredients", they positively oozed nyc. also, one shouldn't forget how white suburban kids snap up hip hop albums by black artists. what does that make the artists? suburban or urban? i was talking about place & setting, not race anyway. the 'mats were a city band playing city music; informed by their surroundings. to me, at any rate. edit - *i mean that i think it is as insulting to think white people don't live in "the city", as it is to think that black people don't live in "suburbia". |
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Post by scoOter on Dec 27, 2006 10:05:35 GMT -5
hey thanks for the amen. to give the other side of the argument its due, when I've brought this up before, here or elsewhere, it's been pointed out that mpls at least in the past was less racially diverse than many other cities. So people hear suburban partly just because they hear white. not directed at you, dude, but that argument is at best bullshit, and at worst flat out racist. again, this isn't an attack on you. |
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Post by scoOter on Dec 26, 2006 15:26:44 GMT -5
A thousand critics have hailed the Mats' "suburban" angst. Here's one who hears what I hear -- city music now that you mention it, i do recall hearing/reading "critics" talk about the mats suburban angst/ennui/etc. this just gives further credence the zappa school of thought on "rock journalism". Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. the mats are anything but suburban. now, the bands and/or rock subgenres they may or may not have spawned might be classified as suburban, but when i hear the mats, i hear car horns, feel the gravel & broken glass of the ally behind the house, and smell the exhaust of city buses. |
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Post by scoOter on Dec 19, 2006 12:35:10 GMT -5
am i alone in getting just absolutely giddy over a new installment from hem? he is gone, but these periodic reminders are beautiful.
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Post by scoOter on Dec 12, 2006 10:11:46 GMT -5
hem is so right for the times. i finally "subscribed" to his madness. does that mean, i get an email when a new one is posted?
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Post by scoOter on Nov 17, 2006 9:42:47 GMT -5
man, i fucking love that song.
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Post by scoOter on Nov 16, 2006 10:44:24 GMT -5
ok, what the hell is going on?! |
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Post by scoOter on Nov 12, 2006 20:27:12 GMT -5
well, i just watched the interview, and i think there was more to it than what youtube had, but in the portion available paul asks the hairfarmer what song he wanted to hear, and the guy couldn't name ONE SONG. paul was very gracious & self-deprecating, though. in fact, i found his reaction sweet. Actually, that guy is a huge Westerberg/Mats fan. It wasn't that he didn't know Paul's songs, it was just that he didn't know what to request when he was put on the spot. Paul did get pissed at the 120 Minutes appearance, but it was during the performance. He played First Glimmer and then whoever was in charge on set said, "Great, now let's take one." Paul got pissed because he had given it his all the first time through and didn't realize they were just rehearsing. They did another take and Paul thought it wasn't as good, but that's the one they used. At the end of the performance, you can see him say, "The first one was better." yeah, it can be hard being put on the spot. like i said, i thought paul's reaction was downright sweet to the guy. very nice. i would love to see the video of that performance, too. |
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Post by scoOter on Nov 11, 2006 9:35:34 GMT -5
Wasn't this the interview that Paul supposedly stormed off of when the host (long haired guy, I assume) didn't know any of his songs? well, i just watched the interview, and i think there was more to it than what youtube had, but in the portion available paul asks the hairfarmer what song he wanted to hear, and the guy couldn't name ONE SONG. paul was very gracious & self-deprecating, though. in fact, i found his reaction sweet. not sure if paul had a change of heart later in the interview.... if someone has a link to THAT part of the interview, lay it on us! |
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