Well, that 1981 show on YouTube really is freakin' awesome.

zom-zom wrote:Fifty bucks to see two guys that used to be in The Replacements play The Replacements songs with two other guys from some other bands.Kinda reminds me of the Big Star reunions.Cycle of life and all that.

That's because you never saw the actual band.This is a clown show.

I just got spam email with the sender's name "Tommy Stinson".

"Swinging Party" and "Waitress in the Sky" are two of my favorite 80s songs. Also like a lot of other songs on Tim and Let It Be, and a few on Pleased to Meet Me. But they made a ton of crap too. Not crap on two and a half albums. Crap otherwise.

whoisalhedges wrote:I just realized that I've never heard Sorry Ma, Stink or Hootenanny.I love the next 3 albums, quite dislike Don't Tell a Soul, and am rather OK with All Shook Down, think it suffers more from recording quality than song quality... but I've never heard the first three.Sure, songs on a mix tape here and there... but not all the way through. I might have to fix that, like, today.You really do. Those are my personal favorites and pretty much the only mats stuff I'll listen to (Let it Be is pretty good too, but after that it was all boring anthems).

Dude, rectify that yesterday.

whoisalhedges wrote:cuttheshitmike wrote:whoisalhedges wrote:I just realized that I've never heard Sorry Ma, Stink or Hootenanny.I love the next 3 albums, quite dislike Don't Tell a Soul, and am rather OK with All Shook Down, think it suffers more from recording quality than song quality... but I've never heard the first three.Sure, songs on a mix tape here and there... but not all the way through. I might have to fix that, like, today.You really do. Those are my personal favorites and pretty much the only mats stuff I'll listen to (Let it Be is pretty good too, but after that it was all boring anthems).It's really pretty ridiculous. I am 39, which means I've been listening to and loving the 'Mats for TWENTY-FIVE GODDAMN YEARS now, and yet these records have slipped by me.WOW.Those are essential. I mean, sure, Let It Be and Tim are like the college rock records, but Sorry Ma and Hootenanny in particular are their own sort of perfect. And Stink is pure drunken fun.God bless those fuckups and all the joy they've given the world.

I just realized that I've never heard Sorry Ma, Stink or Hootenanny.I love the next 3 albums, quite dislike Don't Tell a Soul, and am rather OK with All Shook Down, think it suffers more from recording quality than song quality... but I've never heard the first three.Sure, songs on a mix tape here and there... but not all the way through. I might have to fix that, like, today.

cuttheshitmike wrote:whoisalhedges wrote:I just realized that I've never heard Sorry Ma, Stink or Hootenanny.I love the next 3 albums, quite dislike Don't Tell a Soul, and am rather OK with All Shook Down, think it suffers more from recording quality than song quality... but I've never heard the first three.Sure, songs on a mix tape here and there... but not all the way through. I might have to fix that, like, today.You really do. Those are my personal favorites and pretty much the only mats stuff I'll listen to (Let it Be is pretty good too, but after that it was all boring anthems).It's really pretty ridiculous. I am 39, which means I've been listening to and loving the 'Mats for TWENTY-FIVE GODDAMN YEARS now, and yet these records have slipped by me.