The Replacements: General consensis?

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Whaddya think?

― David Allen, Friday, 25 October 2002 02:35 (twenty-three years ago)

consensus? ahahahahahahahaha.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 25 October 2002 03:13 (twenty-three years ago)

The Replacements: Classic or Dud?

Blink 182: The new Replacements?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 25 October 2002 03:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Sterling says what we're all thinking

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 25 October 2002 03:45 (twenty-three years ago)

godlike genius...songs that tear at my heart and make my soul sing...

― hugh ogilvie (hugh ogilvie), Friday, 25 October 2002 06:46 (twenty-three years ago)

shit. absolute shit that makes me want to spackle my earholes shut.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Friday, 25 October 2002 06:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Kicked ass.

Chris Mars solo - also great.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 25 October 2002 10:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Some great songs but I preferred the Long Ryders

― tigerclawskank, Friday, 25 October 2002 10:46 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't get why they were suppose to be good

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Friday, 25 October 2002 11:46 (twenty-three years ago)

made one of my favourite albums ever ('pleased to meet me') and wrote one of the worst songs of all time ('we'll inherit the earth'). i think the term 'hit and miss' was invented for them. well, at least they weren't mediocre.

― angelo (angelo), Friday, 25 October 2002 12:14 (twenty-three years ago)

'hit and miss' was invented for them

Well, yeah, if you're going to start with "Don't Tell a Soul" ..

But look at "Sorry, Ma" or "Let it Be" or "Tim" - not a bad song among them.

i don't get why they were suppose to be good
They weren't supposed to be good. That's why they were.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 25 October 2002 12:19 (twenty-three years ago)

'tim' always left me a little cold, dave. dunno why. i think the band's going through the motions on most of the songs on that record - the playing sounds decidedly unspirited to me. agree with you wholeheartedly re: 'let it be'. fucking great record. i can take or leave 'sorry ma' and i think there are a handful of terrific things on most of others. i'll go to my grave believing they were inconsistent and more than a little overrated, but i own everything they put out (singles and comps excluded) and i'd never consider selling a thing of theirs, cos, dammit, they're one of the few bands in my lifetime who've always made me smile. and they're probably the only band that's made me smile and feel infuriated at the same time.

― angelo (angelo), Friday, 25 October 2002 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

more than a little overrated

This is The Replacements experience in a nutshell. ("Help me, I'm in an overrated nutshell!") The Suburbs were WAY better. Hell, LIMITED WARRANTY were way better (their second album = GENIUS).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 25 October 2002 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

me thinks they were one of the most under-rated bands of modern times ...

― hugh ogilvie (hugh ogilvie), Friday, 25 October 2002 14:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I was sad when "Don't Tell a Soul" came out. I've never cared even for a second about another thing Paul Westerberg's done since then. When I saw that solo album come out in that lavish package like a hardbound book, I gagged... I mean who's he now, Lou Reed or Leonard Cohen all of a sudden (ha, as if they're published-poet quality either--ok maybe Cohen is)... Westerberg did have better hair than Reed or Cohen though.

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 25 October 2002 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

why does deja vu happen?

― wl (wl), Friday, 25 October 2002 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

sheds a tear for Bob Stinson

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Sunday, 27 October 2002 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

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