Anonymous
6/27/2025, 4:32:12 AM No.126835896
It clicked
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 4:41:50 AM No.126835970
>>126835896 (OP)
this band is boring as fuck to be quite honest with you
this band is boring as fuck to be quite honest with you
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 4:43:15 AM No.126835981
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 4:44:07 AM No.126835992
>>126835896 (OP)
>ON THE PRARIE PAVEMENT
>LOSING PROPOSITION
>QUITTIN SCHOOL AND GOING TO WORK AND NEVER GOIN FISHIN
>ON THE PRARIE PAVEMENT
>LOSING PROPOSITION
>QUITTIN SCHOOL AND GOING TO WORK AND NEVER GOIN FISHIN
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 4:49:35 AM No.126836054
>>126835992
Lorde butchered that song with her cover
Lorde butchered that song with her cover
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:10:09 AM No.126836204
>>126835896 (OP)
Let it Be is better but yeah, great album. Left of the Dial is the best song on there imo
Let it Be is better but yeah, great album. Left of the Dial is the best song on there imo
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:15:53 AM No.126836256
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:48:07 AM No.126836524
Tim [Sire, 1985]
No songwriter in memory matches Paul Westerberg's artful artlessness, the impression he creates of plumbing his heart as he goes along. Statements like "Hold My Life" and "Bastards of Young" are pretty grand when you think about it, but you don't notice in the offhand context of the tastelessly amorous "Kiss Me on the Bus" or the tastelessly resentful "Waitress in the Sky." So far Westerberg hasn't been touched by the pretension and mere craft that seem to be inevitable side effects of such a gift, and I see no reason to anticipate that he will be. With a band this there, presence is all. A-
No songwriter in memory matches Paul Westerberg's artful artlessness, the impression he creates of plumbing his heart as he goes along. Statements like "Hold My Life" and "Bastards of Young" are pretty grand when you think about it, but you don't notice in the offhand context of the tastelessly amorous "Kiss Me on the Bus" or the tastelessly resentful "Waitress in the Sky." So far Westerberg hasn't been touched by the pretension and mere craft that seem to be inevitable side effects of such a gift, and I see no reason to anticipate that he will be. With a band this there, presence is all. A-
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:52:22 AM No.126836556
>>126835981
what do you rate Pleased to Meet Me?
what do you rate Pleased to Meet Me?
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:53:23 AM No.126836564
>>126836524
A-? What did he give Let it Be or Pleased to Meet Me? A+?
A-? What did he give Let it Be or Pleased to Meet Me? A+?
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:57:54 AM No.126836616
>>126835992
>>126836256
>DREAMS UNFUFILLED
>GRADUATE UNSKILLED
>BEATS PICKIN COTTON
>AND WAITIN TO BE FORGOTTON
>>126836256
>DREAMS UNFUFILLED
>GRADUATE UNSKILLED
>BEATS PICKIN COTTON
>AND WAITIN TO BE FORGOTTON
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 9:12:58 AM No.126838167
>>126836556
7. Highs are at Tim's best moments level, but it has a couple of forgettable tracks and feels overproduced.
7. Highs are at Tim's best moments level, but it has a couple of forgettable tracks and feels overproduced.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 10:08:44 AM No.126838400
>SEEN YOUR VIDEO
>THAT FOAMY ROCK AND ROLL
>THAT FOAMY ROCK AND ROLL
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 10:12:26 AM No.126838424
>>126835970
This. Bastards of Young and especially Left of the Dial are awesome, but the rest of the album is so lifeless, stale and dull
This. Bastards of Young and especially Left of the Dial are awesome, but the rest of the album is so lifeless, stale and dull
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 10:21:47 AM No.126838462
>>126835896 (OP)
It's ok, much less consistent, and peaks lower than let it be.
It's ok, much less consistent, and peaks lower than let it be.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:16:11 PM No.126841448
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:23:03 PM No.126841544
>>126836708
This, you can actually hear all of the instruments now.
This, you can actually hear all of the instruments now.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:24:26 PM No.126841565
>HOW DO YOU SAY I'M OKAY
>TO AN AOL AWAY MESSAGE
>TO AN AOL AWAY MESSAGE
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:33:10 PM No.126841674
>>126836708
>>126841544
Sounds like plastic to me. You could always hear the instruments. Remasters are never only addition, and in this case the subtraction is to part of the album's pathos. Alex Chilton helped to produce Left of the Dial, for example, and no matter what your technical proficiency, that's an obviously essential part of the song in every way, and for the band as well. If the remaster is helping more people find this record, then it's fine (but I doubt it's doing that), but for me it's basically worthless.
>>126841544
Sounds like plastic to me. You could always hear the instruments. Remasters are never only addition, and in this case the subtraction is to part of the album's pathos. Alex Chilton helped to produce Left of the Dial, for example, and no matter what your technical proficiency, that's an obviously essential part of the song in every way, and for the band as well. If the remaster is helping more people find this record, then it's fine (but I doubt it's doing that), but for me it's basically worthless.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:42:48 PM No.126841777
>>126841674
They released both a remix and remaster, which are we talking about?
They released both a remix and remaster, which are we talking about?
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:46:58 PM No.126841813
>>126835896 (OP)
Tim is the only Replacements album I truly like. All the other ones are incredibly boring to me.
Tim is the only Replacements album I truly like. All the other ones are incredibly boring to me.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:53:03 PM No.126841862
>>126835896 (OP)
winter music
winter music
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:54:43 PM No.126841881
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:02:18 PM No.126841959
>>126841777
I'd never heard of the remix until you mentioned it, I assumed they were being used intercheangably. I'm speaking about the "Let It Bleed" edition or whatever, the Ed Stasium mix
I'd never heard of the remix until you mentioned it, I assumed they were being used intercheangably. I'm speaking about the "Let It Bleed" edition or whatever, the Ed Stasium mix
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:13:40 PM No.126842068
>>126841959
Yeah that's a full remix. The deluxe edition also includes a new remaster on disc 2. I think the remix is an interesting curiosity, but not the definitive version. They took out much of the very 80s-sounding reverb, which isn't a bad thing, but added modern studio tricks like artificial stereo widening. So, it's far from the Let it Be 2.0 mix that I'd hoped for when I first heard about the project.
Yeah that's a full remix. The deluxe edition also includes a new remaster on disc 2. I think the remix is an interesting curiosity, but not the definitive version. They took out much of the very 80s-sounding reverb, which isn't a bad thing, but added modern studio tricks like artificial stereo widening. So, it's far from the Let it Be 2.0 mix that I'd hoped for when I first heard about the project.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:16:15 PM No.126842087
>>126835975
this album is just cursed at this point, it will never sound right
still one of their best, but Let It Be and Pleased To Meet Me don't sound like you're listening to them while sitting in a different room
>>126836564
Let It Be was A+
Pleased to Meet Me was probably A- because cuckgau is a pleb (it's almost better than Let It Be)
>>126841813
cool story bro
now post your favorite albums, unless they're too boring
this album is just cursed at this point, it will never sound right
still one of their best, but Let It Be and Pleased To Meet Me don't sound like you're listening to them while sitting in a different room
>>126836564
Let It Be was A+
Pleased to Meet Me was probably A- because cuckgau is a pleb (it's almost better than Let It Be)
>>126841813
cool story bro
now post your favorite albums, unless they're too boring
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:21:06 PM No.126842126
>>126842087
Not one of the guys you're responding to, but Tim is technically my favourite Replacements album (listened to it for decades and all-time favourite songs are on it), but picrel has become my favourite to listen to over time. The production is unfortunate for me in the context of this band only on this one album, where I can absolutely hear an edge that was suppressed by the attempt to reach audiences they were never going to reach. Even still, I love the sound, and I really love the songs. (Whether it qualifies as a Replacements album is another thing altogether, as well as All Shook Down, which I've also loved more every year for many years, but I'll leave that alone)
Not one of the guys you're responding to, but Tim is technically my favourite Replacements album (listened to it for decades and all-time favourite songs are on it), but picrel has become my favourite to listen to over time. The production is unfortunate for me in the context of this band only on this one album, where I can absolutely hear an edge that was suppressed by the attempt to reach audiences they were never going to reach. Even still, I love the sound, and I really love the songs. (Whether it qualifies as a Replacements album is another thing altogether, as well as All Shook Down, which I've also loved more every year for many years, but I'll leave that alone)
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:52:36 PM No.126842418
>>126836556
Haven't heard it yet. Can't give an answer.
>>126841448
Sorry Ma>hootenanny
Hoot had too many joke songs that felt lame and the material doesn't hold up well against either their energetic and rebellious punk rock stuff to their more thoughtful and heart felt later stuff. It is this meh transition album that doesn't reach any of the highs from either period, it is just there. Imagine if the Beatles' rubber soul had been "love me do" with a sitar in the background. No michelle, no run for your life, no girl, no in my life, just a clear split of before and after with this album in the middle that clearly shows when the band started to experiment but they hadn't quite arrived there.
Haven't heard it yet. Can't give an answer.
>>126841448
Sorry Ma>hootenanny
Hoot had too many joke songs that felt lame and the material doesn't hold up well against either their energetic and rebellious punk rock stuff to their more thoughtful and heart felt later stuff. It is this meh transition album that doesn't reach any of the highs from either period, it is just there. Imagine if the Beatles' rubber soul had been "love me do" with a sitar in the background. No michelle, no run for your life, no girl, no in my life, just a clear split of before and after with this album in the middle that clearly shows when the band started to experiment but they hadn't quite arrived there.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:58:49 PM No.126842468
>>126842087
>now post your favorite albums, unless they're too boring
The Stooges - Fun House
The Beatles - White Album
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Popol Vuh - Letzte Tage - Letzte Nächte
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station
>now post your favorite albums, unless they're too boring
The Stooges - Fun House
The Beatles - White Album
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Popol Vuh - Letzte Tage - Letzte Nächte
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:05:41 PM No.126842531
>>126842126
Achin' to Be, Talent Show, and I Won't are the songs I remember from Don't Tell a Soul. I agree about the production. That'd be a good album to go back to sometime, give it another listen. I think they re-released it a while back and threw a bunch of bonus stuff on it.
I had a copy of All Shook Down for years and never listened to it. For some reason, when a band breaks up, I usually can't stand listening to their last album. I hardly ever enjoy it. I didn't like Terror Twilight, even though I like Pavement a lot. Same with Let It Be, and Synchronicity.
Achin' to Be, Talent Show, and I Won't are the songs I remember from Don't Tell a Soul. I agree about the production. That'd be a good album to go back to sometime, give it another listen. I think they re-released it a while back and threw a bunch of bonus stuff on it.
I had a copy of All Shook Down for years and never listened to it. For some reason, when a band breaks up, I usually can't stand listening to their last album. I hardly ever enjoy it. I didn't like Terror Twilight, even though I like Pavement a lot. Same with Let It Be, and Synchronicity.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:06:04 PM No.126842535
>>126842418
I think you're overthinking it. Hootenanny has some of their best recorded guitar tones and Bob's a psycho on it. It's arguably the last album where Bob and Paul were completely on the same page. It's also the first album that has a vague country tinge on some songs, which Paul would take up differently a little later, and I love the sound they get from it. It's also better to think of it quite a lot more in proximity to a Husker Du album, which I think they clearly had in mind - not copying them but sharing the same space, basically for the last time, and I think it's really great on those terms as well. I also wouldn't give up Within Your Reach, Color Me Impressed, or Treatment Bound for anything in their "mature song" list.
I think you're overthinking it. Hootenanny has some of their best recorded guitar tones and Bob's a psycho on it. It's arguably the last album where Bob and Paul were completely on the same page. It's also the first album that has a vague country tinge on some songs, which Paul would take up differently a little later, and I love the sound they get from it. It's also better to think of it quite a lot more in proximity to a Husker Du album, which I think they clearly had in mind - not copying them but sharing the same space, basically for the last time, and I think it's really great on those terms as well. I also wouldn't give up Within Your Reach, Color Me Impressed, or Treatment Bound for anything in their "mature song" list.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:10:54 PM No.126842564
>>126842468
>posts good shit
well, guess I can't complain
ever heard Live at Maxwell's?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8qNMiqXN-4
>posts good shit
well, guess I can't complain
ever heard Live at Maxwell's?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8qNMiqXN-4
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:13:25 PM No.126842585
>>126842531
It's definitely worth your time - you can, maybe should, consider it the off-ramp Paul takes into his solo work. That alone makes it worthwhile for someone to check out. I think people can only be really disappointed if they're expecting Let It Be, Tim, etc. (And for my taste, both albums are worth the time for Paul's guitar alone.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsSaAxgqwk4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FhsvABhKfM
It's definitely worth your time - you can, maybe should, consider it the off-ramp Paul takes into his solo work. That alone makes it worthwhile for someone to check out. I think people can only be really disappointed if they're expecting Let It Be, Tim, etc. (And for my taste, both albums are worth the time for Paul's guitar alone.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsSaAxgqwk4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FhsvABhKfM
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:23:24 PM No.126842658
This shit sounds like glam metal.
Aged like milk.
Aged like milk.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:23:49 PM No.126842663
>>126842585
Oh, I forgot about Rock n Roll Ghost. I loved this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFL9cW9HTyo
I'm not averse to Paul's solo stuff either. Some of it I really like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zfnI-wHAF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdyGqTs0lss
Oh, I forgot about Rock n Roll Ghost. I loved this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFL9cW9HTyo
I'm not averse to Paul's solo stuff either. Some of it I really like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zfnI-wHAF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdyGqTs0lss
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:27:12 PM No.126842685
>>126842663
My man, you get all the credit in the world in my book for linking his version of Mr. Rabbit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaDbbeLntok
My man, you get all the credit in the world in my book for linking his version of Mr. Rabbit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaDbbeLntok
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:48:49 PM No.126842901
I always like the acoustic outtake of Can't hardly wait over the version with trumpets, it should sound lonely, a huge proclamation with no one in sight, also the lyric changes kinda suck ass
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:50:30 PM No.126842916
>>126842901
I think they were pressured to change it because The Ledge already dealt with suicide, and CHW had more hit potential.
But yeah the LP version is one of the worst ones. The "Tim Version" is my favorite.
I think they were pressured to change it because The Ledge already dealt with suicide, and CHW had more hit potential.
But yeah the LP version is one of the worst ones. The "Tim Version" is my favorite.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 8:08:02 PM No.126843096
>>126842685
Yeah, Mr. Rabbit is great. The one you linked sounds like Paul is trying to do his best Tonight's the Night impression. Shambly rock-country. He's still got that voice though.
>>126842901
The Maxwell's one is my go-to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDo-IZVxZek
Yeah, Mr. Rabbit is great. The one you linked sounds like Paul is trying to do his best Tonight's the Night impression. Shambly rock-country. He's still got that voice though.
>>126842901
The Maxwell's one is my go-to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDo-IZVxZek
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 8:12:19 PM No.126843147
for me its the Tim version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVEQBcJKKZo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVEQBcJKKZo
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 10:06:31 PM No.126844337
>>126835896 (OP)
Good but not as good as Sorry Ma or Let It Be. Kind of where the replacements were starting to drop off as a band imo.
Good but not as good as Sorry Ma or Let It Be. Kind of where the replacements were starting to drop off as a band imo.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 10:11:55 PM No.126844396
>>126842564
>Live at Maxwell's?
GOD I'VE BEEN WAITING TO TALK ABOUT THIS FOR THIS MY WHOLE GODDAMN LIFE
Live at Maxwell's is genuinely the album that made me reconsider live albums. it's THAT fucking good. I listen to it pretty damn often.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbzxfEC2Ikk
(I was gonna post can't hardly wait but two other people already beat me to it. That one especially is insanely good, especially considering how kinda, eh, it is on Pleased to meet me.)
>Live at Maxwell's?
GOD I'VE BEEN WAITING TO TALK ABOUT THIS FOR THIS MY WHOLE GODDAMN LIFE
Live at Maxwell's is genuinely the album that made me reconsider live albums. it's THAT fucking good. I listen to it pretty damn often.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbzxfEC2Ikk
(I was gonna post can't hardly wait but two other people already beat me to it. That one especially is insanely good, especially considering how kinda, eh, it is on Pleased to meet me.)
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 11:35:33 PM No.126845147
Let it Bleed Edition beats the original mix by a long shot. Incredible album.
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 5:27:29 AM No.126848026
>>126844396
It's my favorite Replacements album. It sounds fucking phenomenal, they had it professionally recorded for release at the time; but it never came out for some reason.
I think it has the definitive versions of all the older stuff. Bob really rips on these recordings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r-eChFjd_0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8uuHdL6_2M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLhvIoX6k38
It's my favorite Replacements album. It sounds fucking phenomenal, they had it professionally recorded for release at the time; but it never came out for some reason.
I think it has the definitive versions of all the older stuff. Bob really rips on these recordings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r-eChFjd_0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8uuHdL6_2M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLhvIoX6k38