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Post by Mattsby on Jul 18, 2019 21:54:00 GMT
So, what's happening? I'm sorry let me rephrase that - WHAT THE *BEEPING* *BEEP* IS HAPPENING?  Viced pacinoyes |
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Post by Viced on Jul 18, 2019 22:31:05 GMT
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Post by Viced on Jul 19, 2019 13:15:26 GMT
lmao
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 19, 2019 13:36:36 GMT
Wow - just wow. I'm on vacation for a couple weeks but I'm thinking about cancelling, going home and contemplating how I feel about this  This is a Bob Dylan type of move by Westerberg - more or less arguing for the bands relevance after Bob with material that a lot of people once hated and now have somewhat reconsidered. A total Westerbergian move and suggestive that there's even more stuff to come. I posted a few months ago in the 80s music thread how DTAS could have been a better record (1 disc) with inclusion of unreleased material - this makes that case 4 discs over.  |
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 16, 2019 18:01:12 GMT
Faster, less pretty but also less try hard - very interesting at least.......never ever heard this before and I've heard all of it - kind of gives me chills tbh.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 5, 2019 21:08:28 GMT
Who can wait until tomorrow and the official 3rd song release - Alex Chilton from the forth coming boxset live from Milwaukee. "If he was to die .......and I don't care if he does" .....he's such a bullshitter . |
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 18, 2019 10:34:30 GMT
First review is up .....
..........the ‘redux’ version of the album itself is utterly magnificent. With the track list rejigged, original mixes restored and a wealth of textures bursting to the fore, it feels like a completely different album to the one Sire Records opted to release.www.clashmusic.com/reviews/the-replacements-dead-mans-pop |
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 20, 2019 22:15:41 GMT
For fans of the original album — or Replacements fanatics who can’t get into the group’s later work — Dead Man’s Pop is a revelation, succeeding in gallantly rescuing a very good collection of Westerberg originals from the bland and dated sound of Don’t Tell A Soul. For newcomers, you might as well start here. Not only to learn about The Replacements, but also about the troubled birth of so much contemporary punk, emo, and guitar-based indie music.
uproxx.com/indie/the-replacements-dead-mans-pop-review/
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Post by Viced on Sept 23, 2019 5:18:15 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 24, 2019 6:38:04 GMT
Grade : A
By scaling back then, Wallace has created an album that truly fits with their narrative, and that’s probably worth more now than then. After all, time has been very kind to the Replacements, who continue to build upon their legacy with each passing year, and Dead Man’s Pop is a welcome addition.consequenceofsound.net/2019/09/album-review-the-replacements-dead-mans-pop/ |
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 24, 2019 19:26:10 GMT
Hmmmmmmm.......when even such a stiff industry magazine/site as American Songwriter gets it, I guess it's gonna be great reviews everywhere.......beers all around.......
4.5/5
The final re-titled result makes Don’t Tell a Soul feel more like the timeless set it was meant to be, before the final mix altered, many claim prostituted, the sessions’ darker, more organic sound.americansongwriter.com/2019/09/the-replacements-dead-mans-pop/ |
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 27, 2019 9:06:07 GMT
This seems the most inspired and drastic change with the new mix..........this is positively a stunning difference imo - it evokes Swingin' Party now actually. Ghostly, sad and personal now where before it was goopy and sentimental and mechanical and Westerberg should have f'n sued somebody because his vocals which I often have made fun of in the (much lesser) original version are among his best singing here.
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Post by Viced on Sept 27, 2019 15:06:14 GMT
Great interview with Tommy.... also kind of sad. Some of the best bits:   |
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Post by Joaquim on Sept 29, 2019 2:13:55 GMT
We're making this our #1 of the eventual 2010s poll right?
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 29, 2019 8:49:01 GMT
We're making this our #1 of the eventual 2010s poll right? Yes AND we should probably re-do our 80s poll also since technically this existed then too.......um ..........  |
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 1, 2019 9:01:19 GMT
Dead Man's Pop is a big improvement imo - there's no way this isn't at least a very good album in this new mix .......but I still say they left most of the best songs off (they're on disc 2!).
A genuine power pop song and an upbeat one too ....they had so many .......smh.
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 5, 2019 1:21:29 GMT
Whole damn thing is amazing. Been replaying Disc 2, can't get enough of that Lowdown Monkey with Waits and the hilarious start to If Only You Were Lonely and stuff I've never heard before like Ought to Get Love that you can blast and rock out to or Dance On My Planet, on the other hand, which is so hushed and sorta haunting. Boxset great too - pictures I've never seen before, like them pulling off Slim's sleeve. |
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 5, 2019 7:09:23 GMT
Whole damn thing is amazing. Been replaying Disc 2, can't get enough of that Lowdown Monkey with Waits and the hilarious start to If Only You Were Lonely and stuff I've never heard before like Ought to Get Love that you can blast and rock out to or Dance On My Planet, on the other hand, which is so hushed and sorta haunting. Boxset great too - pictures I've never seen before, like them pulling off Slim's sleeve. Right now I'm loving when Westerberg makes Waits laugh on the I Can Help cover too. Ought To Get Love - it's the Stones meets T.Rex! - I used to have on this snazzy bootleg release from back in the olllllllllllllllllllllllld days - this is what a Replacements re-release used to mean  Figured you'd appreciate the movie-ish referencing cover Mattsby :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1853639-1509476637-4155.jpeg.jpg) |
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 9, 2019 22:12:33 GMT
Archie, Mattsby, Viced, #peoplewholikeeargasms: This is my favorite performance on the excellent live two disc set - a very Replacements-piece of self-sabotage and triumph - Westerberg starts professional then purposely screws up, curses the crowd and goes back into the song .......and then at the amazing ending Westerberg screaming during a lung shredding and increasingly repeated, unintelligible and frightening "somethings gonna happen .....we're not gonna happen....... nothing's gonna happen!" building to a loud and thrilling close. This song has been completely saved on this box set both on the re-mix version and this live version:
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 14, 2020 0:48:02 GMT
A few hours early ........"Get an F'n load of this!" before that guitar "solo".........he always said the sweetest things......
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 16, 2020 18:43:27 GMT
Viced , Mattsby , Joaquim , Archie
Pleased to Meet Me - Reissue
.................I don't even know this "Even If It's Cheap" song ! Announced Thursday via Rolling Stone, the new 3-CD, 1-LP version of the beloved record features a remastered version of the original album along with dozens of outtakes -- including 29 tracks never before released.
Among the “new” stuff are seven tracks that were the band’s last recordings with late guitarist Bob Stinson before he was fired. Those come from sessions at Blackberry Way Studio in Dinkytown over the summer of 1986 and include early versions of “Alex Chilton,” “I.O.U.,” “Valentine” and “Red Red Wine” as well as the non-album tracks “Birthday Gal” and “Election Day.”
Seven other newly unearthed demo tracks in the collection feature the Replacements as a trio working on versions of “Shooting Dirty Pool” and the outtakes “Kick It In” and “Even If It’s Cheap” – the latter of which features the opening line that gave the record its title: “Pleased to meet me / The pleasure’s all yours.”
www.startribune.com/replacements-will-reintroduce-pleased-to-meet-me-with-box-set-in-october/571791462/
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Post by Mattsby on Jul 16, 2020 19:06:52 GMT
Mats placemat? T shirts? "New" songs?? |
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Post by Archie on Jul 16, 2020 19:13:07 GMT
Finally some good news.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 16, 2020 19:53:47 GMT
Mats placemat? T shirts? "New" songs?? Once - or several times (um) - I posted that there was a whole other album of 1986/1987 B-sides (Route 66, Tossin and Turnin etc) and all the outtakes that could be added on to PTMM to make it a rival to Exile on Main Street (which is like my 2 album ever ).......well the songs in bold above I've never heard at all in any form .......... Learn How To Fail, the demo of Photo and Run For The Country are among their best songs ......Time Is Killing Us too although that demo is pretty rough ....... A stupendous tracklist and yet......it's somehow STILL missing the song "Make This Your Home" for no apparent reason at all and which has been easily available for years now and is from these sessions!  |
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Post by Viced on Jul 16, 2020 21:41:03 GMT
WHAT A FUCKING TIME TO BE ALIVE! [2]
A better quality version of Run for the Country is all I've ever wanted out of life tbh. That shit better be crisp (and not rough)!!
But overall... incredible, incredible news. Every part of this sounds amazing.
And not to already jump to "what's next?"... but if they're going backwards, a remastered/remixed TIM could really be a game-changer.
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