Outside of country/western and rap...I consider myself pretty well versed with music of the last 50 or 60 years. How is it that I have never even HEARD of the Replacements before. Is this one of those bands that I "know" but I just don't know their name? What should I listen to from them?
Dom Heffner (12-24-2013)
See? See? LOL...Originally Posted by _Sir_Charles_
Youd have to have been a record store nut hanging out in the modern rock section...or listen to your areas version of 97X...
It's great stuff, not for the masses...or it never caught on. Just a few fractions shy of being commercial.
The closest sniff to mainstream was maybe, what "I'll be You" or "Alex Chilton"?
I have memories of "I'll be you" being played on mainstream radio. I don't think they're false memories, but who knows?
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. Carl Jung.
Cincinnati radio was so gunshy. I dont remember it being played there...
As I covered in the AOR thread ** shameless plug ** "I'll Be You" hit #1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart back in '89, so I'm fairly certain they were not false memories.
Other assorted Replacements and Westerberg tracks were big on Modern Rock/Alternative radio, but hit or miss on Mainstream rock radio. No matter, I've never heard anything by Westerberg or the 'Ments that wasn't good.
Whatever you do, do your best to not allow the struggles of life to interfere with the pleasures of living.
redsfanmia (12-24-2013)
As far as I'm concerned, Rap and anything are different animals. Be that as it may, I've come to accept the fact that it is now the Popular Music Hall Of Fame, rather than the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
Given the above, OTTOMH, the biggest glaring omissions are, in no particular order: ELO, Deep Purple, Chubby Checker and The Monkees, but there are several omissions yet to have been even nominated.
Whatever you do, do your best to not allow the struggles of life to interfere with the pleasures of living.
Have you heard of Teenage Fanclub?
Pavement
The Archers of Loaf
Superchunk
The Feelies
Television
The Pretty Things
Lothar and the hill people
The Minutemen
American Music Club
Zillions of bands out there
The Mats are what the Goo Goo Doll pretended to be
yeah, let me clarify- they would not have been on maonstream radio...maybe 97X, or anyone who played modern rock...but in Cincy in 1989...I dont see it on top 40....or any station other than 97X....
Yeah, I used the word mainstream kind of loosely, meaning commercial/regular/top 40.
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. Carl Jung.
"I'll be you" is just great...
I've listened to it twice since it was mentioned.
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. Carl Jung.
Rolling Stone considered The Replacements' "Tim" one of the top 10 albums of all time (at one point). They proclaimed it an angry, angsty rock classic. I bought it, listened to it, and loved it, but didn't *love* it.
Decades later, I finally listened to Archers of Loaf's "Icky Mettle." It was everything I expected "Tim" to be.
If you love rock that pairs rage with listenable hooks, "Icky Mettle" is for you. "Tim" too, but to a lesser degree.
"I prefer books and movies where the conflict isn't of the extreme cannibal apocalypse variety I guess." Redsfaithful
Try "Alex Chilton", "Left of the Dial", "Little Mascara," and "Answering Machine." If those songs speak to you, you're a Replacements fan.
"I prefer books and movies where the conflict isn't of the extreme cannibal apocalypse variety I guess." Redsfaithful
We'll inherit the earth
Can't Hardly Wait
Unsatisfied
Someone take the wheel
The Ledge
Saw the loaf in 94 and last year, both epic and thoroughly enjoyable
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