True story: I once almost bought a Jeep from Steve Foley, the guy who played drums for the 'Mats for the last two years or so they were together. He worked at Wayzata Nissan off of 169. Then, a few months ago, I read that he died of a prescription overdose. I barely knew him, but it still bummed me out.

Life in the Twin Cities can be interesting sometimes.

MaxxLarge: True story: I once almost bought a Jeep from Steve Foley, the guy who played drums for the 'Mats for the last two years or so they were together. He worked at Wayzata Nissan off of 169. Then, a few months ago, I read that he died of a prescription overdose. I barely knew him, but it still bummed me out.

Life in the Twin Cities can be interesting sometimes.

Chris Mars will forever be known as the Replacements drummer, but then again he wasn't so much of a Replacement that he died from an overdose. Weird that he was selling cars.

My only Replacements vignettes are that a friend used to share a duplex with Paul Westerberg's sister, and my brother lived around the corner from the CC Club which was the inspiration for "Here Comes a Regular." A very fine bar indeed. No overdose stories for which I'm sorry.

To not at least like something by them is in my mind pretty much equal to not liking rock and roll music. They were great.

Chris Mars didn't die, Bob Stinson is the one that died.

In other words, you tried to be pop but couldn't write a song to save your life. Yeah, that pretty much sums up the whole indie scene.

I Like Bread: In other words, you tried to be pop but couldn't write a song to save your life. Yeah, that pretty much sums up the whole indie scene.

Still bitter Wham broke up?

"We just weren't cut out to be pop stars. We got to the party and we saw it wasn't for us"


If anything they got to the party too soon. Many songs off the last three Replacements albums would have been mainstream radio hits from the mid 1990's on.

Provided of course the Replacements had come along earlier and laid the groundwork.

One of the best bands ever.

Even, their last two albums were great. They were desperate attempts at hits. The last Mats album being a Paul Westerburg album more than anything else.

Quite a feat, that. Even their worst albums are great.

I Like Bread: In other words, you tried to be pop but couldn't write a song to save your life. Yeah, that pretty much sums up the whole indie scene.

You're kidding, right? Have you even heard the Replacements? They were a lot of things but bad songwriter(s) was not one of them.

I Like Bread has obviously never heard this band, whose principal songwriter is still widely recognized as one of the greatest of his generation.

Sadly, he hasn't written shiat since the band broke up 15 years ago...

carmody: Sadly, he hasn't written shiat since the band broke up 15 years ago...

I love the Grandpa Boy stuff he released as "Mono" to accompany the "Stereo" album.

Hey, Vittles, I checked that out, but just couldn't get into it. I can't help feeling that it's a guy trying consciously to recreate his own earlier work, but not quite being able to capture it.

Still, though...just Let It Be, Tim and Pleased to Meet Me are enough awesome to coast a lifetime on...

I Will Dare (pops)

I love this band. I was going to link to "We're Coming Out," but there was like 2 minutes of dead air after the song ended...

Solid State Vittles: carmody: Sadly, he hasn't written shiat since the band broke up 15 years ago...

I love the Grandpa Boy stuff he released as "Mono" to accompany the "Stereo" album.

If you haven't yet heard Paul's new download-only album 49:00, I strongly urge you to find it and spend the whole 49 cents to d/l it. It very easily makes my top ten list this year. (I'm an old school Replacements fan, btw. Saw them play, have the original vinyl, all that. This new release, as weird as it is, proves to me that he's still got it.)

carmody: Hey, Vittles, I checked that out, but just couldn't get into it. I can't help feeling that it's a guy trying consciously to recreate his own earlier work, but not quite being able to capture it.

Yeah, I can see how there's a little of that. It's by no means perfect, but when it's on it sounds like the real deal. Certainly the closest he's come since the last Replacements album. Maybe even the one before it. I'm very fond of "Between Love and Like." It's not a good song, it's a GREAT song.

Still, though...just Let It Be, Tim and Pleased to Meet Me are enough awesome to coast a lifetime on...

You ain't kidding. That's the Replacements holy trinity fo sho. They'll never get old to me.

I somehow lucked into buying a used copy of the original pressing of the "Boink!" record a few years ago for something like $2.70. The record store guy thought I was pulling a fast one. He reluctantly sold it to me and then biatched at their buyers for letting that one seep through to the stacks marked 10x or more too cheap.

Thanks for the tip, dholway, I believe I'll do that. (I still have my crusty old 'Mats LPs, too.)

dholway: If you haven't yet heard Paul's new download-only album 49:00, I strongly urge you to find it and spend the whole 49 cents to d/l it. It very easily makes my top ten list this year. (I'm an old school Replacements fan, btw. Saw them play, have the original vinyl, all that. This new release, as weird as it is, proves to me that he's still got it.)

You know, I haven't. I think I will... I think I will. I remember seeing the thread about it a few months ago and I never got around to actually doing it.

Sigh...it looks like 49:00 is hard to find right now:
http://members.aol.com/paulspage/4949.htm

AlAlvin: Chris Mars didn't die, Bob Stinson is the one that died.

Sorry, I meant to say "then again he wasn't so much of a Replacement in that he didn't died from an overdose." I'm retarded. Sorry.

Solid State Vittles:
You know, I haven't. I think I will... I think I will. I remember seeing the thread about it a few months ago and I never got around to actually doing it.

You'll prob. have to hit P2P for it. I don't think it's sold anymore - presumed threat of lawsuit, I don't think he had the rights to some of the cover songs (which were brief snippets, not whole songs I think).

FTFA: Thirteen Gypsies who couldn't speak English and had no idea who we were, but they came down until they were practically touching us and, boy, we won those people over. We were the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world that night."

Yeah, or they could've been pickpockets, maybe.

/loves some Replacements tho

Anybody here have that incredibly horrible/hilarious bootleg LP Live and Drunk, with covers of stuff like "If I Only Had a Brain" on it?

elev8meL8r: You'll prob. have to hit P2P for it. I don't think it's sold anymore - presumed threat of lawsuit, I don't think he had the rights to some of the cover songs (which were brief snippets, not whole songs I think).

That doesn't surprise me.

I find it great that Fark is being blessed with both a Replacements and Guided By Voices thread on the same night.

GBV THREAD???!? [rushes back to music tab]

how the hell did I miss that? I only remember seeing one other one of those, and it was a long time ago.

I must be missing something out here in liter land. I don't see a GBV thread. There's a drunk dog on the main page. I checked to see if his name was Bob Pollard, but it was Roxy.

elev8meL8r: I must be missing something out here in liter land. I don't see a GBV thread. There's a drunk dog on the main page. I checked to see if his name was Bob Pollard, but it was Roxy.

It's a TF thing until 10:46pm. Does this permaban me? http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00019338.html

Solid State Vittles: dholway: If you haven't yet heard Paul's new download-only album 49:00, I strongly urge you to find it and spend the whole 49 cents to d/l it. It very easily makes my top ten list this year. (I'm an old school Replacements fan, btw. Saw them play, have the original vinyl, all that. This new release, as weird as it is, proves to me that he's still got it.)

You know, I haven't. I think I will... I think I will. I remember seeing the thread about it a few months ago and I never got around to actually doing it.


And uh, if you can't, maybe you should uh...find somebody on here who's SN comes from Replacements lyrics. I bet he's got it, maybe you could ask him.

Also: YAAAAAAAAAY REPLACEMENTS THREAD!

The Replacements era was about the same as the George Brett era. I guess I should say the Replacements era was about the same as the Robin Yount era. There. Did I make any of you Twin Cities farkers sadly nostalgic?

The Replacements made screwing-up an art form. I mean that as a compliment.

There are some great early Twin/Tone live clips on YouTube of The Mats back in their grungy club days. They were a wonderfully scummy live band.

Gangway Fathead: "We just weren't cut out to be pop stars. We got to the party and we saw it wasn't for us"


If anything they got to the party too soon. Many songs off the last three Replacements albums would have been mainstream radio hits from the mid 1990's on.


I think this was actually proven by the Goo Goo Dolls on the album Boy Named Goo, before they started releasing nothing but ballads. Hell, for me they were "hits" of the mid '90s, since I got into them working backwards from Westerberg's songs on the Singles soundtrack around that time. And they're still among my personal favorite bands to come out of the '80s.

/Graduated HS in '97, if that puts my timeline here into perspective

carmody: Anybody here have that incredibly horrible/hilarious bootleg LP Live and Drunk, with covers of stuff like "If I Only Had a Brain" on it?

I think it was released on cassette only as "The shiat hits the Fan". Don't think I still have a copy.
I saw them when they were drunk and I saw them when they were sober. Sober was 10X better.

carmody: Anybody here have that incredibly horrible/hilarious bootleg LP Live and Drunk, with covers of stuff like "If I Only Had a Brain" on it?

Yup, I bought the double LP for $30.00 bucks back in 1991 and I've still got it.

I love how they introduce themselves as Soul Asylum, and then rip into 'Jolene'.

I saw them on St. Patrick's Day in 1989. They played a few songs, got into a drunken screaming match, and walked off.

Hootenanny.

februarymakeup:
And uh, if you can't, maybe you should uh...find somebody on here who's SN comes from Replacements lyrics. I bet he's got it, maybe you could ask him.

Also: YAAAAAAAAAY REPLACEMENTS THREAD!

Nice SN, that's actually from my favorite Mas song ever. I'm impressed.
My big story of Replacements/Paul Westerberg was a night a few years ago when Paul was on tour. I almost got in a drunken knife fight with him. In my defense, the only reason I pulled my knife on him was to keep him from stabbing a cop. All in all, turned out to be one of the most fun nights of my life because after the knife fight I hung out on his bus for a while and he told storyies about how he wrote some of his older songs.