The Replacements

[PokerBob]

the greatest band many/most of today's college kids have never heard of. download "Can't Harldy Wait" (the Tim version) and all will be revealed.

[billyjex]

geezer

[PokerBob]

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geezer

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touche

[whiskeytown]

my old hangout was the Uptown Bar -

Bob Stinson's mom owned it at one time and they played there sometimes. He lived near uptown, real close to me - (I know the house where they're sitting on the roof - forget which album cover ) -

I sat next to Tommy a few weeks ago and didn't know it - and I know where Bob's bench is (a bench dedicated to him after he passed on near Lake Calhoun)

but I never saw them - they self destructed before I came to MN - I heard it was like going to watch a televised execution, or it could be the greatest show ever - you just never knew, apparently.

Personally -- Westerburg's writing never did it for me - the bad was ok - and the vibe was great, esp. for the 80's but the music doesn't do a lot for me - I keep thinking of them as a poor man's version of the Goo Goo Dolls (before the Goo Goo Dolls became a poor man's version of the Replacements) -

RB

[craig r]

I prefer to remember the Goo Goo Dolls (or "The Goo" as lame people called them) as "Sexpot".

craig

p.s. Man The Goo sucks.

[whiskeytown]

I really thought albums 3-5 kicked ass....everything since is dogshit.

RB

[craig r]

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I really thought albums 3-5 kicked ass....everything since is dogshit.

RB

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I honestly don't know anything about them other than some songs they had on the radio since 98 (maybe 97). Oh, and I watched a Behind the Music on them as well (not because i like them, but because I will watch this show no matter who the band is).

But, as a peace offering, I do like the lead singer of your username on here.

craig

[whiskeytown]

yo, that does nothing for me -

Ryan's been a [censored] wanker ever since "Gold" - LOL -

for my money nothing match him and Catlain singing in harmony, she on violin - Pneunomia is one of my all time favorite albums -

Heartbreaker was pretty good too - and after that he became a rock star and totally screwed the pooch.

RB

[goodguy_1]

I loved the Replacements and saw them in Phoenix like 1983/84. They were one of my favorite bands of the early/mid 1980's.. TwinTone was a great label at that time. But my favorite bands from Minneapolis are Husker Du -who were on SST(Black Flag's label) early on and The JayHawks-their first album was on TwinTone I think.

I never dug Soul Asylum who were also on twinTone..they were way too mellow for me.

In 1980's I was a punk..

Never really got too much into Paul Westerbergs solo stuff.

Here are some great underated artists/ bands of the 1early 1980's-early 1990's that I listened to:

Lets Active, Game Theory, The Feelies, Concrete Bonde, LLoyd Cole(and TheCommotions), Green on Red, MudHoney, Screaming Trees, Dinasaur Jr., The Original Sins, The Lyres, Hoodoo Gurus, Therapy, Meat Puppets, The Stranglers, The ColorField, The FuzzTones, The Birthday Party, Peter and The Test Tube Babies, Buzzcocks, TheFall, Echo and TheBunnymen, Gang of Four ,Killing Joke, The Psychedilic Furs, The Jam, The Style Council, Patti Smith, Butthole Surfers,The Del Fuegos, The Dream Syndicate, The LongRyders, Wire, Bauhaus/Tones on Tail, Beat Rodeo, Jesus Lizard, YoLaTengo, Thin WhiteRope, BadReligion, Adolescents, MinorThreat, SocialDistortion,TheSmiths, The Blasters, Fabulous TBirds, X, Pixies, TSOL, TheLyres, The Fall, CelibateRifles, TheMinutemen, The Stranglers, Fleshtones, The GodFathers,Miracle Legion, Lords of The New Church,The Church,The Bongos,Fear,Television,Blondie, LimeSpyders, The FleshEaters, Black Flag, CicleJerks, DOA, UltraVivid Scene, TheThe, Naked Prey, XTC, Del Lords, Billy Bragg, The Cramps, True West, The Gun Club, LosLobos, Joy Division, New Order, Ministry, Big Black, Bad Brains, JawBreaker, StoneRoses, The Connells, BlueAeroplanes,Mazzy Star, That Petrol Emotion, DirtFisherMan, Squeeze, The Specials,The Chills, Scruffy The Cat, Kirsty MacColl, Buffalo Tom, The Wedding Present, Lush, Inspiral Carpets, Happy Mondays, Flaming Lips,,Sonic Youth,Iggy Pop, Robyn Hitchcock, Giant Sand, Smithereens, King Missile, The Vandals, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Alice in Chains, My Bloody Valentine, Fishbone, WoodenTops, GooGoo Dolls, Untouchables, Love Tractor, Laughing Hyenas, Love Battery, Beautiful South,,Young Fresh Fellows,SubHumans, Wall of Voodoo, Angry Samoans, Naked Raygun, BigBoys, Soungarden, Mekons, Gin Blossoms, Cocteau Twins,MIA,LemonHeads)

most underappreciated bands imo of this era were TheFeelies,Green on Red, HuskerDu,Screaming Trees,DOA,The Connells,The Blue Aeroplanes,The Fall

[Matt Flynn]

mid-level band.

but i saw them at the Fillmore in San Francisco in 1987 or '88. we were right on the stage, dead center. oustanding show.