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The Replacements — Can't Hardly Wait
Album: All for Nothing
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Released: 1997
Length: 2:53
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I'll write you a letter tomorrow
Tonight, I can't hold a pen
Someone's got a stamp that I can borrow
I promise not to blow the address again

Lights that flash in the evening
Through a crack in the drapes

Jesus rides beside me
He never buys any smokes
Hurry up, hurry up, ain't you had enough of this stuff
Ashtray floors, dirty clothes and filthy jokes

See you're high and lonesome
Try and try and try

Lights that flash in the evening
Through a hole in the drapes
I'll be home when I'm sleeping
I can't hardly wait

I can't wait
Hardly wait
I can't wait
Hardly wait
I can't wait
Hardly wait
I can't wait
Hardly wait
I can't wait
Hardly wait
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 TimeWaster wrote:

I like this song, but the title bugs me. I'm not a fan of double negatives.


Rock 'n' Roll is going to be tough for you...
I Can't Get No Satisfaction.
Don't Come Around Here No More.
. . .
 TimeWaster wrote:

I like this song, but the title bugs me. I'm not a fan of double negatives.


It's not a double negative.  A double negative would be "Can't Hardly Not Wait".
Nice recording on this track...really great energy and gives a great live-off-the-floor feel...

Love when the engineer nad/or producer manages to capture that...
 Proclivities wrote:

Double negatives are really positive!  

Yeah, right.
 Proclivities wrote:

Double negatives are really positive!  


They're a definite no-no.
More Replacements please...
Poi Dog Pondering does a fantastic cover of this live.
I'm hearing these guys daily, which is awesome!
Perfect timing Bill, as it's time for my yearly support.
Love those horns!!!
 SchoepTone wrote:
This band is the epitome of rock n roll. Huge fan here!
 
me too! 
Jesus rides beside me but he never buys any smokes!
they can do no wrong!
This band is the epitome of rock n roll. Huge fan here!
 papersitter wrote:
And today Paul W's project with Juliana Hatfield, The I Don't Cares, is released. Any chance it will pop up here?
 
Apparently not.
 TimeWaster wrote:
I like this song, but the title bugs me. I'm not a fan of double negatives.
 
Double negatives are really positive!  
The correct Wiki link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Replacements_(band)
More Westerberg!
Never realized how much Conor Oberst sounds like Westerberg with the vibrato kicked up to 10.
 jfogg wrote:
Brings me back to college days, or should I say DAZE?
 
True DAZE never ends


Brings me back to college days, or should I say DAZE?
 My favorite American band along with [early] Chicago.
 tee_dee wrote:
Still angry at these guys for the sloppy, drunken shows I saw back in the 80s.

  Get over it, I did.

 tee_dee wrote:
Still angry at these guys for the sloppy, drunken shows I saw back in the 80s.

 
You might appreciate "The Replacements" by Tommy Womack which recounts his live viewing experiences of the band...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvzg-tkCCVo
 tee_dee wrote:
Still angry at these guys for the sloppy, drunken shows I saw back in the 80s.

 
That was part of their allure - watching to see if they were actually able to perform.  
10+++ {#Cool}
 tee_dee wrote:
Still angry at these guys for the sloppy, drunken shows I saw back in the 80s.

 
Which one of you was sloppy drunk?
Now 30 years old.  Man, that's scary.  
Sorry I missed this one.  Did anybody out there in "RP Land" take it in?
Image result for picture of the replacements touring van
Still angry at these guys for the sloppy, drunken shows I saw back in the 80s.
{#Bananajam}
And today Paul W's project with Juliana Hatfield, The I Don't Cares, is released. Any chance it will pop up here?
Yup!  Let's get Thursday UP AND GOING THE RIGHT WAY!
Looks like everyone likes it pretty well. As for myself I "Can't Hardly Wait" until it was over.
 treatment_bound wrote:
Setlist: The Replacements, Riot Fest, Toronto, ON, Canada 8/25/13 1. “Takin’ a Ride”
2. “I’m in Trouble”
3. “Favorite Thing”
4. “Hanging Downtown”
5. “Color Me Impressed”
6. “Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out”
7. “Kiss Me On the Bus”
8. “Androgynous”
9. “Achin’ to Be”
10. “I Will Dare”
11. “Love You ‘Til Friday”
12. “Maybellene” (Chuck Berry cover)
13. “Merry Go Round”
14. “Wake Up”
15. “Borstal Breakout” (Sham 69 cover)
16. “Little Mascara”
17. “Left of the Dial”
18. “Alex Chilton”
19. “Swingin’ Party” (“Special request from our friend Slim back home”)
20. “Can’t Hardly Wait”
21. “Bastards of Young”
22. “Everything is Coming Up Roses” (From ‘Songs For Slim’ EP)
23. “IOU”

 
I was in the front row for that show. Pretty special thing. Looks like they're sticking around though!
oh, the memories... reminds me of an old flame, no longer with us.
The Replacements and Paul Westerberg are tops. This songs rocks.
Setlist: The Replacements, Riot Fest, Toronto, ON, Canada 8/25/13

1. “Takin’ a Ride”
2. “I’m in Trouble”
3. “Favorite Thing”
4. “Hanging Downtown”
5. “Color Me Impressed”
6. “Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out”
7. “Kiss Me On the Bus”
8. “Androgynous”
9. “Achin’ to Be”
10. “I Will Dare”
11. “Love You ‘Til Friday”
12. “Maybellene” (Chuck Berry cover)
13. “Merry Go Round”
14. “Wake Up”
15. “Borstal Breakout” (Sham 69 cover)
16. “Little Mascara”
17. “Left of the Dial”
18. “Alex Chilton”
19. “Swingin’ Party” (“Special request from our friend Slim back home”)
20. “Can’t Hardly Wait”
21. “Bastards of Young”
22. “Everything is Coming Up Roses” (From ‘Songs For Slim’ EP)
23. “IOU”
I never thought I'd see this, but 265.75 MONTHS LATER, THEY"RE BACK!!

Well, half of 'em anyway...



https://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2013/08/25/replacements-riot-fest-setlist-video-photos/

 
I forgot how much I liked this.  Thank you for playing. HAPPY!
 Jazbo wrote:
I was there when they walked off the stage in Chicago, no more....sad.

 
I've got that '91 breakup show on tape, having seen them 3 months earlier at the Aragon in Chicago.  I'm pretty sure The Posies opened.  Anyway, I met Westie before the show up in the balcony, and he seemed a little disgusted by it all, barely smiling while a group of us shook his hand.  Maybe the lack of any kind of commercial success after 10 years of solid work in the studio and slugging it out on the road finally beat him down.  Plus, the orig.drummer had just quit, and while the show was still better than most everything else out there for me, it just didn't have the punch of the classic lineup with C. Mars & Bob Stinson I'd seen several times.

Perhaps Paul knew it was all going to be over by mid-summer...
I was there when they walked off the stage in Chicago, no more....sad.
HOOTENANNY!
Paul Westerberg collaborated with Glenn Campbell on his (Glenn's) last album. 'Last' as in 'he's not going to make any more because he's dying'.

The album is very good. Paul's writing, with Glenn's voice, aged but still strong, is quite a combination. Definitely worth a listen. Or two.
 treatment_bound wrote:
I wasn't aware until today that there was a 45 rpm single for the song "Alex Chilton" with this sleeve from the Pleased to Meet Me album.



    

Does anybody out there have this thing?
  Yep. I have it.  Love the Mats.

I wasn't aware until today that there was a 45 rpm single for the song "Alex Chilton" with this sleeve from the Pleased to Meet Me album.



    

Does anybody out there have this thing?
 Stingray wrote:


What a fucked-up language, man....

Heikkoa poppia....?

Means: fuck you?

 

What the hell is so good about your language you elitist, intolerant fuck?
 
 
Filter Magazine pays homage to the Replacements' Let it Be
 Darlington wrote:
Thanks to their prominence in the Soundtrack of "Adventureland," the Replacements were my big "re-discovery" music wise of last year. Too bad I did not discover/listen to them much back in their "heyday."
 
I just saw that movie recently. The placement (no pun intended) of the song you're talking about (Bastards of Young) was excellent, as was the rest of the soundtrack and the movie, actually.

At their best, The Replacements were the world's greatest party band. A DJ friend of mine from college called them "Minneapolis's greatest keg-sters" I think that summed it up pretty well.

I admit to a little nostalgia now and then (why didn't I buy a t-shirt at that Stones show in Memphis, I should've skipped school and went to the Skynyrd show in Evansville...) but I sure wish that The Replacements had worked as hard at being the best at their craft as they did at getting inebriated.

My 22 year old self wouldn't agree, but I see a tremendous waste of an unbelievably good band. Not the hard and fast truth, just an old geezer's opinion.

Rock on! Cool
Went back to Mpls. over Thanksgiving, and took in a 'Mats tribute show at First Avenue.  They're having them annually now on Black Friday...Fun for all!

Here's a quickie review of the show from the paper:

Replacements tribute is tightest yet

The Tribute to the Replacements returned to First Avenue for a third year Friday, a Minneapolis celebration of the most Minneapolis band. True to the Replacements' always-unexpected form, Friday's five-hour marathon centered on the group's raw, scrappy and downright snotty 1981 debut album, "Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash" — but the music actually sounded more rehearsed and sincere than in previous years. Few could've expected songs like "I Bought a Headache" and "Shiftless When Idle" to be taken so seriously. Religiously, even.

Guitarists Ryan Smith (of the Melismatics) and Terry Eason — who led the house band through the entire "Sorry Ma" album — played the spitfire guitar parts better than Paul Westerberg and Bob Stinson ever did post-recording. Highlights among the rotating vocalist stints included: the kickoff tear through "Takin' a Ride" by punk vet Dale T. Nelson; Pink Mink singers Arzu Gokcen and Christy Hunt's sassy spiking of "Rattlesnake" and "Don't Ask Why," respectively, and Japhies singer Reed Wilkerson's stage-diving delivery of "Otto."

Only two songs had a bratty flair: a glammed-out Curtiss A screamed his way through "Johnny's Gonna Die," while Jimmy "Dude Weather" Gaines delivered "I Hate Music" as an Elvis impersonator.

A dozen other acts also played 'Mats sets. Some were straight-up and well-rehearsed, especially High on Stress' nailed-it hammering of "Color Me Impressed" and "Left of the Dial." Some were more playful and clever, including Martin Devaney's montage of Slim Dunlap songs (the guitarist who replaced the late Bob Stinson) and BNLX's fuzzed-out approach to "Merry Go Round" and "You Lose."

The yin-yang approach was especially prevalent when stomp-rockers the 4onthefloor sloppily, drunkenly raised "Hootenanny" and "Treatment Bound" on the main stage while, minutes later, Poverty Hash played the same songs next door at 7th Street Entry with a bluesy bend. Both approaches worked beautifully.


Love these guys. Can't hardly wait to hear more from the mats.

ohhhh memories, DT MPLS in their heyday...still love to dance to this one!

 Darlington wrote:
Thanks to their prominence in the Soundtrack of "Adventureland," the Replacements were my big "re-discovery" music wise of last year. Too bad I did not discover/listen to them much back in their "heyday."
 

I've been with 'em since just about the beginning (having lived in Mpls. from '77 - '82).  They weren't really top dog locally then, as the Suburbs ruled the bar scene for about 5 solid years.  But the Suburbs never really broke out of the Midwest, even though they eventually also signed with a major label after 5 years of slugging it out on Twin Tone (same as The 'Mats). 

On the contrary, The Replacements had a much bigger following nationally (especially with critics after Let It Be) than the Suburbs, and are revered way more now than when they were back when they actually existed.

It's never too late to get on board.

Here's a reprint of a recent article from Rolling Stone about where they're at physically and mentally today...

>>Ever since the Replacements broke up in the summer of 1991, fans have been praying for some kind of reunion. In an exclusive interview with Rolling Stone, Replacements frontman Paul Westerberg admits that he has mixed feelings about the possibility of reforming the group. "I don't know, man," he says. "You catch me on one day and I think, 'Oh hell, why not?' Tommy has never stopped. He's a performer. I'm more of a writer-artist, though I perform as well - or at least I used to. But, God . . . I don't know."

Replacements guitarist Bob Stinson died in 1995 and drummer Chris Mars now devotes his life to art and hasn't played drums in years - which raises a logical question. "Who are the Replacements?" asks Westerberg. "Me, Chris and Tommy? Chris wouldn't do it. He might get together in a room and sit around and shoot the shit and if there were instruments, might play. I don't know more than that. I don't think Chris would ever go out and tour. I met with him last year a couple of times just for fun. Tommy is a little more aggressive towards it, because I think he needs a gig."

Unsurprisingly, Tommy Stinson - who currently plays bass in Guns N' Roses and Soul Asylum - doesn't agree with Westerberg's assessment of the situation. "He thinks I need a gig?" Stinson says. "That's funny. I got fucking three or four gigs going at any one time. Paul likes to sit home and record in his basement, and that works for him. I like to perform. But you never know. I'm more like, if a reunion happens, it happens. If the planets align and the oceans don't swallow up the earth first."

Stinson does share some of Weterberg's reservations about a possible reunion. "Why would we do it?" he asks. "The only reason we would ever do it would be to get paid. We're not going to recapture anything. I think I could probably have fun with it though. It'd probably be a short-lived moment of having fun with it, but I ultimately think it might not be very good to try and go back."

In 2006, Westerberg and Stinson reunited the Replacements to record two new songs for a compilation LP. Session drummer Josh Freese played drums, though Mars did contribute background vocals. "From time to time we'll get together and jam just for fun," says Stinson. "We do it without any sort of expectations or anything. We didn't break up in any sort of a nasty fashion. There was no dispute or anything. We just kind of walked way from it. I'm not so sure if there's any point in really revisiting it necessarily."

While a reunion may be unlikely in the near future, Westerberg has spent a lot of time recently combing through his past for a planned box set. "On a whim I got to dig through some old tapes," he says. "I found one song I never put on anything for people to hear. Then I dug deeper and found the original 'Good Day' Eventually>. That pretty much stunned me. I have to close this box set pretty soon because this could take the rest of my life just going through all these things and going, 'God, why was that there.'" 

Westerberg hasn't released any new material since his 2009 EP PW & The Ghost Gloves Cat Wing Joy Boys, and that's unlikely to change anytime soon. "I write stuff, but I haven't written much lately," he says. "I played a little saxophone last year, more or less just for something else to do. I wouldn't say I'm working on a record. I have enough stuff to release one tomorrow, but why bother? In this day and age, my thought is to make a song everyday and erase it as a sort of Dadaist protest.<<



Thanks to their prominence in the Soundtrack of "Adventureland," the Replacements were my big "re-discovery" music wise of last year. Too bad I did not discover/listen to them much back in their "heyday."
 Jalmari wrote:
Aika mitäänsanomatonta, heikkoa poppia. (google translate says: Time for bland, weak pop)
 
Now that I know what you said, I can do this

 Jalmari wrote:
Aika mitäänsanomatonta, heikkoa poppia.
 

What a fucked-up language, man....

Heikkoa poppia....?

Means: fuck you?

What are these strange "pens" "stamps" and "letters" that he speaks of in the beginning of this song? Was this an early form of communication?
Aika mitÀÀnsanomatonta, heikkoa poppia.
 jjbix wrote:
can't wait until this song is over . . .
 
agreed — it's not doing a thing for me either............   {#No}
 gumbo73039 wrote:
I like, very reminiscent of the Waterboys, a good thing.
 

Wow, someone needs a aural history lesson re: the Replacements. I'm Waterboys fan too, but these too are not alike in anyway.
I like, very reminiscent of the Waterboys, a good thing.
Great blast from the past.



JESUS!! Buy some smokes once in awhile, MMMM-KAY!!



Blast from the past, I love it!
I knew it could be done: HazzeSwede wrote:
This is thight !  {#Drummer}
 


This is thight !  {#Drummer}
still fresh
Luckily, I saw these guys before they parted company, down in Tampa. Seems like it was '89 or '90. It was at a grungy little theater, I think the place was called "The Ritz". What a show! {#Dancingbanana}
 iscoot4peace wrote:
To my mind the best rock and roll is rough around the edges.  These guys understood that from the start.  A solid 9.
 

Yah, Paul's vocals are very ragged, but they work for me.  It is R&R and I likes it!
To my mind the best rock and roll is rough around the edges.  These guys understood that from the start.  A solid 9.
Great Post, thanks for the info! {#Clap}

 
treatment_bound wrote:


It really was "hit or miss" when you caught one of their shows, but it was always exciting.  See if you can find the "cassette only" release of a mid-80's show titled "The Shit Hits The Fans". 

Here's the review of it reprinted from allmusic:

>>Twin/Tone rush-released the cassette-only live album The Shit Hits the Fans before the Replacements left the label for Sire later in 1985. The album is an audience tape of an Oklahoma City concert from 1984 that a Replacements roadie confiscated from a patron that was bootlegging the show and it is presented unvarnished. Consequently, it is, as they like to say, a "warts-and-all" document of a standard Replacements show, capturing the group as they slaughter several of their best-known songs and run-through drunken covers of R.E.M., Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. The tape sounds poor and the performances are, to be charitable, sloppy, but it's great fun for hardcore fans, especially those longing for the 'Mats alcohol-fueled live shows.<<


Track listing
  1. "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" (LLoyd Price)
  2. "Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus" (Robyn Hitchcock)
  3. "Lovelines" (Westerberg/Stinson/Stinson/Mars)
  4. "I'll Be There" (Berry Gordy, Jr./Bob West/Hal Davis/Willie Hutch)
  5. "Sixteen Blue" (Westerberg)
  6. "Can't Hardly Wait" (Westerberg)
  7. "I Will Dare" (Westerberg)
  8. "Hear You Been to College" (Westerberg/Stinson/Stinson/Mars)
  9. "Saturday Night Special" (Ed King/Ronnie Van Zant)
  10. "Iron Man" (Butler/Iommi/Osbourne/Ward)
  11. "Misty Mountain Hop" (Page/Plant/Jones)
  12. "Heartbreaker" (Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant)
  13. "Can't Get Enough" (Mick Ralphs)
  14. "Jailbreak" (Phil Lynott)
  15. "Breakdown" (Tom Petty)
  16. "No More the Moon Shines on Lorena" (Alvin Pleasant Carter)
  17. "Merry Go Round" (Nikki Sixx)
  18. "Left in the Dark" (Ken Draznik)
  19. "Takin' Care of Business" (Randy Bachman)
  20. "I Will Follow" (Hewson/Evans/Clayton/Mullen)
  21. "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (Jagger/Richards)
  22. "Radio Free Europe" (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe)
  23. "The New World" (Cervenka/Nommensen Duchac)
  24. "Let It Be" (Lennon/McCartney).

They usually didn't play the whole song of say "I Will Follow" or "Heartbreaker", and it was as sloppy as you'd imagine, but I dare you to find any other band that covered the likes of The Carter Family, Black Sabbath, BTO, The Crue, and/or The Jackson 5 in the same show.  GOOD TIMES!

I'm surprised they didn't include another of their guilty pleasures they liked to butcher around this era, "Hitchin' a Ride" by Vanity Fair...



 


 ROSSinDETROIT wrote:
I love how open, honest, flawed and earnest The Replacements were at a time when slick corporate rock ruled.  Wish I'd been able to see them live, but that's one that I missed.

 

It really was "hit or miss" when you caught one of their shows, but it was always exciting.  See if you can find the "cassette only" release of a mid-80's show titled "The Shit Hits The Fans". 

Here's the review of it reprinted from allmusic:

>>Twin/Tone rush-released the cassette-only live album The Shit Hits the Fans before the Replacements left the label for Sire later in 1985. The album is an audience tape of an Oklahoma City concert from 1984 that a Replacements roadie confiscated from a patron that was bootlegging the show and it is presented unvarnished. Consequently, it is, as they like to say, a "warts-and-all" document of a standard Replacements show, capturing the group as they slaughter several of their best-known songs and run-through drunken covers of R.E.M., Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. The tape sounds poor and the performances are, to be charitable, sloppy, but it's great fun for hardcore fans, especially those longing for the 'Mats alcohol-fueled live shows.<<


Track listing
  1. "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" (LLoyd Price)
  2. "Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus" (Robyn Hitchcock)
  3. "Lovelines" (Westerberg/Stinson/Stinson/Mars)
  4. "I'll Be There" (Berry Gordy, Jr./Bob West/Hal Davis/Willie Hutch)
  5. "Sixteen Blue" (Westerberg)
  6. "Can't Hardly Wait" (Westerberg)
  7. "I Will Dare" (Westerberg)
  8. "Hear You Been to College" (Westerberg/Stinson/Stinson/Mars)
  9. "Saturday Night Special" (Ed King/Ronnie Van Zant)
  10. "Iron Man" (Butler/Iommi/Osbourne/Ward)
  11. "Misty Mountain Hop" (Page/Plant/Jones)
  12. "Heartbreaker" (Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant)
  13. "Can't Get Enough" (Mick Ralphs)
  14. "Jailbreak" (Phil Lynott)
  15. "Breakdown" (Tom Petty)
  16. "No More the Moon Shines on Lorena" (Alvin Pleasant Carter)
  17. "Merry Go Round" (Nikki Sixx)
  18. "Left in the Dark" (Ken Draznik)
  19. "Takin' Care of Business" (Randy Bachman)
  20. "I Will Follow" (Hewson/Evans/Clayton/Mullen)
  21. "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (Jagger/Richards)
  22. "Radio Free Europe" (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe)
  23. "The New World" (Cervenka/Nommensen Duchac)
  24. "Let It Be" (Lennon/McCartney).

They usually didn't play the whole song of say "I Will Follow" or "Heartbreaker", and it was as sloppy as you'd imagine, but I dare you to find any other band that covered the likes of The Carter Family, Black Sabbath, BTO, The Crue, and/or The Jackson 5 in the same show.  GOOD TIMES!

I'm surprised they didn't include another of their guilty pleasures they liked to butcher around this era, "Hitchin' a Ride" by Vanity Fair...



 megisi wrote:
the drunken hijinks, such as playing chicken on stage or swapping instruments in the middle of a tune, were part of their supposed charm ... pisser for the customers, though.

bless  'em, they were incredible when they were on. Just incredible.

 
I talked to Paul once about their spotty track record in concert and he agreed: "one night we're great, next night we suck, then we're good, then we're okay but the next night... MIGHTY."

the drunken hijinks, such as playing chicken on stage or swapping instruments in the middle of a tune, were part of their supposed charm ... pisser for the customers, though.

bless  'em, they were incredible when they were on. Just incredible.

 ROSSinDETROIT wrote:
I love how open, honest, flawed and earnest The Replacements were at a time when slick corporate rock ruled.  Wish I'd been able to see them live, but that's one that I missed.

 
Actually they didn't have a great reputation as a live band - many of their shows were booze fueled fiascoes. But they did produce a couple of great albums.

My favorite Replacements song. Next in line is Skyway.
An all time fav! thanks!  Love it.
Love the cover art as well. The Normandie in a large following swell, perhaps?
The best thing I can say about The Replacements is that I always see Carlton dancing when this tune plays, and it makes me laugh.
i can't hardly wait.
I love how open, honest, flawed and earnest The Replacements were at a time when slick corporate rock ruled.  Wish I'd been able to see them live, but that's one that I missed.

Best song writer of the 80's. Dylanesque. Great job RP.
Excelsior wrote:
Horrible!
can't wait until this song is over . . .
Horrible!
rickhoran wrote:
If thats the case don't read any replacement lyrics or westerberg lyrics.... most are double negatives or oxymorons.... replacements are way cool!
Ain't that the truth. Don't you never heard of poetic license. I'll be you really hate contractions.
TimeWaster wrote:
I like this song, but the title bugs me. I'm not a fan of double negatives.
If thats the case don't read any replacement lyrics or westerberg lyrics.... most are double negatives or oxymorons.... replacements are way cool!
TimeWaster wrote:
I like this song, but the title bugs me. I'm not a fan of double negatives.
They don't care.
I like this song, but the title bugs me. I'm not a fan of double negatives.
i gotta download this. Only on RP!
...these drums are so mid-eighties!..
That was a "face lights up" moment for me... that riff just makes me smile, and its been too long since I heard it last. Thanks Bill! phyfe - I think I was at that show... did the Godfathers open? At the Moon...
"ashtray floors, dirty clothes & filthy jokes"... Man, I would have loved to ride in the 'Mats van, circa mid-80's. They probably would have mocked you if you showered or did your laundry.
I have tried, but I just don't get Paul Westurberg (or however it's spelled...) Can't hardly wait for the song to end.
zipper wrote:
Bumped from 2 to 4. I must be feeling happy.
it must be jolene posting, not zipper.
MiketheKnife wrote:
Brilliant tune. "Jesus rides beside me and he doesn't buy any smokes" One of my favorite lyric lines ever.
Ditto
uau. one of the greatest songs from the 80's. i'll never forget this one.
Bumped from 2 to 4. I must be feeling happy.
WOW! Two Minnesota bands within a half of each other!! Can rarely do that anymore with most MN radio! (JH and 'mats)
Saw them in a small theater in Tallahassee Fl. The show started poorly with Paul Westerburg stuffing the microphone up his shirt then throwing it into the lights overhead. (Stage hands scrambling to recover) The crowd was stupefied and even a bit confused bordering on disappointment. Then Paul stopped the band and whispered into the microphone that he didn't like his current guitar. He left the stage and returned with a new one and the rest of the show was fantastic. At least that is how I recall the night. Must have been 1989 or so.
Weeeeeeeee!!! One of my favs. Thanks Bill
For the memories associated with it: a 9.
Well, this song makes it a little easier being at work this morning. Excellent choice, Bill. PWIG!!!!!!
Awesome, haven't heard this in awhile!!!!!!!
Brilliant tune. "Jesus rides beside me and he doesn't buy any smokes" One of my favorite lyric lines ever.
Death_to_Clear_Channel wrote:
Ah, yes... One of my "funeral party" songs. Absolutely fantastic.
That is funny. I got happy rockin songs that are going to be requested at my funeral party also.
Jerry_Scott wrote:
WTF is "baby arm?" Is this a coded comment on the music or some sort of Texas graffiti? Camel Toe!!!!
Could be what Lenny Bruce referred to: "A baby's arm with an apple in its fist" perhaps? Camel Toe goes without explaining...
Railee^!^ wrote:
I guess I'm just way too old for this bad music. Sorry Pilly! I will give another listen though..
same here, Mr. Tahiti.
strick wrote:
Don't worry, we dont "get" people from Texas either. They tend to be a bit dim down there... Must be the water, or maybe too much sun on the brain...
The day we need your approval or admiration down here in great state of Texas, we'll let you know...
Ah, yes... One of my "funeral party" songs. Absolutely fantastic.
yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! love this cut...but I'll never forgive myself for sitting through that entire Jennifer Love Hewitt crapfest movie of the same title with my daughter when I read this song was placed in the film. As I recall, Mr. Westerberg's warblings were played during the end credits. They punk'd me...
That takes me back to the day.. what i can remember of it.
Railee^!^ wrote:
I guess I'm just way too old for this bad music. Sorry Pilly! I will give another listen though..
Hey, c'mon...you were only 17 when this came out!
Neat. I just realized that MMJ uses a similar singing style to Westerberg in their song on Z, Anytime...both are very cool. 2-16-07 I know I've heard this song on one FM station, however, I didnt know the band name until RP. Thankfully we arent impatiently waiting on the DJ to recite the last 20 songs and thankfully for BillG its all on the web and he can concentrate on other stuff. Or dance for the webcam.
This song is flat out greatness. Godlike - you better believe it.
strick wrote:
Don't worry, we dont "get" people from Texas either. They tend to be a bit dim down there... Must be the water, or maybe too much sun on the brain...
A pretty large brush to use to paint that picture. One thing for certain is that people who generalize and stereotype are evil hate-mongers..........
Great song by a great American band...
Woohoo - what a great tune at 1 am!
Superlatives all around to the 'Mats. There was some terrible popular music in '86-'87 (eg "Papa Dont Preach"), but the Replacements unleashed musical deities in "Tim" and "Pleased to Meet Me".
strick wrote:
Don't worry, we dont "get" people from Texas either. They tend to be a bit dim down there... Must be the water, or maybe too much sun on the brain...
T'aint nuthin rong wutha TEXAN
Great repetitive guitar thing they've got going in this one... very addictive!
Fantastic!
drife wrote:
Love this song.
Ditto