Mal ,'Serenity'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
I've only seen them one, when they were sober. But they were notoreous for getting wasted and playing whatever crap covers they could think of.
Oh yeah, I saw one of those! It was a hell of a lot of fun. But I got some bootlegs from Tina last year that captured the reckless, wasted glory as well as The Shit Hits The Fans, and some of those I could only listen to a couple of times as well.
What that does have is the definitive version of "Can't Hardly Wait". Soooo much better than the studio verson they later released.
This statement is true with the intensity of a thousand burning suns.
I've purchased Never Mind the Bollocks twice, on 8-track and CD.
A story concerning Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols. Back in the day, of course, there was a court case in the UK seeking to prevent its release on grounds of indecent language (i.e. 'bollocks'). The Sex Pistols' lawyer was the human rights advocate, and expatriate Aussie, Geoffrey Robertson. He argued before the courts, successfully as it turned out, that 'bollocks' was a perfectly acceptable English term of considerable history. In fact, he pointed out, it was the favoured term for testicles in English translations of the Bible, until the King James Version, when they opted to use 'stones' instead.
Geoffrey Robertson recounts, "At this point, Mr Rotten leaned over to me and told me not to worry if they didn't win the case, as they would simply rename the album 'Never Mind the Stones, Here's The Sex Pistols'."
What that does have is the definitive version of "Can't Hardly Wait". Soooo much better than the studio verson they later released.
Eh, I like 'em both. The produced version has its own Jim Dickinson-style goodness. By which I mean kooky horns and weird noises.
I have one of those too! (Hand stamped copy of Stink) And an original copy of Shit Hits the Fans.
Cherished possessions indeed.
Tommyrot, I have SHTF on CD - you can borrow it to burn a copy.
cathy has a big-ass painting of the cover to Let it Be hanging in her living room.
What that does have is the definitive version of "Can't Hardly Wait". Soooo much better than the studio verson they later released.
This is so true. They'd been playing that version live for YEARS - imagine my disappointment when I first played Pleased to Meet Me.
The lyrics are all wrong, and...horns?
Jon, I, um... forget where you're from. Were you in Minneapolis in the '80s? Or were you so cool that you were into the Replacements from the beginning while not living in Minneapolis?
I must be younger than y'all. The one on Pleased To Meet Me was the first one I heard. I like the other one, too, but I didn't hear it for another couple of years. They didn't even play it when I saw them in '87 (so, to be clear, I never saw Bob Stinson play -- Slim was sitting in at that point, but he wasn't officially in the band yet), but they were drunk as hell and playing wacky covers.
cathy has a big-ass painting of the cover to Let it Be hanging in her living room.
I do. It is awesome. It was a wedding gift from a friend on the same internet list where I ment my husband - it was a 'mats email list. So it only seems appropriate.
And then there is the framed promo poster from the Let It Be Era. Great band shot, all the TT albums pictured at the bottom with the caption “Tommy Says So..”
Last time Westerberg toured, we went to one of the in-stores and Chris told him we met on a mats discussion list and were getting married. He looked up at us, smiled and said “You know, I’ve been hearing more and more of that lately. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.”