Angel ,'Chosen'
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 got a copy of The Shit Hits the Fans back when I was doing a lot of bootleg trades in high school, but I failed to properly appreciate it and now have no idea where it is.
I wish I had been old enough to see the 'mats all drunk and doing weird covers, but I was not.
I have a cassette of the Shit Hits the Fans too. I also love that version of Can't Hardly Wait.
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?
Grew up in NYC. Moved to Boston for college. Let It Be was the first 'Mats record I was aware of. They were huge at my radio station. I got the stamped Stink copy second-hand a few years later.
I wish I had been old enough to see the 'mats all drunk and doing weird covers, but I was not.
How I miss those days.
Good times.
I am with hayden on the kooky goodness that is the released "Can't Hardly Wait." Also, I saw the 'mats live once, with amych, and enjoyed it muchly.
Question born of ignorance: why the 'mats? Why not the 'ments?
Short for Placemats.
It's short for Placemats.
I see. Thank you.
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.
Silly - you sent me that bootleg. The Metro show from 86? Full of reckless, wasted glory it is.
Just last night I was trying to remember what the mats song in Say Anything is - the one that plays as he is leaving his sister's apartment to get on the plane just as the movie is ending. Anyone know what it was off the top of their head? If I don't have that somewhere, I need to buy it.
I am getting the Fiery Furnaces today because of all the squeeing here about it. I need a new CD and am uninspired about everything else out right now.