I know this probably sounds like sacrilege, but Don’t Tell A Soul may very well be my favorite mats record. Especially with the new Dead Man’s Pop mix. Also, despite it being the archetypal messy Replacements record, Hootenanny isn’t very good with the exception of Color me Impressed. Even Within Your Reach is pretty meh.
That is all
Hootenany just sounds like a fun knock off project. But I dig it.
"Don't Tell a Soul" and "All Shook Down" sound like a different band. The latter feeling more like a solo record for Paul. However they were a different band musically. I suppose it's like comparing "The Clash" with "Sandinista!" the band in 1977 would've been incapable of making "Sandinista!". That's only 3-4 years inbetween. From "Sorry Ma" to "All Shook Down" is 8-9 years that's a lot of time developing and losing a band member etc.
Same thing with Husker Dü. You would never listen to their early 9000 BPM hardcore and expect them to write something like Makes No Sense at All. The latter being pure power pop perfection. I suppose the Replacements were never a hardcore band in a pure sense. Weller always had a way with a killer hook.
I know this probably sounds like sacrilege, but Don’t Tell A Soul may very well be my favorite mats record. Especially with the new Dead Man’s Pop mix. Also, despite it being the archetypal messy Replacements record, Hootenanny isn’t very good with the exception of Color me Impressed. Even Within Your Reach is pretty meh.
That is all
Hootenany just sounds like a fun knock off project. But I dig it.
"Don't Tell a Soul" and "All Shook Down" sound like a different band. The latter feeling more like a solo record for Paul. However they were a different band musically. I suppose it's like comparing "The Clash" with "Sandinista!" the band in 1977 would've been incapable of making "Sandinista!". That's only 3-4 years inbetween. From "Sorry Ma" to "All Shook Down" is 8-9 years that's a lot of time developing and losing a band member etc.
Same thing with Husker Dü. You would never listen to their early 9000 BPM hardcore and expect them to write something like Makes No Sense at All. The latter being pure power pop perfection. I suppose the Replacements were never a hardcore band in a pure sense. Weller always had a way with a killer hook.
Paul Weller did indeed have a way with a killer hook. However I think you mean "Westerberg".
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
I know this probably sounds like sacrilege, but Don’t Tell A Soul may very well be my favorite mats record. Especially with the new Dead Man’s Pop mix. Also, despite it being the archetypal messy Replacements record, Hootenanny isn’t very good with the exception of Color me Impressed. Even Within Your Reach is pretty meh.
That is all
Hootenany just sounds like a fun knock off project. But I dig it.
"Don't Tell a Soul" and "All Shook Down" sound like a different band. The latter feeling more like a solo record for Paul. However they were a different band musically. I suppose it's like comparing "The Clash" with "Sandinista!" the band in 1977 would've been incapable of making "Sandinista!". That's only 3-4 years inbetween. From "Sorry Ma" to "All Shook Down" is 8-9 years that's a lot of time developing and losing a band member etc.
Same thing with Husker Dü. You would never listen to their early 9000 BPM hardcore and expect them to write something like Makes No Sense at All. The latter being pure power pop perfection. I suppose the Replacements were never a hardcore band in a pure sense. Weller always had a way with a killer hook.
Paul Weller did indeed have a way with a killer hook. However I think you mean "Westerberg".
I don't know why but I had the urge to listen to some Pink Floyd tonight. Maybe nostalgic reasons. I put The Wall on and though it's 35 years since I heard it I remembered every song. I get why people like them but they desperately needed an editor. Some good stuff but long dreary passages of utter indulgence.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
I don't know why but I had the urge to listen to some Pink Floyd tonight. Maybe nostalgic reasons. I put The Wall on and though it's 35 years since I heard it I remembered every song. I get why people like them but they desperately needed an editor. Some good stuff but long dreary passages of utter indulgence.
I don't know why but I had the urge to listen to some Pink Floyd tonight. Maybe nostalgic reasons. I put The Wall on and though it's 35 years since I heard it I remembered every song. I get why people like them but they desperately needed an editor. Some good stuff but long dreary passages of utter indulgence.
That's the problem. They have great ideas and some solid tunes. But after 3 - 4 mins the noodling does your nut in.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
I don't know why but I had the urge to listen to some Pink Floyd tonight. Maybe nostalgic reasons. I put The Wall on and though it's 35 years since I heard it I remembered every song. I get why people like them but they desperately needed an editor. Some good stuff but long dreary passages of utter indulgence.
I was too cool and punk to like PF TW when it came out, but as I've grown (and saw the movie), I actually enjoy listening to it occasionally. I like Dark Side Of The Moon as well, but as others have said, overall to much noodling for me to really get too in to it.
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
Don't mind admitting I'm a huge Dark Side of the Moon fan. One of those rare albums, like London Calling, I just feel is inspired opening groove to last. The mad laughter at the end just gets me every time. Haven't listened to The Wall in decades, never grabbed me quite as much.
My grand Floyd thesis is slowly shaping more and more into "the worst album of their classic years is their most famous one and their post-waters era has damaged their legacy by trying to recreate the mood of their worst album over and over but without Rogers' cynicism"
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead