Warren Newson wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
The Replacements, Let it Be.
You could say "Gary's Got a Boner", "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out", and maybe even the cover of "Black Diamond" are filler, but the record would be less perfect without them.
I've had this conversation with CH. I know this is true of just about all music, but you had to be at the right place at the right time to appreciate that album. In my humble opinion
Tim and
Pleased to Meet Me are head and shoulders better. To me
Let It Be mostly just sounds like noise.
I have to disagree.
Pleased to Meet Me is definitely their best sounding album but both
Let It Be and
Tim had better songs. Tommy Ramone ruined
Tim with a shitty mix. Jim Dickinson ruined "Can't Hardly Wait" with the Memphis Horns.
Let It Be has arguably Westerberg's best song- and that's saying a lot- in "I Will Dare" and then there's the raw emotion of "Unsatisfied", "Answering Machine", and "Sixteen Blue."
I read a review once where the writer said that Westerberg never made a great record without Bob Stinson. He made some good ones like
Pleased to Meet Me and a couple of his solo albums, but nothing that measures up to
Tim or
Let It Be. "Sixteen Blue" isn't even a song I particularly like but Bob's solo on the outro is downright majestic.
to be jarring. I'll listen to it again, and if you're right, you might have just ruined the album for me.
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