Paul Westerberg, Neil Young & Bob Dylan.

The first time I saw The Replacements was in April 1985, a few months after this album came out. And I got to interview Paul Westerberg for my college radio station, which was as pretty nerve-wracking. Except that he was really nice, and I recall that he answered all of my questions (including my off-air question…

Christgau put it second on his 1984 Pazz & Jop Ballot.

My all-time favorite album by anybody ever.

Should point out that neither Chris Mars nor Bob Stinson played on their final tour in 1991. It was Paul, Tommy, Slim and a guy named Steve Foley.

Like left brain vs. right brain, The Replacements vs R.E.M. is a false choice. My life has been enhanced immeasurably for three decades by both bands.

At 4:41, around the time the word "change" is sung, it sounds like the guitar track slows down for a second or two.

I think that Bandwagonesque— one of my very favorite albums in my very favorite year in music — has been retroactively punished for that victory over Nevermind. At least partially because indie politics and partially because they never made an album top-to-bottom as great again.

"Too Much Joy, the international love patrol."

"Sun Glass" by Fucked Up is like every single punk rock song I've loved from the last 35+ years all rolled up into one ever-exploding package.

Now and forever, The Replacements. In fact, that's how I met my first batch of online friends: on a Replacements BBS on Prodigy in 1993, a few of whom I'm either going to meet IRL for the first (or second) time 20+ years later in St. Paul in a couple of months.

Trust me, the hardcore scene was always full of rule-following anarchy sheep.

Because their career was kinda like Green Day's minus the scene authenticity at the beginning and the grand ambitions after they got big, people forget that the 2nd & 3rd Goo Goo Dolls albums — Jed and (especially) Hold Me Up are both pretty great pop-punk albums.

So The Men remind you of CCR, The Band, The Modern Lovers, The Seeds, The Replacements, Van Morrison, Gram Parsons, Big Star, Can and the Meat Puppets, and somehow that's not a good thing?

One of my favorite bits of DEVO subversion is how "Uncontrollable Urge" steals/recontextualizes its riff from "Misty Mountain Hop."

Would love to check out other one season shows I liked at the time to see if they held up:
Lucky
Karen Sisco
Cupid

He's just following in the tradition of Janis Joplin, who when she lost a Newsweek cover to a recently-deceased Dwight D. Eisenhower said: "Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week."

"We can make each other happy"

I remember driving by movie theaters where people were protesting it and yelling "Brian lives!!!" at the protesters.

I'm sure that someone else has already mentioned this, but I taped and watched the very first episode of The Simpsons (and had been watching the shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show ), and I've watched every single subsequent episode.