I want to kick off New Music Tuesday with a decidedly old record, an expanded re-issue of The Replacements' Pleased to Meet Me, which I now own on CD for the first time, some 21 years after its initial release on Sire Records. About a year ago, Rhino Records re-released expanded editions of the first four Replacements albums on Twin/Tone Records and this follow-up finds similar treatment for the Minneapolis legends four major label records, starting with 1985's Tim through their swan song, 1991's All Shook Down.
Despite growing up in the '80s, I was pretty much in the middle of suburban hell as a teen and didn't discover the Mats (or any really good music) until 1989, when MTV's repeated plays of the still-classic video for "I'll Be You" from Don't Tell a Soul (the band's biggest, relatively speaking, commercial success) prompted me to buy the album. This was around August 1989 and I know the band was the soundtrack for the end of my final summer before going away to college, both Don't Tell a Soul and their earlier album which I bought just before I left, Pleased to Meet Me. College would change my musical tastes considerably, as I got exposed to music I'd never heard before and saw more concerts than I can remember. I saw The Replacements at the old College Ave Gym on what would be their final tour, in support of their ill-fated All Shook Down disaster, but I remember it fondly, even if I'm not sure what they played anymore.
I still have the cassette versions of Pleased to Meet Me and Don't Tell a Soul somewhere, but I haven't listened to cassettes in well over a decade and even though I never bought the versions on CD, I haven't listened to CDs in half a decade, so the songs that weren't on their best-of CDs that I own are not in my iTunes either. And let me tell you, after the first blasts of "Never Mind" - which opened up Side 2 on the cassette version, I was transported instantly back to Kilmer Campus in September of 1989, when I used to kill time between classes at the student center by listening to my spankin' new copy of Pleased to Meet Me on my Sony Walkman. It was a great album then, and it's a great album now. And those were really good times.
Absolution is out of the question.
It makes no sense to apologize.
The words I thought I brought I left behind,
So never mind.
Here's some more songs of a more current nature, making their way onto my playlist in recent weeks.
- Download Deerhoof - "Fresh Born".mp3
- New album Offend Maggie released today on Kill Rock Stars
- myspace
- Download Deerhunter - "Nothing Ever Happened".mp3
- New album Microcastle coming October 28, available now for digital download
- myspace
- Download The Happy Hollows - "Lieutenant".mp3
- New EP Imaginary available now
- myspace
- Download TV on the Radio - "Halfway Home".mp3
- New album Dear Science available now
- myspace
- Download Lykke Li - "Dance, Dance, Dance (Chaise Marcel Remix)".mp3
- Youth Novels available now
- myspace
- Download Antony and the Johnson - "Shake that Devil".mp3
- New EP Another World released today on Secretly Canadian
- myspace
No debate commentary?
Posted by: That One | October 08, 2008 at 12:36 AM
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/7/235723/393/919/623521
Posted by: Bill | October 08, 2008 at 08:38 AM