The MG Album Club #37: The Replacements - Tim

[Unsomnambulist]

1985 was a fantastic year in music, but this one always stands out for me. This was sort of more commercial than their previous releases, yet somehow managed to be awesome without selling out.

The Replacements - Tim

 

[axolotl]

Good call on this one, Rick.

Btw, the call went out at 9:57; you responded by 10:10, and you posted the above at 10:18, despite not knowing that you would be next or the random year. That is easily the record for this thread, I think.

Motivational statement: The rest of us lollygaggers had better get our shit together!

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

I've started listening to this. It's not bad. But my brain is still craving a little mellower fare today. I'm going to relisten later.

 

[Nickyboy]

I've liked this album a lot ever since I bought it in college. It's rougher than "Pleased to Meet Me" and that works out just fine. Highlights for me are always "Kiss Me on the Bus", "Left of the Dial", and "Little Mascara". They don't make rock-n-roll like this anymore.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Great choice - really good album. Enjoy the Replacements a lot and own four of their albums, but they are interestingly a group I listen to in spurts often separated by a year (last fm reminds me I last played Tim 2 yrs ago) - perhaps because I didn't get into them until my 20s rather than when I was in college and groups often stick a little more. Tim definitely finds the Mats more production-savvy and a bit mellower that on Let It Be, but the music is great. Wonderful listen


Interestingly, they are among the artists banned for life on SNL after appearing on the show in 1986 to do songs from this album - apparently rude and bawdy behavior. I bet if they did this during the Belushi years, it would have been OK
Have no idea why the album is named Tim and have never researched why - there are no Tim's in the band

Off one website, reportedly a Westerberg quote from Jim Walsh's Replacements book

"We named it Tim for no reason at all".This was the first time we named an album after it was done.We sat around a bar,we were gonna call it Whistler's Mammy,Van Gogh's Ear,or England Schmingland."I think I said Tim and we sat and laughed for a few minutes and then we said,"Why not?"

 

[Nickyboy]

 

[Ojai Sam]

Great choice - really good album. Enjoy the Replacements a lot and own four of their albums, but they are interestingly a group I listen to in spurts often separated by a year (last fm reminds me I last played Tim 2 yrs ago) - perhaps because I didn't get into them until my 20s rather than when I was in college and groups often stick a little more. Tim definitely finds the Mats more production-savvy and a bit mellower that on Let It Be, but the music is great. Wonderful listen


Interestingly, they are among the artists banned for life on SNL after appearing on the show in 1986 to do songs from this album - apparently rude and bawdy behavior. I bet if they did this during the Belushi years, it would have been OK
Have no idea why the album is named Tim and have never researched why - there are no Tim's in the band

Off one website, reportedly a Westerberg quote from Jim Walsh's Replacements book

“Whistler’s Mammy”?

 

[axolotl]

“Whistler’s Mammy”?

Would you have preferred "Monastery Values" or "Que Sirhan Sirhan"?

 

[Ojai Sam]

I'm really glad to spin this one again. The Mats are a group I feel I "should" like. But, like Husker Du and (sorry, Zeeb) The Ramones, I just never developed an affection for them.

Sad to say, that's still the case. Paul Westerberg's "startling, beguiling lack of affect" as AMG puts it doesn't move me and the largely aimless, alienated songs don't come from a place that I can identify with. But I'll keep trying.

Thanks for a stimulating pick, Unsom!

 

[Ojai Sam]

Oh, yeah.