The Replacements Sell Out
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:: The Replacements - Lookin' For Ya ::
On our long, glorious road trip to SxSW this past week, we managed to stop at a few record stores. Hell, Phil even sniffed out some boxes of records for sale in a parking lot at some day show up on Congress - from 30 yards away! The first place we stopped was PDQ, or Judy's as the sign read, a store in Tucson which had been heralded as a mecca. Well, they certainly did have tons and tons of records, but the catch was that everything was selling for much higher than we've ever seen records go for. As in dinged-up Laura Branigan records going for $6. I decided I wasn't going to give in to the gouging, and secretly hoped I'd find some treasure they'd forgotten to mark up. I guess this is as close as I got - a Mats track I'd never heard, or heard of, on a goofy Minnesota radio station's "battle of the local bands" compilation from 1982.
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According the internets, this song was recorded specifically for this contest, which was sponsored by Miller High Life, the champagne of beers. Gleefully I report the contest was called "Rock To Riches," and in sweet sabotage, Westerberg shouts "Keep your riches, gimme a Budweiser!" at the end of this track. Like this band needed to held in any higher regard in my eyes?
Tony
Damn, dude...this is the kind of stuff I dream about finding when I look for music online. I really can't thank you enough.
And for those who don't know, Twintone records has posted a video of a 'Mats performance from around the same time period as this track (1981, actually).
Here's the link:
http://www.twintone.com/video/mats/
Thanks again.
Friday, March 24, 2006 6:30:00 PM
Wow, what a find!
Thanks for posting!
Monday, March 27, 2006 9:08:00 PM
nice track. this song borrows a LOT (musically, not the lyrics) from one of their other songs: lovelines.
moik
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