Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sjuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bellcore!petrus!scherzo!allegra!princeton!astrovax!sjuvax!kirsch From: kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: new Replacements Message-ID: <2501@sjuvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 14:26:39 EST Article-I.D.: sjuvax.2501 Posted: Sat Nov 2 14:26:39 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 06:58:34 EST References: <1252@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> <137@ingres.ARPA> Reply-To: kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch) Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA. Lines: 38 Summary: In article <137@ingres.ARPA> ebm@ingres.UUCP (Grady Toss) writes: >>Have any of you Replacement fans out there heard the new album? >>It is called "Tim" I believe. Are there any covers (of the musical >>variety) on it? >> >> James Cooper "Agent Double-O soul, baby..." > >[Sounds of gagging and spitting] > >I heard it just the other day... and it sounds AWFUL. If you listen >really hard you can hear a shred of the Replacements personality coming >through the oh-too-major-label-production. > >It's hard to tell if the songs themselves are suspect... but the SOUND >of this record is a definite step into the grave. > >If you really want Replacements doing cover versions get the cassette-only >release from Twin Tone (can't remember the name off hand)... it has an >entire side of covers. > >... gt I haven't listened to the New album enough--but, the live cassette is called "When The shit hits the Fans". -- Another wunnerful letter from the semi-intelligent rotting brain of: Paul Kirsch St. Joseph's University Philadelphia, Pa { astrovax | allegra | bpa | burdvax } !sjuvax!kirsch Warning: Objects in Terminal Room are Closer than they Appear...