Wednesday, December 26, 2007

"Pretty girls keep growing up": Don't You Know Who I Think I Was? The Best of the Replacements

Maybe you had to be there. I like this kind of stuff well enough, and sometimes I can almost feel how it could really take someone, but somehow it never really quite takes me. You can certainly hear the influence their melodic-anthemic punk-rock had, indirectly or otherwise, on any number of others who came after them - Buffalo Tom and Foo Fighters being the two most obvious for mine.