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Post by daved on Mar 5, 2021 23:35:34 GMT
Yep, looks like a ponderous twat. If DC made WandaVision instead of Marvel, that’s what Vision would look like.
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Post by Potsie Hoofman on Mar 6, 2021 1:36:18 GMT
Get the fuck out. There's no way that's him. Too easy. Fish in a barrel.
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Post by overrated on Mar 6, 2021 14:45:19 GMT
Yes, Neil Young caught a free ride with CSN. That's why they've spent the last 50 years begging him to come back.
Young's an asshole, but let's not rewrite history just to gratify our own biases.
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Post by graucho on Mar 6, 2021 15:05:24 GMT
He's puncturing myths. Myths he's convinced everyone believes but him. It's the same thing he does in the Replacements threads. "Westerberg just pretended to be ambivalent about commercial success. It's all a pose and he was really calculating and blah blah blah" Nobody cares! We just like the songs. Shut up! I bet if he did a survey of his street, to find out how many people who lived on it knew who Paul Westerberg is (let alone cared whether he was 'all a pose'), it wouldn't be more than 10%.
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Post by daved on Mar 6, 2021 15:18:08 GMT
He's puncturing myths. Myths he's convinced everyone believes but him. It's the same thing he does in the Replacements threads. "Westerberg just pretended to be ambivalent about commercial success. It's all a pose and he was really calculating and blah blah blah" Nobody cares! We just like the songs. Shut up! I bet if he did a survey of his street, to find out how many people who lived on it knew who Paul Westerberg is (let alone cared whether he was 'all a pose'), it wouldn't be more than 10%. A 15 year old we know from the barn didn’t know the song Purple Rain. I’m guessing the Westerberg number would be more like 0%. But, hey man, the myth has been burst!
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Post by daved on Mar 6, 2021 15:24:16 GMT
He has his latest punching bag in his sights:
In a month I’m gonna search and see how many times he brings this up.
St Vincent is rock?
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Post by bradman on Mar 6, 2021 15:38:10 GMT
She plays a guitar, so I suppose so.
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Post by Last Rock Hope on Mar 6, 2021 15:50:33 GMT
I'm a big Replacements fan and I'm sure that's true. In fact I'd be surprised if the number that knew or cared was anywhere near that. Luckily those of us that do care have Spencer 8 to set us straight...in endlessly tedious Spencer 8 fashion.
But yeah, he really has a major bug up his butt about Westerberg and it's hard to make sense of it all but the thing that really set him off last year was this thing they did with their album Don't Tell A Soul. Short version of this is the original had kind of slick 80s production and they did a rerelease with a different mix. Sort of a 'Let it Be Naked' thing. This pissed off Spencer 8 to no end and he wouldn't shut up about it.
And the thing that pissed him off is not so much that they did it, but that they said they didn't like the original mix. See, because Spencer *does* like the original mix and he knows Paul was just saying that because he was trying to hang on to some indie cool and...blah blah blah whatever.
Also keep in mind Paul didn't do any new interviews about all this. Spencer had to dig up 30 year old quotes to be pissed off about.
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Post by Last Rock Hope on Mar 6, 2021 15:54:20 GMT
Full disclosure: I also prefer the original mix. But you can still get it so what the fuck.
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Post by Last Rock Hope on Mar 6, 2021 15:57:41 GMT
Also another aspect of his Replacements thing is tied into his R.E.M. obsession. He sees them as rivals which they kind of were in the early 80s until R.E.M obviously got way bigger. So that's all anciently settled history but not for Spencer 8. I can't even begin to make sense of it but he's really angry about it.
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Post by mintyjackhole on Mar 6, 2021 16:25:02 GMT
The original mix sucked. The new mix actually sounds like a The Replacements album. Of course, even if I hated it I'd still be glad it existed if only to piss off Spencer8.
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Post by bradman on Mar 6, 2021 16:29:09 GMT
My thoughts, as well. I'm not enamored of post-Bob 'Mats, anyway.
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Post by Last Rock Hope on Mar 6, 2021 16:37:37 GMT
I probably like it out if nostalgia or something. And I've always liked that each of their albums has a different character. I don't know.
But my favorite Replacements is the early stuff like Sorry Ma and Hootenanny. And that's another thing that gets Spencer really mad, is people talking about early Replacements or saying they prefer that. Because according to Spencer, the real Paul is the solo serious Paul and when they did the reunion and played a lot early stuff that was fake and phony and...I don't even know. It's another thing he goes on about endlessly.
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Post by mintyjackhole on Mar 6, 2021 16:42:15 GMT
I've always been more of a fan of the band than of Paul specifically. I'm mostly with Bradman, though I do feel a little nostalgic for the first time I heard Don't Tell a Soul and thought, "this blows, what happened to my favorite band?"
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Post by NeverHeardOfEm on Mar 6, 2021 17:09:14 GMT
Probably the best way to get Westerberg to release music that sounds like the early 'Mats as opposed to later material or his solo stuff would be to somehow get him to become aware of SHiteville and to read all of the nonsense that Spencer 8 posts, as Paul would likely want to spite such a twat.
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