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Hootenanny
Color Me Impressed
Take Me Down to the Hospital
Mr. Whirly
Within Your Reach
Lovelines
Treatment Bound
Remastered reissue of their reckless and silly 1983 album. Restless Records. 2002.
All Artists: Replacements
Title: Hootenanny
Label: Twintone
Style: American Alternative
UPCs: 018777376020, 035058303223, 018777376068, 035058833218
Experimental Jet Set Trash & No Star
Genres: Alternative Rock, Special Interest, Pop, Rock
Either / Or
Genres: Alternative Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock
Label: Kill Rock Stars
Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean
Genres: Special Interest, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks, Metal
Label: Polygram Records
Label: Elektra / Wea
Patrick O'Hearn
Genres: New Age, Pop, Rock
Label: Private Music
Label: Jive
Goldfly
Label: Reprise / Wea
"Look, you either get this album or you don't. People who rate this album low don't get it - and consequently they don't understand what made the 'Mats a great band in the first place. To me, owning only the major label Replacements albums is like reading half of a novel. It's raw and unpolished - yeah, the sound quality is lacking, obviously - the 'Mats were 4 kids from Minneapolis on a small-time label back then. I wouldn't change a thing - consider it a timepiece, an artifact of an era. Great stuff."
Westergerg and Cusak
mpsheahan@yahoo.com | Durango, CO United States | 12/12/2001
"Paul W amd John Cusak nailed eighties angst. The tie in you say?
Well, today I saw 'Say Anything' for the first time in a long time, and if you listen closely about halfway through "Within your reach" is playing on the radio. And then, to drive it home at the end of the movie, when our hero is about leave the U.S. with his true love, the song is on the radio and as he splits the apartment he blasts the volume. A truly pivital moment in eighties cinema.
Westerberg and the Mats captured that wanting goofball in music the way Cusak did it in film. Oh, yeah, YOU MUST OWN THIS DISC!!!"
Buy this one first!
jcwisch@aol.com | San Jose, Ca. | 06/10/1999
"The red-headed stepchild of replacement albums. Ever wish you could be sitting in a basement drinking a beer and listening to the best rock and roll band in America? Well you can. To me this album captures the mats with their guard down. This album was just a joke, "label wants a hit, and we don't give a shit", right? Just imagine Westerberg coming into the studio with "hospital" and Bob letting loose with the riffs, probably recorded in one take. Tommy's comments after "Treatment Bound" The kid was 15 years old for chrissake! Chris Mars lead on "hootenanny" is a small hint of his enormous talent and things to come. I bought this album in 1985 and I bought the cassette in 1989, and yesterday I bought the CD. The more i listen to the mats the more i realize how important Bob Stinson was to their sound and he is in pure form on Hootenanny. Isnt it funny that an album put out 17 years ago as an afterthought is still better then anything else out there today? Amazing."
The Forgotten Album.
jcwisch@aol.com | 07/02/2001
"The forgotten Mats album. Unfortunate realley, as this was them at their best, and it's not even part of the 'Holy Trinity'. True the later albums were more considered and thoughtful but for sheer punk attitude and bravodo no album equals this.No album shows the middle finger to the music industry like this one!!It starts of sloppy with the band swapping instruments, then the real Replacements step up and take control with the brilliance of 'Run It'. Next up is probably one of their top three songs in 'Color Me Impressed'.Other highlights include the yearning 'Within Your Reach' and the sonic assault of 'You Lose'.No Mats album was as varied as this!! This was the Mats saying goodbye to their innocence.This album is as good when on your own or at a party or driving as their is so much in it!!Who could forget 'The party's on the mirror, won't you pass the bill to Chris'Unmissable!!"
This is a great album
hoorayforme | 05/05/1999
"Certainly worth having, if only for "Color Me Impressed" and "Within Your Reach." I'll admit, the drum-machine on "Within Your Reach" is irritating, and the song would be much better w/o it, but... "Color Me Impressed" is one of the finest songs the band ever did, and is one of Westerberg's finest moments as a songwriter. Ranks right up there with "Bastards of Young," "Left of the Dial," and "Answering Machine."But there's more. The hilarious title track, and the punk thrash of "Run It." "Heyday" is another sign of the greatness to come, yet still holds some ties to the punk past (it's a great song).All in all it's a great record, not their best, but one of the best ever. Certainly a must for any Replacements fan (and if you like music, you should be)."