ARTIST - PAUL WESTERBERG
ALBUM - EVENTUALLY
SONG - LOVE UNTOLD
DATE - 1996
STATUS - NOT ACQUIRED
More often than not the Pixies were name dropped when ever some aspiring rock journalist asked some aspiring mid-nineties rock band about their influences, and some of those bands even sounded like the Pixies and not just vaguely punky and emotional. Far less often, a band would reference the Replacements. The Replacements began life in the frozen exoticism of the Twin Cities music scene of Minnesota. They were sort of a Punk version of Prince. There's something magical about something that good coming out of a distant and frozen land.
I missed out on the Replacements in large part because before 1991 all cool American bands where forbidden from achieving main stream success. I came to know of the Replacements through Westerberg's solo career. More macho swing in the music than the Pixies, with straight to the heart lyrics.
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