Album: Hootenanny
Year: 1983
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Can you stand me on my feet?
“Color Me Impressed” just might be Paul Westerberg’s greatest song.
It’s the late spring of 1983, and my college radio station, KFSR has been on the air for about six months. Long enough for me to start becoming friends — in some cases, life-long! — with the other DJs, one of whom had joined the R.E.M. fan club. And they had gotten a letter from R.E.M. that listed a bunch of other bands that R.E.M. liked, one of which was The Replacements. And since Hootenanny had just come out and we got multiple copies, I took one home.
And fell instantly in love.
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