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Androgynous

Certain Songs #1865: The Replacements – “Androgynous”

July 13, 2020 by Jim Connelly

Album: Let It Be
Year: 1984

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Mirror image / see no damage / see no evil at all

“Androgynous” just might be the greatest song Paul Westerberg has ever written.

Let it Be was the album where I started thinking in terms of Replacements albums having “major” songs and “minor” songs. In general, the “major” songs were usually — but not always — grand statements where he somehow universalized the personal. The minor songs were the jokey ones, the pisstakes, the ones delivered with a wink. Or, the major songs could be the ones I loved more.

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