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Here Comes a Regular

Certain Songs #1877: The Replacements – “Here Comes A Regular”

July 28, 2020 by Jim Connelly

Album: Tim
Year: 1985

. . .

Am I the the only who feels ashamed?

Given the breadth of the songs on side one of Tim, one might have been excused in thinking that, after four straight rock songs the sad acoustic guitar that started the final song would eventually give way to crashing electric guitars. At least that’s what I wrote in my journal the first time I heard “Here Comes a Regular.”

But, of course, that never happened, as for the second straight album, the Replacements closed with what was basically a mold-breaking Paul Westerberg showcase, a heart-breakingly sad song that I instantly thought of as the real theme for Cheers, cos it seemed to capture the other side of growing old in a bar.

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