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Hold My Life

Certain Songs #1871: The Replacements – “Hold My Life”

July 20, 2020 by Jim Connelly

Album: Tim
Year: 1985

. . .

Time for decision to be made

So there I was, eager as all hell to hear the follow-up album to Let It Be — a record that hadn’t left my turntable for a year — a little bit worried about what the major label debut by The Replacements was going to sound like.

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Certain Songs #1870: The Replacements – “Can’t Hardly Wait (Tim Version)”

July 18, 2020 by Jim Connelly

Album: Nothing For All
Year: 1985

. . .

I’ll be sad in heaven

The question was always going to be which version of “Can’t Hardly Wait” would I write about. I first heard it as the highlight as The Shit Hits The Fans, the cassette-only live album which documented one of their disintegration shows.

After that, of course, it was the final song on Pleased to Meet Me, all tarted up with horns and strings, a production move that still pisses people off, but I loved. And — SPOILER ALERT — will be writing about in a couple of weeks, at which point “Can’t Hardly Wait” will join the rarefied ranks of “Tonight’s The Night” and “Bad Day:” songs by artists where there are two disparate versions I love so much I refuse to choose between them.

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  • Certain Songs #2392: Soundgarden – “Blow Up The Outside World”
  • Certain Songs #2391: Soundgarden – “Ty Cobb”

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