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Popel Vooje

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Re: Oh and finally...

Feb 23, 2010, 15:18

machineryelf wrote:

Popel Vooje wrote:

How could I forget?

"All Shook Down" by the Replacements.

Dismissed as a tired, plodding swansong by a bar band who had effectively already split up. In reality, the best singer-songwriter album of the early 90s, one that both anticipated and transcended the remainder of the Lemonheads' career, and a fair portion of American Music Club's.

wasn't that the critical opinion about every Replacements album on release, then when the new one came along suddenly the one before was a classic

To some extent, yes. I think they had universal critical kudos when they were still on an indie label, but after they signed to Sire their fanbase seemed to split between purists who only liked the early stuff and the future Uncut readers who appreciated their more introspective side... but "All Shook Down" seemed to invoke the biggest disparirty between the album journalists reviewed and the one I heard.

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