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The Better Album?
(#3) Richard Hell & The VoidOids - Blank Generation 37%  37%  [ 20 ]
(#14) The Replacements - Let It Be 63%  63%  [ 34 ]
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Hell is the trendy pick, but I love the Replacements


wrong again.

'Mats love has taken over this board. And TEH HIVEG is the #1 culprit. Just like Obner to celebrate failure.


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Mats - haven't spent any time with Richard Hell - need to remedy that.

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Blank Generation by a nose.

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Hell would slaughter any other Replacements album for me, but Let It Be is one of those albums I've loved and played the hell out of for years...then again, my appreciation for Richard Hell goes back just as far, even though I haven't pulled the album out as much.

I'm throwing down a vote for Hell just to keep things a bit closer since I see no reason for a clear winner here.
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mutty Wrote:
I think when I first started posting over at CMJ, R.E.M. and the Replacements were two of my favorite bands... so my 'Mats love is nothing new. I dig the RH&V record, but its new to me, and I bet it's new to a lot of people here, if they're not too scared to admit it.


Well, you can't just assume that everybody's been listening to the same things you have. I started listening to both of these albums at around the same time.

The 'Mats aren't everybody's "old favorite", but it is interesting that I practically never see anyone championing them as a recent personal discovery. As opposed to Richard Hell, which I think you are right in that many people who have heard that album recently may immediately pick it as a favorite. That's hardly an indictment, though, and it doesn't exactly make it trendy, either.


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this is a tough one. love 'em both, but like others have said...i'm so much more familiar with the 'mats.

voted Hell anyways.

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I got Blank Generation from a girlfriend on my birthday in 1977. The mix of Beefheart, 70s punk, and 50s r'n'r sounded downright futuristic when it first came out, and 30 years later it still hasn't dated itself.

Hootenanny was my first Mats album, but when Let It Be came out it hit me right between the eyes. Played it constantly back then. It's one of those albums where my favorite song has been every song at one time or another.

Based on the number of plays and love of the band, I should vote Mats. But Hell was my nom, and it looks like he needs some help here. Voted Blank.
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Thee Chad Wrote:
Sen. Steve GAR McNair Wrote:
mutty Wrote:
Hell is the trendy pick, but I love the Replacements


wrong again.

'Mats love has taken over this board. And TEH HIVEG is the #1 culprit. Just like Obner to celebrate failure.


My good man you are Just. So. Wrong.


Whatever "it" is, I hear about 20% of the time with the 'Mats.

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I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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billy g Wrote:
Sen. Steve GAR McNair Wrote:
mutty Wrote:
Hell is the trendy pick, but I love the Replacements


wrong again.

'Mats love has taken over this board. And TEH HIVEG is the #1 culprit. Just like Obner to celebrate failure.


If there's one thing this exercise has taught us its outside the good stones albums, some dylan and the dbt's, GAR has pretty teddible taske. Replacements do not = Failure.

That said, I agree that Hell is not the trendy pick. I'm a little surprised that the Mats is winning by such a large margin. I like both but like Hell a lot more. I would have been more conflicted if this were Tim but I'd probably still have picked Hell.


Also, and I think even Rads, their biggest fanboy will back me up here - Failure is The 'Mats schtick. Whether it's intentional or not, they definitely trafficked in lovable loserdom, and were their own worst enemies - snatching defeat from the jaws of victory at every possible turn. So, yes they pretty much unequivocally = Failure.

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I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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The following album will move on to the second round:

The Replacements - Let It Be
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Thee Chad Wrote:
Sen. Steve GAR McNair Wrote:
mutty Wrote:
Hell is the trendy pick, but I love the Replacements


wrong again.

'Mats love has taken over this board. And TEH HIVEG is the #1 culprit. Just like Obner to celebrate failure.


My good man you are Just. So. Wrong.


Agreed. A classic case of GAR being GAR just for the sake of being GAR.

'Mats rule.

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