The Replacements - You’re Getting Married (Demo)
Track from the Deluxe edition of Stink, although it shouldn’t be. Apparently, Bob told Paul to “save that shit for your solo record - that ain’t us.” But Bob’s dead and anyway, it’s a muggy day out, so this was the jam for the moment. Via Yuppie Punk (a far better blog than its name implies, if not for all the never tired GG Allin posts).
The Replacements are also a far more cinematic band than one would expect from the same guys who laid down “Fuck School” on the same album as this - aren’t more than half of the romantic comedies the studio system produces about this song? To think that the only movie to reference them was Can’t Hardly Wait is almost absurd, but then again, Harold & Kumar probably wouldn’t be the same film if it were called “Dope Smokin’ Moron” (then again: yes, yes it would). But, really, isn’t almost every ex-girlfriend’s marriage like this, too? There’s a reason you’re the drunk asshole at the party - it’s because you have to be.
Related: 99 wrote a post on the Replacements here that you should read if you’ve ever driven more than half an hour to go to a concert or seen a band that was once - when you saw them - relatively unknown. Worth noting, though - I took contention with his idea that Frat Boys and Replacements fans weren’t mutually exclusive. He responded via email:
Never trust a Replacements fan on sight, no matter how much flannel they wear. Could very much turn out to be packing roofies.
**And to address all the YM love around here: first, this shop is closed, and it ain’t reopening. Second, we’re not above avenging the good name of Adam Duritz, though if we really wanted to, we could just summon the beast on his head to consume the fuck out of you (kind of using the same methodology a starfish would to feed, I imagine). Thirdsies, they don’t have comments on their fumblr. Besides, the shiv is for everyone, but everyone else is boring. That’s why.