Paul Westerberg-Left Of The Dial

Irving Plaza, New York City 7-31-96 Smashing ending. http://Paulwesterberg.net

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Music

Tags:

• westerberg
• mats
• replacements

[antoniusgrrr]

After 25 years of thorough research i came to the objective conclusion that this is the best rocksong ever.

[flmnglps]

those college radio days (82-94) were some of the most magical times of music for me. murmur, zen arcade, let it be. right up to bee thousand, slanted and enchanted, bandwagonesque and then music just seememd to go downhill from there generally speaking

[mc17strat]

Too bad the sound couldn't be dialed to center at the very least...

[polarbearfelly]

Strange, I get nostalgia from this despite it being just a few year before my time ('85-born kid here). Just wish that this sound still existed in some form today!!

[ThePeteybee]

this song embodies the spirit of the music and the era I grew up in. College radio. All the good shit was on the little tiny stations that had the bravado and the balls to play this stuff. Growing up in the bay area, it's the only way i woulda found bands like the 'mats and husker du and the waterboys and world party.....all the stuff that still sounds great to me today. sure, i could be stuck in the past, but fuck you.......i love it.

[mdep524]

Seriously, I would give anything to have this complete show on DVD! I have seen every video on YouTube/heard every mp3 of Westerberg and the Replacements live from the '80s through the '00s and this is the best damn thing EVER!

Blasty, if you read this, thank you so much for posting this, and what kind of grassroots Occupy Wall Street / Tea Party movement to we need to start to get this released??

[agirlandamonkey]

This was a great show. God, I miss the Replacements.



[bobbyrawson]

@antoniusgrrr I tried to like that twice, but it wouldn't let me, hahaha.

[ri394]

@antoniusgrrr it took you 25 years? it took me 3 minutes and 41 seconds ;D

[danjay67]

@antoniusgrrr Effing-A sir....... Efffing-A

[wasdanah]

@flmnglps you just got old.

[Michael7E]

I totally dig Paul's style during this show. He looks so fly with the shirt and tie. It's like he's a guy who works in a cubicle at an auto insurance company, but then at night he rips off his suit jacket, grabs a guitar, and preaches the gospel of Alex Chilton and rock music to the masses.