6.07.2006
Can't hardly wait
For those who can't wait until next Tuesday, Rhino is streaming the forthcoming Replacements best-of, Don't You Know Who I Think I Was? in its entirety here.Fans, of course, will skip to the end to hear the two new tracks, "Message to the Boys" and "Pool and Dive." Neither is great, sounding not unlike the lesser filler on the band's swan song, All Shook Down. I'd be curious to know if Westerberg wrote these specifically for this purpose, or if they were spare tracks laying around. ASCAP lists Westerberg as the sole writer for both, for what that's worth.
Who knew that the inevitable Replacements critic reanalysis would take 15 years to occur, and that it would still preceed the release of Chinese Democracy?


