best known as the former lead singer and songwriter of The Replacements, one of the seminal alternative rock bands of the 1980s, he launched a solo career after the dissolution of that band, and he no doubt jumped at the chance to do a Dylan cover.Hey, I liked it
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Paul Westerberg is back in action, but only in Minneapolis. The former lead singer and songwriter of The Replacements, Westerberg has been reported to be primarily recording his music at home in his basement in the Minneapolis suburbs. Commonly, the 47 year old has been dubbed a recluse. Apparently, not anymore.The Minneapolis rock icon took to the stage Sunday at the city's legendary First Ave...
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One needs to look no further than Craigslist to realize the cultural divide, no...the cultural canyon, between Los Angeles, California and Columbus, Ohio.Two totally different worlds, each with their own set of highs and lows. But I have to admit that the missed connections postings in LA are on an entirely different level! Surreal and absurd are the gold standards here. Couple this fact with m...
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Amazon has another surprise from Paul Westerberg. This time it's a real single. The cover says The Best for Last -- Hmmm . . . . I still like 49:00 . . . and its still mysteriously missing. I posted a couple of songs from that earlier this summer. Bored of Edukation? I once saw this phrase written in my Mom's college textbook from the 1950s, so it's not a new thought.
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MP3: Paul Westerberg - Good As The CatHeyyyyy, I took a day off yesterday. Pretty cool shit. Now I'm back, and holy shit, so is Paul Westerberg who just released an ep called "PW & The Ghost Gloves Cat Wing Joy Boys" (it's title borrowing a word per song). It slays pretty fucking hard and is fine example of how this mother fucker can write a fine rock and roll tune: there's some folksy ditties ...
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Not to be confused with The Who's 5:15, this little song was left off the now unavailable 49:00, which as I explained earlier mysteriously disappeared from Amazon this week.
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Paul Westerberg's 49:00, a 43-minute one track album of stripped down rockers, disappeared from the Amazon mp3 charts, and Amazon itself this week. Last week, 49:00 was at the top of the site's mp3 album chart.Speculation on a Paul Westerberg fan web site (paulwesterberg.net) is that the release ran into copyright problems with a medley of covers near the end of the album. The covers included...
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Not necessarily "the best" of 2008 but these ended up in heavy rotation. I've included a single off the withdrawn 49:00 release by Paul Westerberg, which surfaced on Amazon for about a week this summer then got removed for reasons unknown. Most of these made up a birthday CD for Mogger StereoType. Happy New Year!Magick Ryan Adams & The Cardina Shining On Juliana HatfieldLights Out...
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I was thinking of making a mix cd of songs about musicians/bands calling out the new generation of artists. One of the classics under this heading would of course be Who Are You by the Who which Pete Townshend wrote for the punk bands in the late 70's. The only other song I was able to come up with on my own was World Class Fad by Paul Westerberg. "If you want it that badBe a world class fadR...
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Here is the first song -- there are no tracks -- on Paul's new 49:00 release -- which is available as a 49 cent download this week at Amazon. If these are throwaways, I can't wait until his next proper release. Great stuff -- more later.
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Here another "track" off the new Paul Westerberg release. This is a crunchy little number that is about a third of the way through this one track marvel. Cutting this up is hard, because there are some terrific snippets of songs crammed between each longer form tune. It starts with a bang. There are no song titles either, so I'm making them up -- and not being very creative as you'll see i...
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You either like Paul Westerberg, or you don't. I fall on the fan side of Mr. Westerberg. Last month, it was the download only "49:00". Yesterday, he released "3oclockkreep". Still listening.... Enjoying the fact it includes Tom Waits. Not sure when this was recorded, but it's still the real deal. Enjoy!P.S. The tracks can be downloaded via Tunecore for $3.99.
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I've been hearing some unexpectedly good songs in restaurants lately. Yesterday, I was picking up Chinese food and this was on -- I guess they had XM. I haven't put this CD on in years! What a great song . . . it's a little embarrassing to be singing along at the take out counter, but I guess I don't really care.
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Do people still like to rock? The answer seems to be yes if they can get an entire album worth of songs for 49 cents. Paul Westerberg's stunt makes his new release the top album download at Amazon this week. Last week I posted two songs from this epic one track here on my MOG:http://mog.com/funoka/edit : Here's the list: 1. 49:00 by Paul Westerberg 2. Our Love To Admire by Interpol 3. M...
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etcvisitor had asked the question in his latest post about what the craziest thing you have done to not miss a show or lose your place in the front. i must admit i lame and i have done nothing really of note to get to a show/get a ticket, etc. instead i answered this question: what shows have you missed to your deep and utmost regret. (and i don't mean shows that you couldn't possibly have gon...
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