Today's episode is with our good friend Blake Rainey regarding one of the greatest albums of all time, The Replacements "Tim": Ultimately, I chose the Replacements “Tim” because I knew it would be a lot of fun to talk about with Tom and James. Anyone who seriously loves rock n’ roll and indie music in general has had a relationship with the Replacements at some point, be it good or bad. They always felt like kindred spirits to me, growing up a lost and lonely wild-spirited teen in small-town Georgia. Yet they were city kids who came into their own with a budding music scene already in place, and in their backyards, which was equally foreign and fascinating to me.

“Tim” seemed to have it all - solid anthemic rockers and devastating ballads, with some throwaway lyrics and serious wordplay happening side-by-side. To a musical teenager, it was like the coolest way an American rock band could ever dream of writing a song. They were fun and dangerous, dumb and smart, and energetic like no other band that played by their own set of rules, success be damned. What’s not to love?

p.s. The Tim remix album is the shit.  Blast it!

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