Oil Can Boyd

From the Replacements FB page: Following up last year’s DEAD MAN’S POP, PLEASED TO MEET ME (DELUXE EDITION) will be available as a 3 CD/1LP set and digitally on October 9! More than half of the music (29 of the 55 tracks) on this deluxe edition set is unreleased material, including demos, rough mixes, and outtakes, as well as Bob Stinson’s last recordings with The Replacements from 1986. Pre-order your copy and listen to six previously unreleased “rough mixes,” including “Alex Chilton,” here: https://Rhino.lnk.to/pleasedtomeetmeSeveral exclusive bundles can also be pre-ordered now at www.Rhi

I'm about halfway through the Larson book so I'll check back. I'd love to hear what you think. My dad is a big Churchill guy and thought it was well done.

I tend to alternate between fiction and non-fiction, as well as between books that make me focus on today's social storm and those that are a break from it. That said, here's what I am currently reading:

David Byrne - American Utopia soundtrack

Nice long piece in Rolling Stone about the 2+ hours of Workingmans era studio rehearsals being released as part of the 50th anniversary. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/grateful-dead-workingmans-dead-reissue-angels-share-1011483/ Songs are on Spotify but also streaming on Stereogum: https://www.stereogum.com/2089937/grateful-dead-workingmans-dead-the-angels-share/music/

Ha! Not surprised that you beat me to it ...

That's a good one. Think I'll go put it on myself ...

Playing all of 69 Love Songs in honor of the fact that I was supposed to see the Magnetic Fields last night and again tonight.

Meat Puppets II

William Tyler - Impossible Truth

While Fables is the REM album I go back to the most, I'd still say that Harborcoat remains my favorite REM song.

It's probably the REM album I listen to most regularly at this point.

I approve. For me:

New Magnetic Fields - Quickies

Westerberg does a nice version on Come Feel Me Tremble.

50th anniversary re-issue of Workingman's Dead (with Port Chester, NY 2/21/71 as bonus material) coming in July: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/grateful-dead-workingmans-dead-50-anniversary-reissue-994855/

Don't know why it took me all of these years to listen to this podcast but it's great. Wasn't expecting to have all three members participate. And I knew this but I had forgotten how prolific they were. In 2 1/2 years (July 84 through January 87) they put out five albums including two double albums.