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The Leonard Cohen thread got me to thinking about when I was first introduced to his music. It was through the early 90's movie Pump Up the Volume. I also got into Concrete Blonde and the Pixies after watching it. Wave of Mutilation(UK surf version) is still my favorite Pixies song. Anyway, any pretenses of sophistication I have over being a Leonard Cohen fan has to go out the window when viewed in light of this information. Right? Any confessions out there? Talk Hard.

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No confessions, but I've always wondered how many fans the Replacements earned through the movie Can't Hardly Wait. Seems like a weird movie to carry a Replacements song as its title. Jennifer Love Hewitt and the Replacements should have a few more degrees of separation between them.

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The Leonard Cohen thread got me to thinking about when I was first introduced to his music. It was through the early 90's movie Pump Up the Volume.
:yay Me too! And it was the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread title. Slater's character was such a fox in that movie, not so much in appearance but that whole "talk hard" business got to me. "Everybody Knows" is a fantastic tune.
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:yay Me too! And it was the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread title. Slater's character was such a fox in that movie, not so much in appearance but that whole "talk hard" business got to me. "Everybody Knows" is a fantastic tune.

I was really disappointed when I bought the soundtrack for the song "Everybody Knows" and found that it wasn't being sung by the guy with the really deep voice. I had to delve deeper to find out who that guy was, but I developed an appreciation for Concrete Blonde. I thought Samantha Mathis was a cutie in that movie. Kind of like a nerdy Winona Ryder.

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The Leonard Cohen thread got me to thinking about when I was first introduced to his music. It was through the early 90's movie Pump Up the Volume. I also got into Concrete Blonde and the Pixies after watching it. Wave of Mutilation(UK surf version) is still my favorite Pixies song. Anyway, any pretenses of sophistication I have over being a Leonard Cohen fan has to go out the window when viewed in light of this information. Right? Any confessions out there? Talk Hard.
Must be a "generation gap" here.....the best place to get an intro to Cohen's music is the not lousy "McCabe and Mrs. Miller".....I didn't get my intro to him there, but it is a great place to hear a good soundtrack of his music.

 

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No confessions, but I've always wondered how many fans the Replacements earned through the movie Can't Hardly Wait. Seems like a weird movie to carry a Replacements song as its title. Jennifer Love Hewitt and the Replacements should have a few more degrees of separation between them.

 

Ironically, yesterday I finally came across my copy of All For Nothing/Nothing For All, which I had searched for a few times at random points over the past 4 years or so. I loved that movie in high school and when I checked out the song that it had been presumably titled after, found a sweet band too. That's the only thing I own by them but I really liked it, and was pretty disappointed when I thought I had lost it. Finding it made my day yesterday.

 

So there you go, there's at least one.

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Ironically, yesterday I finally came across my copy of All For Nothing/Nothing For All, which I had searched for a few times at random points over the past 4 years or so. I loved that movie in high school and when I checked out the song that it had been presumably titled after, found a sweet band too. That's the only thing I own by them but I really liked it, and was pretty disappointed when I thought I had lost it. Finding it made my day yesterday.

 

So there you go, there's at least one.

If you like All For Nothing/Nothing For All AND you found your way to a Wilco discussion board, you're almost guaranteed to like all Replacements. You should really pick them up. Here's my order of preference:

 

Let it Be

Hootenanny

Tim

Please To Meet Me

Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash

Don't Tell a Soul

Stink

All Shook Down

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