Great list. Missing ‘Seattle’. Great song and back story.

Did [you] really sing, “It was a good lay” at the end of “Suedehead”?
“No, ‘It was a bootleg’. I mean, good heavens, in my vocabulary? Please…”
Honestly?
“Well, have I ever been dishonest?” he laughs. “Do people think it was ‘a good lay’?”
I do.
“And is that quite racy?”
Oh, yes.
“Well, it was actually ‘a good lay’.”
And was there one?
“No, I just thought it might amuse someone living in Hartlepool.”
- Morrissey, Sounds, June 18, 1988

Suedehead – not “it was a good lay” but ” it was a bootleg”

i really don’t mind what order you put their songs in, NO remain the greatest band of all time for me.
(i am partial to a bit of Fine Time, Run and All The Way from Technique tho…… and what happened to Love Vigilantes?)

Dammit!! My comment word for word. And you’ve got my initials and my fathers middle name. Black Angels Death Song is my gripe, but man, you just can’t fault anything from VU (cept maybe Squeeze!)

Don’t Tell A Soul REALLY suffers from slick 80′s production, and yet the songs that are strong enough to work against that are some of my personal favourites (it helps that DTAS was my first exposure to the ‘mats). Achin’ To Be, Asking Me Lies, I’ll Be You, Talent Show, Darlin’ One, and to a lesser extent They’re Blind and Rock ‘n’ Roll Ghost are full of injokes, hooks and inuendo ie. the recipe for any great Replacements song. Every one of their albums has rough patches with songs that sit awkwardly. Even the mighty LIB! I still love it, but if I’m putting a ‘mats playlist together, We’re Coming Out, Tommy’s Tonsils and Black Diamond won’t be there.

Can we have a Westerberg solo worst to best now?