Late last month Paul Westerberg put up a brand new album for download for the Radiohead-esque price of 49 cents. It was just over 43 minutes, one big long track with the "songs" running together as though they were coming over a car radio, with one station fading out and another taking over. It was freewheeling, fun, and a refreshingly new approach to the endangered species of the LP. And now it's gone.
Toward the end of the album, "49:00," was a cover medley, roughly a minute long, including snippets of songs by the Beatles, Hank Williams, the Rolling Stones, and Elton John. Apparently that was all it took to get someone (Yoko Ono, anyone?) to demand that Amazon take the download down.
In typical Westerberg fashion, a new song is now up, "5:05," with lyrics about lawsuits and an ending refrain of "fuck you." He's come a long way from his days in the Replacements, but Paul Westerberg will always have a punk rock heart.
berg's also got another kind
berg's also got another kind of heart (enjoy: these are some of the worst lyrics paul's written):
my heart could use some glasses...
I got a dyslexic heart
more importantly, it's
more importantly, it's pretty good. i just got it...it's very matsey, something westerberg's solo career best of (entitled besterberg) is not. seriously besterberg is in the library, but it SUCKS. and this comes from a big mats fan.
I liked quite a bit of
I liked quite a bit of Besterberg (I reviewed it, actually) but obviously it's not the same as the Replacements at their best. It would have benefitted from more Grandpaboy songs.
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