![]() Dropped from Capitol, he had retreated to the basement of his house and put together an envigorating, genius affirming set of songs that was everything, energy wise, people had missed. ![]() Those rumors weren’t exactly denied by Westerberg, though as it would turn out, he was the sole architect, sloppy drumming and all, of the album. The album was full of pseudonyms for the players, so rumors instantly swirled that Westerberg, Chris Mars and Tommy Stinson had recorded this album. What I had in my hands was Mono, a ramshackle collection that sounded more like the Replacements in spirit than anything Westerberg had recorded in the previous decade. I immediately walked over to B.B.’s New and Used CDs (R.I.P.) and found one, sole copy sitting on the shelves. He’s on Vagrant records.” Rumors had swirled that he might be calling it quits, finally done in by the ambivalence of an industry he had spurned one too many times over the years, so this was a shock. It came out this week with no push at all. “You know Westerberg has a new record out, right? Did it under that Grandpaboy name he did that EP as back in ’97. I went over to Matt to say something before the show and that’s when he hit me with something unexpected. I was about to see the Scaries play, a band that featured a bass player, Matt Tomich, who is also the operator of The Skyway, one of the internet’s oldest Replacements fan sites and newsletters. I was standing across the street from my college in February of 2002. Now, as the decade starts to wind down, let’s celebrate. ![]() Our hope for you, the reader, is that you’ll jump in with your comments on the album selections - tell us why you agree or disagree - and also be exposed to some albums that you may have missed over the last ten years. On a given week there might be one album a writer talks about, there might be six, but they’ll get a chance to have their say on everything that comes to mind. Rather, we elected to let our four main writers have a chance to write about any and all of the albums they felt shaped the last decade.įrom the beginning of October through the end of December, Monday through Thursday, AD will feature a post, or posts, from a particular writer detailing their favorite albums of the decade. Here at AD, we started talking it through and decided we weren’t going to add to the cacophony of lists being put out by various music pubs. ![]() What were the best albums of the past ten years? And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in a position to do the same again. What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. ![]()
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