jules4whitehouse: The Best Of Paul Westerberg

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The Best Of Paul Westerberg

As both the lead singer of seminal 80's band The Replacements and a solo artist, no other figure in rock n' roll is quite as enigmatic as the great Paul Westerberg. He went through most of the 80's insisting that The Replacements records sound as raw and unproduced as possible, but in the early 90's, when the grunge movement made it cool to sound raw and unproduced, he immediately went in the oppisite direction, spitting out radio friendly pop tunes. In 2002, when recording on his solo album "Stereo" was almost complete, he decided that he didn't like the sound, so he took an acoustic guitar and recorded all the songs in his basement, without any overdubs or re-takes to cover-up "mistakes". At a show in 1980, upon discovering that The Replacement's audience consisted mostly of punk rock fans, he proceeded to play DeFranco Family covers. One minute he preaches about the importance of "artistic integrity", the next he provides the score for an animated kids' film starring Ashton Kutcher. More than anyone else in rock n' roll in the last 30 years, Westerberg has always had his fans guessing, "What will he do next?" And here's his best work:

The Replacements
Androgynous

Alex Chilton

I Will Dare

Paul Westerberg
Dirt To Mud

The Replacements
Within Your Reach

Can't Hardly Wait

Here Comes A Regular

Bastards of Young

Skyline

Answering Machine

Takin' a Ride

We're Comin' Out