Hootenanny

Replacements

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1991)
• Original Release Date: 1983
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Twintone
• ASIN: B0000018V1
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #145,129 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hootenanny

2. Run It

3. Color Me Impressed

4. Willpower

5. Take Me Down to the Hospital

6. Mr. Whirly

7. Within Your Reach

8. Buck Hill

9. Lovelines

10. You Lose

11. Hayday

12. Treatment Bound

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com essential recording

Hootenanny is the last album on which the Replacements fully embraced recklessness as a recording tactic; consequently, it's their last love-it-or-hate-it LP. Here's one vote for love. As with the band's disorderly (but damned entertaining) debut, Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, Hootenanny is enlivened by the odd hardcore thrasher ("Run It" and "You Lose"). Frontman Paul Westerberg stretches out here, however, with the bluesy "Willpower" and "Take Me to the Hospital" and unveils his sensitive side on the one-man-band avowal "Within Your Reach," a taste of things to come. The title track opens the album on a haphazard note, and the Mats barely hold things together with the sodden closer, "Treatment Bound," but that damn-the-tempo-let's-just-play spirit is what makes Hootenanny a better record than a latter stab at stardom like Don't Tell a Soul. --Steven Stolder

Product Description

Remastered reissue of their reckless and silly 1983 album. Restless Records. 2002.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not for everyone, January 25, 2004

By A Customer

Look, you either get this album or you don't. People who rate this album low don't get it - and consequently they don't understand what made the 'Mats a great band in the first place. To me, owning only the major label Replacements albums is like reading half of a novel. It's raw and unpolished - yeah, the sound quality is lacking, obviously - the 'Mats were 4 kids from Minneapolis on a small-time label back then. I wouldn't change a thing - consider it a timepiece, an artifact of an era. Great stuff.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Westergerg and Cusak, December 12, 2001

By	[e-mail] (Durango, CO United States) - See all my reviews

Paul W amd John Cusak nailed eighties angst. The tie in you say?
Well, today I saw 'Say Anything' for the first time in a long time, and if you listen closely about halfway through "Within your reach" is playing on the radio. And then, to drive it home at the end of the movie, when our hero is about leave the U.S. with his true love, the song is on the radio and as he splits the apartment he blasts the volume. A truly pivital moment in eighties cinema.
Westerberg and the Mats captured that wanting goofball in music the way Cusak did it in film. Oh, yeah, YOU MUST OWN THIS DISC!!!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this one first!, June 10, 1999

By	[e-mail] (San Jose, Ca.) - See all my reviews

The red-headed stepchild of replacement albums. Ever wish you could be sitting in a basement drinking a beer and listening to the best rock and roll band in America? Well you can. To me this album captures the mats with their guard down. This album was just a joke, "label wants a hit, and we don't give a shit", right? Just imagine Westerberg coming into the studio with "hospital" and Bob letting loose with the riffs, probably recorded in one take. Tommy's comments after "Treatment Bound" The kid was 15 years old for chrissake! Chris Mars lead on "hootenanny" is a small hint of his enormous talent and things to come. I bought this album in 1985 and I bought the cassette in 1989, and yesterday I bought the CD. The more i listen to the mats the more i realize how important Bob Stinson was to their sound and he is in pure form on Hootenanny. Isnt it funny that an album put out 17 years ago as an afterthought is still better then anything else out there today? Amazing.