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sleepinginzeal
interesting – bob recently said that he wrote "glad girls" and "chasing heather crazy" when TVT began pushing bob to write hits
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jestoon425
He said that at the Toad's Place show in 2014. Is that where you heard it? He said something like "they wanted us to write songs about girls. We were like 'do you mean our daughters?' We're 40 years old!"
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jestoon425
In some ways, the writing (about GBV in general) tends to read more like religious texts than objective analysis of a band's history.
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sleepinginzeal
true, yeah, that's definitely a part of it. there's a parasocial aspect to GBV that's a bit like boy bands and girl groups. that side of the deal never appealed to me in any context, but i'd say it's served bob well. i've definitely never seen a fanbase for a decades-running rock band that's less receptive to even light critique.
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jestoon425
On a micro level, I'd say The Replacements fanbase on facebook was pretty bad. Even Deadheads acknowledge flaws in certain eras of that group xD (People stopped caring after Brent Mydland died, it seems)
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sleepinginzeal
it's almost tragic, how much better this album would be if they'd trimmed off 3 or 4 of the weaker tracks
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