This song was my introduction to the Replacements and I liked the wordplay and the attitude. There wasn't really anything this wry and snotty, or with as much heart, on the radio in 1989. So when I see all these self styled 'mats Purists sneer at this song and this album as being crap, all I really get out of it is that they didn't want the band to succeed commercially - it would have made them look un-cool. Which is really sad - as Slim Dunlap said around that time, Paul Westerberg's songs really did deserve a bigger audience than they've ever gotten.
This song was my introduction to the Replacements and I liked the wordplay and the attitude. There wasn't really anything this wry and snotty, or with as much heart, on the radio in 1989. So when I see all these self styled 'mats Purists sneer at this song and this album as being crap, all I really get out of it is that they didn't want the band to succeed commercially - it would have made them look un-cool. Which is really sad - as Slim Dunlap said around that time, Paul Westerberg's songs really did deserve a bigger audience than they've ever gotten.