Hey! I’ve been listening to The Replacements record Let It Be recently on my walks. What an album! I wondered if anyone had any recommendations for anything vaguely similar from that time period? I feel as though I have a decent grip on what was happening in the UK during that decade but for some reason a lot of these great American bands seem to have slipped beneath my radar. Punk, post-punk, rock, alternative rock, call it what you will - anything guitar based and noisy is welcome!
Really like this outtake from Let It Be. I’m guessing Kurt Cobain was a fan of Paul Westerberg? Very similar vocal delivery on this.
Also, check out the debut album by The Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine & Roses. They headed in a different direction after the first album, and I like pretty much everything they’ve done other than some of the songs from Out of the Grey, but you would probably be most into the debut.
These guys have a pretty short discography (one album and a couple of EPs, now usually found compiled onto one album called The Greatest Gift) before the singer and bassist formed The Jesus Lizard instead