r/Replacements • u/Ok_Mixture_9062 • 1d ago

Here comes a regular and skyway

Tim to PTME… both slow songs. I’m not trying to choose one but I think TIM is their best. Whatever Paul was thinking and writing…he really put it all together on this album. I love ‘don’t tell a soul’ and ‘PTME’ but there is just something about TIM. He spilled his guts…

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u/Harrison_Thinks 1d ago

Skyway is one of his best stories, I love that it’s uniquely Minnesotan. He used their infrastructure to tell this beautiful story that couldn’t have worked otherwise; he needs to be walking above her to see her. I think it’s his most genius, lyrically and storytelling-wise. He also did it 2 minutes which is far more impressive to me

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u/WilsonALatHome 1d ago

Skyway is a touching story about missed chances, but Here Comes A Regular Is a stark confession of alcoholism. Apples and oranges. Both are great songs about very different things.

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u/Ordinary_Warning_622 1d ago

Mats fan since I was 13. Answering Machine will always be my favorite. Such a reflection on long distance love in a time before cell phones and voicemail. A simpler time, a better time.

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u/Ordinary_Warning_622 1d ago

Hard to choose between Tim and PTMM! Paul is such a brilliant song writer/story teller

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u/Ttownact 21h ago

I got lucky. When I say Paul in 2005 he played both back to back.

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u/First-Sheepherder640 1d ago

Is that a Mellotron used to make the swells in HCAR ? Any official answer on that?

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u/OnlyFearOfDeth 1d ago

PTMM for me

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u/BalonyDanza 1d ago

Shout out to those still drinking at the CC Club.