{"id":400,"date":"2012-10-12T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=400"},"modified":"2012-10-10T14:22:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T13:22:09","slug":"song-of-the-week-alex-chilton-by-the-replacements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Alex Chilton&#8221; by the Replacements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This week, The Replacements sing about Alex Chilton:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6RYQ8Y-ObMw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember when I first heard this song, but I was young enough not to know who Alex Chilton was.\u00a0 It only takes half a listen before you really want to know who this guy is&#8211; the coolest guy in school? No, because you&#8217;ve seen his name before, listed as the producer on the back of the &#8216;Mats album, <em>Tim.\u00a0 <\/em>Is he just some record producer (young idiot &#8220;you&#8221;\/I ask)?\u00a0 Well, in those days you couldn&#8217;t just <a href=\"http:\/\/lmgtfy.com\/?q=Alex+Chilton\">do this to find things out<\/a> and I no longer remember how I did my research; probably I just asked somebody older and cooler in a way that didn&#8217;t make me sound totally stupid (&#8220;Hey, that Replacements song, Alex Chilton, I heard it the other day.\u00a0 It&#8217;s cool they wrote a song about [idiot Doug trails off hoping Older and Cooler Guy\/Girl will fill in the blank]&#8221;) or maybe I went to my local public library&#8211;a world of knowledge in one building!\u00a0 Anyway, the important thing is this is a really good song by a really good band about a really good musician, and if he was from Mars, then that&#8217;d be cool. \u00a0<em>Pleased to Meet Me<\/em>, incidentally, was recorded in the same studio that Big Star used for all their albums, by the producer Jim Dickinson, who recorded all the Big Star albums.\u00a0 And Alex Chilton plays guitar on the track, &#8220;Can&#8217;t Hardly Wait.&#8221; If he&#8217;d played it on this one, the whole world might&#8217;ve needed <a href=\"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=386\" target=\"_blank\">a ticket for an aeroplane<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Alex%20Chilton%22%20by%20the%20Replacements\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. 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