This is a great record!
P. Collis | New York, USA | 05/16/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Like everyone except his friends and neighbors I guess, or the people in his home town, I first heard him playing with the Replacements... in fact I saw him with them in a small club in Paris, France. They were of course awesome, and strangely sober!
This album is such a keeper because it's so human. The first song starts off sounding a little generic... but halfway through it's "enough of that" and it changes into a completely different song. Have you ever heard such a thing... only with the Faces perhaps. From then on it's all interesting songs and odd guitar playing. Nothing is straight-forward, there's lots of really odd dissonant and plain weird playing going on. The songs are bitter-sweet; bluesy, folksy, country, and rock n roll.
There's one song that totally haunts me - "Little Shiva's Song". Hard to understand - a tribute to a local musician who died? - it's certainly in the past-tense. There's not anything like it on any other record; check out that track if nothing else.
Like on his last record there are songs about being the support act, small town, the band that breaks up after a practice, or is trying to write that hook to get the hit. Still you feel that to Slim it's all a joke: he knows better.
When the Replacements broke up I thought all the ex-band-members made better solo albums than Westerberg, and this is on my iPod, not PW. Not that I expect the music biz to have a clue. Just saying..."
Great disc; nobody is cooler than slim
P. Collis | 01/16/1999
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Times Like This oscillates from quirky to great, with mostly the latter. Ignore the sound bytes, the best songs are the sleepers. I'll say one thing; this man has soul, and his music fabulously shows it. A definite buy if you're an ex mats buff, or just want a great twist on pop/folk/blues in an atmosphere you wont' find elsewhere. Buy it."
Why do I keep listening to this CD
Jeff S | Minneapolis | 05/05/2001
(4 out of 5 stars)
"He can't sing very well( I can sing along and feel like Bing Crosby's cousin).....The quality of the music is fine but nothing memorable.....it never seems to leave my play rotation.....I guess it must be a pretty good cd"
Track Listings (11) - Disc #1