I posted Skyway a couple of weeks ago and I had a request to post more by The Replacements which suits me fine.
This song was first recorded for the 1985 album Tim, but didn’t make the cut. It appeared on the 1987 album Pleased to Meet Me. It was also featured in the movie Can’t Hardly Wait and on the soundtrack in 1998.
The original, found on the Tim demo sessions is about committing suicide. The record company felt that Pleased To Meet Me, with suicide song “The Ledge,” didn’t need any controversy over having two songs about suicide, so the lyrics to this song were altered.
This new video was released this year for the new Pleased to Meet Me (2020 Remaster) version. It was originally shot in 1987 for “The Ledge;” however, that video was pulled from MTV for “objectionable song content,” so the band re-used it for the follow-up, “Alex Chilton.” This version comes with an HD resolution upgrade and remastered audio.
Can’t Hardly Wait
I’ll write you a letter tomorrow
Tonight, I can’t hold a pen
Someone’s got a stamp that I can borrow
I promise not to blow the address again
Lights that flash in the evening
Through a crack in the drapes
Jesus rides beside me
He never buys any smokes
Hurry up, hurry up, ain’t you had enough of this stuff
Ashtray floors, dirty clothes and filthy jokes
See you’re high and lonesome
Try and try and try
Lights that flash in the evening
Through a hole in the drapes
I’ll be home when I’m sleeping
I can’t hardly wait
I can’t wait
Hardly wait
I can’t wait
Hardly wait
I can’t wait
Hardly wait
I can’t wait
Hardly wait
I can’t wait
Hardly wait
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From my favorite Replacements album! Skyway and Can’t Hardly Wait two of the best songs from the late 80;s!
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I’m loving listening to them again…don’t know why I stopped for a while.
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I saw them twice late 80’s and in the early 90’s the first time was one of the best concerts I’ve been to.
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Like Big Star they just never broke through to a mass audience…some of their music is radio accessible…I don’t know much about the history of them….but I loved what I heard.
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NZ songwriter Nadia Reid has a song called High and Lonesome this year – wonder if she swiped it from this song.
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Could be…I just listened to a performance in a studio with her and that song…pretty good.
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I really liked her previous album, Preservation.
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I don’t think I’ve ever listened to The Replacements. Should I? Where to begin?
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Please to Meet Me is probably their most accessible album that came out in 87… they have some good songs both hard and rough and like this… they are worth checking out I believe.
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Cool. Thanks.
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There’s a great live version of this from SNL(93 or 94) during his first solo tour. His band included guitarist David Minehan from the legendary Boston pop-punk band, the Neighborhoods, who would replace Slim Dunlap in all the Mats reunions since then. But the really great thing about this SNL performance was the horn section from the SNL band played that classic horn chart with the band. Great!
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Thanks…it took me forever to find it but I did…
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I like this song but, I’m not totally fond of the horns. I’d probably like it better with a sax.
Nice share!
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The demo version didn’t have any…it is a good song to hear them do live.
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Cool.
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Common ground fella. I did a take on his one also. I used the clip from SNL. Love it.
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What a band. I listened to them in the eighties and then stopped for some dumb reason… then a blogger brought them up and I feel in love again.
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Regular rotation around here along with PW’s solo stuff. Yeah, I like their style.
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