{"id":41100,"date":"2008-09-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/stink-ep-deluxe-edition\/"},"modified":"2008-09-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T00:00:00","slug":"stink-ep-deluxe-edition","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/stink-ep-deluxe-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Stink EP (Deluxe Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know your original album\u2019s short when a remastered version with four additional tracks still doesn\u2019t clock in at thirty minutes. <\/p>\n

Stink<\/i>, a fifteen-minute rush job EP, is punk rock taken to its extremes. The tracks were laid out in one day. The song titles — \u201cFuck<\/st1:placename> School<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>,\u201d \u201cWhite and Lazy,\u201d and \u201cDope Smoking Moron\u201d — are pretty self-explanatory. <\/p>\n

Lyrically, one of the only real surprises is \u201cGod Damn Job.\u201d Reading the title, the listener may get the idea that it\u2019s a shredding rant about one\u2019s dead-ass, dead-end job. But Paul Westerberg is so down that he only wishes he could have such a job. \u201cGoddamn it, goddamn it, goddamn, I need a goddamn job \/ Right now, right now,\u201d Westerberg spits out. <\/p>\n

Some parts of this disc pick up where Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash<\/i> left off. As their debut album intentionally left some gaffes in, such as the \u201cOkay, tape\u2019s rolling\u201d that can still be heard in some of the songs. With Stink<\/i>, the album opens up with the police being called to where The Replacements are rehearsing to investigate a noise complaint. In the liner notes, Terry Katzman tells how while this was happening, he kept recording the whole thing. <\/p>\n

A police officer declares, \u201cThis is the Minneapolis<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> police. The party\u2019s over with\u2026grab your stuff and you won\u2019t go to jail\u201d before \u201cKids Don\u2019t Follow\u201d kicks things off. The song is immediately more sophisticated than virtually all of the tracks off of Sorry Ma<\/i>… Still, it\u2019s 1982 and the band still has years before they enter full maturity with Pleased To Meet Me<\/i>. \u201cFuck School\u201d is as funny as it is catchy with a chorus that virtually every kid who emerged from high school with some emotional scars can identify with: \u201cFuck school fuck school fuck my school.\u201d <\/p>\n

While the song \u201cWhite And Lazy\u201d is definitely not one of The Replacements\u2019 finest moments, it was the first song on tape to show the band branching out beyond the traditional guitar, bass and drums. A bluesy harmonica is included, and while it doesn\u2019t fit in with the song, especially with the frenzied last thirty seconds of the song, it shows that they could stretch. <\/p>\n

The bonus tracks include two excellent covers that were part of their live shows: \u201cHey, Good Lookin\u2019\u201d and \u201c(We\u2019re Gonna Rock Around The Clock).\u201d The album closes with Paul Westerberg\u2019s quiet \u201cYou\u2019re Getting Married,\u201d a song that Bob Stinson did not want on the album because it wasn\u2019t rocking enough. <\/p>\n

As for a reissue, Stink<\/i> is probably the album that is helped most by the remastered treatment. As stated earlier, the additional tracks don\u2019t make the album wear out its welcome as it doesn\u2019t require an hour\u2019s worth of time to digest. The covers are a welcome addition, and a listener can easily imagine The Replacements laying into these standards at a hot, smoky bar. Plus, \u201cYou\u2019re Getting Married\u201d shows the gradual evolution of one of the chief architects of college rock.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":29515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5627],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-41100","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-replacements","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41100"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41100"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}