The Replacements
Don't Tell A Soul
Sire Records
The last, best band of the 1980s.
This is a phrase that is beginning
to pop up in a number of interest
ing places in reference to The
Replacements. Granted, mostly it
appears in the ads for their own
new album, but it’s also been said
in articles in places like Musician
magazine.
It’s a dramatic claim that recalls
the days of The Clash: The Only
Band That Matters, and it looks real
good in white print on the black
background above singer song
writer/guitanst Paul Westerberg’s
face in the ad. And it seems like it
merits a little discussion.
So, is it true?
Well, a number of their early
ne^k and neck competitors for the
title have in one way or another
fallen aside (this is presumably
where the ‘last’ comes from).
R.E.M. has been exposed, Husker
Du has disintegrated, and the
Minutemen were prematurely
taken out of the game by a car
crash that took D. Boon’s life.
It’s only fair to say right now that
as a group record reviewers have a
tendency to think too much in
decades. Scott Miller of Game
Theory could lay a strong claim to
best songwriter in the wwld at
present, and if someone rivals Paul
Westerberg for lyrical portrayals of
these times, its him. In fact he w ins.
But since he and his band didn l
really get going until 1985, and
since they seem to operate out in
their own little musical world
rather than being one of the spear -
heads of an ’80s musical move
ment, they areoutofthelitlechase.
Elvis Costello and the Attrac
tions could make a strong claim to
best band ever, but since they
started in the seventies and contin
ued on into the eighties, they will
never get to rule a decade of their
own. The Greatest Band of the late
70s and the early to mid-'80s
doesn't have much of a ring to it,
and if there’s one thing the rock
music world likes, its something
with a ring to it.
And of course there about 600
more bands with little pockets of
diehard fanatics for fans out there
that are being ignored here.
But up to this point, a far more
important issue has been ignored --
The Replacements themselves. All
they have done is pul out a series
of albums ranging irom aoovt
average to great, each with at least
a couple of moments of brilliance.
Their newest album, “Don't Tell
a Soul,” isn't any different in this
respect.
Although they have survived
the last few years better than R.F..M.
or Husker Du, these years have
been turbulent ones for The Re
placements, with internal prob
lems resulting in the departure of
Bob Stinson, player of insane blues
licks and champion beer drinker.
In many peoples' eyes, the quintes
sential Replacement.
On “Don’t Tell a Soul,” he is
replaced by Slim Dunlap, who sort
of hung around and played a few
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for their businesses.”
McCallum said he thinks more
shop keepers and retailers will
abandon downtown Lincoln the
longer they “have to slay in limbo.
They are the backbone of down
town Lincoln right now,” he said
Recent developments have
jeopardized the future of down
town redevelopment, he said. The
“apparent lack ol interest on tne
part of Dillard's department store
to remain in dow ntow n Lincoln as
part of the redevelopment (should)
signal a reason to abandon that
formula,” McCallum said
He said the formula requires
“two very large anchor retail ten
ants plus 150 specialty shops and
will involve four square blocks.
McCallum thinks the entire plan
for downtown redevelopment w as
a poor idea from the start.
“I don’t think a concept of that
intense an amount of retail will
work, because of the number of
people it requires to support it,” he
said.
“The city should look at some
thing besides regional mall retail
ing in downtown Lincoln,” he said
McCallum said he thought the
city should focus on developing
more housing in the downtown
area.
“It will enhance the retail envi
ronment” if more people live in the
area, he said.
“More housing and small, spe
cialized retailing make a lot of
sense. A regional mall makes no
sense at all," he said. The down
town area should have a “people
orientation, not a uig uusmcss on
enlation,” he added.
McCallum would support a dif
ferent redevelopment plan, one
not centered on a regional mall
“Downtowns arc not the place
w here the bulk of retailing is done.
That is the reality we are dealing
w ilh," he said.
“There is no cause to abandon
enhancement of what is already in
downtown Lincoln," he said.
Instead, .McCallum said he
thinks a plan should focus on the
“specific strengths and weak
nesses of downtown Everyone
agrees that it is important to keep
downtown vital, but there are dif
ferences of opinion on how to do
so."
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rything that is down here and build
a monolithic retail center. We
enhance our consumer base by
concentrating on housing and
specialized shops.”
McCallum said there is no way
to postpone the development of
regional malls on the Southeast
side of town. “Once that happens,
any regional mall in downtown
Lincoln will probably be a ghost
town," McCallum said.
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