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...Shocking Blue, " Venue ", was on when I started this, but this phone is pretty *!)@ed up, and by the time I got it to reliably write Pandora was on to " Wait A Million Years ", the Grass Roots, and it probably would have gone on to at least one more song - Old-time " AM radio singles " were short by to-day's standards, remember! - before I finished this,, even though a commercial came on next, but the sound then stopped and I dectided to finish this instead of going to back and starting it up again!

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Alex Chilton's first band or his first noted band. I think he was around 16 when he sang this song.

Some great lines in this song:

"And when I set my eyes on you. You look like a kitty. And when you're in the mood, oh, you look so pretty."

and

"Walkin' down a freezin' street. Scarf goes out behind. You said 'Get them away'. Please don't say a word. Get me out of here. Get me out of here. I hate it here, get me out of here."

I've definitely felt that way when I've been places that I don't want to be!

Alex Chilton to me was perseverance through pain. It's in his voice and his surprising obscurity.

I saw Alex Chilton around six times. Venues from a large club, with Big Star rebooted and in a very very small club.

At the show in the small club, someone shouted a request for this song. It was around the time that the TV show "That 70's Show" was on and this song was the intro. Alex was perturbed by the request and said he could sing that song that was recorded when he was a teenager, or he could do some other song. I shouted out a request for a different Alex Chilton song. Alex looked at the other members of his band and immediately went into the song I requested rather than playing this song. I was on top of the world.......the song I requested? I'll post it after this one.

This is the song I requested by shouting it out and the song that Alex Chilton immediately went in to when I saw him live.

I couldn't resist.....

One of my favorite bands. The Replacements. If you've never seen their SNL performance where they played their songs Bastards of Young and Kiss Me on the Bus (during the SNL show, Paul sang "Kiss me on the butt"), I would recommend searching the internet for it. The band was banned from SNL after that show. Apparently due to being untidy in the dressing rooms and other antics. Bobby Stinson throws his guitar onto the stage making a loud crash but the rest of the band don't even look over to see what happened; totally un-phased by it. It was a big break for them to be on SNL and gain greater national notoriety. Some say that blew it from not taking that show seriously. Others say they were being true to themselves by NOT taking the show seriously.

Years later as a solo artist, Paul Westerberg was invited back to SNL. In that performance below he told the drummer before the song to do or say something funny but not tell him what or when it would be. It's the drummer, at 2:15 that yells: "Burt Reynolds!" (who had nothing to do with the show). Paul cracks up and misses the line at 2:15. At the end of the show, host Charlton Heston does NOT mention Paul Westerberg (was this a directive from Lorne Michaels?) which Paul picks up on the slight or omission. Heston turns to Paul to shake his hand and Paul very obviously coughs or hacks into his hand then reaches out and shakes Heston's hand. At the very end before fade out, it's obvious that Heston feels his hand has been contaminated.....

I've seen better videos of this performance than the one here, but this is all I could find.

Cool line: "I broke the seal on my door and poured myself to bed, a whirlpool spinning around in my head, there was liquor in my breath -- you were on my mind."

The song is about living in Minnesota being "stuck in the middle" between the two coasts.

This song is awesome for catching the melancholy of a long cold winter but also describing "skyways". Minnneapolis and St. Paul aren't the only cities with them, but there are so many skyways (elevated enclosed walkways joining buildings together) a person can walk miles downtown in the winter from building to building without going outside in the cold.

Great example of the sound of a Flanger effects pedal on Paul's guitar.