Title: It just doesn't click
Product review: After reading a rather misleading four-star review of this album in Rolling Stone when this hummer came out, I rushed out to buy it. After all, you gotta start with a legendary band somewhere, right? Don't start here. After listening to this one, I couldn't figure out if I was missing something essential to rock 'n' roll or to the Replacements themselves. This is an incredibly inconsistent record. There are, admittedly, a few gems scattered here and there: the tear-jerking "Sadly Beautiful," or the pleading "The Last," which might be read as a plea to Bob Stinson to please quit drinking and "make this last one really the last." It's telling that these songs are ballads. Where's the hard rock? It ain't here. If the songs intend to rock, Westerberg holds back for some reason. Even the hardest song, "My Little Problem," featuring a neat duet with Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde, never gets as wild as it wants to. Agreed with a review below: For diehard Westerberg fans only.
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