Comments on: Because I am a liar, and nobody else is generating content https://paulwesterberg.net/2007/07/27/because-i-am-a-liar-and-nobody-else-is-generating-content/ Best Thing That Never Happened Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:24:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Robert https://paulwesterberg.net/2007/07/27/because-i-am-a-liar-and-nobody-else-is-generating-content/comment-page-1/#comment-120 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:24:42 +0000 http://paulwesterberg.net/wordpress/2007/07/27/because-i-am-a-liar-and-nobody-else-is-generating-content/#comment-120 Thanks for posting this — I’d never seen it before. Maybe they were drunk for these performances, but at least Paul sticks to the lyrics unlike in the two July ’87 live bootlegs I’ve heard. I love the wink at the audience when he sings “the ones who love us least.”

It didn’t hit me until five years ago (which was nine years after I first heard “Tim”) how jaw-droppingly good the following lyrics from “Bastards of Young” are:

The ones who love us best are the ones we’ll lay to rest
And visit their graves on holidays at best
The ones who love us least are the ones we’ll die to please
If it’s any consolation, I don’t begin to understand them

Jesus! For that alone Westerberg belongs in the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

]]> By: mmr421 https://paulwesterberg.net/2007/07/27/because-i-am-a-liar-and-nobody-else-is-generating-content/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:49:23 +0000 http://paulwesterberg.net/wordpress/2007/07/27/because-i-am-a-liar-and-nobody-else-is-generating-content/#comment-114 i almost creamed myself when i saw this two minutes ago. i can’t tell you how many times this video gets taken down on youtube. thank you so much. i’m 18 so i dont think i was born when this aired, so there.

]]> By: scooterboy https://paulwesterberg.net/2007/07/27/because-i-am-a-liar-and-nobody-else-is-generating-content/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:32:03 +0000 http://paulwesterberg.net/wordpress/2007/07/27/because-i-am-a-liar-and-nobody-else-is-generating-content/#comment-100 btw, you know how people say/have said that, in their heyday, the replacements were either sloppy drunks annoying the audience or THE GREATEST BAND ON EARTH?

a whole concert like these performances would be almost too much to take.

]]> By: honkywithahaton https://paulwesterberg.net/2007/07/27/because-i-am-a-liar-and-nobody-else-is-generating-content/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:32:05 +0000 http://paulwesterberg.net/wordpress/2007/07/27/because-i-am-a-liar-and-nobody-else-is-generating-content/#comment-85 I have a VHS of it made that night. I saw it live. I think I was smiling.

]]> By: scooterboy https://paulwesterberg.net/2007/07/27/because-i-am-a-liar-and-nobody-else-is-generating-content/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:23:59 +0000 http://paulwesterberg.net/wordpress/2007/07/27/because-i-am-a-liar-and-nobody-else-is-generating-content/#comment-83 i just fucking love this performance. my friend, mick, has always said that inside of the excellent studio version of “bastards” there lurks an even BETTER song. one viewing of the famed snl performance, and he said, “and there it is.”

]]> By: JimDracula https://paulwesterberg.net/2007/07/27/because-i-am-a-liar-and-nobody-else-is-generating-content/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:30:02 +0000 http://paulwesterberg.net/wordpress/2007/07/27/because-i-am-a-liar-and-nobody-else-is-generating-content/#comment-80 No, I didn’t see the SNL performance when it originally aired 1-18-86; only caught it many years later courtesy of trades w/ Matt Tomich from Skyway. You can lipread Paul telling Bob “C’mon fucker” during “Bastards” which landed them in a heap of trouble. Anyone remember the running of credits at the end of show? You can see Westerberg doing his best James Brown moves in the background. Man, what an ace performance.

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