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By: What happens when you send the ‘Mats a fan letter at Paul Westerberg.net

What happens when you send the ‘Mats a fan letter at Paul Westerberg.net — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:11:21 +0000

[…] Awesome Batman! Patty left a comment about her first memory, and included a link to the actual receipt she has for when she bought the […]

By: Patty

Patty — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:58:26 +0000

Can I get invited to the wedding?

My first Mats record (and it was vinyl) was Pleased To Meet Me, which I bought 20 years ago. I actually still have the receipt (because I’m a geek). KROQ had been playing “Alex Chilton” for awhile and I can remember singing it while walking around the house. Then an issue of CREEM arrived with a funny interview with the band and I decided I needed to buy the album, so I did. See my receipt at
http://pipstitch.blogspot.com/2007/08/it-was-twenty-years-ago-today-almost.html

Favorite Mats-related moment: I talked to Paul on the phone during a radio interview for like all of two minutes. And I talked to Tommy in a hotal bar once after a show. And once they did a song I requested (during that same radio interview).

By: Jodi

Jodi — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:34:35 +0000

It would be a cooler story if you could actually transform someone’s gender. However, I am still sticking by my penis theory.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:20:17 +0000

Well, the Led Zeppelin CDs from which I took those songs I mentioned belonged to my best friend, who became my girlfriend the following year. (She was a girl even as my best friend. She didn’t BECOME a girl. I just want to make that clear.)

By: Jodi

Jodi — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:27:21 +0000

I think it’s a penis thing.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:08:39 +0000

Maybe it was just a Macon, Ga., thing, but I don’t think so. Here’s an Onion story from 2001:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28086

By: Jodi

Jodi — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:48:25 +0000

Okay, we can still get married. I think my Hall & Oats record speaks for itself. However, in spirit of full disclosure, I made it through 9th grade without a Led Zepplin flirtation. In fact I made it through all the grades and most of my adult life without such a flirtation.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:23:09 +0000

Well, my “blank” tapes weren’t traditional mix tapes — what I did was put the songs I liked from the CDs I started receiving/buying at the tail end of 1990 onto tapes, because that’s all you could listen to in cars back then, and I started driving in September of ’91 once I turned 16. Therefore I might have six songs in a row by one artist, then one song by another, then three by another. There was no rhyme or reason, and I still do this, except I transfer songs from CDs onto CDs that I burn from my computer. (Boombox tape-to-tape/CD-to-tape technology seemed to go downhill around 1999, but I swear the “blank” tapes I made in college in the mid- to late ’90s on a Panasonic boombox have the warmest, cleanest sound I’ve ever heard.)

Anyway, the Hall & Oates songs I have on the tape I mentioned are “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do),” “Kiss on My List,” “You Make My Dreams,” and “Private Eyes.” I still love all of those songs. Anyone who says Hall & Oates aren’t good is an idiot.

Here’s the full track listing for that tape …

SIDE ONE
Steely Dan: “Josie”
Led Zeppelin: “Since I’ve Been Loving You,” “The Rain Song,” “Stairway to Heaven,” “Fool in the Rain,” “The Wanton Song” (Is it possible to go through 9th grade without having a Led Zeppelin flirtation?)
Violent Femmes: “Prove My Love” (still the only song I like by them)
The Replacements: “Talent Show”

SIDE TWO
The Replacements: “They’re Blind,” “The Last,” “When It Began,” “All Shook Down”
The Proclaimers: “Then I Met You,” “What Do You Do”
Hall & Oates: see above
The Proclaimers: “I’m Gonna Be,” “Sean”
Samuel E. Wright: “Under the Sea”

By: Jodi

Jodi — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:34:15 +0000

Before we say I do, I need to know what H&O song was on that mixtape.

Also if somebody doesn’t sign “Love, Nobody” in the guestbook, there will be hell to pay.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:25:48 +0000

“Will you marry me?”

Sure. I got nothin’ else goin’ on this weekend.