Comments on: On Wilco, Better than Ezra and ‘Mats covers

By: honkywithahaton

honkywithahaton — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:53:26 +0000

apropos of nada …

The title of the early Wilco song “Boxful of Letters” has always seemed to me to like a short skip from “The Boxtops’ ‘The Letter'”

By: Color Me Impressed

Color Me Impressed — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:34:51 +0000

… and speaking of Green Day, they’ve covered Bastards of Young quite a few times live. Unfortunately, they didn’t play it at the show I was at.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:00:51 +0000

Years ago, I brought my son up to Minneapolis to see Green Day and the Get Up Kids were the opening act. They had covered “Beer For Breakfast” on a rarities album, but I was quite surprised when they played it.

By: GtrPlyr

GtrPlyr — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:29:23 +0000

I was at one of those Lollapalooza shows back in the 90’s, the one that had Pavement, Sonic Youth, Hole… Anyway, halfway through the Hole set–after some serious imbibing–I decided I’d had enough, and started heading across the giant grassy field towards the parking lot, where I was hoping to sleep things off in my car. As luck would have it, the moment I left the main stage area, what do I hear but the opening strains of “Unsatisfied.” I was almost tempted to turn around, but my head told me otherwise, so I just continued towards the parking lot as Courtney Love screamed “I’m so, I’m so… unsatisfied.” It felt a bit surreal at the time.

It really should have been Pavement covering the Mats at that show…

By: Monkey

Monkey — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:53:45 +0000

Local bands probably shouldn’t count for this, but a few years back at Mill City (or a similar summer music deal) Flipp played a pretty solid cover of “Can’t Hardly Wait” with a horn section and everything, with the singer screaming “Viva la Replacements!!” at the end, pretty cool moment.

Also a Mats-obsessed college buddy and I got Martin Zellar to cover half of “I Will Dare” when he played on campus.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:49:43 +0000

Every time I have seen Steve Poltz play in Mpls he has done some sort of Mats cover. I’ve heard him do If Only You Were Lonely, Skyway, and once he sang one line from about 20 Mats songs in the middle of one of his songs.

I’ve also heard New Orleans’ Dash Rip Rock tear through Can’t Hardly Wait.

By: blasty

blasty — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:57:24 +0000

John Doe played “Here Comes a Regular” when he performed at First Avenue a couple of years ago. Woulda loved to have been there, I think that he would do an awesome version.
He called it an homage to the Mats in their hometown, and, as far as I know, it’s the only time he’s done that song.