Comments on: In honor of the new Poll, I’m gonna post this about Crackle & Drag https://paulwesterberg.net/2008/01/14/in-honor-of-the-new-poll-im-gonna-post-this-about-crackle-drag/ Best Thing That Never Happened Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:14:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: pauly https://paulwesterberg.net/2008/01/14/in-honor-of-the-new-poll-im-gonna-post-this-about-crackle-drag/comment-page-1/#comment-846 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:14:17 +0000 http://paulwesterberg.net/wordpress/2008/01/14/in-honor-of-the-new-poll-im-gonna-post-this-about-crackle-drag/#comment-846 instant classic. i had no idea who the song was about and it didn’t matter. it was a one of those perfect westerberg tunes that reminds you what a truly talented artist he is. The more I learned about the history of the song the more I appreciated it.

]]> By: honkywithahaton https://paulwesterberg.net/2008/01/14/in-honor-of-the-new-poll-im-gonna-post-this-about-crackle-drag/comment-page-1/#comment-845 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:42:01 +0000 http://paulwesterberg.net/wordpress/2008/01/14/in-honor-of-the-new-poll-im-gonna-post-this-about-crackle-drag/#comment-845 I remember coming home from the Guthrie and that night or the next day hitting the Internet lyric sites hard looking for this amazing cover he’d pulled out, and it wasn’t there. Then the Gwyneth Paltrow movie was coming and there was a campaign to get them to use PW’s song, maybe misguided. I had to see the Crackle line in a book before I believed it. I think there’s another line lifted straight from Plath but I can’t recall what it is now.

]]> By: jay https://paulwesterberg.net/2008/01/14/in-honor-of-the-new-poll-im-gonna-post-this-about-crackle-drag/comment-page-1/#comment-842 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:21:57 +0000 http://paulwesterberg.net/wordpress/2008/01/14/in-honor-of-the-new-poll-im-gonna-post-this-about-crackle-drag/#comment-842 Ya, I was so excited when i heard there gonna be 2 versions on the album, and then was bummed when i heard them because they just dont have a quarter of the emotion that he puts into the live versions.
I like it better than Regular, Skyway, Reach, and all the classic slowbies. The timing of the phrases is what I love. The intro to each new verse just creeps out realllllllyyyyy slowly and reluctantly- pretty powerful writing.

]]> By: Placemat https://paulwesterberg.net/2008/01/14/in-honor-of-the-new-poll-im-gonna-post-this-about-crackle-drag/comment-page-1/#comment-840 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:54:51 +0000 http://paulwesterberg.net/wordpress/2008/01/14/in-honor-of-the-new-poll-im-gonna-post-this-about-crackle-drag/#comment-840 One of my favs.

1st time for me was the Boston In-Store. Paul pulled it out about half-way through the set, remarked how it was supposed to be on Stereo but got the axe from some no taste record exec, & changed “all broken inside” to “all busted inside” (which I’ve always liked better).

Maybe it’s the tears, but the best version, for me, is still the one on the DVD.

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