Friday Night Is Killing Me

1. Never Aim to Please

2. Hang Ups

3. Loose Ends

4. One More Time

5. Tickled to Tears

6. Nothing

7. Fast & Hard

8. Friday Night (Is Killing Me)

9. He Means It

10. Tiny Pieces

11. First Steps

Friday Night Is Killing Me,Bash & Pop,Warner Bros / Wea,Alternative Pop/Rock,American Trad Rock,Bar Band,Popular Music,Rock

Average customer rating:

Still a great album!!

Great Rock N Roll CD

Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out...

A Keeper

Worth Buying By Replacements Fans

Friday Night Is Killing Me
Bash & Pop
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000006L4T
Release Date: 1993-02-09

Tracks:

Never Aim to Please
Hang Ups
Loose Ends
One More Time
Tickled to Tears
Nothing
Fast & Hard
Friday Night (Is Killing Me)
He Means It
Tiny Pieces
First Steps

Customer Reviews:

Still a great album!!.......2006-01-03

Tommy Stinson started his post-Replacements career with this album. Westerberg and Tommy have both put out great albums since the 'Mats breakup. This album rocks ("Never Aim to Please," "Fast and Hard") and even has some beautiful ballads ("Friday Night is Killing Me," "Nothing"). It has a strong "Faces" feel to it with Tommy's voice sounding very similar to Ronnie Lane's. Give it a few listens and you'll love it.

Great Rock N Roll CD.......2004-09-03

I bought this cd in 1992 when it was released and played the living death out of it on college radio. This is still a cd that I throw on once and awhile and still enjoy immensley. Worth picking up for the price listed here. Worth every penny.

Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out..........2004-06-18

In light of all of the hyperbole thrown around back in The Replacements' heyday, perhaps Bash & Pop's Friday Night Is Killing Me is self-fulfilling to a certain degree, Tommy Stinson's first post-'Mats project paying homage to boozy, rooster-haired rockers like The Faces and the Stones with an album coated with grit and affection and overflowing with time-honored chords which at times, due to a gloriously messy rhythmic sense, threatens to fall apart before snapping back into place.

Stepping out of the long shadow cast by Paul Westerberg, everyone's favorite fidgety kid brother traded in four strings for six and assumed lead vocal and songwriting duties for this album, adding drummer Steve Foley (who briefly replaced Chris Mars when the apocalypse was near for The Replacements), his bassist brother Kevin Foley, and guitarist Steve Brantseg. Unfortunately, the line-up proved to be as dysfunctional as some nutter crouched in the corner of a blank white room, with Stinson firing both Brantseg and Kevin Foley before Friday Night was released.

If a series of Westerberg solo albums which tread deeper and deeper into the manure hasn't already confirmed what fans knew all along - that Stinson was The Replacements' rock and roll heart - Friday Night Is Killing Me irrevocably seals it. Call me lazy for playing spot the influences, but this album reverberates with the amateurish enthusiasm and shambolic approach to recording The Faces built a career on, from the drunken stumble of Tickled To Tears to Brantseg's channeling of Ron Wood on Never Aim To Please and Loose Ends to Stinson's cheeky, raspy croon, which mixes equal parts Wood, Rod Stewart, Ian McLagan, and Ronnie Lane. Yeah, I own solo albums by all four, but don't tell me to get a life. I already tried that...

In the end though, due to record company indifference, an aborted tour to promote it, and the implosion of the group that made it, Friday Night Is Killing Me died a quick death on the shelves and was swept into cut price bins faster than you could say All Shook Down. Irrefutably, Tommy Stinson is no Paul Westerberg and in spite of his recent willingness to assume the role of lap dog for Axl Rose, that's something we should all be thankful for.

The best dollar you'll ever spend. Get your wallet out.

A Keeper.......2004-01-14

Recorded shortly after the breakup of the Replacements, Stintson was only 28 and, frankly, I don't think anyone expected him to make much of a solo career (correctly, unfortunately). But this lone solo LP is great -- it's a great blend of post-Replacements pop/bar-rock, alternating weariness and optimism. It's the sound of a Rock 'N Roll Ghost after a long winter.

Worth Buying By Replacements Fans.......2003-03-19

If you are really into the Replacements (and you should be -- Avril Lavigne in Rolling Stone recently revealed that Johnny Reznick of the Goo Goo Dolls was schooling her on the Replacements, as she has little knowledge of rock music. But she is not a good student, since all she could remember was that the band started with an "R", oh well), Anyway, if you are into the Replacements, then you should enjoy this. The album doesn't rock out as much as it could, which is what led Tommy Stinson to abandon this project and move onto Perfect (whose Squirrels EP is much harder and less pop). But it still a fine effort. "Never Aim to Please" is very catchy and the best track.

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