Makry's records...

Sinéad O'Connor: I do not want what I haven't got.
1990

I suppose I could go on and on about a long list of Replacements records that held sway over my musical life at one point or another. But, with them, it was a cumulative thing. A series of brilliant albums, each building upon the last to form the canon of the greatest rock band of my generation. However, if there was one record that got to me in a way that I hadn't been previously "gotten to", it would have to be this one. This album came out of the blue sometime around the middle of my dismal sophomore year in college. I remember seeing the video for Nothing Compares 2 U, and just being blown away. I'm not sure that I can pinpoint what it was, exactly, about this record that got me. I had spent the better part of the last two years waging a letter writing campaign with a girl from high school that I kinda had a crush on, and I think in some ways this record was the coda for that infatuation. At any rate, I pretty much wore the thing out. But, if you have a chance, this is one great fucking album, and the live show was possibly the best one I've ever seen.

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