The Replacements – Unsatisfied

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  General Comment:Man. This Mats song actually brings a tear to my eye. Westerberg sings with such conviction about being unsatisfied. The beauty of the song is the lack of specificity. It's got enough grey area so that the listener can fill in the blanks with his/her own experiences.

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  General Comment:Thunderbats wrote:
  
  --the lyrics can fit for sexual or other meanings, and this helps give this song a nice broad accessibility. whatever disappointment you yourself are goin thru at present, this song speaks for you!--
  
  Exactly! The two lines that always kills me are "everything i ever wanted, Tell me what's wrong".. It really could mean anything, but for me personally, i think of a past relationship with a girl, and at the time her being everything i ever wanted, but for her, it just wasn't working. Those two line give a sense of helplessness and realized loss that is heartbreaking.

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  General Comment:Are you sure about the location of the cover photograph from Let It Be? According to wikipedia it was taken on the roof of Bob and Tommy's mom's house.

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    Wikipedia is correct, and the poster above is wrong. It's not even Lyndale Ave., much less Jill McLean's house. The house was on Bryant Ave. south of 22nd Street. The trophies in the window belong to Lonnie Stinson, Tommy's half-sister and Bob's sister.

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  General Comment:I feel like this is a slightly more mellow version of "Bastards of Young." I feel like it's trying to get across the same feelings and attitudes, but "Bastards" he's just gotten a lot angrier about it.

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  General Comment:loved how they used the song in the movie "adventureland" - the whole soundtrack is awesome, but when the protagonist in the end finally leaves his hometown to start his new, own life in nyc, and you see this amazing city and its lights through the rain-stained windows of the bus he's riding on, it really gave me shivers

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  General Comment:I simply adore this song. This is the worst thing that can happen to anybody. Get everything you've ever wanted and dreamed of, achieve all your goals and find out that you're still not satisfied with your life. That this is not what you wanted...

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  General Comment:Yeah bakismaki, I also really really love the intro to the song but then I read the lyrics and whoa! This perfectly
  describes the state I'm in right now, completely unsatisfied with everything.

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  General Comment:great song .... great song .... great song
  the lyrics can fit for sexual or other meanings, and this helps give this song a nice broad accessibility. whatever disappointment you yourself are goin thru at present, this song speaks for you !
  but like all of westerberg's songs, this is all about paul.
  he's answering the people (everybody he knows pretty much, but most especially all of the folks in the music business) who are constantly criticizing him and telling him that he has a fear of success and that he will INTENTIONALLY feck up every time he gets a chance to close the deal to become the ACKNOWLEDGED voice of his generation.
  i always think he's singing to jill mclean from twin-tone (the band is sitting on jill's roof outside of her second-story window facing lyndale avenue in Dan Corrigan's photo that was used as the cover of "Let It Be). He's saying, "no i ain't satisfied being a big-fish in this little mpls. pond. i want more ! i wanna be bigger than the beatles and stones combined !!"
  unfortunately jill and everybody else was right ... they get chance to show there stuff to everyone on SNL, what do the do?, they get so fecking drunk people can't even tell what species they are ...
  as he sings on "we're coming out" ... SNL became the same-old, same-old
  "one more chance to get it all wrong ... one more chance thrown away ... one more time to do it all wrong"
  "liberty is a lie" is a reference to all of the suggestions/demands from all of the a&r folks
  "everything you dreamed of" refers to paul's desire to be bigger than he was then, sadly he didn't become as big as he could have.

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  General Comment:I just wanted to comment on how awesome the intro to this song is. I love it. It's beautiful but at the same time it gets me pumped. Funny because the song itself is a little depressing.

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  General Comment:"Liberty is a lie" is probably my favorite line in pop music. This song itself has been my favorite for about ten years, but lately I'm trying to actively move away from it. Maybe I never will be satisfied. But geez, do I have to bask in it so much?

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