Grandpaboy (aka Paul Westerberg) - Mono

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2015

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

With no guest and Brian taking the week off, Bill decided to talk to himself for an hour about one of his favorite artists and one of his favorite albums. Credited to Paul Westerberg's alias Grandpaboy, Mono (2002, Vagrant) was paired with the release of a Westerberg solo album called Stereo. Stereo was the softer side, and Mono was the rocking side. Both recorded at home in Paul's basement, these albums were hailed as a return to form for the singer songwriter after his disappointing prior 3 post-Replacements solo albums. Bill talks about how he slowly developed a love for this album during his freshman year of college, Paul's guitar choice, Westerbergian lyrics, dirty sounds and beautiful melodies, and a track by track review!

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0:00.0	It's hard time
0:03.0	It's high time I Hello, I'll let you fly.
0:30.6	I know it's kind of low, but for me it's my hard time. Hello, welcome to me is my hot time.
0:39.5	Hello, welcome to the great albums podcast. I'm Bill, and my regular co-host, Brian, is not with us today.
0:47.6	He is busy off being a good boyfriend and taking his lady out on a nice birthday afternoon. He's going to be a good boyfriend and taking his lady out on a nice birthday afternoon. So it's just going to be me
0:59.7	today, which is going to be odd. It's the first time I'm giving this a whirl as just myself.
1:05.7	Brian's done one before on his own when he did the Beach Boys smiley Smile. So I'm going to try this adventure myself.
1:13.9	What we usually do here is every week we take a different album of music that us and a
1:20.9	sometimes a guest decide is great.
1:24.5	And we talk about it.
1:25.7	We talk about our personal relationships with the music and
1:29.2	how we first got into it. We talk a little bit about the artist and the production behind
1:35.1	the music and then we also do a track by track review of the music. So that's what I'm going to be
1:40.6	doing today. I'm going to be doing all those things by myself. And as you heard in our little intro right there, I was playing some of the Paul Westerberg
1:50.0	alter ego, grandpa boy off of his album Mono. So I'm going to be talking about Mono today. I guess I should
1:58.0	just get right into it and talk about how I always ask the guess. I'm like,
2:03.1	well, what turned you on about the music and how did you first get into it? So I'll do that for
2:09.8	myself. So what happened was, I don't think it's a secret that early in my teen years, I was a bit of
2:17.1	a Gougoodolls fan, which is, you know, in my defense,
2:21.3	it was the 90s, and I was a teenager. Not in my defense. I was a teenage boy, and I still loved
2:29.7	all the Gougu dolls ballads for some reason. But what ended up happening was thanks to the internet, you know,
2:36.3	you can become, and you're a nerd and you go on the internet and you find something you love,
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