Originally scheduled for release in 1995 and to be entitled Seven Days a Week, Tommy Stinson’s post-Replacements ‘Perfect’ album was shelved due to record company politics. But not just record company politics one can imagine. The fact that it simply wasn’t very good may have had something to do with it. Not that there’s any glaring errors, just that it rattles along without in a psudeo-Clash army kind of way without ever really threatening any kind of positive rock violence. The tunes are nice enough, the delivery consumate if uninspired and the production (helped out latterly by Matt Hyde) punchily poptastic. Better still though are Stinson’s stint in Gun n Roses and his recent solo effort, Vintage Gorilla Head.
Best of the bunch? The faintly Alarmish and air thumping, ‘Seven Days A Week’.