{"id":4030,"date":"2022-03-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=4030"},"modified":"2022-03-16T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T23:35:00","slug":"new-music-happy-yet-from-bleeding-hearts-featuring-bob-stinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2022\/03\/17\/new-music-happy-yet-from-bleeding-hearts-featuring-bob-stinson\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music: \u201cHappy Yet\u201d from Bleeding Hearts Featuring Bob Stinson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good news for Replacements fans \u2013 you haven\u2019t heard your last blast of Bob Stinson\u2019s guitar. You get the first volley, \u201cHappy Yet,\u201d today as a digital release, and the rest on April 23 when the Bar None label releases Riches To Rags, a lost album from Minneapolis rockers Bleedings hearts. The album was recorded in 1993, when Stinson joined his roommate Mike Leonard\u2019s band, rehearsing relentlessly with drummer Bob Herbers and bassist Rob Robello.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story is that Sunshine Dunham of Fiasco Records got tipped to the band\u2019s existence when she saw a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2013\/06\/hold-my-life-bob-stinson-the-replacements-interview-june-1993\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">write-up in Spin in 1993<\/a> (the June issue, but she found it on a rack of free mags at the CMJ Festival in October). The profile of Stinson painted a bleak picture of his life at the time, mentioning that every other member of The Replacements was releasing an album that year, and that Stinson was \u201ckilling time in the Bleeding Hearts, a youthfully Stones-y bar band.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dunham seems not to have agreed with the assessment that Stinson was just killing time with Bleeding Hearts, because she tracked the band down to record them. <em>Riches To Rags<\/em> is the result. In the liner notes, Bob Mehr calls it \u201cthe final piece to the puzzle of Bob Stinson\u2019s musical career. I have only heard this first digital single, but if it\u2019s representative of the album, it\u2019s going to be a joyful shambles. \u201cHappy Yet\u201d comes out of the gate riffing and has an obvious kinship with the Replacements in terms of its happy-go-unlucky attitude, overdriven guitar crunch, and charge and stutter beat. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Happy Yet by BarNoneRecords\" width=\"880\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1203132673&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=880\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bleeding Hearts recorded one album together before imploding, and the album was shelved. The band eventually dissolved, Leonard joined Magnolias, and that was that. Apparently, you could hear that and three other tracks on the band\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/myspace.com\/bleedinghearts92\/music\/album\/the-bleeding-hearts-6192537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MySpace in 2010, which is still up<\/a>, but I was unable to play any of the music there. Now you\u2019ll be able to hear it for yourself on a special blood-red vinyl release for Record Store Day. Keep tabs on it through the <a href=\"https:\/\/recordstoreday.com\/SpecialReleases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Record Store Day site<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bar-none.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bar None Records<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lyrics (as I hear them, I\u2019m a little fuzzy on the last lines of verses two and three):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>Happy Yet<\/strong>\r\n\r\nWhere were you when? \r\nWhere are you now?\r\nAre you sleeping on someone\u2019s couch?\r\nWhere were you when, \r\nI needed a friend? \r\nYou didn\u2019t even pay the rent. \r\n\r\nAm I happy yet? \r\nI\u2019m as happy as I\u2019m gonna get.\r\nI\u2019m not happy yet.\r\nI\u2019m as happy as I\u2019m gonna get. \r\n\r\nYou\u2019re older than your years,\r\nCried too many tears,\r\nAnd no one even cares. \r\nYou sold my records for beer,\r\nNow I can\u2019t livin\u2019 here.\r\nI just give up on it. \r\n\r\nAm I happy yet? \r\nI\u2019m as happy as I\u2019m gonna get.\r\nI\u2019m not happy yet.\r\nI\u2019m as happy as I\u2019m gonna get. \r\n\r\nI\u2019m so broken down. \r\nCan\u2019t buy the clown. \r\nThe circus ain\u2019t even in town. \r\n\r\nAm I happy yet? \r\nI\u2019m as happy as I\u2019m gonna get.\r\nI\u2019m not happy yet.\r\nI\u2019m as happy as I\u2019m gonna get. \r\n\r\nNow everything I got is falling apart\r\nI see you at the liquor store, it just breaks my heart\r\nAnd even though I tried to forget about the past\r\nI can\u2019t find my KISS records \r\nI just got to laugh and\u2026\r\n\r\nAm I happy yet? \r\nI\u2019m as happy as I\u2019m gonna get.\r\nI\u2019m not happy yet.\r\nI\u2019m as happy as I\u2019m gonna get. \r\nAm I happy yet? \r\nHappy, yeah\r\nI\u2019m not happy yet.\r\nHappy.\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for Replacements fans \u2013 you haven\u2019t heard your last blast of Bob Stinson\u2019s guitar. 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