On second thought I do think Paul Westerberg has a strong melancholy streak. At first I had stuff "Waitress in the Sky" or "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out" or "Ale

On second thought I do think Paul Westerberg has a strong melancholy streak. At first I had stuff "Waitress in the Sky" or "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out" or "Alex Chilton" or whatever in mind, but now that I think about it there's a dark undercurrent to plenty of the songs in the core Replacements canon: "Hold my Life", "Unsatisified", "I Will Dare", "Bastards of Young", "I'll Be You", etc. - not to mention of a handful of slow tempo tracks with obviously dark themes. I don't normally associate the Replacements with mopey music but in retrospect I'm not sure why. It's kinda all over the place, under a very thin veneer of drunken cynicism.