Elizabeth Nelson
@paranoiacs.bsky.social
Singer-songwriter for the Paranoid Style, contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, The Ringer, Pitchfork, LGM.
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Give this a try—I have been able to access it so maybe Nelson created a gift link.
Thanks so much to GQ for publishing my liner notes for the new Replacements 'Let It Be' boxset, out on Friday. Extra special thanks to Jessica Hopper, Patterson Hood and Brian Paulson for their extraordinary insights. What an absolute joy this project has been to work on. www.gq.com/story/when-t...
When The Replacements' Courage Was at its Peak
On their 1984 album ‘Let It Be,’ the Minneapolis indie-rock wastrels spewed a message of working-class passion and outsider solidarity into the world's answering machine.
www.gq.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Give this a try—I have been able to access it so maybe Nelson created a gift link.
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He connects Charli XCX to Aaron fucking Copland.
Reflecting again on how John Cale’s piano playing on Nick Drake’s “Northern Sky” is one of the single most moving things I’ve ever heard, and also how it's like the thirtieth most historical thing to occur over the course of his career in music. A remarkably passionate oracle. Truly no one like him.
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 AM
He connects Charli XCX to Aaron fucking Copland.
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'Northern Sky' was my Nick Drake entry point, half a century ago. Dinna know until tonight that the piano (and organ and ... maybe celesta?) is Cale.
Sweet breezes in the top of the tree
Sweet breezes in the top of the tree
Reflecting again on how John Cale’s piano playing on Nick Drake’s “Northern Sky” is one of the single most moving things I’ve ever heard, and also how it's like the thirtieth most historical thing to occur over the course of his career in music. A remarkably passionate oracle. Truly no one like him.
November 27, 2025 at 5:27 AM
'Northern Sky' was my Nick Drake entry point, half a century ago. Dinna know until tonight that the piano (and organ and ... maybe celesta?) is Cale.
Sweet breezes in the top of the tree
Sweet breezes in the top of the tree
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Really well said. I'm still finding out Cale Facts and angles all these decades into being a fan. And as for Northern Sky - what a magnificent song! There's no guarantee it would have been enough of a hit to change things for Drake, but it's still bizarre the label didn't release it as a single.
November 27, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Really well said. I'm still finding out Cale Facts and angles all these decades into being a fan. And as for Northern Sky - what a magnificent song! There's no guarantee it would have been enough of a hit to change things for Drake, but it's still bizarre the label didn't release it as a single.
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Track 431. Happy Thanksgiving. And I’m thankful for the great writing Elizabeth puts out every time. open.spotify.com/playlist/1gm...
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Track 431. Happy Thanksgiving. And I’m thankful for the great writing Elizabeth puts out every time. open.spotify.com/playlist/1gm...
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Engaging, provocative-in-a-good-way writing about a haunting album and interesting artist (and I'm no Springsteen fanatic).
I hope to find her full Replacements "Let It Be" liner notes (or will have to pry open the wallet. I just wish the 40th [41st] Anniversary edition album was sold via Bandcamp)
I hope to find her full Replacements "Let It Be" liner notes (or will have to pry open the wallet. I just wish the 40th [41st] Anniversary edition album was sold via Bandcamp)
Thanks to The Ringer for republishing my 2022 piece on 'Nebraska' amidst the excitement surrounding 'Deliver Me From Nowhere'. It's one I'm very proud of- both a celebration of a transcendent album and a melancholy reckoning with the broken American labor movement. www.theringer.com/2022/12/14/m...
Please Don’t Stop Me: 40 Years of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska’
Decades after its release, the haunted highways and haunted characters of the Boss’s largely acoustic masterpiece still haunt the American psyche
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November 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Engaging, provocative-in-a-good-way writing about a haunting album and interesting artist (and I'm no Springsteen fanatic).
I hope to find her full Replacements "Let It Be" liner notes (or will have to pry open the wallet. I just wish the 40th [41st] Anniversary edition album was sold via Bandcamp)
I hope to find her full Replacements "Let It Be" liner notes (or will have to pry open the wallet. I just wish the 40th [41st] Anniversary edition album was sold via Bandcamp)
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I have listed all his appearances as a guest musician that I am aware of here:
werksman.home.xs4all.nl/cale/guest/i...
werksman.home.xs4all.nl/cale/guest/i...
John Cale - Helping out
werksman.home.xs4all.nl
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I have listed all his appearances as a guest musician that I am aware of here:
werksman.home.xs4all.nl/cale/guest/i...
werksman.home.xs4all.nl/cale/guest/i...
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It is, quite literally, celestial.
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It is, quite literally, celestial.
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Very true. The viola solo on the Replacements ‘Sadly Beautiful’ is also right up there
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Very true. The viola solo on the Replacements ‘Sadly Beautiful’ is also right up there
Reflecting again on how John Cale’s piano playing on Nick Drake’s “Northern Sky” is one of the single most moving things I’ve ever heard, and also how it's like the thirtieth most historical thing to occur over the course of his career in music. A remarkably passionate oracle. Truly no one like him.
November 27, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Reflecting again on how John Cale’s piano playing on Nick Drake’s “Northern Sky” is one of the single most moving things I’ve ever heard, and also how it's like the thirtieth most historical thing to occur over the course of his career in music. A remarkably passionate oracle. Truly no one like him.
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It’s @paranoiacs.bsky.social on the ‘Mats. You will dare! www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/ever...
Everything You Ever Wanted - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Last Friday, Rhino Records re-issued the Replacements’ 1984 classic Let It Be as a deluxe box set—a remaster of the original LP, a disc of alternate takes and a live show from the Cubby Bear in Chicag...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
It’s @paranoiacs.bsky.social on the ‘Mats. You will dare! www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/ever...
The truest and cruelest song about the cannibalistic music industry of the rock age, Paul Westerberg's "World Class Fad" was a clarion call to Kurt Cobain and whoever else obviously wasn't listening about the reality of the circumstances. Yr. worth more to them dead than alive. The suicide your on.
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The truest and cruelest song about the cannibalistic music industry of the rock age, Paul Westerberg's "World Class Fad" was a clarion call to Kurt Cobain and whoever else obviously wasn't listening about the reality of the circumstances. Yr. worth more to them dead than alive. The suicide your on.
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I am loving Elizabeth Nelson's liner notes for the Let It Be box set. She describes Tommy's playing on I Will Dare as a "Walking-around-the-prision-yard" bassline. Genius.
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#TheReplacements #LetItBe ##minneapolis #TwinTone #1980s
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#TheReplacements #LetItBe ##minneapolis #TwinTone #1980s
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I am loving Elizabeth Nelson's liner notes for the Let It Be box set. She describes Tommy's playing on I Will Dare as a "Walking-around-the-prision-yard" bassline. Genius.
@paranoiacs.bsky.social
#TheReplacements #LetItBe ##minneapolis #TwinTone #1980s
@paranoiacs.bsky.social
#TheReplacements #LetItBe ##minneapolis #TwinTone #1980s
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@paranoiacs.bsky.social Elizabeth Nelson is my favorite rock writer these days. She wrote the liner notes for the new Let it Be re-release, and she killed it, unsurprisingly.
www.gq.com/story/when-t...
www.gq.com/story/when-t...
When The Replacements' Courage Was at its Peak
On their 1984 album ‘Let It Be,’ the Minneapolis indie-rock wastrels spewed a message of working-class passion and outsider solidarity into the world's answering machine.
www.gq.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
@paranoiacs.bsky.social Elizabeth Nelson is my favorite rock writer these days. She wrote the liner notes for the new Let it Be re-release, and she killed it, unsurprisingly.
www.gq.com/story/when-t...
www.gq.com/story/when-t...
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Chris stopped in and visited Paul recently and the big topic of conversation was their e-bikes.
Over at the Washington Post, the great Geoff Edgers wrangled Tommy Stinson and Chris Mars from the Replacements to discuss the spectacular new 'Let It Be' boxset released by
@Rhino_Records on Friday. A genuine feat of reporting and a crucial read for any fan. The new best historian? wapo.st/4ifEGDx
@Rhino_Records on Friday. A genuine feat of reporting and a crucial read for any fan. The new best historian? wapo.st/4ifEGDx
The moment it all clicked for the Replacements — before it fell apart
‘Let It Be,” the Replacements’ 1984 album, hit a sweet spot they would never again find. Drummer Chris Mars and guitarist Tommy Stinson discuss a new RE-release.
wapo.st
November 23, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Chris stopped in and visited Paul recently and the big topic of conversation was their e-bikes.
Over at the Washington Post, the great Geoff Edgers wrangled Tommy Stinson and Chris Mars from the Replacements to discuss the spectacular new 'Let It Be' boxset released by
@Rhino_Records on Friday. A genuine feat of reporting and a crucial read for any fan. The new best historian? wapo.st/4ifEGDx
@Rhino_Records on Friday. A genuine feat of reporting and a crucial read for any fan. The new best historian? wapo.st/4ifEGDx
The moment it all clicked for the Replacements — before it fell apart
‘Let It Be,” the Replacements’ 1984 album, hit a sweet spot they would never again find. Drummer Chris Mars and guitarist Tommy Stinson discuss a new RE-release.
wapo.st
November 23, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Over at the Washington Post, the great Geoff Edgers wrangled Tommy Stinson and Chris Mars from the Replacements to discuss the spectacular new 'Let It Be' boxset released by
@Rhino_Records on Friday. A genuine feat of reporting and a crucial read for any fan. The new best historian? wapo.st/4ifEGDx
@Rhino_Records on Friday. A genuine feat of reporting and a crucial read for any fan. The new best historian? wapo.st/4ifEGDx
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Todd Snider's death got me reflecting on the thread connecting my favorite songwriters. Elizabeth Nelson (as usual) captures it pretty well in this tremendous piece on the 'Mats. Call it an empathetic sensibility, a concern for the outcasts and marginalized, expressed with a poet's feel for words.
Thanks so much to GQ for publishing my liner notes for the new Replacements 'Let It Be' boxset, out on Friday. Extra special thanks to Jessica Hopper, Patterson Hood and Brian Paulson for their extraordinary insights. What an absolute joy this project has been to work on. www.gq.com/story/when-t...
When The Replacements' Courage Was at its Peak
On their 1984 album ‘Let It Be,’ the Minneapolis indie-rock wastrels spewed a message of working-class passion and outsider solidarity into the world's answering machine.
www.gq.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Todd Snider's death got me reflecting on the thread connecting my favorite songwriters. Elizabeth Nelson (as usual) captures it pretty well in this tremendous piece on the 'Mats. Call it an empathetic sensibility, a concern for the outcasts and marginalized, expressed with a poet's feel for words.
Come join us!
Sat. Nov. 22 in DMV DC- Sirius Company w/ dj Dirty Rico free 1-4 pm Shaken not Stirred @ District E (go-go); Replacements Let it Be Deluxe Edition Listening session & talk w/ journalist & musician @paranoiacs.bsky.social Elizabeth Nelson & Jim Spellman (Velocity Girl) free 4:30 @ Songbyrd🧵
November 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Thanks so much to GQ for publishing my liner notes for the new Replacements 'Let It Be' boxset, out on Friday. Extra special thanks to Jessica Hopper, Patterson Hood and Brian Paulson for their extraordinary insights. What an absolute joy this project has been to work on. www.gq.com/story/when-t...
When The Replacements' Courage Was at its Peak
On their 1984 album ‘Let It Be,’ the Minneapolis indie-rock wastrels spewed a message of working-class passion and outsider solidarity into the world's answering machine.
www.gq.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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One of the best music essays I’ve ever read.
Thanks so much to GQ for publishing my liner notes for the new Replacements 'Let It Be' boxset, out on Friday. Extra special thanks to Jessica Hopper, Patterson Hood and Brian Paulson for their extraordinary insights. What an absolute joy this project has been to work on. www.gq.com/story/when-t...
When The Replacements' Courage Was at its Peak
On their 1984 album ‘Let It Be,’ the Minneapolis indie-rock wastrels spewed a message of working-class passion and outsider solidarity into the world's answering machine.
www.gq.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
One of the best music essays I’ve ever read.
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Great piece on the 'Mats & their classic album.
Thanks so much to GQ for publishing my liner notes for the new Replacements 'Let It Be' boxset, out on Friday. Extra special thanks to Jessica Hopper, Patterson Hood and Brian Paulson for their extraordinary insights. What an absolute joy this project has been to work on. www.gq.com/story/when-t...
When The Replacements' Courage Was at its Peak
On their 1984 album ‘Let It Be,’ the Minneapolis indie-rock wastrels spewed a message of working-class passion and outsider solidarity into the world's answering machine.
www.gq.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Great piece on the 'Mats & their classic album.
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Fantastic Elizabeth Nelson essay on the 'Mats "Let it Be." "The enormity of the compassion is made to feel deeper by the extent of the confusion."
www.gq.com/story/when-t...
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When The Replacements' Courage Was at its Peak
On their 1984 album ‘Let It Be,’ the Minneapolis indie-rock wastrels spewed a message of working-class passion and outsider solidarity into the world's answering machine.
www.gq.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Fantastic Elizabeth Nelson essay on the 'Mats "Let it Be." "The enormity of the compassion is made to feel deeper by the extent of the confusion."
www.gq.com/story/when-t...
@paranoiacs.bsky.social
www.gq.com/story/when-t...
@paranoiacs.bsky.social
"Get busy fighting for new art and new voices, or get busy dying." Thrilled to see my old Indiana buddy Darius Van Arman writing in Stereogum in the most meticulous terms, about the precarious state of the music industry amidst our current techno-feudal nightmare. Brilliant guy. tinyurl.com/2c7uu84r
Op-Ed: The Struggle For Independence In The Modern Age
Jagjaguwar's Darius Van Arman on our shared fight against market concentration and for art, culture, and access.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM
"Get busy fighting for new art and new voices, or get busy dying." Thrilled to see my old Indiana buddy Darius Van Arman writing in Stereogum in the most meticulous terms, about the precarious state of the music industry amidst our current techno-feudal nightmare. Brilliant guy. tinyurl.com/2c7uu84r