2000 Great Songs #1373: Let It Ride
My apologies if you were expecting a little Bachman-Turner Overdrive to make this list, but, nope, we're talking Beach Slang. And, sure, it's easy enough to write off Beach Slang--and particularly 2020's Deadbeat Bang Of Heartbreak City --as little more than an unabashed Replacements rip-off. And if you're gonna throw another Replacements song onto the list, why not opt for a real one? But "Let It Ride" is, derivative or otherwise, a great song; we've had plenty of bands on the list who make no bones about drawing deep from the well of the Beatles or Rolling Stones or Beach Boys, so hat tip to a band that pays to tribute to some more contemporary legends. And whether it's heard as the great lost early Mats track, or a post-millennium revival that felt like just the pick-me-up we needed in the heart of the Covid era, no reason not to crank it up and party like it's 1983. Solo acoustic live, 2018: See the entire Top 2000 to date in a sortable databa...
