Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Pop Matters | (9/10) |
| Robert Christgau | (A-) |
| Rolling Stone | |
Like its predecessor, Let It Be, Tim was highly praised by critics upon its release. The album is frequently included on professional lists of the all-time best rock albums. Tim was ranked #4 in the Alternative Press list of the Top 99 albums of 1985-1995. Along with their previous album, Let It Be, Tim received five stars from Allmusic.
The album was placed 136th on Rolling Stone's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, with the following review:
| “ | Singer-guitarist Paul Westerberg once cited Tim's stylistic bookends to describe both the longevity of the Replacements' influence and their lack of mainstream success. "My style is ultimately both kinds of things," he said. "Sometimes you just love the little acoustic songs, and other times you want to crank the goddamn amp up, and those two parts of me are forever entwined." That cognitive dissonance — the Stonesesque swagger of "Bastards of Young," the unpolished reflection in "Swingin' Party" — became a crucial template for grunge, alternative country and, recently, the noisy introspection of emo. | ” |
Pitchfork named this album #37 on their list of the Top 100 Albums of the 1980s. Slant Magazine listed the album at #66 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980's".
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)