Turds: "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out"

Part of my criteria for a great album is that almost all songs on it be really good. There's always some wiggle room, so I'll usually allow for one throwaway track: for example, I don't think "Untitled" adds much to In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. On The Replacements' 1984 Let It Be, the throwaway track is very much "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out." I love The Replacements' consequences-be-damned, play-whatever-whenever attitude (especially on Let It Be, which is more eclectic and less cohesive than Tim), but this song is very much not The Replacements. Paul Westerberg's charm is his ability to write songs that are either witty and amusing or endearingly blue, and "Tommy" is neither of those. Paul's delivery is oversexed and swagger-y. The lyrical content is unrelatable. The music is "meh." It's a turd.