Who Needs You – The Orwells
This may be the best song The Replacements never recorded.
There are certain songs that simply belong as the opening track to a mixtape. “Who Needs You” is precisely such a song. With that opening drum kick and ringing guitar riff, it lays down a marker and dares you to resist.
It’s the sort of thing that could only have been recorded by a bunch of 18 year old kids, who still believe right down to their bones in the capacity for a couple guitars to state the absolute unvarnished truth.
Pick up the EP here. And check them out on tour. They’re hitting a few places in the south and a bunch in the northeast and midwest over the next month.