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Eventually | 
 enlarge | Artist: Paul Westerberg
Label: Reprise / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 53148
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 46176
UPC: 093624617624
EAN: 0093624617624
ASIN: B000002N58
Release Date: April 30, 1996
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| Tracks:
| • | These Are the Days | | • | Century | | • | Love Untold | | • | Ain't Got Me | | • | You've Had It With You | | • | MamaDaddyDid | | • | Hide 'N' Seekin' | | • | Once Around the Weekend | | • | Trumpet Clip | | • | Angels Walk | | • | Good Day | | • | Time Flies Tomorrow |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Admittedly, Eventually is as tentative a collection of songs as its title indicates. Yes, Westerberg is mostly satisfied keeping house and watching the rabbits in his backyard. Yes, he's pleased to report he's "given the world the slip." And, yes, the least convincing songs here are the full-on rockers, while one of the most affecting is "Good Day," a winsome piano ballad that is Westerberg's "The Way We Were." Better still is "Hide N Seekin'," a song haunted by the Rock & Roll Ghost Westerberg sang of in 1989. In this incarnation, it's hard to tell if the apparition quivering in the shadows is the Replacements' late lead guitarist Bob Stinson, or Paul himself. --Steven Stolder
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| Customer Reviews:
 Eventually..............waiting for Grandpaboy October 8, 2007
W. Pardlow
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A good album from Westerburg,I prefer the later,rawer,off the cuff sound of Stereo/Mono. But this first solo album is a nice set of songs done more professinally."Love Untold"is still a favorite track.
But I was still waiting for Paul to go to the basement,and bring forth Grandpaboy.
 Enough Already!!!! June 4, 2005
D. R Hayes (Clermont, FL. United States)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is probably the best album I've heard from Paul since 1987's "Pleased To Meet Me". I mean "Pleased To Meet Me" was a chockful album of jukebox songs, and I mean all of them. This was just like that. Paul after going through alcohol rehab, and then the suicide of Tommy Stintson it was a way of battling demons, and he did so with this album. There is a few songs out of place, but they are all beautiful. "Angel Song" is a hauntingly beautiful piece, "Love Untold" is a rather good unrequited love song, and yet the guy never tells the girl he has feelings for her. A little personal for me as I've done many a "Love Untold" in my life. There's also "Had It With You" this probably is in the right place, but I feel that if you wanted to end your album as a rocker put this at the end, "MamaDaddy Did" a interesting piece where a child looks at the difficulty of raising a child, and decides he wants no part of it; believe me there was a time when I didn't think I'd want a child either, but this was a very long time ago about 14-15 years old; I now have a son of almost 4, and he's a delight to have, so some people can change. "Hide and Seek" I loved playing that game, but remember all who love to play "It's only a game." Don't make it a part of your life where you don't let people see what you can become. I mean that wholeheartedly. This is an album of self-reflection, and it's told rather well.
not all that bad September 24, 2004
Cory L. Jones (Illinois)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm a big Paul fan and I have to say that this is probably his most underrated album. Sure, it's got some crap on it (Hide N' Seekin', Trumpet Clip) but it also has two of his best solo tunes, MamaDaddy Did and Angels Walk. These two songs are sad, beautiful, forgotten classics. The rest of the album isn't quite up to par with those two songs but it's solid at best and agreeable at worst. This one's relatively cheap and worth checking out if you're a Paul fan.
Eventually satisfactually June 30, 2002
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Having acquired a taste for the Replacements only in their later days (Don't Tell A Soul and All Shook Down)in which their songs were better written and better played and better produced, I like tremendously Eventually (and 14 Songs). Eventually follows the more mellow/musical leanings of the two previously mentioned Rep.'s cd's. Still guitar driven, but better sounding guitar driven. This is the music of a maturing songwriter/musician that puts together catchy,yet rough edged, songs. There are some rough songs here (like You've had it with you) but the trend is towards more mellow songcraft, and it works.....Eventually you will return to this cd time and again.
Half-Baked But Still Worth Tasting April 10, 2002
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Unfortunately, half of this record consists of shameless and grossly inferior re-treadings of Paul's past work (You've Had It With You = Down Love, Ain't Got Me = Mannequin Shop), along with some folkier yet uninteresting songs (Once Around the Weekend, These Are the Days) and embarrassing forays into piano-based material (Time Flies Tomorrow, Good Day...yeah, that's right, Good Day. I don't care who the song was written for or about--...[it's outright horrible]. Even more unfortunate is the fact that Paul felt compelled to continue this terrible formula on the majority of Eventually's follow-up, Suicaine Gratifaction. Still, the remaining six songs include some of Westerberg's best despite what you may have heard. For instance, the album's rockers (Century, Trumpet Clip) are excellent even by Mats standards--hooky, raucous, sarcastic & fun. Love Untold and Angels Walk are the quality heart-string-tuggers that you expect from Paul. The former, a sympathetic call to those whom love has eluded, breaks your heart with sadness. The latter, an ode to childhood innocence, breaks your heart with happiness. They truly are Westerberg at his finest. That leaves us with two of Paul's few coming-of-age type songs that actually live up to their critical praise, Hide N Seekin and Mamadaddydid. With the first, it's quite obvious that Paul's singing about himself and his alcoholism, which is haunting enough, but I can't help but think that he's singing it to the ghost of Bob as well, letting him know he's battling the same demons. Mamadaddydid smacks of irony in its repetitive distinction between having and raising children. Yet the irony and the song's Buddy Holly-esque feel keep it cleverly aloof of the actual issue--whether or not he's ready to be a father. So, if you're a Paul fan, buy the disc, burn these 6 tracks
onto your best of mix, and pray to God that Paul's new record is a return to form. If you're not a Paul fan yet, I suggest you pick up some Mats records first and get this somewhere down the road. Eventually, if you will.
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