The Replacements: Classic or Dud?

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Dont trust anyone who doesnt get the Replacements.

The funny thing is, I also grew up near the Twin Cities, and I never had any use for the Replacements until I was in my mid-twenties. One day they just clicked. I'd only heard "Within Your Reach" -- big shout out to the "Say Anything" soundtrack -- and I picked up "Stink" on impulse. I liked it, but it took another year or two before I bought "Let It Be." Then I was hooked. Nowadays, I swap bootlegs and count down until Rykodisc releases the much-delayed Perfect LP.

I have a theory that growing up in the 'burbs sort of immunized me to the local music scene. I thought Limited Warranty was cool, because they were on the radio, but it never occurred to me to venture up Highway 55 to the cities to check out bands. My mistake. It wasn't until I started college (in Saint Paul) that I realized the error of my ways, and by that point the Replacements were old news.

Also, FWIW, Soul Asylum had a nice run there. Hang Time and Grave Dancer's Union were both nice little records, and the Twin-Tone stuff is definitely worth checking out. And that's Dave Pirner yelling at the cops in the beginning of "Kids Don't Follow," so that's already pretty cool.

When I was in elementary, our school had a contest where we had to draw these anti-smoking posters and slogan that we made up....If yours was selected as one of the finalists or winners, you got to go on a field trip to see Limited Warranty play a "Smoke Free Generation" show at the Metrodome! I didn't win.

Hear me cryin' out to you
You said, "Never, never would I leave"
Here's a tear from me to you
And maybe it will make you hear me

I loved you
You didn't feel the same
Though we're apart
You're in my heart
Give me one more chance
To make it real

In a dream you are here
You smile and hold me near
And in my heart I'll pretend
That you are hear again

Hear me cryin' out to you
You said, "Never, never would I leave"
Here's a tear from me to you
And maybe it will make you hear me

I loved you
You didn't feel the same
Though we're apart
You're in my heart
Give me one more chance
To make it real

Give me one more chance
To make it real

That's brilliant! So that's him going "Hey fuck you man!"?

Dan, don't forget about Limited Warranty's classic tune "Victory Line."

Heard the other day that the Twin/Tone albums (up through Let it Be) are going to be released before the year's up as 2cd versions. Even though the bonuses are likely to be stuff the fans have already booted, it'll be great to have the quality upped.

Pinefox - if you're a fan of more polished sounds (you like Lloyd Cole and Prefab Sprout, right?), you might check out the _All For Nothing_ comp from the Replacements' Sire years. _Tim_, the album after _Let It Be_, was their first for Sire.

I think that this Replacements track is the only one I have heard in the years since I first heard a tape of them at university, c. October 1991. I didn't really love that tape. But I think it was the Replacements.

I used to love the 'Mats, but they haven't really aged well for me. Let it Be is one of those albums that's going to have a following amongst high-school juniors forever, but it sounds pretty played out to me now. Shockingly, Soul Asylum's Hang Time actually holds up better. I never really liked Tim, although I think that's a function of the production more than anything else. Stink and Sorry Ma still have some great moments, but (although I would never have said this at the time), I think that Flip Your Wig stands out the masterpiece of this particular twin cities subgenre.