The Replacements
 

These guys don't have their own thread?

Please to Meet me! I.O.U, I don't Know, The ledge, and of course Alex Chilton... I don't think there's a bad song on this album.

Tim's a little bit odd but... Come on. Great band.

Pretty much most of what the Replacements released was gold. Let It Be is a great, fun album. Probably my favourite Twin/Tone Records band.

I've heard a handful of songs and they're awesome.
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Can anyone up something?

I have Let it Be and Tim. I'll do that soon.

Don't really like Tim that much but I've been looking to hear Let It Be anyway.

I find their more popular albums to be too energetic. They all sound the same. I like Tim. Few replacements fans are fond of Don't Tell a Soul, but without being compared to the rest of their albums it its pretty good, albeit a little homogenous.

Yeah i love them to bits, im really getting into them lately. My fav songs at the mo are Left Of The Dial, Here Comes A Regular and Alex Chilton. Would have loved to have seen them live, their shows had a chaotic reputation.

Only song by them I really really like is: "I'll Be You"...that was the jam when it came out.

That was the closest thing they had to a hit, it's prob not their best song tho.

"Sixteen blue" and "Unsatisfied" from let it be are killer tracks.

Shiftless When Idle is a lost classic.

They lost something when Bob Stinson's role diminished by the time of Tim. Westerberg was the genious, but Stinson was the heart and soul. Tim was a nice album, but everthing before it was when the Mats were great.

there's a line of three musicians that goes....Alex Chilton - Paul Westerberg - Tim Rogers....if your not familiar with Rogers than I suggest you check out his band You am I, or some of his solo records. pure rock'n'roll honesty. fav mats album has to be let it be...answering machine and androynous are classics

"I Will Dare" has an irresistable melody, I love this song.

Think I might even prefer Tim at this point.

My favorite songs are "Hold My Life" and "Can't Hardly Wait." Just so good.

These guys are so amazing. Does anyone have any suggestions for similar bands I might also enjoy?

The Clash are always a direct comparison for me since they're both accessible while trying to make an original punk sound. Maybe something like Pavement's first album?

Try Husker Du. Their early stuff is pretty much hardcore punk but they mellowed out after that and wrote really great songs that bridged the gap between punk and the alternative rock scene of the late 80's. And they were great friends of The Replacements.

awesome! I definitely will have to give Husker Du a listen. I always felt they were a bit harder sounding. And Pavement is great.
I was kind of hoping for something modern so I was going to check out Paul Westerberg's solo stuff and Grandpaboy, and I'm really liking Golden Smog's stuff.

Let it Be is one of the finest albums of the 80s and even Christgau couldn't spot a blemish on it (he rated it A+).

So, anyone have any fav tracks from it? Personally, I think Unsatisfied reeks of greatness. It's so simple and yet so poignant... it's something more than teenage angst, it's a depressing masterpiece which I think everyone can relate to at some point or another. White boy blues at its best.

Sixteen Blue hands down for me.

The Replacements are one of my favourite bands.

I love Let It Be the best, awesome from start to finish. Gary's Got a Boner, while certainly not as good as the other songs, is a bit of silly fun and lightens up Androgynous, Unsatisfied and Sixteen Blue.

Sorry Ma Forgot to Take Out the Trash takes second place, followed by Pleased to Meet Me then Tim.

Amazing band. Let It Be is a great album. I love Answering Machine.

I would have posted this in the Latest Film You've Seen thread but it won't be interesting to anybody who is not a fan of The Replacements. I watched Color Me Obsessed:

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It's a great example of how a music documentary can be made well without any footage of the band, but only with people talking about the band (including the guy who their album Tim was named after).

It would be especially interesting to any fan living in/from the Minneapolis area, I imagine.

I never heard of the band until Don't Tell A Soul came out, which I liked even though most of it bored me. It was sold along with all my old cassettes. Looking through my whole collection I'm upset to find that I also sold or lost all my earlier Replacements CDs, which I really liked.

I'm gonna go on a downloading rampage.

I totally forgot that was a thing. Need to watch it asap.

I'd be curious if they discuss their infamous Portland stop on the Pleased To Meet Me tour

At the end of the day I would probably pick Answering machine as my favorite song. Love everything they have done. Don't tell a soul has some unfortunate production that dates it a bit but it has some great stuff. They were never meant to be that polished. Saw them in Denver last year at riot fest and it was mind blowing. At the end they changed instruments with paul on drums and Tommy on guitar and were playing whatever covers came to mind. Heck with it, here is the video. I like Paul trying to do a Daltrey mic spin and it immediately fell off. The entire show was not like this. In my top 10 favorite shows of all time and everything you want from a Replacements show.


The Replacements at Riot Fest Denver - This is how it ended - YouTube

I love this interview with them, especially how drunk Bob is. RIP Bob.



Here Comes a Regular is my favourite Replacements song without a doubt. I played it to one of my friends one time after a night of drinking and he insisted on playing it on repeat for about half an hour saying it was the greatest thing he'd ever heard. I didn't get bored of it either because it's such an amazing song to listen to in the early hours of the morning. It's an amazing song to listen to at any time really.

^^^

I played that song before a night of drinking with a buddy and quickly realized it's not exactly an appropriate soundtrack for getting happily drunk.

Yeah, it's definitely one to listen to after a night of drinking. Unless you're going to a dingy dive bar on your lonesome to drown your misery with shots of whiskey.