The Replacements
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Replacements: Pleased To Meet Me
Review by Ira Robbins, Creem, August 1987
LIKE SOME STRAY dog you find in an alley, Minneapolis's Replacements are a scruffy mongrel of a band: uncontrollable and ugly, but somehow irresistable. You ...
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The Replacements' Paul Westerberg (1987)
Interview by Roy Trakin, Rock's Backpages audio, 14 August 1987
Replacements kingpin Westerberg on the making of Pleased To Meet Me in Memphis with messrs. Chilton and Dickinson, and on his family background, the Minneapolis scene, hatred of the English music press, beer, football and life on the road.
File format: mp3; file size: 43mb, interview length: 44' 46"; sound quality: ***
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Paul Westerberg: Former Angry Young Man Now a Bit Amused
Interview by Amy Linden, New York Daily News, 6 May 1996
Paul Westerberg wears the crown of pop punk king very reluctantly ...
Interview by Amy Linden, Spin, December 1990
IS IT THE END OF THE ROAD FOR AMERICA'S UNSUNG ROCK HEROES? AMY LINDEN TALKS TO THE BAND IN MINNEAPOLIS DURING A WALKING TOUR OF ...
The Replacements: The Marquee, London
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 27 April 1991
SHAKEDOWN! ...
Retrospective and Interview by Andria Lisle, Memphis Flyer, 26 October 2006
FOR MANY music afficionados, Memphis' Madison Avenue is the Southern equivalent of Abbey Road. Yet thousands cruise past the low-slung brick building at 2000 Madison ...
Interview by Andria Lisle, Memphis Flyer, 11 March 2005
Rocker Paul Westerberg talks about fame and his bad reputation. ...
Husker Du and The Replacements: Euphoric… Urgent... Raucous... Drunk
Profile and Interview by Andy Gill, Q, August 1987
MINNEAPOLIS: it must be something they put in the water. ...
Paul Westerberg: The Agony Aunt Of Grunge
Interview by Andy Gill, Q, June 1993
MID-APRIL in Minneapolis. This weather is serious business. It's bitterly cold. Bob Mould, now of the mighty Sugar but then of the mighty Hüsker Dü, ...
The Replacements: Pleased To Meet Me (Sire 255571 LP/Cass/CD)
Review by Andy Gill, Q, June 1987
Replacements: razor rasping, ringing, stinging US rock'n'roll ...
The Replacements: Don't You Know Who I Think I Was?
Report and Interview by Bill Holdship, MOJO, June 2006
IT SEEMED UNLIKELY that legendary American pre-grunge band the Replacements would ever reunite. In fact, bassist Tommy Stinson — who's played with Axl Rose's current ...
The Replacements: Drinking (And Drinking Lots More!)
Interview by Bill Holdship, Creem, September 1986
SO "WHO'S HOT?" ...
The Replacements: The Pleasure Is All Yours
Interview by Bill Holdship, Creem, September 1987
FOR THE MOST part, I hate rock 'n' roll. Probably not the smartest thing to admit in print, and I wish it wasn't true. I ...
The Replacements: Pleased to Meet Me
Sleeve notes by Bill Holdship, unpublished, 2008
NOTE: These are Bill Holdship's original liner notes for the new Pleased to Meet Me reissue that were replaced last year when project producer Peter ...
The Replacements: 'I Feel Lonely In A Crowd'
Interview by Blake Gumprecht, Matter, December 1983
'I don't think our talent is our strong suit. I think, I don't know how to put it, it's our spirit if anything.' Paul ...
Profile by Blake Gumprecht, OP, July 1983
BOB STINSON drinks a lot, plays guitar loud, idolizes Steve Howe and Johnny Winter, looks like a janitor, and works as a cook in an ...
The Replacements: The World's Most Unsatisfied Band
Retrospective and Interview by Bob Mehr, Spin, May 2008
Nearly two decades after the Replacements' strangely quiet demise, the gloriously ramshackle catalogue of one of American underground rock's defining bands gets a proper makeover. ...
Bob Mehr: Trouble Boys – The True Story of the Replacements
Book Review by Caryn Rose, salon.com, 14 March 2016
The new biography, Trouble Boys, is an unflinching, uncompromising look at the band and the legend ...
The Replacements: Palladium, Hollywood CA
Live Review by Don Waller, L.A. Weekly, 17 December 1987
MAYBE IT was Paul Westerberg's case of the flu. Maybe it was the Hollywood Palladium, up to its usual acousticks. But if this was the ...
The Replacements: Pleased To Meet Me (Sire)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 9 May 1987
THE WELCOME return of the world's most talented buncha winos. This time the noise that Minneapolis's finest are making sounds like a celebration of sorts. ...
The Replacements Drink and Drive
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 9 November 1985
Drunk on fame? Not yet or probably ever. Paul Westerberg pours out the history of THE REPLACEMENTS to EDWIN POUNCEY in Minneapolis. ...
The Replacements: Don't Tell a Soul (Sire/Reprise) ***½
Review by Ira Robbins, Rolling Stone, 9 February 1989
The Replacements' Adult Entertainment ...
Paul Westerberg Comes In From The Ledge
Interview by Ira Robbins, Pulse!, August 1993
Independence Day, 1991. Lincoln Park, Chicago. One by one, the Replacements — what's left of 'em, anyway — hand their instruments off to their roadies, ...
The Replacements: Replacing Lost Energy
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 27 June 1987
For a group whose songs are so openly confessional, THE REPLACEMENTS' public image remains a closed book. JACK BARRON attempts to penetrate the facade of the Minneapolis boogie ...
Bob Mehr: Trouble Boys – The True Story Of The Replacements (Da Capo)
Book Review by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, April 2016
IN RECENT YEARS there's been a shift in the way the Replacements are regarded. While for those in the know, they've always been adored, there ...
The Replacements: The Ritz, New York NY
Live Review by Jeff Tamarkin, Billboard, 1 March 1986
ACCORDING TO longtime devotees, there are two kinds of Replacements concerts: those at which the band is sloppy and anything goes, and those where the ...
Love Untold: St. Paul's Letters To The Philistines
Profile and Interview by Jeremy Gluck, Bucketfull of Brains, 1996
"Summary: The Replacements. Not only were The Replacements the best band to come out of the entire worthless decade of the 80s, but Paul Westerberg ...
One more time for the Replacements
Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 21 February 1991
WHEN WE LAST left the Replacements – autumn 1990 – the band was at a crossroads. Paul Westerberg, the singer-songwriter-guitarist, was proud of a sharp ...
The Replacements: Hootenanny (Twin Tone)
Review by Jon Young, Trouser Press, August 1983
HOOTENANNY??! BY way of explanation, the liner notes remark that the "hoot" began as "a completely spontaneous, unrestrained event," and go on to say, "Today, ...
On Maneuvers: The Replacements Land Behind Enemy Lines
Interview by Julie Panebianco, Record, January 1986
"SO DO you think the Replacements have a chance to be the most hated band in rock and roll?" — this from the mouth (some ...
Minneapolis: The Art of the Heart of the Country
Report by Laura Fissinger, Record, October 1985
IF YOU believe music comes from a state of mind rather than a state on the map, now's a good time for a look at ...
The Minneapolis Scene: Left Of The Dial
Overview by Marc Weingarten, Guitar World, August 1995
In the early Eighties, Hüsker Dü, The Replacements and a handful of other scruffy Minneapolis bands forged what is now known as indie rock. This ...
The Replacements: All Shook Down (Sire 7599-26298)
Review by Martin Aston, Q, November 1990
THE MINNEAPOLIS band's eighth album confirms the scurvy garage-band thrill of Stink or 1985's Tim has well and truly passed on. A sharp variety of ...
The Replacements: Hits From The Sticks
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 11 January 1986
"THEY TRY to teach you everything they think you should know and none of the things you want to know. There wasn't a class on ...
The Replacements/Rose Of Avalanche: Town And Country Club, London
Live Review by Mat Snow, Sounds, 27 June 1987
AS THE strains of Zep's 'Kashmir' fade into the gloom, I am confronted by an appalling sight. It is Rose Of Avalanche and, in particular, ...
The Replacements: All Shook Down (Sire)
Review by Max Bell, Vox, November 1990
THE REPLACEMENTS were always Paul Westerberg's outfit and on All Shook Down one can't help but deduce that this is a solo album with the ...
Punk Lives: The Minutemen, Meat Puppets and SST Records
Report and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 18 July 1985
They don't sound like the Ramones, and they don't look like the Sex Pistols, but bands like Hüsker Dü, the Minutemen and the Meat Puppets ...
The Replacements: Taking Out The Trash
Report and Interview by Michele Kirsch, New Musical Express, 13 June 1987
Yup, THE REPLACEMENTS, infamous Kiss fans cum tack rock merchants, have cleaned up and become, in their own words, a respectable "showband", with a brilliant ...
The Replacements: Let's Get Serious
Interview by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 4 February 1989
Strange to tell, The Replacements don't want to play with their trousers round their ankles any more. The former garage scruffs tell Paul Elliott why ...
The Replacements: All Shook Down (Reprise/Sire)
Review by Richard C. Walls, Musician, November 1990
THE REPLACEMENTS' first two major-label albums after establishing themselves as an indie/cult/critics success — Tim ('85) and Pleased to Meet Me ('87) — contained no ...
The Replacements: All Shook Down (Sire)
Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 September 1990
IN WHICH Paul Westerberg completes the progression from unruly rocker with a tender heart to tender-hearted tunesmith given to rock spasms. All Shook Down erupts ...
The Replacements: Palladium, Hollywood CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 1989
Replacements Aren't Replaceable at Palladium ...
The Replacements: Palace Theatre, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 13 April 1985
CALL IT indulgent, call it self-destructive, even chaotic, but the Replacements' show at the Palace on Thursday was one that eyewitnesses aren't likely to forget. ...
The Replacements: Palladium, Hollywood CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 21 January 1991
The Replacements Face Their Future ...
Paul Westerberg: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 1993
Laying Claim to the Title: Great Rock Songwriter of '90s ...
The Replacements, the Neats: Irving Plaza, New York
Live Review by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 28 September 1985
YUM YUM! ...
The Replacements: Howling Trade Winds From Minneapolis
Interview by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 9 February 1985
The Replacements tell how the wonderful world of pop has saved them from gutters! crime! Sympathetic hearing, Richard Grabel. ...
Going Down With the Replacements
Special Feature by RJ Smith, The Village Voice, 11 December 1984
Not a Bunch of Loads ...
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, October 2002
IT'S EARLY 1987. Amid a fug of coke-induced paranoia, unruly punk misanthropists the Replacements have snuck back into the Minneapolis studio of Twin/Tone Records. Convinced ...
Pop Perplexity — Disintegrating the Replacements Way
Interview by Roy Trakin, L.A. Weekly, 9 May 1985
And if I act a bit obscene, That's just because I'm a human being. — New York Dolls, 'Human Being' Somewhere there's somebody throwin' up. — ...
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 10 November 1990
This year, singer, downtrodden writer and all-round wasted boozer PAUL WESTERBERG has given up drinking, abandoned his band and is trying to look on the ...
The Replacements: The Rebel Yell
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 16 May 1987
Describing their relationship to pop as being like 'a dirt road through an emerald city', The Replacements get Simon Reynolds all hot under the collar ...
The Replacements: Dingwalls, London
Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 7 June 1986
A SECRET shame, this weakness of mine for The Replacements. Their beery rowdyism and refusal to take nuthin' serious represents everything I abhor and their ...
The Replacements: All Shook Down (Sire/Warner Bros.)
Review by Tim Riley, The Boston Phoenix, 21 September 1990
Refining the metal – The Replacements shake it down ...
Jim Dickinson and the New Low-Fi
Interview by Tony Scherman, Musician, November 1987
Wherein a dangerous redneck weirdo becomes studio godfather to post-punk's finest. ...
Bob Mehr: Trouble Boys – The True Story of the Replacements
Book Review by Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 10 March 2016
A new biography dives deep into the "'80s punk underdogs" epic, tragic story. ...
The Replacements: Don't You Know Who I Think I Was? The Best of the Replacements Sire/Reprise/Rhino
Review by Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2006
Killer greatest-hits compilation includes two brand-new 'Mats tracks ...
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