OFFICIAL REPLACEMENTS / TOMMY STINSON Thread

[Regibold]

BRIEF HISTORY:

The Replacements (also known as The 'Mats or The Mats, from the insult of a detractor who joked the band's name was 'The Placemats', which the band then adopted) was an alternative rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota. They began as a punk rock outfit, along with fellow Minneapolis band H?sker D?, but they gradually shifted to a more mainstream, pop-rock style. The band featured guitarist and vocalist Paul Westerberg, guitarist Bob Stinson, bassist Tommy Stinson, and drummer Chris Mars. Tommy Stinson was just 12 years old when the group first formed.

The band drew most of their limited popularity from teenagers and people in their early twenties, as a huge bulk of their songs pertained to teenaged angst and desired independence, especially in their earlier days. Songs such as "Kids Don't Follow" and "Bastards of Young" showed the band's desire to almost remain as free-spirited children. The band turned up drunk to many of their legendary live shows, performing chaotic cover songs that revealed their love of classic rock. [1] Nonetheless, the Trouser Press claimed that they were, "for a time, the world's greatest rock'n'roll band." [2]

The Replacements released seven albums and one EP before breaking up in 1991 and toured with such artists as R.E.M. and Tom Petty. All members went on to various levels of success as solo artists after the dissolution of the band.

[CheapJon]

I think i'm in love with "kiss me on the bus" and "bastards of young" is just a kick ass song

here are those 2 from SNL where they got banned for life after this performance i read.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83E8H7mLxXs

[Regibold]

Gwad...Paul with long hair, why in God's name did they get banned, even in '86, there were bands that did a hell of a lot worse, you can't really hear Paul say the f-bomb during Bastards of Young. Great clip though.

[BurningHills]

I dig Tommy and all, but the Replacements do absolutely nothing for me.

I love the "Bash and Pop" album though! 

[LawsonsLaw007]

 the Replacements i like them!  even thow i havent hear a lot of there stuff!
 


Peace

[bazgnr]

You really should take the time and listen, then.

"Here Comes a Regular" is amazing, "Alex Chilton" is killer....there's just too many to list.  In spite of getting little widespread recognition, the band put out an amazing body of work, and inspired many, many bands that followed their lead (The Goo Goo Dolls are a prime example, as - long before they went adult contemporary and abandonded their punk roots - "Superstar Car Wash" was essentially written with The 'Mats in mind.  Westerberg even wrote "We Are the Normal" on the album).

There's a new "best of" that came out within the past year with two new tracks.  Again, well worth listening to.

[Verse Chorus Verse]

It's funny how Tommy Stinson went from being a member of a band called the Replacements to an actual replacement.

[GypsySoul]

The January 2005 issue of Vintage Guitar had some articles featuring Tommy's brother Bob including, of course, 'Mats' stuff.

I had typed it out and posted it in this thread:

http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/board/index.php?topic=16757.0

BEFORE YOU READ IT, SCOLL DOWN TO REPLY #2 AND CHECK OUT THE PIC OF TOMMY!!!

[Kujo]

At the start of "Kids Dont Follow", the person yelling "Fuck you, man" at the cops is Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum.

[MeanBone]

Village Gorilla Head is amazing, his Solo Albums Perfect and Bash and Pop are one of my all time fav.

I don't have any replacements cds. wich one should i get? what's their appetite, sort to speak? 

[Kujo]

I dont think there is a definitive "best" Replacements cd. My taste alternates between "Tim", "Let It Be", and "Sorry Ma.....". I would suggest the recent best of "Dont You Know....". There are some notable tracks missing from it though "Johnnys Gonna Die", "Androgynous", "Hold My Life", and "Swinging Party" to name a few.

[CheapJon]

I'd say download this: http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/board/index.php?topic=46370.0

then check out Tim and let it be 

[crazycheryl]

Replacements are my #1 all time favorite band!!!!!!! I have about 5 of the original CD's. I love, love, love them. There are so many songs to recommend but actually the last CD they recorded before busting up is one of my fav's along with Tim. It's called Lucky and so many of the songs pertain to the way people feel - Someone Take the Wheel, You Be Me, etc..

They probably have a history similar to GNR - getting all loaded up and then fighting. I was at the free concert in Grant Park in Chicago when they played like 3 songs, started fighting, said some swear words to each other and walked off the stage. I thought the sponsoring radio station was going to shit in their pants because they streamed the event live and everyone in the audience was like, what the F just happened. I have a huge poster/picture of them in my basement partying like rock stars backstage at the Metro - great small place to see bands. They are all dressed in wigged out clothes and have various cocktails in their hands, acting like goofs and smoking cigarettes.

I have to look for the best of - didn't know that was released this year.

Paul Westerberg - his album 14 Songs - solo album is f***** kick ass too! Love Someone I Once Knew, Something is Me, Keep it Down Love, I Hear Ya, World Class Fab, Few Minutes of Silence, etc..

They are actually tied with Guns for my fav. when I heard Stinson joined Guns, I just thought it too coincidental that I love both bands and now they are mixing. How much happier could I be? Well, if Tommy took time off from GNR to form a reunion with the Replacements!!!!!! Then back to tour with GNR. I'd be in heaven man.

[Timothy]

I dig a few of their songs but on a whole I think they are way over rated .

[Kujo]

I dig a few of their songs but on a whole I think they are way over rated .

Oh well, cant all like the same stuff. Oh, by the way, I will now delete all your posts at TFHL.

[Timothy]

I dig a few of their songs but on a whole I think they are way over rated .

Oh well, cant all like the same stuff. Oh, by the way, I will now delete all your posts at TFHL.

 

Go a head I will just have to go on a mucking spree .

[stolat]

Old punks never die, they just keep playing bass.

[jarmo]

The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History
by Jim Walsh

# Hardcover: 240 pages
# Publisher: Voyageur Press; First edition (November 15, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 076033062X
# ISBN-13: 978-0760330623






/jarmo

[FunkyMonkey]

Replacements - "shaved eyebrows" interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqvt7YBkG3Y

[FunkyMonkey]

Book Reviews

The Replacements: All Over but the Shouting by Jim Walsh

I recognized something of myself in him. This night, though, we may have never been more alike...? That?s Jim Walsh on Paul Westerberg in the preface to his oral history of Minneapolis? most glorious drunk-rockers.

Fast forwarding to the present, he adds, ?We?re both healthy and fucked up but plugging along, just like everyone who came up on the ?Mats, I suppose...?

The author?s overidentification with one of rock?s most famous anti-heroes is a troubling but understandable aspect of this otherwise right-on tale of life in the eye of the rock ?n? roll shit storm. Walsh was in a band of his own (REMs) during Minneapolis? illustrious early-?80s heyday, which accounts for the close-but-no-cigar perspective. But it is his reporter?s sense and upclose view that is essential to this story: He knows where the bodies are buried, and his interviews with the right scenesters make up the meat of his part memoir/part rock ?n? roll testament to pre-?alternative? culture. The Replacements? tumult-fueled story emerges through the vivid recollections of fanzine writers, college radio DJs, record store employees, club bookers, partiers and musicians who transmit the undeniable importance of Minneapolis in the ?80s, along with the passion and sweetness of their youth.

Though Westerberg and bassist Tommy Stinson declined to be interviewed and drummer Chris Mars only appears briefly, late guitarist Bob Stinson lives in these tales (and his replacements Slim Dunlap and Steve Foley add their own firsthand color). The band?s carefully edited quotes underscore the idea that this story took place in a time when computers were for geeks and rock ?n? roll was still do or die. All Over but the Shouting is a very necessary document of a time when you could still tell something about a person by their shoes?or by the ultimate test: whether or not they liked the Replacements.

By Denise Sullivan

First printed in November 2007

http://harpmagazine.com/reviews/book_reviews/detail.cfm?article_id=6290