I saw them about twenty times. When they were relatively sober, they were a very good, very tight rock band. You never knew what you'd get, but they were always entertaining

Always fun to remember that two of my favorite band were banned from performing on SNL (The other being Elvis Costello, but that ban was later lifted). Westerberg also later performed on SNL as a solo act. I feel like the group attempted to recapture some of the glory of this video with the video for Can't Hardly Wait. That video is also in black and white, but it does feature the members of the band... sitting around doing nothing. And yet, it doesn't hit the same way as the Bastards of Young video. I think the concept and execution match the song so perfectly, it's hard to recapture that again. Great video!

Saw them open for Keith Richards & The X-Pensive Winos , they sang happy birthday to him - hilarious! The late 80's was a hellish time for music & having The Replacements around to fuck up all that corporate shit was great. Much thanx for this, Luv your channel.

Todd sent me here, he was right, great channel

Thanks for posting this

Ive seen them in multiple places multiple times. Ive seen them awful I've seen them where they made me cry, but one of my favorite times was at city gardens on tim tour where they played like five songs then they started talking requests for the rest of the night. 45 minutes trying to figure out how to play walk this way, almost trying to play Xanadu. One of my favorite nights

My first live Replacements show was their last (The ‘91 Chicago fiasco) - until again at Riot Fest in CO 2013 (?). ❤ Great choice! Really well done.

Does anyone ever notice that the speaker in the Bastards video is sitting upside down?

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Great video essay! Love the replacements

It's not "StinTon", it's StinSon.

Listen to the new mixes of "Tim" and "Don't Tell a Soul/Dead Man's Pop" - far better than that 80s overproduced sound that plagued their recordings.

This is one of the few bands that I can't really listen to anymore cause I freaking overheard them to the point of exhaustion. It's one of my favorite bands, but I could literally sing acapella their last four albums and not miss a word or a note. Honestly, I get that their history is very suited to their ethos, but I really wish they had hit REM/U2 levels of success. They were that good.

Back then we called them records. :)

the SNL thing is sooo blown out of proportion ! paul only said ''come on f&cker'' so Bob wouldn't miss his queue ! it was hard to hear over the music, hardly anyone else besides lorne heard it ,, and gosh a R&R band playing drunk or on weed ?? i must clutch my pearls because who ever heard of such a thing..

Hot tip: Bib’s guitar being out of tune on SNL was probably because he was hastily handed on seconds before air after breaking his own. Something similar happened to Jimmy Page at the Liveaid concert. Zeppelin members did an impromptu reunion on stage with dirk Phil Colin’s playing drums. Page was handed a guitar as he strode on stage to find it out of tune as he started playing. Second comment: you distinctly claimed the stereo in the Bastards of Young video was on cinder blocks then subsequently mentioned the milk crates later once the footage was shown revealing the crates. You might want to edit your voiceover.

In the video, the speaker is hooked up wrong; it's out of phase. Meaning, when the kick drum hits, you can see it move BACKWARD, which is pretty sad nobody caught it. But - that's the Mats...

The really great instrumentation was Bob, dude.

Anyone know what type of speaker that is?

It's STINSON not stenton

You could have at least played all of the video uninterrupted