My favorite is Androgynous. But I've not yet dived deep into their discography

Favorite Thing by far

Unsatisfied

I was post-punk, knew their name, couldn't tell you a song if my life depended on it. That's how interesting they were for me, a weekly visitor of record shops.

I don't like the Replacements, but your vids are well done Man. You trashed a band or 2 I like as well, but am still a fan of your vids.

Yeah, it's like Thunders said; *'It's better to have bad press than no press, it's bad when they stop writing about you..'*

Once people like you are gone, no one will care about them. I was at their early shows. They were never very good.

@@horrido666 it’s gonna be a long time before all the people like him are gone

They have something in common with a lot of my favorite rock bands, which is the DGAF attitude. Not to say they don't care about the music (they cared deeply), they don't give a shit about anything or anyone else. Their industry self-sabotage is emblematic of that.

@@horrido666 so sorry they disappointed you. That must have been rough.

On their tour in 1990, they had an in-store appearance in Chicago and there were a lot of people there, with a sizable number left in line at the end. Paul came outside, said hello, and signed autographs for everyone there. It was thoughtful and generous.

I was living in Memphis when Tim came out. My good friend's name was Tim. He bought the record and we blazed up and listened to it.

No kidding? Now THAT is quite a way to treat fans, wow--God I wish I could've been one of them! Westerberg is a GOD...

Unfortunately, Paul mistreated many band members with his caustic tongue. But he grew up.

Yeah, he's a nice guy. Met him while he was walking with his wife around Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis about 15 years ago. I'm not an autograph or selfie guy, but I just wanted to shake his hand and thank him for the outstanding music. He could have easily said no, but he indulged me.

Yeah WTF?! Horseshoes and Hand Grenades was a fantastic record.

Also, feel like saying someone "became a painter" is pretty different than someone "became a successful, world famous painter"...

@@knifeswitch5973 The title of "75% Less Fat" says it all!

@@knifeswitch5973 In my opinion, it's the best of all of their solo albums.

I caught that too. "Horse Shoes and Hand Grenades" is a freaking great album.

funny but not how they chose the title. Its explained in Trouble Boys. Basically a drunk guy that passed out during their whole set

@scott Makes perfect sense, as the cover features that drawing of a ceiling and Bob too, on his back!

It´s very Keats-esque. It´s beautiful.

Yes. That one really hit home with me as well.

One of the best lyrics ever written IMO

I lost my folks from the trump virus so it hit home with me....

Best lyric ever. Breaks my heart every time I hear it because of how true it is.

ehhhh... they were desperate for adoration, then felt embarrassed by it. "We're not punk if we take this seriously". I've been in a couple bands like that. You can always fall back on "we were just joking". Heartbreaking lookng back on those times

I agree with you 100%

My favorite Replacments record (pleased to meet me)

There are some good songs on “All shook Down” I think “Merry Go round,” and “Bent out of shape” are good songs.

Don't Tell a Soul is one of my favorites too

Absolutely, “Alex Chilton” and “Can’t Hardly Wait” are some of the most electrifying rock songs of their era.

What about Husker du? Had to be proud at them too.

@@pericasutic8238 Hell yes. I have been to so many Bob Mould shows in the past 15 years that I lost track. Huskers and the Mats are nearly always mentioned in the same breath in the Twin Cities, and I love their music as much as I do the Replacements. It’s interesting to look at the similarities and differences that made them who they were...both formed in 1979 in Minnesota, Husker Du in St. Paul, the Replacements in Minneapolis....both started out as punk bands but had writers whose pop sensibilities were too strong to keep at bay...both had prolific songwriter front men, but Husker Du also had a formidable writer in Grant Hart whereas other members of the Mats didn’t write (or record their songs at least) during their time in the band....both Paul & Bob are Alt rock icons who later did arguably stronger work in their own bands, but also as troubadours who toured playing solo gigs with just a guitar...the gayest looking member of Husker Du was actually the only straight one, whereas the Mats were all heterosexual....Husker Du actively promoted themselves in a DIY fashion and were driven by Bob’s ambition, whereas the Replacements were nurtured and promoted by Peter Jesperson while actively sabotaging themselves many times....addiction led to the end of their classic lineups, the Mats managed to survive with Slim, whereas Husker ended their run....both bands came up in the incredible Twin Cities music scene of the 1980’s that included Prince and his protégés, along with the many alt rock bands. Off the top of my head, here’s a list of some of the talent that came out of the Minneapolis/St. Paul scene of the 80’s: Husker Du, Replacements, Soul Asylum, Suburbs, Dan Wilson (Semisonic), Prince, Morris Day, the Time, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Information Society, the Jets, Run Westy Run, Dez Dickerson, Andre Cymone, Babes In Toyland...and the rest I can’t think of at the moment...yet all we hear in the press is them waxing nostalgic about Seattle in the 90’s, which was awesome, but the Twin Cities doesn’t get promoted in the same way. It’s odd too, because with the media so obsessed with pushing race, you’d think they’d point to a place & time where both Rock music done primarily by white guys (extra points from the p.c. crowd for some of them being openly gay), and R&B/Funk/Rock by largely black musicians (yet also having the diversity seen in Prince’s bands) co-existed successfully. They don’t for some reason, and it’s probably because nobody here cared about the race angle as we were too busy enjoying the music.....So yeah, I love Husker Du as much as I love the Replacements, and even though they had many differences and similarities as well, the constant was their amazing music.

Tons of great music from Minnesota, besides Prince. Of course they are lesser known :) Trip Shakespear. Information Society ( whom I love.) Gear Daddies, whom I adore. etc. Love the Replacements of course. I think I first heard Alex Chilton. Well, I thought, this is pretty good. And I bought a bunch of stuff. And Hootenany was IT man! So much raw energy. So thrashy or punk or whatever you want to call it. And I listen to "Run It" and I can see the streets mentioned, and it makes me think of CC club where my dad bartended for many years. Miss you dad.

Sounds like Gary & F-tards!

@@mnmade9062 love this thank you

Wasn’t Corona the theme song for Wild Boyz not Jackass?

@WadeKubat: I actually used to work with Johnny Knoxville circa 1994 before he was Johnny Knoxville. I remember him saying once that he was raised on William Faulkner and the Sex Pistols. I never really paid much attention to Jackass though I am a huge Minutemen fan. Saw them live just a few months before D. Boon's death. The larger point is I am not surprised by J.K.'s musical tastes. Regardless of the image of Jackass...I give Johnny (i.e., "PJ" as we called him) credit for being a pretty erudite and well rounded fellow.

They used Treatment Bound over the credits of one of the Jackass movies.

Eh. "Treatment Bound" still shows up in the credits of #2. That's cool enough for me.

lol wow why y´all styled like how we grew up ?

saw them warm up the plasmatics or iggy in mpls. when they did andro, bob came out in a skirt, ripped it off and jinglejangled through the crowd and bumped everyone, some over, on the way to the back bar. it was a fun memorable night. sad that bob passed. also the legends not having some commercial success to retire well doesnt make sense to this broke geeze

One of my favorites. Period. Joan Jett does a fantastic cover of it

That whole album is amazing, definitely in my top ten favorite albums of all time.

Very relevant song to today.

It's especially cool to consider how progressive that song is for being released in 1984. Paul's a great guy, even if he doesn't want to show it all the time.

Top to bottom.

Agreed! Might just be my favorite of theirs (or tied with Tim)

Let it Be is their best album in my opinion

Yes!

I think Hootenanny & PTMM are both 9/10 albums, but Let It Be & Tim are the bonafide classics. The 2023 remaster is a revelation. There’s actually a really good album buried in that terrible mix, after all

Yeah, one of the legendary bands that made college radio in the 80's the unforgettable experience that it was. So many great bands came out of that, the Mats being among the best.

IKR? Plus, it was recorded in Memphis and produced by the late Jim Dickinson, which mean a lot to me personally.

It's mine too! Soooo good!

You're entitled to your very wrong opinion :) I also like Pleased To Meet Me a ton, but I also tend to like the 'raw' or live versions of the songs better than the over produced versions on the record.

@@austintrousdale2397 Dickinson? I don't hear any cowbell on P2MM :)

You're right and the video is full of crap on that point. For example, "IOU" and "Red Red Wine" out-rock any song on Tim.

Tell me do you like working harder at something than you have done at any point of your life only to NOT get paid? This romantic BS about "selling out" or missing financial success is pure unadulterated hot steamy crap. Unless you play in a band you have literally no idea how much work goes into getting where they were before it blew up.... like ZERO idea

@@robschaller9061 He has played in a band, according to his Facebook page at least. Have you?

If they made it at the end, they'd be big like R.E.M

@@robschaller9061 Paul was a millionaire (for a day) Tommy gets GNR money, and Chris art nets him a lot of money, and Slim is taken care of.

@@robschaller9061 exactly. It’s cute to say”oh man, don’t sell out”when we go home to our houses after a show, but they gotta go to a hotel, get back on the bus.. daily.. I’m sure it get old!! It’s not a glorious life. Get the money when ya can, kids

They were staying true to the nihilistic core of punk

@@suhaimirahmat1378 At the 1987 (or maybe 1989) 'Mats' show at the city auditorium here in Austin, that bastard Westerberg threw an empty whiskey bottle into the crowd which almost hit writer Lewis Shiner, then announced the location of the after-party (at my place!) to the entire fucking audience! And then he didn't even bother to show up, of course. I think Chris made it but I didn't see him and Tommy stayed mostly in the bathroom (...) but Slim looked like he was in heaven just because I brought him a beer rather than making him go through the ridiculously long keg line. Oh, and the bassist for openers Fishbone lost his wallet in our couch that night and partially because of that he ended up spending the night in jail, forcing the funky band to play their subsequent Houston show without a bass player!

They were punk in the spirits, totally.

@@suhaimirahmat1378 Punk was NOT "nihilistic". You either don't know what that word means or what punk was. Or both.

lol, no

I live in Mpls as well and I thought he was off on most of it. It's like he's too smart for their sarcasm.

You just perfectly articulated the way I feel about them, too. The angst, nihilism, booze, isolation, pain, humor, it was all right in your face and real.

I'm absolutely sure that I've been looking for them too, but for a different reason. I look at the world and it seems like no one understands anything. It's just a chaos of everyone talking at the same time, speaking nonsense. I listen to these guys and somewhere, deep inside of me, I believe that they get it. Other people don't get it, but they get it. I feel understood in a way that I don't experience in real life. This band is a replacement for everything and everyone in the world that doesn't make sense to me. it's the only intimacy I ever truly feel and it's not even true. An idea that is both good and very bad.

Are there any specific songs of them that articulate that feeling of "i might as well not try"?? i really want to listen to them

Welcome aboard, youngster!

@@ChorusArtists Great username.

How old are you, out of curiosity?

grrttlc2 True, that and you can hear the influence and sound of The Replacements and Paul Westerberg in a lot of Nirvana and yet they never got mentioned as an inspiration...

I first heard the replacements when let it be came out. I saw them in 1985 at the ritz in nyc. They were wasted and did some great covers...green achers, surfing usa. I like to break it down like this..part one ended after tim came out. They matured as a band but as always the best songs were earlier in this career. Paul was one of the best song writers during my 20’s. I classify them with Big Star the best band that few have heard of.

​@@VanielDeeform theres an interview floating around where Kurt says he actually doesn't like the replacements and never got into them. Probably just a coincidence, but I personally dont hear much replacements in nirvanas music anyway.

@@VanielDeeform I swear the first time I heard Smells Like Teen Spirit blasting out of the radio, I thought it was Westerberg singing w/ the Mats. There are also similarities in the sense of dynamics, in the mix of loud and soft passages.

@@yungforeverboy You know sometimes I think Kurt was messing with people because I have heard him say things like that about so many bands that obviously influenced them. Take anything a rebellious rocker says to the press with a grain of salt

I always think about how the understanding of that song has an expiry date.

If you need help...if you need help...if you need help.....

great song! the desperation in the vocals! for those uninitiated, it's off of Let It Be.

their best track imho

Song sums up everything great about them, and it doesn't even have drums.

That songs about the CC Club. I work there 5 nights a week. Hardly a sad place. More like a den of thieves.

Yes, and one of the best!

Really? I always found Within Your Reach sadder.

It makes sense. I wasn't sure what kind of place he was writing about. The CC Club. I have to go there in a near future then! Anyway, Paul has a lot of sad songs. MamaDaddyDid is another contender

@@t-man5196 I found Neil Young's Little Wing sadder and Westerberg's Things makes me almost cry.

Yes, great video, with an abundance of video and song clips. The thing about the Replacements is that they are so unique, no documentary, film or book can ever quite capture what made them great. This mini-doc makes clear that they more or less wanted never to become hugely successful (or at least, felt mainstream success would almost be a betrayal of what they were about), and it's their relative lack of success, coupled with the musical heights they hit, that makes them such a legendary band. It's fitting that their failure to hit the bigtime parallels the fate of one of their major influences, Big Star. But as a band they leave an undeniable legacy of which they can be truly proud, and for which their devoted fans will forever be grateful.

Tommy lives up there somewhere, doesn't he? So weird that he ended up in upstate NY.

@@timontide6404 im not sure if he lives up there it's a lovely area

@@8ackbiter434 They appear masculine, yet also fragile. Also Nirvana.

NO you weren’t !!!

I do concur.

Thank you!!

SHOOTING DIRTY POOL! ALEX CHILTON!

Ohhhhh my heart hurts I'm SO fucking oooold... WLIR FOREVER!!!!!

Well... "Shooting Dirty Pool" and "Red Red Wine" are definitely the weak links on that album.

So true and Bob's guitar at the end of Sixteen Blue is one of the most haunting I've heard. Also, none of their shoot-us-in-the-feet antics really matter. 1. Most people just don't have a morbid sensibility AND HUMOR AND SENSITIVITY TO APPRECIATE THEM. 2. Great bands like Guided by Voices can be ignored too. 3. They were ahead of their time. If they were out with Nirvana maybe they would have stood a better chance. Still one of the great bands with 39 great songs; Dylan only has 30, and Neil Young might have 35, I guess I still like them more than the Beatles though the Beatles have a few more good songs. No thanks to Paul McCartney though who wrote 16 great songs v John Lennon 35. I may not know music, but I know my numbers ha.

I like that you have compassion for ya kids. More than we ever got. That entire album is terrific. Unsatisfied.

That is an achigly beautiful song.

Here Comes a Regular tho

You never heard swans or coil then

Good day on one of his solo albums is pretty sad.

@@5ycey7.n.84 true dat tough call

How?

I’m sorry bro

I don’t know why, but that song makes me think of heaven. I’m sorry for your loss. I hope you get to see your dad again some day

There’s two versions of Can’t Hardly Wait on Tim; an acoustic and an electric one. Which one did you put on?

@@t-man5196 electric

@@andrewferguson8032 Thank you.

What Ivan said!

Really? I totally agreed with it

Pleased to Meet Me if excellent and Don't tell a Soul was more mainstream but doesn't have any bad songs on it. I love it. They are making a movie about them now, and I imagine it will suck like the narrators voice, but they are famous enough to make movies and write books about them.

They probably didn't listen to them.

@@charles616 I’ve listened to every one of their albums and I agree with their assessment. Bob Stinson leaving their band really changed their sound for the worse in my opinion. The production on these albums is much more slick and generic/streamlined than on previous albums as well

I agree with you. All three were solid indie pop records with great mood and songs.

Wish I could have gone, but I didn't know about them yet, you're super lucky man

Cool. Wow. We are so far in the future that there are fans who saw the reunion when they were kids. I'm SO old ...... Time! You bastard! I've had enough!!!

Trouble Boys is a must.

wipers

@@km-hi9wj I’m a big fan of Greg sage

Yes, minus Husker Du of course.

@@t-man5196 why do you dislike husker du I’d assume if you were a fan of one of these three bands you’d be a fan of all of them

@@idontcareanymore7988 I don’t dislike them, they have some good songs, like that Girl On Heaven Hill song. I just think compared to the Replacements and Minutemen they don’t even come close.

How’d you discover them?

so stupid they left it off Tim.

I'm from Memphis so I actually dig the horn version best, but the lyrics are what nailed my heart first time I heard the song & everytime since

Our band could be your life is a lyric from a gorgeous song by the Minutemen called History Lesson part II

That’s a great book.

Just started re-reading it!

@@marlowename3713 Exactly! One of their best songs if you ask me

@@TheHamOnRye23 I usually re-read it from time to time. Specially single chapters. It's just so entertaining

Oh then one day watch you on that bill a little one way at the place I catch my ride most everyday wasn't a damn thing I could do or say

To be completely honest, I prefer Don’t Tell A Soul to Pleased to Meet Me, and not even the dead man’s pop version. Pleased to Meet Me is an absolutely gorgeous record, but I think overall I prefer DTAS. Pretty unpopular opinion I know.

Looks like we may just have to agree to disagree on this one

Agreed 100%. PTMM is an incredible album, despite some of the production tricks/tweaks. They were ferocious in a way they only were as a 3 piece (Paul overdubbing leads), and Dirty Pool, Red Red Wine, Never Mind, and I Don't Know were some of the best/coolest Mats tracks ever! And Mars didn't retire from music, which was another error in this vid.

What's That Song ? 😂

Im in love with that song

A true masterpiece

That’s gonna be a yikes from me dawg

Most people from jersey hate Springsteen, we like the misfits.

@@cmdrcriton Huh... agree to disagree I guess

Great bands from two distinct movements at the same time R&B/Funk - Prince, The Time etc PostPunk 'Mats, Husker Du

@@brianmiller1077 the Burbs were the popular band that met at the middle

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@@ck1355 Mills and Stipe are in it? I'm sold! Thanks!

@@mikewilson3581 It’s really good.

Oof. Chris Bell. Sad sad story

@Rouge "sober for like a month" that'll instill confidence in the record companies/insurance underwriters.

HAHAHHA hehehe LOL #BRAVO. Tru dat✌👍🎸

@Rouge so sad.

"Relax. It's Tuesday."

You said it, brother feel like that’s my whole life in a nutshell

@Rouge That was Bob's Les Paul. Theres plenty of pics online of him playing that guitar pre-1986

Well said.

Nicely done...

I think they wanted it, but on their own terms. The music industry doesn't work that way.

@@machbaby and it never has or probably will. but they sure got close and thats pretty punk of em

I just finished reading it. Gut wrenching. I was fortunate enough to see there first show in Chicago at O'banion's. A lot of us went back to DV8 house including all of the Replacements. They were really nice guys. Paul was actually a little shy & gotton cotton spitting drunk, in a quiet way, Tommy a goofy kid (because he was like 14-15 years old), Bob wasn't there in more ways than one. I thought Chris was the most regular guy in the band. Needless to say there were multiple beer runs that night!

Probably my favorite. Best songs front to back IMO. But there's this mentality among fans that it's not cool to like Slim's playing better than Bob's.

I love All Shook Down to death, but that's really Paul's first solo album.

Joanie Mitchell "Blue," Patti Smith "Wave" R,E,M, "The Wrong Child" The Neats "Sad"

Glad to see someone else who knows of Nikki Sudden. Johnny Thunders had some sad ones as well, then I'd go further and play some Nick Drake. Thanks for the idea! cheers

Jason Isbell: If We Were Vampires, Cover Me Up, & Elephant. BYO endless box o Kleenex The Posies version of I Am The Cosmos Edit: Cover Me Up isn’t really sad, but I insta-cry every time I hear it, like Pavlov’s freakin dog

@@anitapricecheck9554 nice, good choice. Some Big Star too. and this probably tops all kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fsh6nNWaqtXQZGg.html

Saw them on their Tim tour. They were a sloppy mess and I loved it! It was exactly what I was expecting. I was 19 and met them at their same energy. To this day, they’re my favorite band ever.

have you ever seen a Pogues show? same feeling. I only got to see the replacements at their last(money grab - according to Paul's shirt) shows. But I loved that I got to see them once.

their biography Trouble Boys had me crying at the end of it, very worth it if you haven't checked it out

We're all kind of screwups in our lives. Not to take anything away from your screwed up life but that's the side of ourselves that the band hits on so well and glorifies. It's human. Hope you're feeling less like a screwup 2 years later.

@@honuman39 I am, thank you

yeah sad as fuck !

“Twenty push-ups this mornin’, that was half of my goal, tonight I’ll be doin’ chin-ups on thee toilet bowl.”

the version with tom waits singing too is awesome!!!

Yeah. Pleased to Meet Me is just as good as both Let It Be and Tim. Also Don’t Tell a Soul is a hell of an underrated record

Yeah, I can't stand that line of thinking in many of the Replacements fans. It seemed like there were so many "fans" who wouldn't allow them to grow or change or strive because they were supposed to stay the small, unknown, ultracool "lovable losers." I think their later records were all good in different ways.

@@antacidchain3022 hot take, I think I prefer Don’t Tell A Soul over Pleased to Meet Me. Both are amazing, but I prefer the overall record of DTAS.

‘Tim was their last truly great album’. Yes.

@@MrCrescendo I don't think the guy who did this video is actually a fan with so many errors

chills.

Completely agree

Yeah I cannot agree more

It really stands out and is Proto-Grunge as well...

Yes, quite an influential track as well

Pass around the bottle, plenty of enough room in jail...

Ash tray floors, dirty clothes and filthy jokes

Jesus rides beside me...but never buys any smokes.

If being wrong's a crime, I'm serving forever. If being strong's your kind then I need help here with this feather. I'll stop now..

If being afraid is a crime, we hang side by side...

Agreed along with The Ledge and Never Mind

Still my favorite album of theirs, 'specially Alex Chilton, also IOU & Nightclub Jitters

I liked it how it was.

I easily could have written this. Same experience including age! I so clearly remember walking into Bob's Records in Woodstock NY and Let it Be was playing. The album was on display in that place where they used to put the albums that were playing in the store at the time (not sure how to describe it). One look at the album cover (I particularly remember seeing them in converse sneakers thinking that was cool) and 30 seconds of hearing the track that was playing and I bought it immediately. I was also 13 at the time. I became obsessed with them. Throughout high school, I was literally the only person (that I know of) that listened to them. They were a defining band for me. Even more so bc I'm my small town, they were like my secret

@@analogdaniel exactly, i hesitate to even try to put other friends on to them cause they really truly wouldn’t understand what it is about them that brings me to tears. i barely understand

How old are you, if you don’t mind me asking?

@@analogdaniel how old are you?

@@t-man5196 im 25 at this point

Same.

Second that emotion

My ex yelled at me for playing them in the car. In 1987.

Lyrics. Lyrics. Lyrics. The poetry is the key. Most people just want something simple minded, something they don't have to be emotionally invested in. i.e. people who don't like the Mats generally aren't the sharpest tools in the shed.

"The Last" might be Westerberg's greatest song

Count me in there too. I feel like a lot of people think it's not cool to like the last two albums, particularly All Shook Down. When It Began does the same for me and is easily one of my favourites from them. Love the video for it too. They'd embraced the format and made god of it.

@@christophervaldez8746 I agree. Westerberg just got better as a songsmith and it still sounds like the Replacements🤘

@@VanielDeeform yeah I agree. The idea of “coolness” just melts away when a song makes you cry🤘

@Rouge They would blow any contemporary band off the stage.

Need to check out there list of covers, maybe Yo La Tengo beats them

Yup. This is my favorite too. It is a brilliant piece of songwriting in my opinion.

could not agree more, the song that sold me on the mats! lol, my favorite song is usually whichever one is playing!!!