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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.421660922
EAN: 9780760330623
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 076033062X
Label: Voyageur Press
Manufacturer: Voyageur Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: November 15, 2007
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Studio: Voyageur Press

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:

At the dawn of "Morning in America"--a period that would nurse the rise of suit-and-tie culture--there emerged a national network of anti-corporate record shops, college radio stations, fanzines, nightclubs, and entrepreneurial record labels.

In the watershed year 1981, this "indie" scene fostered several seminal releases. Among recordings by bands such as Sonic Youth, Black Flag, Husker Du, The Minutemen, and R.E.M. was an album called "Sorry Ma . . . Forgot to Take Out the Trash", recorded by a scruffy, flannel-clad quartet from Minneapolis called The Replacements. Now, for the first time, all of the hearsay, half-truths, legends, and allegations associated with this maelstrom of a rock & roll band are unraveled in this oral history by longtime Twin Cities music journalist Jim Walsh.

Through interviews with family, friends, and fans; former manager Peter Jesperson; Twin/Tone record label cofounder Paul Stark; and musicians around the nation influenced by the band, Walsh lays bare with painful clarity a tale that unfolds like a tragic comedy in three perfect acts. Celebrated by national publications, "the Mats" often seemed more hell-bent on sabotaging their status as critical darlings than parlaying it. With their markedly apolitical stance amid their decidedly political peers, their uncool embrace of "classic rock" influences like KISS and The Faces, and their Dionysian appetites (and the resulting tendency to literally fall on their own faces), The Replacements lasted 12 years despite themselves.

From the bands founding to their rise through the local and national club circuits, their major label deal in 1985, and the slow and painful implosion that followed, The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting lays down the gripping oral history behind the little band that could--but didn't.

Book Description:

This is the story of The Replacements, a band in three acts: from its founding through its ascension from the club scene to the national indie circuit and a major label deal in 1985, to its slow and painful implosion. Twin Cities music journalist Jim Walsh tells the story of the band that began in a basement and was eventually celebrated by The Village Voice and Rolling Stone. Walsh follows The Replacements’ remarkable rise (seven LPs, a spot on Saturday Night Live, a Grammy nomination) and their equally thunderous downfall.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- A fitting chronicle of the Mats
Any attempt to tell the story of the Replacements is going to be a bit chaotic, otherwise it wouldn't suit its subject. I found the oral history approach - little snippets of memories from the story's players and eye witnesses - to be a sort of meandering way to move from the band's beginnings to the band's end. You're not going to go in a very straight line, but it's a nicer trip that way. You get great little glimpses of people and personalities and clubs and record stores that can only really ... Read More

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- Enjoyed it.
I was a huge 'Mats fan back in the day and they're still one of my top 5 bands of all time. I enjoyed the book and feel like I know a lot more about the band's rise and fall and all the major players along the way than I did before. I liked the oral-history approach pretty well, where it's just a series of running blurbs of people talking about semi-related topics that just sorta loosely flow from one era or subject to the next. It caused me to read the book a lot faster this way, (5 days, which ... Read More

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- Rock And Roll Ghosts
If you're as big a fan of this late, lamented band as I, then you know that you have to read this book. Paul Westerberg is one of the best songwriters to ever commit words to melody and this book filled in a lot of the blanks for me. I knew the basic story of the band but this gave me some insight into the formation of The Replacements that I wasn't aware of. It also provides a lot of information regarding Bob Stinson after he left the band that I hadn't heard before. Plus, it gives you a sense ... Read More

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- great!
A great book.
We needed it so much.
Hope others will follow but, in the meantime, relax, take it easy and remember.

It wasn't just a waste of time.

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- Tears of Laughter / Laughter and Tears
I believe that this book is a wonderful companion to a chapter about Replacements from Michael Azerrad's book "Our Band Could Be Your Life". Indeed, some of peculiar facts/stories about Replacements told by Azerrad can be seen in this book, as well.

Whereas Mr. Azerrad provided somewhat brief and compressed (albeit, vivid) biography of this explosive band, Jim Walsh did it a bit differently. The whole book is, basically, nothing but a number of questions and answers, yet he managed to ... Read More

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