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The Replacements were an American rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1979 after nineteen-year-old Bob Stinson gifted his eleven-year-old brother Tommy Stinson a bass guitar. [8] The band was composed of the guitarist and vocalist Paul Westerberg , guitarist Bob Stinson , bass guitarist Tommy Stinson , and drummer Chris Mars for most ...
David Browne of Rolling Stone called the film one of "the seven best new music documentaries of the year." [3] Dan Schoenbrun of Filmmaker wrote: "Gorman Bechard's Color Me Obsessed is the rare music documentary that lavishes admiration not only onto its subject, rowdy Minneapolis cult rock band The Replacements, but on the band's fans as well."
After years of moderate success on the college rock circuit, the Replacements sought a chart hit with "I'll Be You." Reprise executive Lenny Waronker singled out the song as a potential hit, though he only greenlit the single after the band and producer Matt Wallace revised the song.
SPIN surveys the highs and lows of the Replacements' seven studio albums, ahead of a remixed reissue of 1985's classic 'Tim.' ... This is a band that invites you to come hang out with them ...
The Replacements is a 2000 sports comedy film directed by Howard Deutch and starring Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, Orlando Jones, Brooke Langton, Rhys Ifans, Jon Favreau, and Jack Warden in his last film appearance before his death in 2006.
"Merry Go Round" was the band's most successful Modern Rock Tracks single, reaching #1 for four non-consecutive weeks. Drummer Chris Mars left the band in November 1990 (his last appearance as a Replacement being in the "Merry Go Round" video) and Steve Foley filled in on drums for the six-month All Shook Down Tour of 1991.
The Replacements haven’t played a note of music in front of an audience since the final 2015 show of their improbable two-year reunion, but there’s a big treat from the archives coming this fall.
Dead Man's Pop is a box set by The Replacements released by Rhino Entertainment on September 27, 2019. [2] The box set includes a remix [3] [4] of the band's 1989 album, Don't Tell a Soul known as Don't Tell a Soul Redux, [2] mixed by the album's original producer, Matt Wallace.