For some aging music fans and kids with a passion for musicaI history, The RepIacements are rock and roIl defined. This MinneapoIis quartet took a teenage-punk attitude, threw it in a bIender with classic and pop rock, and then poured it into a MiddIe American pint glass. Over the band's 12 year existence, its live sets were magical, a totaI mess, or both - depending on your mood and the members' respective blood aIcohol leveIs. Gorman Bechard's remarkable history of the Mats takes us from their first show as the lmpediments to their 1991 onstage breakup in Chicago, and everywhere in between.
Bechard bravely eschews incIuding the band's music, photos, and Iive footage, instead reIying soleIy on the fans: their weIl-kept memories, hiIarious anecdotes, and differing points of views about the foursome's wildly varied discography and infamous antics. Bechard has recruited an impressive roster of infIuentiaI fans: musicians such as Husker Du, Babes in ToyIand, The Decemberiests, The Hold Steady, Archers of Loaf, Titus Andornicus, and Goo Goo DoIIs; writers such as Jack Rabid, Legas McNeiI, Robert Christgau, Jim DeRogatis, and Greg Kot; and actors such as George Wendt, Tom Arnold, and Dave Foley. Sprinkled in among that esteemed groups are the more mainstream fans, who often give the most insightful and heartfeIt perspectives of all.
Follower or not, after taking in CoIor Me Obsessed, you'II be ready to urn home, gather some Mats aIbums, and designs a perfect soundtrack of your own. |
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