Last night I watched a documentary, Color Me Obsessed, on a band from my home town of Minneapolis named The Replacements. Hence, the quote/post of song lyrics from their first album last night, a song that does have individual words in the intro, but the lead singer says so fast, ala George Carlin’s Seven Words, that they may as well be a single word.
First off, I was surprised that anyone did a documentary on The Replacements when I stumbled onto it while skimming through free-to-watch-with-ads on Vudu. I mean, The ‘Mats were locally popular within certain circles, and apparently loved by music critics, but they never did go very far. As one of the interviewees said, they may have been one of the catalysts for the college rock movement of the 80s found typically at the left hand of the radio dial (he suggested they might be THE catalyst), but everyone agrees that they never particularly caught on. The argument in the documentary was they were largely misunderstood. I don’t know if I agree. I think there was a lot of self-destruction, especially as they got more nationally known, whether willful or ignorant. My own opinion was that more of the former than the later happened. The band shot themselves in the foot far to often for it to be mere accident.
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