The Replacements

...for recognition. And while you can't really letter in smoking, there's no way to recognize the smokers and the class-skippers (Slayer, The Replacements), those folks who are just as essential as the jocks and student council presidents in...

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...a section titled "Great Pop Hopes. " Big Star inspired this rule, but they were followed by such noteworthy entrants as Cheap Trick, The Replacements, and Teenage Fanclub. In this rarefied world, The Swimmers are a music writer's wet dream.

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...to nurture) post-punk rock. In the '80s, it was often used in the contraction "Amerindie," to distinguish earthier U.S. bands like The Replacements and R.E.M. from artier Brits such as The Smiths and The Jesus and Mary Chain. But as the '90s...

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...only just discovered Minneapolis' bastards of rock last year. It was such a eureka moment that he churned out a tribute song, "The Replacements. " It's hardly the most enthralling track on Art Brut's lively and snarling third CD, "Art Brut...

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...would not come into fruition until the early 90s. Now, the music industry was not ignorant of what was happening in the underground. The Replacements got signed to a major label in the mid-80s as did Husker Du and the Butthole Surfers (an...

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...1950s icons such as Billy Fury. Even a ditzy rom-com like He's Just Not That Into You featured classic songs from rock's back pages as The Replacements' 'Can't Hardly Wait' and Scarlett Johansson's cover of Jeff Buckley's 'Last Goodbye'.

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...it's originals," Dechert said. "We have about 15 covers, but most of them aren't covers that people would even know - like Chavez [and] The Replacements. But we are going to play a couple of Johnny Cash songs." The band's music makes up the...

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...drummer. Dinosaur Jr.'s earliest material sometimes sounded like punk metal, sometimes like the Velvet Underground, sometimes like The Replacements. With Mascis and Barlow as songwriters, each record was more melodic, culminating with Bug,...

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...exact sort of fan the song describes busy every time it comes on the radio. "Territorial Pissings" Sounding remarkably like The Replacements in mid-career, this song also has the very Paul Westerberg-ian line, "Just because you're...

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...on the Sky" follows the impossibly catchy Memphis power-pop band that was stuck in an era that wasn't ready for them. A decade later, The Replacements immortalized Big Star's singer Alex Chilton in a song bearing his name, but you can hear...

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