Although The Replacements have had a couple of abortive attempts to re-launch
themselves their recording career lasted just nine years from 1981 to 1990
during which time the band released seven studio albums. Their early career is a
litany of unfulfilled potential and opportunities where the band squandered
prime support slots with bands like R.E.M. and annoyed promoters with their
reckless behaviour. In 1986 the 'Saturday Night Live' TV show banned then from
ever appearing again on the show.
Slowly the band started to turn it around and as their attitude matured so did
the...