History Music / TheReplacements

* UsefulNotes/TwinCities:
** "I Bought A Headache" mentions the St. Paul Civic Center.
** The Minneapolis police break up the party at the start of "Kids Don't Follow" (which was taken from an actual house party the Replacements played at in 1982).
** "Run It" mentions Lyndale, which is a neighborhood in Minneapolis, and Garfield, which is an avenue in Minneapolis.
** "Buck Hill" is named for a ski hill in Burnsville, a suburb south of Minneapolis.

** [[StylisticSuck Deliberately invoked]] in the song "Hootenanny". When the band recorded the song, they swapped instruments in an attempt to mess with co-producer Paul Stark while he wasn't paying attention. The result sounds like a third-rate blues-rock bar band, complete with missed notes and an unsteady tempo.

* TheAlcoholic: All the original members, particularly Bob Stinson, who was fired for being ''too much of a drunk''. It's said that part of their appeal was arriving to a show and not knowing how functional the band would be. Occasionally they'd just randomly decide to do entire sets of covers too. This actually got them banned from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', where they got drunk before both of their performances.

* TheAlcoholic: All the original members, particularly Bob Stinson, who was fired for being ''too much of a drunk''. It's said that part of their appeal was arriving to a show and not knowing how functional the band would be. Occasionally they'd just randomly decide to do entire sets of covers too. This actually got them banned from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'',

* TheAlcoholic: All the original members, particularly Bob Stinson, who was fired for being ''too much of a drunk''. It's said that part of their appeal was arriving to a show and not knowing how functional the band would be. Occasionally they'd just randomly decide to do entire sets of covers too.

* LongTitle: ''Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash''

Defining AlternativeRock bands, before it was cool. The definitive lineup included Paul Westerberg (rhythm guitar, vocals), Tommy Stinson (bass), Bob Stinson (lead guitar) and Chris Mars (drums). Bob Stinson was replaced by Slim Dunlap in 1987 and Chris Mars by Steve Foley in 1990. Since the breakup of the band in 1991 Westerberg has released numerous solo records, and Tommy Stinson has played in a number of bands, most notably with Music/GunsNRoses.

** The band's alcoholism is occasionally alluded to in Westerberg's lyrics, such as "If Only You Were Lonely" and "Here is Comes a Regular".

* CoverVersion: "Black Diamond", originally by Music/{{KISS}}, appears on ''Let It Be''. They were also known for throwing in sloppy, half-remembered covers during their live shows - the bootleg turned semi-official LiveAlbum ''The Shit Hits the Fans'' consists almost entirely of such things.

* SelfDeprecation: Most evident in the EP titles ''Stink'' [[note]]The cover, of course, reads "The Replacements Stink" in all-caps.[[/note]] and ''Don't Buy Or Sell, It's Crap'' (which was a promo release sent to radio stations). Even their name was picked to make them sound second-rate - the intended implication is that they'd only be added to a concert lineup if a more popular band backed out and it was the best the promoters could do on short notice.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Their early, HardcorePunk material is normally in the 6-7 range, while the later AlternativeRock / JanglePop stuff ranges anywhere from a 2 (or even a 1 in a handful of cases) up to a high 5/low 6.

-->''All night, music video\\
Seen your video, the phony rock 'n' roll\\

* RecordNeedleScratch: The applause at the end of "I Got A Headache" ends with a record scratch, transitioning abruptly into the next song on the album, "Rattlesnake".

* IAmTheBand: Increasingly Westerberg, much to Tommy Stinson's well publicized chagrin, to the extent that ''All Shook Down'' was nearly released as a solo record.

Starting out as a loud fast HardcorePunk band, they transitioned into a melodic alternative rock band, driven by the heart on the sleeve, earnest songwriting of Paul Westerberg. In terms of general popularity the Mats barely register compared to the likes of their contemporaries Music/{{REM}} or their arguable successors Music/{{Nirvana}}, Music/PearlJam and Music/{{Soundgarden}}. But don't feel too sorry for them though, much of their unpopularity can be attributed to their drunken stage antics, outright disdain for making music videos, and a penchant for biting the hand that feeds.

Defining AlternativeRock bands, before it was cool. The definitive lineup included Paul Westerberg (rhythm guitar, vocals), Tommy Stinson (bass), Bobby Stinson (lead guitar) and Chris Mars (drums). Bobby Stinson was replaced by Slim Dunlap in 1987 and Chris Mars by Steve Foley in 1990. Since the breakup of the band in 1991 Westerberg has released numerous solo records, and Tommy Stinson has played in a number of bands, most notably with Music/GunsNRoses.

* TheAlcoholic: All the original members, particularly Bobby Stinson, who was fired for being ''too much of a drunk''. It's said that part of their appeal was arriving to a show and not knowing how functional the band would be. Occasionally they'd just randomly decide to do entire sets of covers too.

* CoverVersion: "Black Diamond", originally by Music/{{KISS}}. They were also known for throwing in sloppy, half-remembered covers during their live shows - the bootleg turned semi-official LiveAlbum ''The Shit Hits the Fans'' consists almost entirely of such things.

** Deliberately invoked in the song "Hootenanny". When the band recorded the song, they swapped instruments in an attempt to mess with co-producer Paul Stark while he wasn't paying attention. The result sounds like a third-rate blues-rock bar band, complete with missed notes and an unsteady tempo.