![]() The group’s early material, captured on their debut album, Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash, may have been performed at breakneck speed with barrels of attitude, but there were signs that Westerberg’s songs had a melodic sensibility and a distinct lyrical voice that was lacking in the work of most of their peers. We did it pretty much to piss him off and pretty much to show the world, in a Ramones kind of way, how dumb-smart we were… Just to see how many feathers we can ruffle.”įeathers had been flying in The Replacements’ wake since Westerberg joined forces with brothers Bob and Tommy Stinson (on guitar and bass, respectively) and drummer Chris Mars towards the end of 1979. “And Peter is at the wheel, silent as hell, thinking, They’re not going to do this. The group “peed our pants” with laugher, remembered Westerberg. When the unmistakable opening chords of The Beatles’ Let It Be started up, their decision was made. ![]() “We were riding around… kicking around silly names, and we thought, The next song that comes on the radio, we’ll name it after that,” Westerberg told Bob Mehr for his 2016 book, Trouble Boys: The True Story Of The Replacements. ![]() ![]() On the way to a gig, the band hit upon an idea. “We did it to show the world how dumb-smart we were” ![]()
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