{"product_id":"the-replacements-all-over-but-the-shouting-an-oral-history","title":"The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the dawn of \"Morning in America\"--a period that would nurse the rise of suit-and-tie culture--there emerged a national network of anti-corporate record shops  college radio stations  fanzines  nightclubs  and entrepreneurial record labels. In the watershed year 1981  this \"indie\" scene fostered several seminal releases. Among recordings by bands such as Sonic Youth  Black Flag  Husker Du  The Minutemen  and R.E.M. was an album called \"Sorry Ma . . . Forgot to Take Out the Trash\"  recorded by a scruffy  flannel-clad quartet from Minneapolis called The Replacements. Now  for the first time  all of the hearsay  half-truths  legends  and allegations associated with this maelstrom of a rock \u0026amp; roll band are unraveled in this oral history by longtime Twin Cities music journalist Jim Walsh. Through interviews with family  friends  and fans; former manager Peter Jesperson; Twin\/Tone record label cofounder Paul Stark; and musicians around the nation influenced by the band  Walsh lays bare with painful clarity a tale that unfolds like a tragic comedy in three perfect acts. Celebrated by national publications  \"the Mats\" often seemed more hell-bent on sabotaging their status as critical darlings than parlaying it. With their markedly apolitical stance amid their decidedly political peers  their uncool embrace of \"classic rock\" influences like KISS and The Faces  and their Dionysian appetites (and the resulting tendency to literally fall on their own faces)  The Replacements lasted 12 years despite themselves. From the bands founding to their rise through the local and national club circuits  their major label deal in 1985  and the slow and painful implosion that followed  The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting lays down the gripping oral history behind the little band that could--but didnt.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946513821749,"sku":"ByrdShop_076033062X","price":27.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780760330623.jpg?v=1769953907","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-replacements-all-over-but-the-shouting-an-oral-history","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}