What a waste!

The ’Mats’ alcohol and chaosfuelled debut turns 40.

David Fricke

The Replacements ★★★★ Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash RHINO. CD/DL/LP FOR A few minutes, on the way to its release on August 25, 1981, The Replacements’ debut album was called Unsuitable For Airplay – which it was, starting with side one, track one. “The light was green/So was I/The radio’s blastin’/Turn that shit off!” singerguitarist Paul Westerberg bellowed in Takin’ A Ride, two minutes and 23 seconds of death-race frenzy with a necksnapping hook. Another title on the table was Power Trash, coined by Westerberg, the band’s songwriting captain, to describe the motley character of The Replacements’ noise and mission. As he put it to me later over a few cold ones in a Minneapolis bar, “We take the best parts of punk, pop, rock’n’roll and blues…

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