The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History by Jim Walsh - 9780760330623 - Compare Prices on New & Used Textbooks, Cheap Textbooks

At 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 & 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 didn't.

		The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History by Jim Walsh ISBN-10: 9780760330623 ISBN-10: 0-7603-3062-X ISBN-13: 9780760330623 ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-3062-3 Hardcover 2007-11-15 Voyageur Press Find Lowest Price
Editorials

Product Description At 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 & 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 didn't.
Reviews

A fitting chronicle of the Mats Any attempt to tell the story of the Replacements is going to be a bit chaotic, otherwise it wouldn't suit its subject. I found the oral history approach - little snippets of memories from the story's players and eye witnesses - to be a sort of meandering way to move from the band's beginnings to the band's end. You're not going to go in a very straight line, but it's a nicer trip that way. You get great little glimpses of people and personalities and clubs and record stores that can only really be captured through the eyes of the locals. I enjoyed the sidetrips that these remembrances took me on. The accounts given here are genuine. Sometimes they're funny and tender (Tommy Stinson on tour as a 14 year old)and sometimes they're depressing and tragic (Bob Stinson's steady decline). Jim Walsh's account has given us the pure, unvarnished Mats. On any given night they could give you the worst show of your life, but they were one of the greatest ever.
Enjoyed it. I was a huge 'Mats fan back in the day and they're still one of my top 5 bands of all time. I enjoyed the book and feel like I know a lot more about the band's rise and fall and all the major players along the way than I did before. I liked the oral-history approach pretty well, where it's just a series of running blurbs of people talking about semi-related topics that just sorta loosely flow from one era or subject to the next. It caused me to read the book a lot faster this way, (5 days, which is fast for me) as opposed to a more traditional biography approach. However, I feel like a lot of the finer points of information about the band members and other things may have slipped through the cracks a little. Walsh touches on the members' upbringing somewhat but I'd have liked to know a little more about that. But that's just me being nosey. This is a really great read and I would suggest it to any fan of the Replacements that wants to delve back into the 80's indie music scene for a while.
Rock And Roll Ghosts If you're as big a fan of this late, lamented band as I, then you know that you have to read this book. Paul Westerberg is one of the best songwriters to ever commit words to melody and this book filled in a lot of the blanks for me. I knew the basic story of the band but this gave me some insight into the formation of The Replacements that I wasn't aware of. It also provides a lot of information regarding Bob Stinson after he left the band that I hadn't heard before. Plus, it gives you a sense of the day to day pressures that bands/musicians face and a real idea of why so many bands fall apart. The Replacements should have been huge but weren't. Some of their problems were self-induced and some were the result of less than stellar management, music trends and just plain bad luck. But we still have the music and now we have a good portion of the story as well. Until the band members themselves write their own versions, this one will do just fine.
great! A great book. We needed it so much. Hope others will follow but, in the meantime, relax, take it easy and remember. It wasn't just a waste of time.
Tears of Laughter / Laughter and Tears I believe that this book is a wonderful companion to a chapter about Replacements from Michael Azerrad's book "Our Band Could Be Your Life". Indeed, some of peculiar facts/stories about Replacements told by Azerrad can be seen in this book, as well. Whereas Mr. Azerrad provided somewhat brief and compressed (albeit, vivid) biography of this explosive band, Jim Walsh did it a bit differently. The whole book is, basically, nothing but a number of questions and answers, yet he managed to keep it entertaining/interesting enough, which is not an easy task by any means. To me, much of success is based on anecdotes/stories like the one where Jon Bon Jovi sent a letter to an editor of Rolling Stones wondering why he never even heard of Replacements and how they ended up on top of their charts. Then there's naked Bob Stinson, sloppy song covers and general "we don't give a flying f" type of attitude. Yet, behind all of their drunker behavior/crude jokes and anything else, you can still see something real - in particular, a part about Bob Stinson and Peter Jesperson struggle with post-Replacements period (which, unfortunately, ended in tragedy for Bob) is particularly hitting hard. All in all, this is one well-deserved biography for one amazing band. Now ,Mr. Walsh, can we have few more books on the likes Big Black and/or Minutemen? Please? Please?