The reissue of the year, a work of restoration that salvages the reputation of its subject.

Live at Maxwell’s provides the ultimate Replacements experience for those of us too young to have heard them live.

Maybe letting the Replacements go was the best thing Westerberg could have done.

If there’s a single song that best encapsulates the last days of The Replacements, it’s “Talent Show,” the lead track off Don’t Tell a Soul. It opens with a strummed acoustic guitar riff before giving way to Paul Westerberg’s vocals, clearer than ever. He sings about the jitters that come with a rookie live performance (“hop a ride, here we …

One wonders if the Replacements knew how close they were to the end of their creative peak by the time Pleased to Meet Me came out.

Tim is focused and streamlined, more intent on being a rock album than anything else.

Let It Be ultimately signaled the beginning of the end for the old Replacements.

Hootenanny devolves into the barely controlled chaos that its opener promised.

Sorry Ma captures the Replacements in a nebulous form.

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