Sunday, January 26, 2025

500 Greatest Albums of the 1980s ... Ranked! # 117 The Replacements - Let It Be

 


The Replacements journey was one of the great if ultimately doomed and slightly sad journeys of the Eighties. Their torch was lcast aside in the gutter of Rock & Roll and picked up by Kurt Cobain and the others in Nirvana for their own brief journey. Even greater and even sadder and leading to a quite uneccessary, tragic and avoidable end.

I love much about The Replacements.Bit I wonder. Did they really need to drink quite so much. Drinking is fun but should it be seen as a religious quest. I'm not sure. There's time to put the bottle away or at least cut down and focus on things that matter. They did a lot of great and less great stuff, Some of it dowrnright sloppy. Let It Be  is generally enough for me. It tells you all you need to know.




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