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sigmasix

(794 posts)
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 05:14 PM Jul 2013

Color Me Obsessed documentary

I watched "color me obsessed" on netflix late last night.
If you haven't seen it and you are a fan of the Replacements, or American rock and roll, you really ought to see it.
I found myself amazed at the number of people that share the same sort of feelings about this band. The Mat's were the antispokespeople at the same time as the spokesmen for so much of our generation. We were regarded as un disciplined and bored. We had no war to name us for and the baby boomers kept telling us that we missed out on everything important in rock and roll- that all that was left for us was the sweeping-up and closing of the history of Rock and Roll.
Boy were they wrong! The American midwest had produced a band that grew-up on classic rock and found it's footing in the ruminations of the late
70s american flirtation with punk.
And for a lot of our generation, the Replacements were the best rock band on the whole damn planet. They happened during that pre-Nirvana, soul-less faze of hair metal and meat-head corporate noise. Which makes them all the more important.

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