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Post by dliljengren on Jun 16, 2010 9:09:37 GMT -5
HOW THE REPLACEMENTS SAVED ME FROM THE LEDGE, by Claude Iosso No band has propped up my world the way the Replacements did in the ‘80s. Although I’ve had favorite musicians before and since, those performers’ music was just life’s soundtrack, often played low. But I had a gaping hole in my life as a lonely and depressed college student, and the desperate ‘Mats drunkenly stumbled in and filled it. I found joyful independence bellowing along with their frenzied first albums. The sad songs on their later records Let It Be and Tim made me feel less alone... www.eastportlandblog.com/?p=505
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