The first-ever book about the Minneapolis basement band who changed the music scene, this oral history chronicles the Replacements mercurial career - the self-sabotage, stubbornness, stage-fright, wild parties, heart-on-sleeve songwriting, and critical and popular acclaim. Distilling hundreds of hours of interviews with band members, their friends, families, fellow musicians, fans, rock insider Jim Walsh creates a richly textured multi-faceted book worthy of the scruffy quartet that many have branded the most influential band to emerge from the 80s'.