The Replacements - I'll Be You (Official Music Video) 

I fell in love with them

I was 4 and a half years old in front of an old TV with knobs.

Party I'm free 80s rule

It was late summer of 96 so I was 15 at the time. I had heard a few songs of theirs randomly like Alex Chilton and Can't Hardly Wait, but hadn't caught on. Me and a group of friends ended up partying in some older dudes apartment that night cause we had nowhere else to go. I had a substantial amount of devils lettuce which gained us entry. We had all been partying all day so most of my friends passed out early. Being an alcoholic in training at the time I could hold my shit! So I ended up all night alone with said old dude pounding 40's. He was in a wheelchair and terminally ill with AIDS. Early 40's, but looked like he was 70. I commented that he had great taste in music, and it turned out he was spinning nothing but the Replacements the whole time. So he basically played every album they had and educated me on them. I never ran into him again, but am eternally grateful even though I can't remember his name. He did say that he had a daughter in college that was in a Nada Surf video for Popular. The trivial things you remember.

First heard them in 1986. Raised in the City was the first song I heard from them,still a fan all these years later

Here are my favorite albums by ‘80’s Bands: 1. Bleach - Nirvana (1989) 2. Nothing’s Shocking - Jane’s Addiction (1988) 3. UltraMega OK - Soundgarden (1988) 4. Life’s Rich Pageant - R.E.M. (1986) 5. The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths (1986) I love ❤️’80’s music like Nirvana.

only Paul westerberg was good enough for the opening song in Singles lol

@@wildmercuryfilms Good but if not one Replacements record it sucks. TIM or Pleased to Meet ME or Let it BE are the best records of that decade.

I was listening to this song the other day and had flashbacks of taking my Walkman on a junior high field trip, with this album blaring in my head all day... and it suddenly occurred to me that even though at the time I had absolutely no self confidence and was completely insecure in who I was... looking back I was a really cool junior higher. I mean how many junior highers were listening to the Replacements?

@@brandonkstarr My brother might have when he was in junior high. He also listened to Pink Floyd, the Beatles, etc.

Dolly Parton is in the R&R H of F. These guys are not. Go figure.

Pixies take another hit sumac 🐎

And if its just a lull, why am I bored right out of my skull?

@@garcemac And I could purge my soul perhaps For the imminent collapse Oh yeah Oh yeah, I'll tell you what we could do You be me for a while I'll be you

Laurie what's up? It's me Mic.

LOL I had to share your comment with my husband because it's totally something he would've thought back then & would say about himself now.

i was the same with punk...i was listening to grunge and then green day came out and i was like this is lame, but now i like older punk music

"thought they were getting away with something" is the PERFECT way to describe how I've felt about certain art throughout my life, and my opinions have changed just like yours

I felt the same way when my friend showed me the replacements for the first time. Over the years I've come to really appreciate their music and lyrics.

Metal is better than this. Go back to metal, give it a re-listen and you'll see. 🤟🏻

Agreed. There should be monuments dedicated to these guy in America from coast to coast. Any great, "influential" band of the 80's or 90's that paved the way for generations to come had one band in common that they were influenced by - The Replacements.

Totally. Maybe the most underrated band of all time but I think they liked things that way. They leaned hard into their drunken mess bozos image. Paul Westerberg one of the greatest American songwriters and front-man.

They couldn't be professionals if you held a gun to their heads. Few good tunes but no consistency or direction.

@@jamesalan3450Out a monument smack down in the middle of Minneapolis

I like "Treatment Bound", "Seen Your Video" and myriad others better. At least the video for "Bastards of Young" was an anti-video. It's almost like the 'Mats seemed to give a shit about their public image in this video.

Try Here Comes a Regular, or Skyway, Swingin' Party, Bastards of Young, Never Mind, The Ledge, Little Mascara, If only You Were Lonely, Left of the Dial, GODDAMNIT... They didn't write bad songs, they wrote good songs for bad boys.

@@edhelveyThis was the 'Mats half-assed attempt to play the game and actually make some money. Can't blame 'em, sucks to be critically feted but broke. Praise don't pay the bills.

I must admit that this was one of the first Replacements songs that I'd heard. A friend asked 'Do you like this?' When I said yes, he handed me 'Tim' and 'Pleased to Meet Me.' Hooked.

Poor Bob :(

Yes indeed !

Amazing book!

Almost finished the book. Greatest book I think I’ve ever read. Great watching all these clips with that insider knowledge as context.

* * * Ft. Useless? Monore? Lee? ... thank you for your service ... and awesome tune ... Alex Chilton my all-time favorite

Really? You prefer this over "Can't Hardly Wait", "Alex Chilton" and "Skyway"?

I been a fan for 40 years. It never gets old and I can't say that about any other band.

From there on in they're at their best, Slim leaning in, Tommy's smiling resignation. It's all good. Slim's condition saddens me. Wishing him as many good/better days as Earthly possible.

According to the book Trouble Boys, he did hurt himself a bit doing that. Looked like it!

@@BradCarlMusic Definitely. Paul went flying when stepped on that snare.

That may be the sexiest comment I've ever heard in my life.

Hi I recommend an Indie Song called 'looking Into The Mirror' by Robert Nix

My Dad put a lot of the beans on the table playing his. Good instrument.

Me too !!

Me too!

Jane Ripley in 2020 as well!

And 2021 as well!

can't forget 2022 as well

Losers.

@@paulbcote Hater.

@liselle sloan Hater hater.

@@465marko Ha Ha! I just feel sorry for them, in the main.

@@465marko - I hate hating haters.

Don't Tell a Soul is *way* better than its haters say it is. A solid half of the tracks are winners; I'll Be You, Achin' to Be, Anything's Better Than Here, Talent Show - fantastic stuff. Everything else is okay (only song I straight up don't like is We'll Inherit the Earth). If half the songs on an album are amazing, that's a damn good success rate; the album's a winner. The production's a bit shiny, very late-80s. I get why people dislike the production but come on. The songs are killer regardless. As for All Shook Down, it's an interesting album and I think most of the hate comes from it being basically a Westerberg solo album pretending to be a Replacements album. If you can get past that it's great.

Don't Tell a Soul is my favorite too. A masterpiece 🤠👍

Check out the Producers......perfect 80's band like Replacements........both great live

They don't know how great they were...

Sounds like you had a proper upbringing.

@@getsome4806 - Those were good times, my friend. Feel free to add anything I had forgotten.

This is one of many classic songs by the Replacements - my other favorites are Androgynous, When it Began, They're Blind, Kiss me on the Bus, I DON'T Know, Achin to be, Unsatisfied, Left of the dial, Bastards of young, sixteen blue, Anywhere's better than here, Darlin One, The Ledge, Skyway, Little mascara, Alex chilton, Swinging Party, Waitress in the sky, Can't hardly wait & Seen your video

It’s the song structure. It takes the song a very long time to reach the hook/chorus so it builds a lot of tension because your ear wants it to resolve. Kind of like a delayed orgasm. 😜

True

Bryan Adams wishes... LOL

Ummm ... yeah ... HUGE Mats fan and Tim, PTMM, DTAS, and the last one whatever it was called all came out when I was in JC or College ... and DTAS is pretty much their worst album, even the last one was (Solo Westerberg in all but name) better IMHO ... this tune, darlin' one, talent show (aka Portland), and the one GREAT song Achin' To Be were the only good songs on it. Sad to say, it was a pathetic sell-out attempt that pains me to this day. Most say Let It Be was the apex, and while it's GREAT, I say Tim & PTMM are better albums overall ... I drove off to college at San Luis Obispo in 1986, with nearly all my shit in my car ... I was rocking the first Femmes album, Standing On A Beach, Tim, The Unforgettable Fire, Change (The Alarm) and Fables of the Reconstruction the whole way ... never forget my trip down and the Mats were with me throughout school, along with REM, The Cure, The Smiths, and of course U2 ... my constant companions. First album I bought once I actually arrived at my College town ... Lifes Rich Pageant, on cassette, which came out almost exactly when I got to town ... Still have that tape ... don't play cassettes anymore, but that album never gets old.

@@bvaljalo Rock 'n' Roll Ghost and They're Blind are great songs too

you got yer wish mate, is 4 discs enough?

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