Why weren't these guys bigger? This album is fucking incredible.

beer-drinking buttrock masquerading as "alternative" college rock desu
no wonder one of them ended up in guns n roses

>>73439662
Nice bait.
>>73439638
They intentionally and sometimes unintentionally sabotaged themselves. Wild, drunken performances, fucking up TV appearances, making "anti" music videos. They did succeed in influencing countless future bands and musicians.

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Why weren't these guys bigger? This album is fucking incredible.

>>73439738
it's buttrock dude
put them up against any of their contemporaries... mission of burma, husker du, wipers, even fucking r.e.m., and it just comes off as crude fratboy music

>>73439767
>R.E.M.
>One of the biggest bands of the 90s
>Widely considered one of the best American rock bands by mainstream rags
>Not huge

Wut? Just because you weren't there doesn't mean it didn't happen.

>>73439803
>le deep introspective art male

Fuck off cuck

>>73439817
Retard

Ahead of their time. Their timing was just completely off. They came out when New Wave and Glam Metal were the dominant rock movements in the charts, so no one knew what to make of them. Alternative music didn't really have any chart presence until the very end of the 80s, and even then industry people were mostly just focusing on British acts (The Cure, New Order, Tears for Fears, etc.) They didn't really wake up to the American scene until Jane's Addiction came out, and R.E.M. released Document, and by then The Replacements were already falling apart.

>>73439662
Sorry Ma is one of the greatest garage punk albums of all time. Yeah, the Replacements and Hüsker Dü drank beer. They were blue collar outsiders. The Replacements were known as the band made up of the janitor, the artist, the alcoholic, and the little kid. They were truly the outsider band.

You're a deeply unlikable person, and you should probably kys

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1985 - the year punk bands got drenched in reverb.

Discuss.

>>73439996
It's funny how half the noise pop bands say Hüsker Dü started it, and the other half credit the JAMC. MBV actually credit Dino Jr. and Sonic Youth with being their inspirations.

>>73440041
It's also funny how differently Hüsker Dü and the JAMC were received, since New Day Rising and Psychocandy are actually very comparable albums. The Brits couldn't take how abrasive the JAMC were, so they only appealed to fans of the most extreme music (Killing Joke, GBH). In contrast, hardcore was already so abrasive that Hüsker Dü was actually considered the scene's pop band, since they were trying to write actual songs, with structure.

>>73439662
>buttrock
>>73439803
>buttrock

I need all 40-year old men to stop posting dadslang on this board.

>>73440115
>The Brits couldn't take how abrasive the JAMC were

Everybody who knew anything about alternative music loved JAMC man, the hype around that band was massive right from their first single onwards(in no small part due to Alan McGee's promotion tactics, but that doesn't really take away from the power of the music itself).
The art-school kids loved them, the working class kids loved them, the goths loved them, the punks loved them, the pop kids loved them, the music press couldn't get enough of their antics. They basically set the template for the over-the-top UK music press hype machine that would reach its apex with Britpop in the 90s.

>>73439803
it got bad around the time tim was made but their punk music was miles better than husker du and wipers