The Replacements: Hits From The Sticks
Mat Snow, NME, 11 January 1986
"THEY TRY to teach you everything they think you should know and none of the things you want to know. There wasn't a class on rock'n'roll, and that was the only thing I loved and cared about, so I just didn't study. Chris is an artist, so he took art. And as for Bob and Tommy, they're interested in...nothin'.
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