The Replacements: The Pleasure Is All Yours
Bill Holdship, Creem, September 1987
FOR THE MOST part, I hate rock 'n' roll. Probably not the smartest thing to admit in print, and I wish it wasn't true. I used to love it. Worshipped it. Thought it was one of the most important things in my life. Just the mention of it could conjure up images that were like magic. In many ways, rock 'n' roll had replaced Disneyland. Today, I generally prefer Disneyland.
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