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On Maneuvers: The Replacements Land Behind Enemy Lines

Julie Panebianco, Record, January 1986

"SO DO you think the Replacements have a chance to be the most hated band in rock and roll?" — this from the mouth (some would say big mouth) of Paul Westerberg, singer/songwriter/guitarist of Minneapolis' incorrigible Replacements. The Replacements fast discovered that rock had many rules — all made to be broken.

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