Tom Dunne: Why the Replacements deserved to be this century's Rolling Stones
The Replacements have released a remix of their album Tim.
As the Rolling Stones prepare to celebrate 1,000 years in the business and music writer Pat Carty, in these pages, once again incorrectly identifies Exile on Main Street as the “greatest album of all time” as opposed to an album they don’t even rate themselves, it’s good to sometimes take time out and wonder what if?
What if The Replacement’s Tim album of 1995 had been better recorded? What if Paul Westerberg, in the early 1980s a man often referred to as his generation’s Bruce Springsteen, had lived to up the hype? What if he’d delivered on time and in tune?
