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night.” As Hüsker Dü transformed into a kind of towering hardcore monolith, the Replacements went the other way: they became loose, louche, and unpredictable, and all the more so as their alcohol intake increased. “Over time it seemed like their drinking became
Replacements partisans were, on the whole, literate, dark-humored, and a bit confused about their place in the world. They weren’t the go-getters or yuppie types, but they weren’t hopeless wastrels either. They were, Tommy Stinson would note, “more like us than they fuckin’ knew. They didn’t really fit anywhere. They probably didn’t aspire to a whole lot, but also didn’t aspire to doing nothing either. That’s the kind of fan we probably appealed to most: the people that were in that gray area. Just like us.”
“For a while there I was able to corral them a bit, because I was young and full of it and ready to conquer the earth and had to remind them of that,” said Tommy. “But once I started drinking, there was no conquering of the earth. There was no conquering of the block. Just the curbside.”
Drink, drugs, and women were never in short supply. On one occasion, they were both engaged with girls in the back of the bus when they decided they wanted to switch dates, but somehow do it tactfully. “We were like, ‘Let’s you and I start making out, then we’ll swap.’ I think it worked, if I recall,” said Stinson. “He’s the only dude I’ve ever made out with.”
