PositiveThe New YorkerThe often dispiriting details behind the band’s notoriety and demise are laid out masterfully by Bob Mehr in Trouble Boys ... What elevates the book beyond titillation is the explanatory context Mehr provides for all this terrible behavior. Each member of the band was troubled in his own particular way ... He doesn’t present an argument for why the Replacements mattered—or why they might still matter. He likely figured that anyone already into the band enough to read a book about it wouldn’t require a case for significance. And he’s probably right.
