{"id":8296,"date":"2012-12-27T23:22:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T06:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=8296"},"modified":"2012-12-27T23:22:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T06:22:41","slug":"color-me-obsessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/12\/color-me-obsessed\/","title":{"rendered":"Color Me Obsessed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Color Me Obsessed:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

A Film About the Replacements<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

[MVD Visual]<\/p>\n

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A rock documentary with almost no music\u2014and not a lick by the film\u2019s subjects\u2014Color Me Obsessed<\/em> is the visual document the Replacements deserve. Brilliant one minute, awful the next, and doomed to fail, if their story can really be seen as a failure, the Minneapolis foursome is among the most mythologized bands of the last 30 years. As Goo Goo Dolls singer John Rzeznik says, \u201cFifty million claim to have seen the Replacements.\u201d In their heyday, the group led by singer and songwriter Paul Westerberg was known mostly to the types of people who appear in Gorman Bechard\u2019s film, an oral history told by critics, DJs, record store clerks, fellow musicians and, in one memorable scene, a dude who just happened to play pinball with guitarist Bob Stinson one night in a dive bar\u2014while the rest of the band was onstage.<\/p>\n

Recounting the group\u2019s archetypal story\u2014drunken punks build a local following, record a masterpiece (Let It Be<\/em>), sign with a major label and fall to pieces\u2014none of Bechard\u2019s participants offer any groundbreaking new perspectives. \u201cThey\u2019re the great existential heroes of American indie rock,\u201d says Titus Andronicus leader Patrick Stickles, using big words to say pretty much what everyone else does. But it\u2019s fun watching folks from all walks of life add strokes to the warts-and-all picture, and when Cheers <\/em>star George Wendt suggests the song \u201cHere Comes a Regular\u201d was about his character Norm, you know these guys really were special. \u2013Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n

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Color Me Obsessed:\u00a0 A Film About the Replacements \u00a0 [MVD Visual] A rock documentary with almost no music\u2014and not a lick by the film\u2019s subjects\u2014Color Me Obsessed is the visual document the Replacements deserve. Brilliant one minute, awful the next, and doomed to fail, if their story can really be seen as a failure, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[5567,196,5566,5569,5568,5475],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8299,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions\/8299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}