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anyone know why the replacements are called the 'mats?

― jamie desolin, Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

i think its a joke on placemats. replacements...the placemats...whatever, I SAY THE MATS CUZ IT MAKES ME FEEL COOOOL!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Exactly.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Sunday, 22 February 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

it has to do with a story about a flyer for an early show erroneously billing them as the Placemats, don't it?

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 22 February 2004 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Its as embrassing to say aloud as the Weddoes.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Sunday, 22 February 2004 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

it has to do with a story about a flyer for an early show erroneously billing them as the Placemats, don't it?
-- Al (hoteloper...), February 22nd, 2004.

Another urban legend, me thinks. It came (apparently) from drunk fans slurring the band name 'til it sounded like 'Placemats'.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Sunday, 22 February 2004 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

it's all true. I say Mats cause I'm (wicked and I'm) LAZY

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Monday, 23 February 2004 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

anybody wanna explain how Morrissey became the Mozz?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 23 February 2004 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

i love the replacements, but i'm proud to say i have NEVER called em the mats.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 23 February 2004 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

dude you're so missing out.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 23 February 2004 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

it's somewhere between what Francis and Anthony said. They were never billed as the Placemats, although that story has been passed around. (They became the Replacements after playing only one gig billed as "The Impediments"; the show got them banished from playing that venue ever again, so that's how they got to be the Replacements.)

― don weiner, Monday, 23 February 2004 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Kinda like calling a guy Henry, "Hank".

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 23 February 2004 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

eighteen years pass...

Bob Mehr did a podcast reviewing all of their releases. (This is part one of two).

Entertaining, and apparently when they recorded Let It Be (one of my favorite albums by anyone), everyone in the band was living with their parents. Puts a lot of things in perspective - imagine making an album of that stature and you couldn't afford to live on your own.

― birdistheword, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 04:30 (three years ago)

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