The Replacements (band) - Legacy

Legacy

Green Day vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong recalled seeing The Replacements live after the release of Pleased to Meet Me: "It was amazing. It changed my whole life. If it wasn't for that, I might've spent my whole time playing in bad speed-metal bands." Armstrong's second band Pinhead Gunpowder would cover "Achin' To Be" on their 1999 EP called Shoot The Moon.

The Goo Goo Dolls vocalist and guitarist Johnny Rzeznik has stated that Paul Westerberg has been and always will be his biggest inspiration. The Goo Goo Dolls also toured in support for the band's final tour. They also co-wrote the song We Are The Normal with Paul for their 1993 album Superstar Car Wash.

The band They Might Be Giants composed a song in tribute to The Replacements entitled "We're the Replacements."

UK punk rock band The Cribs cite The Replacements as a key influence, and covered "Bastards of Young" on the B-Side to their "I'm a Realist" single.

Actress Winona Ryder was a big fan of the band. In the movie Heathers, she supposedly convinced the director to name her high school "Westerburg High" (sic) after lead singer Paul Westerberg.

As another indicator of the lasting influence of the group, 1234 Go! Records released We'll Inherit the Earth: A Tribute to The Replacements. The album was released on 3 October 2006, and features twenty-three Replacements cover songs by various rock, punk, pop, and country artists.

On the Indigo Girls album 1200 Curfews (Disc 2) Amy Ray starts the song "Land of Cannaan" (which originally was on their 1987 Strange Fire album) by saying "When I first wrote this song it was a ballad, and then I heard The Replacements, and it wasn't any more."

A track on the 2009 Art Brut album Art Brut vs. Satan called 'The Replacements' features lyrics such as "I can't believe I've only just discovered The Replacements, how have I only just discovered The Replacements?" Vocalist Eddie Argos also talks about the similarities between Art Brut and The Replacements including making "another record with my heart on the sleeve."

Minneapolis native Craig Finn of the Brooklyn band The Hold Steady claimed that The Replacements' music, along with distaste towards the New York City music scene, was the impetus to form The Hold Steady.

"Alex Chilton" appears as a playable song in Harmonix's music videogame Rock Band 2 for all consoles. "Kids Don't Follow" was also released for the game as downloadable content.

The Wildhearts song '29 x The Pain', which namedrops the bands major influences, opens with the lyrics 'Here, sitting in my room, with the Replacements and Hüsker Dü'. The song title may also refer to the Hüsker Dü song "59 Times the Pain".

The hit television show, One Tree Hill, mentioned The Replacements and Paul Westerberg. Peyton Sawyer's (Hilarie Burton) mother, Ellie Harp (Sheryl Lee), said this was her happy song because Paul Westerberg got up on stage at a concert and performed it acoustically. When Ellie was dying, their song "Here Comes a Regular" was played.

Lead singer of The Gaslight Anthem, Brian Fallon, has stated several times that without The Replacements there would be no Gaslight Anthem, as they are heavily influenced by their music, particularly 'Left of the Dial'.

Against Me! have often covered 'Bastards of Young' and "Androgynous" during live sets.

In 2009 the UK band Kindness released a cover of The Replacements track "Swingin' Party" on Moshi Moshi Records.

The 2009 novel Sons of No One by Matthew Butcher, published by CreateSpace, references the lyrics to "Bastards of Young" in its title, and uses a quotation of the lyrics within the book.

The Decemberists' frontman Colin Meloy wrote a memoir centered around the album "Let it Be" for the 331/3 imprint in the early 2000s.

The band was mentioned on Canadian TV show "The Listener (TV series)" "Some Kinda Love" as protagonist Toby Logan's favourite band.

Lyrics from The Replacements song "Johnny's Gonna Die" are used in the NOFX song Jaw, Knee, Music

Their song Treatment Bound was used in official soundtrack of movie Jackass Number Two

In 2011, Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessional covered "Skyway" for the album "Cover the Flood."