March 2016
Episode
26 of See Hear is available for your earholes. It’s the final of
our 2015 listener requests. The fact that it’s 2016 shows we’re a
bit disorganised, but as Bernie suggested, that’s fitting with the
subject matter.
Eric
Reanimator requested we watch and discuss Color Me Obsessed: A Film
About The Replacements, directed by Gorman Bechard and released in
2011. It’s a documentary about the beloved 80s punk / pop band from
Minneapolis. It uses the common documentary trope of the “talking
head”perspective, but unlike many other documentaries (music or
otherwise) this is all it does. There is no Replacements archival
footage, nor any interviews with the band. There are producers, peers
and fans all giving their stories of gigs witnessed, tutus,
trashcans, favourite albums, and teen angst.
Bernard,
Tim and Maurice discuss whether this approach to the subject matter
actually helps or hinders in appreciating who the Replacements were.
There is a lot of digression from talk of the actual film to
discussing what we believe the role of a documentary actually is, and
what our favourite Replacements albums are. There will be a certain
irony about our discussion which will become apparent as we go into
the episode – listen and work it out.
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