Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements

Bob Mehr spent over a decade working on Trouble Boys and you can feel it on every page. This is THE definitive Replacements biography and I don't think anyone will top it.

The Replacements were the ultimate "your favorite band's favorite band" — massively influential but commercially self-destructive. Mehr captures the brilliance and the wreckage in equal measure. The chapters about Paul Westerberg's songwriting process alone are worth the cover price.

I tore through this in three days. Read it.