DS Throwback: Forty Years of the Replacement’s “Tim”

DS Throwback: Forty Years of the Replacement’s “Tim”

After three albums on Minneapolis’s Twin/Tone Records, the Replacements signed to Sire Records. A record label with a history of its own, its line up had included bands like the Turtles, Duane Eddy, and Del Shannon. When punk and new wave hit in the mid 1970s, Sire was mostly independent and signed the early pioneers of the genre. The Ramones, the Dead Boys, and Talking Heads, but in the late 1970s Warner Bros. worked out a major distribution de…