I bought my first copy of Let It Be when I was 15 and it unlocked my lifelong love of the Replacements. Soon I was hunting down albums, bootlegs, zines, T-shirts—I even agreed to clean my high school ...

Let It Be was the moment where The Replacements grew up. Moving past the punk roots exemplified by the band’s first two albums, Let It Be finely toed the line between youthful excess and punk rock ...