LISTEN: Punk pioneers The Replacements’ most straightforward love song is about a couple who’s anything but
Let It Be. The full-length, their third, saw the band slow things down and mix up their punk sound, instead opting for something more contemplative and perhaps even a bit more digestible for the mainstream… though their subject matter remained as punk as ever.Let It Be wasn’t a commercial success, but to this day it’s regarded as both an incredibly important album and one that still absolutely rocks.
Rolling Stone featured it on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and as the magazine re-ranks and re-publishes that tally time and again, Let It Be climbs higher and higher.Pansy Division gave birth to a new genre of punk rock in the early ’90s.In the years since the rockers first unleashed “Androgynous,” it’s gone on to become deeply meaningful to not only the gender queer community.
The tune has been covered by several well-known acts, who each share its message of hope and love to their own fan bases, keeping the good word moving forward.Grammy-nominated band Crash Test Dummies, known for their ‘90s smash “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm,” sent the hit to the Hot 100 chart in their home country of Canada.
That was more than half a decade after The Replacements released it, and yet it was still ahead of its time.More recently, he track was also covered by Miley Cyrus, Joan Jett, and trans musician and activist Laura Jane Grace of the band Against Me!
