Replacements song touched Carrie Brownstein as a teenager
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Today's Morning Edition music starts off from Bob Boilen's new book "Your Song Changed My Life."
Carrie Brownstein of the band Sleater-Kinney says the Replacements song "Bastards of Young" meant a lot to her when she was a teenager.
She says it speaks to "that sort of endless struggle to be understood and have the people that you wanna love you, love you. That made so much sense to me in high school."
Songs by the Replacements and other Minneapolis bands from the 1980s are featured in a new History Theatre production "Complicated Fun," which opens Saturday. It's about two young misfits who discover themselves in the music pouring out of First Avenue.
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