Could `Hate It When You Are Right` by The Offramps be the best Replacements album in 20 years? Detroit`s The Offramps have made the the successor to the `Mats "Please To Meet Me" that "All Shook Down" wasn`t. No band can live up to the lofty expectation of being the next Replacements, but The Offramps do an exceptionally good job of capturing the loose, loud roots-pop of Minnesota`s favorite band that no one has ever heard of. The Offramps have taken the ground work laid by luminaries The Replacements , Cheap Trick, and Joan Jett and done it right. New ground is not being broken here, but the fertile sound from an era has been recaptured without sounding retro. -- Jeff Weiss, Miles of Music (Deluxe)
