Pleased to Meet Me was the sound of the Replacements trying for once. The band’s previous five LPs were snarky slacker masterpieces full of chintzy songs about hating music ’cause it’s got too many notes, ironic Kiss covers, and the occasional tender ballad, and their concerts were more like drunken hootenannies — all of this sloppiness was what won them their legend. But sometime after recording their beloved Tim album, Paul Westerberg decided they ought to grow up a little, the group parted ways with founding guitarist Bob Stinson,...
- 10/9/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
The Replacements have unearthed a previously unreleased demo of “I Don’t Know,” which is set to appear on the upcoming reissue of their 1987 album, Pleased to Meet Me, out October 9th via Rhino.
The demo version, unsurprisingly, is rougher around the edges, although that’s certainly not a negative when it comes to the Replacements. The horns from the final studio version aren’t present, but the guitars still move with a heavy chug and the band drawls the song’s titular refrain, “I don’t know,” with expert apathy.
The demo version, unsurprisingly, is rougher around the edges, although that’s certainly not a negative when it comes to the Replacements. The horns from the final studio version aren’t present, but the guitars still move with a heavy chug and the band drawls the song’s titular refrain, “I don’t know,” with expert apathy.
- 8/7/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
At first glance, a deluxe, four-disc reissue of the second worst Replacements album might seem like kind of an odd idea — albeit a uniquely Replacements-y one, utterly in keeping with the Minneapolis punk rock icons’ gift for subverting even the simplest music industry rituals to the point of needless self-sabotage. Maligned at the time as once-great indie band’s unfortunate slide into the depths of major-label malaise, 1989’s Don’t Tell A Soul was, indeed, not much of an event compared to the lunatic racket of albums like their 1984 classic Let It Be,...
- 9/27/2019
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
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