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  • Audio CD (1 Jul 1993)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Euro Parrot
  • ASIN: B000002LB9
  • Other Editions: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 75,351 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. IOU
2. Alex Chilton
3. I Don't Know
4. Nightclub Jitters
5. Ledge
6. Never Mind
7. Valentine
8. Shooting Dirty Pool
9. Red Red Wine
10. Skyway
11. Can't Hardly Wait

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While some continue to champion the Replacements' Don't Tell a Soul and All Shook Down exit albums, Pleased to Meet Me truly represents the last vital effort of a great band beginning its descent. The first album released after founding lead guitarist Bob Stinson's official departure, Pleased nevertheless retains plenty of the Mats' innate punky drive, albeit here more focused and tempered. Group avatar Paul Westerberg feuded with Memphis producer Jim Dickinson (brought in because of his production of Big Star's melancholy classic Third/Sister Lovers) over what he considered Dickinson's civilizing touches. In retrospect, however, the brass-and-string flourishes on the catchy coda "Can't Hardly Wait" and the more disciplined drumming of Chris Mars make Pleased a more comfortable reconciliation of the group's raw roots and musical maturity. --Steven Stolder


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The Replacements' brand of brash, dirty rock & roll reachedits apex on PLEASED TO MEET ME. A stomping collection of blistering, no-bull compositions and performances, this album represents a wild, angry, and ultimately beautiful marriage of inspired songcraft and punk rock abandon. The album's biggest hit, "Alex Chilton", is a swinging, stomping homage to the pop stylist to whom the Replacements were so deeply indebted, with plenty of the stadium-sized power-chords that comprise the groups less-fashionable influences (Kiss's "Black Diamond" was one of their better-known covers).
The rollicking "Red Red Wine" is an homage of another sort--the Replacements were a band fueled by alcohol; live gigs were alwaysunpredictable, well-lubricated affairs. The disarming acoustic ballad "Skyway" has a timeless feel, expertly performed and evocatively delivered. The album's closer, "Can't HardlyWait", provided the 'Mats with another signature tune; PaulWesterberg is at his raspy, poetic best, while idol Alex Chilton is credited with guitar.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Rock and roll songwriting at its best, 13 Dec 2000
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Paul Westerberg, lead singer and songwriter, combines clever and punchy lyrics with memorable, pop-song hooklines throughout this album. Pleased to meet me sees the Replacements mature into a more relaxed outfit with the emphasis shifting from punk to more grown up rock and roll.Every song on this album is a classic from the tribute to Alex Chilten to the wonderful I can't wait.You will be singing the latter of these two titles especially with such lines as 'Jesus rides beside me but he never buys any smokes' Fantastic. The only downside is that the Replacements are no more, but catch Paul Westerberg's solo career
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I'LL HAVE WHAT THEY'RE HAVING, 2 Mar 2008
Clocking in at a lean 'n' mean 34 minutes (no flab, never outstayed their welcome) PLEASED TO MEET ME is the blistering 3rd, in a hat trick of world class classics from the mid eighties, by the mighty REPLACEMENTS (LET IT BE & TIM, the other 2).
Because they liked the odd tipple, lazy critics refer to them as a bar band (which to me, conjures up a kind of pissed up, american status quo) but the MATS were much, much & thrice much more than that, they had many strings to their considerable bow.
Leader PAUL WESTERBURG is a gifted songwriter who voiced tales of the outsider, from the wrong side of the tracks better than anyone i can think of, but rather than wallowing in self pity, his songs were brash, confident & at times heroic. Add to this a garage full of killer tunes and a band who could produce explosive rock (later to be called grunge) strident power pop, thrashy punk and some of the most beautiful, poignant ballads you will ever hear in your life and you have a delicious cocktail of rock n roll perfection.
THE REPLACEMENTS were a truly great band, who surpassed their influences & who influenced hundreds of bands that followed, none of which were any better (NIRVANA included).
PLEASED TO MEET ME contains 3 slices of pin you to the wall, pant exploding rock n roll (I,O,U, SHOOTING DIRTY POOL, RED RED WINE) urgent power pop (ALEX CHILTON, VALENTINE) dirty chugging grunge (I DON'T KNOW) ice cool, loungey jazz (NIGHTCLUB JITTERS) haunting, eerie rock (THE LEDGE) a track that somebody in SEATTLE might have been taking notes on (NEVERMIND) and two outstanding closing tracks, the stone beautiful ballad SKYWAY and the euphoric, insanely catchy anthem CAN'T HARDLY WAIT. A perfect end to a brilliant album.
I was lucky enough to catch the band at SHEFFIELD LEADMILL on this album's tour back in 87. To a crowd of about 55 people, they played an incendiary set that lasted over 2 hours before having the plug pulled on them. At the time i was struck by their sarcastic, piss taking (almost english) sense of humour, WESTERBURG's finale being a hand stand that pathetically collapsed into the drum kit to great comic effect (a legend in the making).
If you're new to THE REPLACEMENTS I would recommend you start with any of the 3 albums listed above, then the more polished DON'T TELL A SOUL, the downbeat, dark & beautiful last album ALL SHOOK DOWN & if you're hooked (which you will be) investigate their earlier, punk-thrash material. I don't think any of the best of compilations do full justice to this amazing band.
How they were'nt multi platinum unit shifters is a mystery of Arthur C Clarke proportions.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Place Mats set the table for a rock 'n' roll feast ..., 28 April 2005
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This is where it all came together for the band in my humble opinion. Armed with a swag sack of killer tunes they had the opportunity to lay them down with some sympathetic assistance, producing punchier, more polished arrangements but not losing an ounce of their freewheeling kick ass energy along the way.

Maybe too 'rock' for delicate indie ears at the time and just too early for the 'Nevermind' grunge generation, this is an album that just screams for some latent cult recognition. One of the truly great rock 'n roll albums period and perhaps the very best of it's time.

Give one a good home and crank it up - you'll not regret it.

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