Founding member and lead guitarist Bob Stinson-a musical wildcard with debilitating psychological and addiction issues-was summarily fired from a group that included his younger brother Tommy on bass. As with Dusty Springfield before them, the pilgrimage was an act of communion with the music that had shaped their identity.īy 1986, the group’s quixotic determination to both ironically comment upon and simultaneously up the ante on every rock-star-excess cliché had created its first victims. Recorded by hard-scrabble music lifer Jim Dickinson at Ardent Studios in Memphis, the album was a conscious attempt to attach the band’s legacy to the wellspring city that lay 800 miles down the Mississippi River from their hometown of Minneapolis. Rex, and pays tribute to their spiritual godfather Alex Chilton.
Every Replacements record is extraordinary in its way, but none exemplifies their garbage-to-grandeur alchemy like Pleased To Meet Me, which rocks like early Kinks, swaggers like T.
Hey thats my fish deluxe series#
The latest in the band’s series of expanded and repackaged editions comes in the form of the group's 1987 fifth LP, Pleased To Meet Me, the moment in which Paul Westerberg’s punk impulses, pop instincts, and poetic soul came into focus as never before.
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