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• Pleased to Meet Me, released in March 1987, is the fifth studio album by The Replacements and the only one recorded as a trio after the departure of guitarist Bob Stinson. The sessions took place at Ardent Studios in Memphis under producer Jim Dickinson, lending the album a Southern inflection through its incorporation of horns, saxophone, and more polished arrangements. While the band retains its penchant for rawness, here the songwriting begins to accommodate broader influencespop, soul, and even hints of cocktail-jazzwithout abandoning the restless edge that defined their earlier work. By this point Paul Westerberg stepped into a larger role as guitarist, and the album captures a band in creative flux, navigating tensions between ambition and authenticity.

  The record features standout tracks such as I.O.U., Alex Chilton, Cant Hardly Wait, Nightclub Jitters, and The Ledge, which together balance punchy rockers, sentimental ballads, and dark narrative vignettes. The horn section on Cant Hardly Wait and sax lines on I Dont Know accentuate the groups shift toward richer textures. Critics have noted that though Pleased to Meet Me lacks the raw chaos of their earliest releases, it represents their most ambitious studio effortambitious enough to influence subsequent generations of alt-rock songwriters. Its legacy endures as a crucial turning point in The Replacements catalog: the moment when they strove to reconcile scrappy roots with a more expansive musical vision.

  Reviews

  “The Replacements never sounded better with a bigger production than they did on Pleased to Meet Me” AllMusic

  Pleased To Meet Me the Reissue makes it evident that the band arrived in Memphis with inspiration to spare the cleaner playing does nothing to derail the manic energy. Pitchfork

  Pleased to Meet Me is the Replacements most ambitious record; they shift from standard punk-injected rock tunes to soul cocktail jazz and acoustic anthems. Punknews.org

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  AllMusic rating: AllMusic users: (999 votes) Read the AllMusic.com review

• Artist: The Replacements Label: Rhino Records, Sire Format: LP Units: 1 Country: US Genre: Punk & Alternative Style: Indie Rock

• A1 I.O.U.
  A2 Alex Chilton
  A3 I Don’T Know
  A4 Nightclub Jitters
  A5 The Ledge
  B1 Never Mind
  B2 Valentine
  B3 Shooting Dirty Pool
  B4 Red Red Wine
  B5 Skyway
  B6 Can’T Hardly Wait