Pleased to Meet Me

Pleased to Meet Me is the fifth album by the Replacements. It was released in 1987 (see 1987 in music).

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Album - The Replacements - 1987 - 1987 in music

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The album to some degree maintains the style of the previous album, and major label debut, Tim. But while the punk roots of the group were still apparent on Tim, by Pleased to Meet Me they had all but vanished. The album showed experimentation in the use of horns on the tracks "I Don't Know", "Nightclub Jitters" (which even further the experiments by being a very jazzy track), and the single "Can't Hardly Wait", in which the horns are used to a very efficient level, creating a fuller soundscape and track, at least compared with the demo version recorded around the time of the previous album, available on the second disc of All For Nothing/Nothing for All.

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Tim - Punk - All For Nothing/Nothing for All

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This album was the first and only album recorded by the band as a trio. After Tim, Bob Stinson was either kicked out of the band (ostensibly for problems with drugs and alcohol, though most of the other Replacements also had serious substance abuse problems at the time) or quit on his own volition, depending on which account you choose to accept. Many have attributed the noticeable shift from the post-punk of Tim towards a more accessible American rock and roll sound on Pleased to Meet Me to Bob Stinson's depature.

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Tim - Bob Stinson - Substance abuse - Post-punk

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The singles from the album were the aforementioned "Can't Hardly Wait" (which was the inspiration for the title of a movie) along with "Alex Chilton", "The Ledge" (whose video was banned from airplay on MTV), and "Skyway".

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Movie - Alex Chilton - The Ledge - Skyway

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