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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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US LP 180-gram vinyl pressing. Rhino. 2008.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The last of the trio, May 25 2004

By	The MacGuffin (Alexandria, VA United States) - See all my reviews

The three Mats albums - Let It Be, Tim, and Pleased to Meet Me are the best of the Replacements. The previous album, Tim, is their peak IMHO, so this one doesn't quite reach the same heights, but it is still way up there. The band is a trio at this point, and they are broadening the sound, but they are not as wild as the Bob Stinson era. Paul Westerberg is still churning out the should-have-been hits. If only they had stuck with the Tim version of "Can't Hardly Wait". Well you can always get that on All For Nothing/Nothing For All.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Pleased to meet them., Feb 10 2004

By	H3@+h (VT) - See all my reviews

I'm not sure if this is "The Replacements" best album, but it might be. Front to back it's very good. This does include the well known songs "Alex Chilton" and "Can't Hardly Wait", but "I.O.U.", "I Don't Know" and "Skyway" are all great too. My only complaint is that the cd needs remastering bad. "The Replacements" never found huge success, and might not have wanted it, but they've influenced countless bands for sure. Any album of theirs is good, as is the collection "All For Nothing/Nothing For All", but I think you'd be pleased with "Pleased To Meet Me".

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5.0 out of 5 stars One foot in the door, the other one in the gutter, Nov 15 2003

By	Greg Sherwin "CO2 producer" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The Replacements period of greatest turmoil -- and of their greatest creative genius -- started with "Let It Be" and concluded with "Pleased To Meet Me." While "Let It Be" legitimized them as something far more introspective and intelligent than the average self-destructive 1980s punk rock band, with "Pleased To Meet Me" Westerberg demonstrated a greater songwriting maturity and their sound expanded further beyond their punk confines.

The recording is filled with the indecisive tension of wanting to be a hugely successful rock band, but also fearing (and even mocking) all the trappings of rock stardom ... if not also fearing complete failure if they truly tried that path. This tension is reflected in the firing of founding guitarist and terminal alcoholic, Bob Stinson, at the beginning of the recording sessions. And yet legend has it that the band members regularly struggled with their own alcoholic self-abuse as they attempted to plot a more sober musical course.

Recorded in Memphis as a sort of pilgrimmage to the 70s garage rock of Alex Chilton and Big Star, they traded in their spiked punk haircuts for scraggly long hair and partied like an inebriated hard rock band on the edge of an emotional breakdown -- veering from steely-eyed seriousness, to hysterical laughter, to outright weeping. They laid it all out there on the tracks, holding back nothing, in arguably the best rock recording of the 1980s.

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