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Replacements bassist Tommy Stinson joined the project only about a week after it started, and no bassists are included among the list of session musicians, indicating that Stinson played most of the bass on the record. Stinson has mentioned 'the songs I didn't play on' which may refer to songs like the title track that do not feature bass, or ...
The discography of American rock band The Replacements consists of seven studio albums, four live albums, seven compilation albums, five extended plays, 16 singles, and 10 music videos. Formed in Minneapolis , Minnesota by guitarist and vocalist Paul Westerberg , guitarist Bob Stinson , bass guitarist Tommy Stinson , and drummer Chris Mars in ...
Let It Be is the third studio album by American rock band the Replacements.It was released on October 2, 1984, by Twin/Tone Records.A post-punk album with coming-of-age themes, Let It Be was recorded by the band after they had grown tired of playing loud and fast exclusively as on their 1983 Hootenanny album; the group decided to write songs that were, according to vocalist Paul Westerberg, "a ...
The band recorded a four-song demo tape in Mars's basement; [23] Westerberg handed it to Peter Jesperson in May 1980. [24] Jesperson was the manager of Oar Folkjokeopus, a punk rock record store in Minneapolis; [25] he also founded Twin/Tone Records with Paul Stark (a local recording engineer) and Charley Hallman.
[18] In a retrospective review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic felt that Pleased to Meet Me "was the last time [The Replacements] could still shoot for the stars and seem like their scrappy selves and, in many ways, it was the last true Replacements album". [8]
The song also reached the top of the Modern Rock Tracks and Album Rock Tracks charts (both of which were based entirely on radio airplay rather than sales). Replacements co-manager Gary Hobbib recalled, "I remember being in some store and the song was playing and a group of little girls were singing along."
With tongues firmly in their cheeks and smirks plastered to their faces, the Replacements begin their second full-length with 112 seconds of what sounds like four guys playing four different songs ...
"Can't Hardly Wait" is a song by American rock band the Replacements from their fifth studio album Pleased to Meet Me. Written shortly after the sessions for Let It Be, the song was attempted for the 1985 Tim album but ultimately went unreleased until Pleased to Meet Me.