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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.
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 ...
Mars had written songs for the Replacements before, but when Westerberg became the band's primary songwriter, he began to reject every song that Mars would bring in. When Westerberg dismissed his songs out of hand, Mars decided it was time for him to leave the band altogether.
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 ...
from Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films (1988) 2:12: 10. "We Know the Night" previously unreleased, from the Don't Tell a Soul sessions: 3:21: 11. "Portland" previously unreleased, from the Bearsville Don't Tell a Soul sessions: 4:30: 12. "Wake Up" previously unreleased, from the Bearsville Don't Tell a Soul ...
The Replacements released a pencil-sketched animation for "Shutup," honoring the 40th anniversary of their 1981 classic Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash. The black-and-white video has a ...
A music video for "Alex Chilton" was released in 1987. The video was created by repurposing footage from the music video for the band's song "The Ledge," also from Pleased to Meet Me. [6] [7] The video for "The Ledge," a song written about suicide, was rejected by MTV for "objectionable song content." Extra footage from these films were later ...
[5] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic named the song one of the band's "finest" and wrote that the song's "urgency masks its melancholy." [ 6 ] The Austin Chronicle also dubbed the song one of "Paul Westerberg's finest tunes," [ 7 ] while Pitchfork wrote that " 'I'll Be You' completely transcends its production and could fight for a spot in ...