The Replacements: Pleased to Meet Me (Deluxe Edition) The ‘Mats final masterpiece gets a worthy expansion in Rhino’s indispensable reissue campaign. Read More
The Replacements: Dead Man’s Pop The reissue of the year, a work of restoration that salvages the reputation of its subject. Read More
The Replacements: For Sale: Live at Maxwell’s 1986 Live at Maxwell’s provides the ultimate Replacements experience for those of us too young to have heard them live. Read More
Discography: The Replacements: All Shook Down Maybe letting the Replacements go was the best thing Westerberg could have done. Read More
Discography: The Replacements: Don’t Tell a Soul If there’s a single song that best encapsulates the last days of The Replacements, it’s “Talent Show,” the lead track off Don’t Tell a Soul. It opens with a strummed acoustic guitar riff before giving way to Paul Westerberg’s vocals, clearer than ever. He sings about the jitters that come with a rookie live performance (“hop a ride, here we … Read More
Discography: The Replacements: Pleased to Meet Me One wonders if the Replacements knew how close they were to the end of their creative peak by the time Pleased to Meet Me came out. Read More
Discography: The Replacements: Tim Tim is focused and streamlined, more intent on being a rock album than anything else. Read More
Discography: The Replacements: Let it Be Let It Be ultimately signaled the beginning of the end for the old Replacements. Read More
Discography: The Replacements: Hootenanny Hootenanny devolves into the barely controlled chaos that its opener promised. Read More
Discography: The Replacements: Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash Sorry Ma captures the Replacements in a nebulous form. Read More
Chet Baker: (Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You/Chet Baker in New York/Chet/Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe-review
Chet Baker: (Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You/Chet Baker in New York/Chet/Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe-review