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• Pleased to Meet Me, released in March 1987, is the fifth studio album by The Replacements and the only one recorded as a trio after the departure of guitarist Bob Stinson. The sessions took place at Ardent Studios in Memphis under producer Jim Dickinson, lending the album a Southern inflection through its incorporation of horns, saxophone, and more polished arrangements. While the band retains its penchant for rawness, here the songwriting begins to accommodate broader influencespop, soul, and even hints of cocktail-jazzwithout abandoning the restless edge that defined their earlier work. By this point Paul Westerberg stepped into a larger role as guitarist, and the album captures a band in creative flux, navigating tensions between ambition and authenticity.

  The record features standout tracks such as I.O.U., Alex Chilton,