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Pleased to Meet Me by The Replacements
Pleased to Meet Me is an album by The Replacements, released in 1987. 5 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 78 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Can't Hardly Wait”, on 40 lists with a best position of #27.
Pleased to Meet Me, the fifth album from the Replacements, came out on Sire in 1987, and it's the sound of a gloriously ragged band cleaning up just enough to let the songs through. Jim Dickinson produced it, and Chris Mars was still pounding the drums, and what came out is a ragged kind of power pop that stretched the punk racket of their early records into something wider, warmer and sadder.
"Can't Hardly Wait" is the heart-on-sleeve anthem, bursting with yearning and ringing guitars; "The Ledge" is dark, tense and unsettling; "Skyway" is a small, lovely, hushed thing, and "Valentine" and "Red Red Wine" crash along with the old barroom abandon. It's the rare record that sounds like a band growing up without growing tame.
The charts barely noticed, with the album stalling at 131 on the Billboard 200, but critics did: it placed third in the big critics' poll of 1987.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Pleased to Meet Me on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Can't Hardly Wait | 40 | #27 | – | 1987–2026 | |
| 2 | Skyway | 21 | #136 | – | 1999–2026 | |
| 3 | The Ledge | 12 | #142 | – | 1999–2006 | |
| 4 | Valentine | 2 | #1062 | – | 2002–2003 | |
| 5 | Red Red Wine | 2 | #1162 | – | 2002–2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.