“Sadly Beautiful” by The Replacements

"Sadly Beautiful" is a Paul Westerberg song from All Shook Down, the album the Replacements put out on Sire in September 1990, which turned out to be their last studio record. Westerberg wrote it alone and produced it with Scott Litt, who also engineered and mixed, with Paul Berry, Jon Goldberger and Clif Norrell lending a hand at the board.

The whole album has the feel of a man halfway out the door. It started life as Westerberg's first solo record until his managers steered him into billing it as a Replacements album, so session players crowd in around the other three members, with four different drummers passing through. Westerberg said nobody was brought in to play guitar, and Tommy Stinson, who arrived about a week into the sessions, is thought to have handled most of the bass.

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