“The Last” by The Replacements

"The Last" comes from All Shook Down, which Sire released in September 1990 as the Replacements' seventh studio album and, as it turned out, their last, so the title reads like an epitaph in hindsight. Paul Westerberg wrote it alone and produced it with Scott Litt, who also engineered.

The whole album began as Westerberg's solo debut, until his managers persuaded him to put it out under the band's name before any recording got underway. That's why session and journeyman players crowd the credits alongside the other three Replacements, and why nobody kept a clean record of who played on which track. By Westerberg's count, four different drummers passed through, but not a single hired guitarist.

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