“Valentine” by The Replacements

"Valentine" is on Pleased to Meet Me, the Replacements' fifth album, which Sire released on March 3, 1987, and it comes from the one record they made as a trio. With Bob Stinson gone after Tim, it's Paul Westerberg singing and playing guitar, Tommy Stinson on bass and Chris Mars on drums, and all three share the writing credit. Jim Dickinson produced it at Ardent Studios in Memphis, where the main sessions ran from November 1986 into January 1987, John Hampton and Joe Hardy recorded and mixed it, and someone billed as East Memphis Slim sits in on organ.

Critics heard the album as a ragged kind of power pop that stretched the band past its punk roots, and it came third in the Village Voice's Pazz & Jop poll for 1987.

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