Pleased to Meet Me (Expanded)

This album has been added to 2 public lists:

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  1987

  James

  On the band's second album for the major label their patented chaos starts getting organized, though not completely willingly. “Alex Chilton” and “Can’t Hardly Wait” sound like the band discovering they can write classic pop songs without losing their personality, while tracks like “The Ledge” still feel genuinely unstable. Paul Westerberg writes with more empathy here, but also with sharper self-awareness. You can hear a great bar band accidentally becoming something larger.

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  2026-01

  vertino

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