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The Replacements: Alex Chilton [ purchase ] Whenever I listen to an '80s album from a great rock band like the Replacements, I can't help but wonder what it might have sounded like had it been recorded in some other decade--any other decade, really. The major-label '80s production on Pleased to Meet Me takes some of the excitement out of the band. But for for 1987, it rocks. The album was recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis, where Alex Chilton's second important band, Big [...]

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