Portland by The Replacements - In the Replacements canon, the album that gets most passed over is Don’t Tell a Soul. Coming right off of the greatness of Pleased to Meet Me and the first album where Slim Dunlap was a full-fledged member, there was certainly the potential for a letdown. Add in the polished 80’s production stylings and this had the makings of an awful record.
While it might not be my favorite album, it is by no means terrible. I’ll Be You was their big hit (their first and only Billboard charting song), though the song I like most was not even on the album, only added later for a reissue. As the story goes, their Portland show in December 87 was one of their most notoriously worst shows ever, thus the inspiration for this song. In truth, it was not so bad based on first hand accounts, but legend often has a way of taking over. Regardless of the discrepancy in accounts, it has to be one of my favorite Replacements lyrics.
Predicting a delay on landing
Well I predict we’ll have a drink
Lost my money on the first hand
Got burned on a big fat king
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