Let It Be

It took me a while to get into the replacements. I’m still not a mega fan but this album is terrific. It’s raw and energetic but also contemplative at times. It’s got range.

3/20/26. Really enjoyable collection of songs. Love the variance between punk and loosely incorporated other genres and styles. Unsatisfied might be a sleeper favorite track of mine going forward.

Ok i guess

Saved? ✅ Would listen again? 🤔 Would recommend to anyone? ❌ Would buy on Vinyl? ❌

so authentic that it evokes feelings for an era I never lived. perfect punk sound. so damn inspiring

This is a timeless piece of art that sounds nothing like what was coming out of 1984. A great hybrid of independent, punk, and college rock with catchy riffs that stick with you. Unsatisfied remains on my short list of all time songs.

What will it take for me to give a 5 star review to an album I've never heard of by a band I've never heard of? This, I guess. What a revelation. The punky silliness of songs like Tommy... and Gary... just puts the more earnest tracks in relief. There's nothing lyrically deep about Unsatisfied, but it doesn't matter because I believe it. Top notch.

Nice one

I prefer albums like Tim, or Hootenany. This is fine though, but don’t get too much of the hype

Another introduction and what a surprise! A real fun listen! 3,5

I liked the first couple of songs but then it got louder and crashier. Was going to give it three stars but bumping it down to two.

I fear that me great 5 album run has come to a sudden end with this supposed punk classic from the U.S. This album does not represent the sound of 1984 AT ALL - punk had moved on. Not unpleasant throughout but I'm not hearing music essential to my life here at all.

Ok, but nothing special - missed why it is seen as a great album

*1984. American punk. *This got old fast. This is the type of aggressive, chaotic punk I just don’t love. *Androgynous is an oddly good song. *Enjoyable in small doses for me. RATING - 5.5

Decent 80s punk, not ground breaking or unique, but enjoyed it.

Meh. Just another punk band. 2.5/5

I liked it more than I thought i would but didnt love it as much as one would hope.

Some of the songs make me laugh or had good instrumentals, but mostly I would have to be in a very specific mood to want to listen to this again. More like 2.5, but can’t give it a full 3 stars.

Not really any sticking power for me. Favorites were androgynous and answering machine

1 stern

Solid straight-ahead post-punk and proto-indie, with a surprising ear for melody. Feels very teen angst, though, and so an odd one to come to in my 40s. Still, a great record, and one I'll be coming back to.

I really liked this, actually. Worth another listen

Who knew a song called "Gary's Got A Boner" would be such a banger? I don't know if my break from this project has made me more critical or if maybe I've just been given some meh albums.

This sounded more like glam rock than post-punk/ alt-rock to my ears. Like a rougher version of Poison, or Aerosmith. It was okay in parts, but nothing really stood out. Kind of low effort and a bit of a pub band feel. Two stars.

As sure as day turns to night, young punks turn into old punks, and Paul Westerberg was just starting to turn from one to another on Let It Be. There's plenty of immaturity here; from the songs about boners and evil dentists, to the KISS cover, to the sheer audacity of borrowing a Beatles album title. Still, all of that becomes a welcome contrast to the more thoughtful songs with heavier themes about growing up, gender expression, and loneliness. The Replacements were a volatile band and Let It Be can seem like a mess at first listen; but the polish of their later records blunts their impact. The roughness and variety gives Let It Be a charm that Tim can't quite match. It's a perfect time capsule of being twenty something in the mid 80s and having ideas some might call "alternative". Despite spending years running away from the label, Paul Westerberg, at this moment, was truly the voice of a generation.

The better of the Let It Be records. Subversive, ironic, funny - the Replacements at their best.

Masterpiece. Tommy gets his tonsils out is the most perfect punk rock song and Unsatisfied hits a lot harder in middle age. Those messy geniuses from Minnesota!

Classic, zero complaints

Kids today will never understand how aggravating an answering machine could be.

The best songs were instrumentals or more musically focused. The rest are more punk generic and forgettable. Was ok

Enjoyed this a lot. A really fun alt-rock record. Surprised I'd never heard any of this before

I definitely preferred the more "sincere" songs, those caught in the middle between punk and hair rock. This album was a pleasant surprise.

Good album but I feel like it was missing something

Okay

Fun album

Some tracks were better than others. Sounded like a transitions album between 80s rock and what was to become 90s indie at times.

Bum rot. Just an atonal sludge of noise and abrasive vocals offering almost nothing of any value. Paul McCartney should sue for reputational damage in case anyone thinks this has a connection to the Beatles album.

Very good album. It takes some balls to name your rock album Let It Be, and it takes some real talent to live up to it. A solid blend of humor with heart. Managing to put the fears and anxieties of adolescence into the right words and making it sound good. Androgynous, Unsatisfied, Sixteen Blue and Answering Machine are all great tracks. Maybe I give out too many 5's, but I'm feeling this one today.

So refreshing, great discovery!

love it

fun

Not a single stand out track. It’s not terrible but the more I listen to it, the less I can recall anything about it.

no brainer

This is an album that I have every second memorized. They are my all time favorite band and while this is most fans’ favorite album, this lands at like 2 or 3 for me. That being said, it’s absolutely perfect.

There were tracks on this that were really quite good, it started off as a nice surprise. But then there were some absolute dumpster fires on here too which completely ruined it

I really wanted to like this because I’ve heard nothing but good things about The Replacements but unfortunately this was really underwhelming for me. The only song that stood out for me was Androgynous, everything else left no impression on me at all.

almost a 5

This is really a fantastic album. I hope people really understand the speed and passion of it

Perfect. No notes.

Album 65 Top 3 favorites off the album: Androgynous, Answering Machine, Sixteen Blue My dad has this album, and I think it's in his car right now. He skips around a lot though, like a manual playlist across the 6 CDs he has in his car, so I've never gotten the chance to listen to the album all the way through. Thanks to my dad, I know The Replacements were influenced early on by Hüsker Dü and the hardcore punk scene up in Minnesota around that time, but then kind of went off in their own direction instead of staying hard and fast. I'm glad they did, because I don't think I would've been able to do a full album of them at their heaviest today. Or at all, maybe, but that's okay. I think the variation made it a much better album. It kept me more engaged I have a fondness for them because of my dad. I don't have anything incredible to say. I think there's good guitar work, I like that there's variation in the amount of distortion, I like that some songs are funny, and it's a good album. Yay!

Like punk music but this didn’t do it for me. Wasn’t very catchy and I don’t think the album had much of a message or point of view.

Decent album. Some good songs but nothing great.

This was a solid little pop rock item. Not super memorable. Well made, a little garage-y. It was all decent with some good moments and solid playing throughout.

I feel like if I was 10 years older this is the kind of music I would've listened to. It's like almost pre-grunge, just not sad enough really. I normally don't bother with outtake and bonus tracks, but I let this one play accidentally and it turns out I liked all the bonus stuff more than the content of the original album. Maybe I should give their older stuff a listen. As for this album, it's solidly fine, bordering on good. It wasn't unique sounding enough to really grab me but I liked it anyway. I think if they added the rest of the band outside of the guitar on "Answering Machine" that would've been the best song, but obviously it would sound completely different.

A good album, I liked I Will Dare, Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out and Seen Your Video the most.

Mjög fín plata en vantar svolítið hittara

Þetta fannst mér ekki skemmtilegt.

I love bands that can do a lot of different things. That includes the gender-progressive “androgynous” and the punk romp “Gary’s got a boner”. A fun album here!

I have listened to a few Replacements songs here and there, including the single "I Will Dare," as it appeared in the ending credits of the movie Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. I figure an album from one of the pioneering acts in alternative rock would be enjoyable, and Let It Be delivered on that expectation for the most part. This record seems to have more grit than a lot of post-punk at the time, with Bob Stinson and Paul Westerberg’s distorted guitars that delivered some impeccable riffs, alongside an equally punchy rhythm section in Tommy Stinson and Chris Mars. Hell, they even pulled off an unexpectedly raw rendition of KISS’s “Black Diamond”. The energy only dialed back for two ballads, but even those tracks have some real gravitas to them, with the lowly piano-driven “Androgynous” and the introspective slow-burn of “Sixteen Blue”. All throughout, Paul sang with a gruff earnestness on these coming-of-age stories that ran the gamut from touching upon disenfranchised youth, taking risks, fears and anxiety with loneliness and growing old, and even references to cross-dressing and sexual confusion. It’s admittedly progressive for the time. The band even used a few tracks to take the piss off, such as lampooning the music video sensation on “Seen Your Video”, to a humorous anecdote based on bassist Tommy’s removal of his tonsils. That said, for as much as I was enjoying this album up to this point, there was one song that was a real blight in my opinion. “Gary’s Got a Boner” soured my mood with its lyrics. While the song in principle fits in with the general adolescent themes of the record as the protagonist is questioning his own sexuality, I admittedly felt put off by the abrasive, grotesque nature of lines like “You're gonna get down, you're gonna finger to her/You're gonna fuck Madonna/You're gonna see her” and “Tell your sister just that opinion/My heartache will find a way/You're gonna stick it to her”. As I was listening to the song, I glanced back over to the track listing and saw that one of the credited writers for this track was Ted Nugent, and it unfortunately makes sense why I would be creeped out given his track record with writing songs about underage girls and sexual violence. “Sixteen Blue” and “Answering Machine” were thankfully better tracks, but by that point my mood was soured. It’s unfortunate that there was one bad track on an otherwise solid record. I do feel like I got of mileage out of listening to The Replacements hard-hitting post-punk that explored and questioned these feelings of what it meant to become an adult. Even if I was a tad let down towards the end, I still had an overall good time with it.

Absolutely incredible. Minnesota continues to dominate the music scene. Fuck yeah. "Androgynous" is about 50 years ahead of its time, and the rest of these songs got this punkish edge to the alternative rock that makes for incredible catchy songs. I need to listen to these guys more

Super catchy, punky album. I enjoyed multiple spins of this one, definitely will be back to it.

This was a good one! I enjoyed it!

опять тюнфайнд не помог и чуть не свёл меня с ума) но это не мой жанр (пения чуть мимо нот потому что от души)

Early punk. Sounds like all the rest. Nothing unique.

Pretty uninteresting punk/post punk. Androgenous was ok, but most of the other songs didn't do it for me. 2.4/5 -> 2/5

4.7

This has exceeded my expectations, I have never heard about this band and i am pleasantly surprised with their sound. The song androgynous is beautiful and it made me interested in the band. The album is filled with good songs.

Often heralded as their best LP, and it is a great one, but not my fave or their best (Tim) IMHO. I do love this record though.

gostei um algumas mas maioria tava ok

Gutsy title

Sounded pretty good to me

Hell yes

6.5/10

80’s pop rock, a few stand out songs for sure and makes me want to dance out with a air guitar.

I found the Replacements backwards - that is to say, my introduction to their music was through Paul Westerberg’s solo song Dyslexic Heart on the Singles soundtrack in 1992. From there, I went back through his catalog eventually coming across Let It Be. It’s still so hard to believe that this album was released in 1984 - it was ahead of its time both in sound and lyrics/message. One minute a rocking bar anthem with punk sensibilities, and another jangle pop hooks with deep messages. Not one I’ve revisited a lot, but still a favorite. 4⭐️

I liked the energy but it didn’t feel special. 2.5/5

Pretty high energy, not bad.

Bit samey 2.5

Only hearing this for the first time - a joy but too slapdash in places to be in the upper echelons

This felt a bit music by numbers. It was fine, but the best song was a T-Rex cover that wasn't a patch on the original.

Pleasantly surprised by this album, although it's not particularly remarkable music. I appreciate what it was angling for even if it's nowhere near the best post-punk of its age. Fav tracks: Seen Your Videos

I liked some aspects of their no frills sound. At times I thought I was in an actual garage.

Frekar ljúf plata og góð.

Skítugt og gott rokk.

The Replacements are a band that should be up my alley, yet they never fully land with me. Maybe it’ll happen over time, but I’m not there yet. This being said, still an enjoyable listen.

Super sexy album! Brings you in such deep memories. Maybe it is just my reflections, but I like it!

Scrappy, and and interesting mix of sloppy and locked in…”Unsatisfied” is a banger

It’s noisy but not too noisy It’s somewhere near the Sex Pistols and around the Clash. A slowed down MC5 but not too slow as to never have been considered to tour with them. I don’t sense any sort of influence on newer more modern bands though I don’t doubt there is an influence for someone. I will say, I didn’t know they wrote Androgynous. I thought it was the Crash Teat Dummies. Look them up, if you dARE. Completely different sounds. Like 2 separate sides of the spectrum . You know, it’s rare to me that an album gets better the further down the list you go. What was going to be barely a 3 star album has changed to a barely a 4 star album now. This album grew on me. Choice cut: Unsatisfied

3 Stars (8/15)

Cool

Næhhh

It's just bloody good. 5 stars for Androgynous and Answering Machine alone. This one through to Pleased to Meet Me, what an insane run. Paul and the boys made it all good to be an emotional boy whilst simultaneously being a drunken numbnuts. Thanks mates.

i like. a few new songs added

Middling to ok.

2026.01.27.

Divertido e leve. Melodias pop-rock com raízes punk enterradinhas. Difícil ficar parado, ritmos marcantes e energizantes. Achei relevante a vibe de tarde ensolarada que esse álbum exala, e essa pegada de “coming of age” presente nas letras. É uma sonoridade bem reconfortante, que remete aos tempos de jovialidade e adolescência, e as dores crescentes do amadurecimento. Os vocais possuem garra, é perceptível um toque de hardcore em algumas partes, apesar que o álbum em si é mais parecido com uma obra de alt-rock. Os instrumentais são brilhantes, com guitarras incessantes e uma percussão tremendamente bem feita. Há também um minimalismo intrigante, onde nada aqui é elevado à grandeza, tudo é mantido em um nível palpável e íntimo. Gary’s Got a Boner, por exemplo… Relatável! O resultado final é um disco satisfatório, com canções que nunca enjoam ou cansam. Faz barulho e emociona, é uma ótima escuta. 5/5

The songs I loved, I really loved. And the songs I hated made my ears bleed. I think this might be too heavy rock for me. "I Will Dare" and "Androgynous" are my favorites.

This album kinda flew by and I already don't remember any of it. It sounded good but wasn't memorable for me. Standouts are "I Will Dare" and "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out" It's got a cool sound and I'd like to probably come back to The Replacements at some point in time, but for now it's an average 3/5 for me.

Je n’ai reussi à ecouter que le premier disque : rock punk, alternatif. Dans l’album il y a hard rock et balade rock. Beaucoup de guitare au son garage, la voix du chanteur assez grave et lisse, peu chanté, je n’accroche pas

Heard the name but no idea what they sound like. Here goes. Enjoyed it, probably would have enjoyed seeing them live too back in the day. Not sure it’s overly original (but maybe it was for the time) as I’ve heard a number of bands that sound very similar over the years. Still, good album.

Kind of felt like a lot of other punk albums

You have to be confident to name your album Let It Be. The Replacements are one of those "if you know, you know" type bands that just influenced so much stuff after them.

Si ça m'avait marqué j'serais différent mais j't'indifférent. 2.49 étoiles.

En spotify tienen una versión de casi tres horas, con tres discos. Sí pienso escucharlos completos, porque el primer álbum, que es el publicado originalmente, me gustó basante. Así que los outtakes, versiones alternas y en vivo seguramente harán que me la pase bien. Buena sorpresa, los reemplazos.

I Will Dare to say that you should let this one go to the Answering Machine.

it got better as it progressed, some nice punky sounds and interesting lyrics

This is a great album. I've always loved the song Unsatisfied and how it perfectly captures a mood you find yourself in while you grow up and are figuring out who you are. This is an album that feels like it carries a lot of meaning if you hear it at the right time.

Great music for shoveling snow to. I'm living in a virtual time loop of shoveling the same area every 2 hours. This provided good energy for such a task. Sounds like this influenced stuff I was listening to in the late 1990s early 2000s. Not bad. Androgynous stands out. Is the answering machine at the end of the album saying "If you need snow?" over and over again?! What is happening!?

Decent 3,5

There's a loveable earnestness to this album that is impossible to shake.

The term “punk” gets overused. Using it to describe this is wrong. Boring, jangly and uninteresting. Nothing about this was remarkable in any way. Struggled to a 2.

Shockingly generic 80s rock for the most part? Some tracks are ok though. Androgynous was pretty good. Not much to say, another one of those "why was this on the list" albums.

Uh 3-4?

Nearly flawless open hearted punk rock.

This one is borderline for me on an all-time list. From a historical standpoint, I suppose it warrants entry. The bands' straddling of punk and a more melodic rock sensibility was a herald of alternative rock's emergence. Songs can be loud and defiant without disembling into a jangled cacophony of noise. The better songs on this album are the ones that showcase Westerberg's more honest and heartfelt songwriting, along with the more melodic sensibility from the rock side of their formative influences. This might be said to be the comments of someone who simply doesn't like punk music, but that's not the case. Bands like NOFX or Social Distortion that are often mentioned alongside The Replacements are better, as far as I'm concerned. Naturally, these things are a matter of preference. I just don't think the punk side of their persona is anything but flippant and brash. In short, those aren't their great songs. I can't rate this album highly as a whole, even if I am happy to listen to it.

This was cool. I liked it. Never heard anything by them as far as I know.

Gary’s got a boner lol.

Not as polished as later albums, which is how I like some bands. A bit more polished than their first few albums. Kings of the 80s music scene (if you ignored all the stuff that got airplay). The Replacements were always a great listen. It's how I learned to do a tonsillectomy.

I enjoyed it. The follow up album “Tim” is a game changer, which should be on this list too.

Conflicted about this one... wish I could do 3.5. I love the Replacements’ overall sound, how they occupy this particular intersection between punk and indie and jangle pop. I can hear their influence in so many bands I like. But I’m not sure there was a particular moment on this album that wowed me. When it was done I found myself humming their later singles like “Alex Chilton.” At the same time, I keep replaying the album looking for that moment and never stopped enjoying it. So I think I’ll give them the four in the end and play it one more time.

The album went fucking hard!! It caught me on a day where I had to wake up at 4 am just to get a workout in because my job is the worst. Just the music I needed to channel that anger into something productive so they get a four from me just for that. Not to mention that unsatisfied is an incredible song.

I always want to like the Replacements, but it never comes together for me. Some of the songs in here are great. Others are just noisy.

Really nice. It flowed together really well. Definitely felt less raw and more toned down than the other post punk albums on this list, but I didn't mind that.

Sorry, Joe!

Another band that had a rabid fan and critic following that I just never quite got. The first track was fun, and then it went downhill from there.

I played this 2-3x/day virtually all of 1L year. Easy 5. Might have to listen 2 or 3 times today, too. Update: 2.5. I once read a review that panned “seen your video” because the reviewer thought it was a childish, immature swipe at other bands. Dude. The next song is called “Gary’s got a boner.” The childishness is the point. The immaturity exists alongside the more “mature” songs androgynous, unsatisfied, sixteen blue, and answering machine, but the songs here are usually yes-and, not either-or. This album has a song about getting your tonsils removed that’s also a class critique. It has a serious song about 16 being the hardest age. An answering machine is an antagonist … and I totally buy it. That tonsils/class solidarity song is three songs away from one of my favorite love songs of all time (I will dare) and two songs away from a Kiss cover. The album encompasses the whole of the adolescent/coming of age experience, equal parts idiocy and maturity. Everything about this album is perfect, and everything about it is imperfect, at once. An all-time favorite, possibly one of my five favorite albums. And also, a lot of sellout videos in 1984 sucked.

When I first saw let it be, I got excited for a sec that it was The Beatles. Another band where I like a few of their songs but don’t need a whole album from them.

Love each other soooo androgynous😝

Makes me nostalgic for a time I never knew. Even as an adult now pushing 30 I can still relate to the angst and uncertainty portrayed throughout. Yea the vocals can be a bit jarring but that's just raw emotion. If you think it's just noise then it's not for you. But to those who know the feeling it's a reminder that you aren't alone. 33 minutes means not a second is wasted.

A Forest the standout track. Worth 3.5 stars really.

Gary’s got a boner!

This was certainly an interesting album. The Replacements bounced around from genre to genre, even using some techniques that didn’t become popular for about a decade. Clearly, their meat and potatoes was punk, but they did it justice when they slipped into metal and what would become alternative.

I used the listen to the Jim Rome show religiously in university and he’s a big replacements guy. He had Paul Westerberg on I remember his advice for young songwriters was to “write songs girls like”. He must have been thinking about “Gary’s got a boner” in that moment. I tried to get into these guys back then and didn’t really get it (I think I listened to “Tim”) but young me was an idiot because this album rips. Westerberg (and the whole band) are drunk and messy enough to sound raw but are talented enough to keep it on the rails.

4.5 I dont feel the need to explain myself on this

9 / 10

Pretty solid rock album.

Ikke fundet

So fun, catchy and energetic!!

Just wasn’t really interested in this one. The album didn’t stand out anywhere sonically.

I was scared when I discovered that this album contains punk as I’m not the biggest fan of it BUT I was pleasantly surprised when solid rock and chiller songs strated playing.

No standouts

this is so ass bro its like the 80s version of shitty 2000s pop punk

This is a fun album. The music is like slower punk music, and it reminds me of a coming-of-age movie. Some of the songs blended together a bit but it's overall a very well made punk album with great songwriting that is easy to listen to.

Saw them get kicked off TP tour, Also last show in Grant park I will dare We're coming out Unsatisfied

All time classic. Just worth it for the song Unsatisfied. Love the fact they named the album Let it Be as a joke.

nothing special but quite enjoyable

more introductions to bands this time around! i always get a little excited when it's not the sixteenth bruce springsteen or rolling stones or bob dylan album. this album has a real cool and dirty sound to it. i really can't get into specifics which is a little sucky, but it's a pretty solid sound here. this is another album in the collection that i would classify as a true hidden gem, especially in the '80s rock sphere.

Love this. Full of teen angst and punk rock grooves. But some great melodies in here as well - the standout being Androgynous. A bare bones album, a little sloppy, sounds like they could be playing at some sleazy bar somewhere, rather than honing their sounds and experimenting in the studio. 4.5

Obviously not the Let It Be everyone is familiar with but it’s a cool album

This album is highly regarded, but too early for me to be cognizant of it. Still, I can appreciate its influence, and think it's very solid. High 3s.

Best Song: Unsatisfied I didn't mind this at all. I was not really familiar with them prior to this and found it enjoyable. 4/5.

die ersten paar songs waren echt nicht meins, danach waren aber auch paar gute dabei

Let it be known the Replacements can still rock your living room in 2026

Mixture of punk, ballads, and other rock. I'll come back and listen to this full deluxe version.

breathing flowers in a black sky one day no one will give a fuck

How about you Replace this music with something good over here. Small joke there, it is actually an ok album. Another one that I think I would enjoy a lot more with a slightly better voice, but it does fit well on some of the songs.

very of its time. Nice base lines. Nothing super memorable.

Good, but, like any A&R man, I kept looking for a single.

Groupe inconnu. Pas désagréable, mais rien d’original dans cet album. Les morceaux les plus dynamiques sont d’inspiration punk, les autres sont … ennuyeux. Pas de seconde écoute envisagée. => 2/5

some fun tracks lots of heavy guitar that likely influenced the strokes, i hear them somehow - this album for me is repetitive though 2.5-3

Pretty good for early 80’s rock but in all pretty forgettable. Not a must listen to album by any means.

The songs. That's really the biggest leap forward here. Sure the arrangements are a little more thought out. The emotions really push through whether it be love, or anger or despondence. You feel everything they are feeling. It's like a roadmap for youthful (or human) emotions. Starting with a confident declaration where anything seems possible if you lay it on the line and ending with...an answering machine...where no human response is forthcoming. Just an endless loop that slowly fades. Along the way you get the full gamut. I am confident 8 of these songs ended up on mix tapes over the years. My "favorite" is ever changing. And even the throw aways feel integral to the album. The greatness is only bolstered by this new mix. This album sounded thin back in the day. It's a revelation to hear these songs sounding fuller. Like you itting in their midst - feeling what they're feeling. I am along for the ride. There may come a day where I am no longer transported back to visit with teenage me when I hear the solo and fade out of Sixteen Blue - a song i first heard as a confused high school sophomore standing in my parents kitchen. But today is not that day.

First "older" Replacements album I've listened to and I like it. I need to return to it to get more out of it. Love the mix of punk and indie (for lack of a better word). I might change my rating after listening more. I like it!

3/5

It's kind of generic pop rock. Not bad, but nothing stands out.

I feel like one of the trickiest things a band with a punk sound can do is "mature." Often that means sanding off the sonic and emotional rawness, leaving songs that feel sort of light and middle of the road. Though I'm not familiar with their previous two albums, I feel like that might be what is happening here, based on the Wiki. Still enough good stuff here to keep it from drifting into 2 star range, but I doubt I'll remember much about it after posting this review

Definition of meh. Super confused as to all the references to this being anthemic rock since none of this felt catchy enough to sing along to. Kind of liked Androgyny - nice, more hopeful throwback to Velvet Underground's Candy Says. But it stands out as a quieter track that's atypical of the rest of the super mediocre album. Solid 2-3 and rounding down for taking another better album's spot on the list.

A nice, fun, loud, youthful rock ‘n’ roll album.

seminal bad, lots of tunes did not know they did. They are listed as punk, but I consider more like post-New Wave Pop

Love the Mats. Tons of energy. Paul Westerberg is one of my favorite singers and lyricists.

This flames out toward the end (appropriate) but is mostly very good. 4.5

Game changer. "I Will Dare" played at almost every party I went to freshman year at Iowa.

A post-punk album with coming-of-age themes. Nothing special to my ears. 2.5/5. Raising to 3.

I'm a bigger fan of the later charming heartbreaker Replacements material than the class clown hardcore side so this one is a mixed bag for me, but "I Will Dare", "Androgynous", and "Answering Machine" are among their and anybody's greatest songs. "Seen Your Video" is a hoot I'd forgotten all about. I wish some former college DJ had snuck into the Kennedy Center sound booth and played their version of "Black Diamond" when KISS stood up there with Sylvester Stallone getting medals the other night. That would've been very Replacements. BTW, the b-sides and outtakes CD on the deluxe edition is excellent.

“One more chance to get it all wrong.” “Look me in the eye and tell me that I’m satisfied.” “Try and teach a whore about romance.” There’s a real sad-sack country outlaw streak running through Paul Westerberg’s lyrics that belied his youth. Let It Be is an incredible document that captures the uncertainties of life between adolescence and adulthood, stuck between fucking off with your friends and having to get a job. “Sixteen Blue” and “Androgynous” are stunningly honest and vulnerable assessments of the confusion of youth and sexual discovery. The amazing thing is that even their most juvenile impulses — “Gary’s Got a Boner,” say, or turning a KISS song into a punk-rock scorcher — do nothing to detract from the heft of the rest of the material. It signaled a major force on the American indie scene, even if the band would self-destruct soon enough. One of my favorite albums from one of my favorite years for music.

Fucking weirdo rock, fuck yes.

I kinda missed the boat on them when they were college rock darlings but at their peak, they were fantastic.

3.5

2/10

I heard this probably ten years ago and didn’t think much of it at the time. What is wrong with me? It rips and I’m stupid

Nothing special, only stand out song is Androgynous.

It was ok, not sure why they are considered a big deal

I really enjoyed this one. Not every track is a winner, but they're all at least interesting. I always roll my eyes when someone describes a band as being ahead of their time, but this really feels like it should have come out 5-10 years later. Just some great alt rock.

I never had any idea where this album was going from track to track and it rules it shifted from alt rock classics to the pogues hanging out with bad religion to genderqueer billy joel to a kiss cover (of all things) to soul asylum to the guitar shredder about that young man's problem Look, I knew this was one of those "this is your favorite band's favorite band" kind of records I had never bothered checking out and I thought I knew what to expect from that. I was wrong. this was so much weirder and more interesting added to collection

4.5

Take the more pop side of The Clash and mix it with black flag and throw in the absolute classic of androgynous…easy 5

Truly horrible stuff. 0/100

Noise

The Good: If we find ourselves in times of trouble… The Bad: Mother Mary isn’t coming… The Ugly: The mental image of Mother Mary trying to come… what???!@!!?!??!?!??!?!!! Sorry about that, it seems that, at times, my brain just kind of goes loopy for no other reason than it can… A couple of years ago, while I was going through some ‘80s deep-dive, I landed on this album and it did not click… Today, the album did manage to click… and I don’t know why… maybe because I have been subject to one too many shit albums lately on this list, which has turned this one into better than it was several years ago? Also, could be just me, but I am going through a nostalgia phase, maybe because Christmas is almost upon us and you start being bombarded with nothing but nostalgia… Anyway, the album is what it is… not so good as the Beatles, however, considering they are Replacements, they are better than the houseband… if you know what I mean. 4* as they also represent Minneapolis!!!

Good punk but far from mind blowing.

A mix of punk / rock anthems- typically not my go-to genre but I did appreciate the topics covered by yhe band having a more serious tone. Overall- decent

This was super cool. Was not expecting what sounds like a grunge album from 1984. Great album and clearly super influential.

Ah, these guys. I have a friend who swears by them, his favourite band ever. Truth be told, I don't know much about them or many of their songs. This will be my maiden voyage. Well, it's a bunch of three star songs with a couple of four stars in Unsatisfied and We're Comin Out. With added weight for obviously being ahead of the Zeitgeist. Also, for a bunch of punk guys who can barely play, having an almost complete instrumental track is buck nuts. It's noisy, it's less serious and posing than much of the punk which had come out a few years earlier, but it also lacks the tunes of what the alt genre would become.

the first time i heard these guys i stayed up all night listening to "let it be," "tim," and "pleased to meet me" over and over and over. one of those "where has this been my whole life?" discoveries.

I could listen to 1 or 2 of these songs. A whole album turns into noise. Does make me want to drink whiskey though

Wow!

2.09

What a classic!

Their third album. Indie / Rock / Punk. My first time with this album. Really liked it. At times I wondered if it was Post Punk, Punk or ahead of it's time and pre Grunge, Grunge. Black Diamond and Seen Your Video are particularly good tracks. Good energy, fun album.

Fun. Too long Christ

Not good. Almost finished it, but it's just not good.

This was fine. I know they influenced some of my favourite bands. I liked it, but wasn’t blown away.

There's a lot to like here. And then there's the rest of the album.

Gritty vocals, decent guitar work, but several questionable songs.

fine enough but pretty bland. already heard a ton of british post-punk from this list and idk why we need so much

I have to re-listen to judge, didn’t leave me anything much

Really good album. Loved the Kiss cover of "Black Diamond"

Didn't like this at first but it does grow on you. Worth a relisten 4*

Not a hit for me. Mid rock 🤷

Used to really like this album. And its peaks - Androgynous, Answering Machine - remain high. But there’s too much Status Quo or Guns n Roses style mindless riffage on songs like Gary’s Got A Boner and that stops this album from being as good as, Halo of Flies or the Minutemen or every Husker Du album and a 100 other mid eighties post hardcore pre grunge LPs from the states.

Good, solid rock.

bis etz uuuhuere eklektischs album. finds nöd soo kohärent. aso sie sind wild und ungestüm und harys got a boner rieeese banger okay okay. sixteen blue isch no cute. aber s macht alles neeegativ öpis mit mir. anwering machine sseeeehr geile gitarretone

androgynous isch jz s herte lied wo ussesticht, very cute! hans na gern, wie abghackt und verspielt s klavier mengisch isch ohhh und de text isch umso besser! black diamond sehr en coole ahfang! HÄ WISO FIZZED SIE JZ SO ANNE die erste paar songs sind echt nüt speziells gsi seen your video isch auno cool, hett nöd denkt, dass es na gsang git GARYS GOT A BONEEEEEER ultradumm aber s macht schono spass hahahah how do you say goodnight to a answering machine komischs lied, es tönt für mich nöd wie es lied wo (fast) kei drums het...hans jz nöd direkt GERN aber finds sicher mal spannend ahh schon fertig ener naja ahgfange aber s hetmer immeeeer meh gfalle, hii und daa cooli text. via

Kinda shit

This was such a fun listen, it sounded like a cross between Oasis and Nirvana in some places, then The Smiths and Chuck Berry in others

Didn't grab me, but I do like the androgyny one.

Thought I already rated this one.

Pretty generic and forgettable.

I thought this was pretty good! It hits that critical 'I would play this again' bar for a 4-star rating. Answering Machine was a pretty great lyric and Unsatisfied felt very raw and powerful. The opening tracks happy bouncy feeling wasn't my favourite part of this record for sure, but there was lots to like.

Rich and complex. Full of possibilities and something new each listen. Some killer individual tracks surrounded by some less-inspiring, but still good variations 4.4

I really like The Replacements. I Will Dare is my favorite of their songs. Funnily enough, just yesterday a new music video for I Will Dare was released and a band that I’ve seen about 8 times, The Shackletons, are in it. I also really like the song Androgynous.

Enjoyable enough

Not too familiar with The Replacements. Reminded me of The Stray Cats. Liked it

Gary's Got a Boner merits 3* by itself.

There have and always be angry young men, I think more so in Great Brittan, this album is that in audible form.

Encore un groupe de rock sympa à écouter mais oubliable

M’en souviens pas trop mais cetait ok

J'ai oublié mes commentaires je me souviens juste de la note que j'avais en tête 2/5

Nothing special. Good thing that the album was quite short

One of my holy grail records. I have had this in my collection for almost 40 years (just under). Over time the songs get better and better and I realize how great of a songwriter Paul Westerberg was on that record (a fool as well). The innocence but the bravado of the band shows well in this recording. They we just starting to get going yet they faltered in the end. The story was just starting of what could have been.

Oxford Dictionary of English alternative rock /ɔːlˌtəːnətɪv ˈrɒk , ɒlˌtəːnətɪv ˈrɒk/ ▸ noun [mass noun] a style of rock music characterized as unconventional or outside the mainstream. tour de force /ˌtʊə də ˈfɔːs , ˌtɔː də ˈfɔːs/ ▸ noun (plural tours de force /ˌtʊə də ˈfɔːs , ˌtɔː də ˈfɔːs/) a performance or achievement that has been accomplished or managed with great skill: 'Let It Be' is a tour de force, the Replacements third album is a tour de force of alternative rock. – ORIGIN French, literally ‘feat of strength’.

high 3 another decent one, but the singer was a bit annoying

Great riffs, good commentary, and just straight up funny songs at times.

Has the punk attitude but with a nice sound and some interesting chord structures instead of 12-bar blues. If you didn't tell me this was from the 80's it could have been a late 2000's garage rock thing.

I really liked this, but I feel like it's just a little too hit or miss for a stronger rating. I like the sort of post-punk/Green Day/rocker vibe going on here, but it's not super...consistent? Which isn't a bad thing, per se. I don't know. The musicianship comes and goes, and when it's here, it's solid. Again, I liked this. Fave tracks: - I Will Dare - We're Comin' Out - Androgynous - Black Diamond - Unsatisfied - Gary's Got a Boner - Sixteen Blue

Fun to see the whole album after loving androgynous for a long time. Answering machine does some cool stuff with sound

2,9 - Normales Punkalbum für seine Zeit. Nichts stört wirklich, aber nichts sticht besonders heraus Highlights: Black Diamond, Unsatisfied

Few good songs. Interesting sound for a rock album in the middle of the 80’s.

Some cool songs on here but others are just filler.

I wasn't sure what to expect from these guys... pretty solid. Definitely a 3.

GARY'S GOT A BONER! This was pretty good.

This was decent 80s rock.

decent but nothing that got me too excited

Also British sounding

Unsatisfied has to be one of my very favorite tunes of the 1980s. So fucking good, and I say that as a firm dissatisfied user. I'm even not sure unsatisfied is a word. That's how good this tune is. I can't imagine a better soundtrack for a lonely young person freezing in Reagan-era Minneapolis who is working on their cirrhosis. I Will Dare and Answering Machine are also up there, too. This is supposed to be your favorite Replacements album but if I'm totally honest my favorite is Pleased To Meet Me, even though it was made on a major label and after Bob Stinson left the band, which makes me less cool for liking it the most. In any event, this is one of my very favorite albums titled Let It Be.

I'm a bit embarrassed to say that the only songs I've ever heard (before this album) by The Replacements were "I will dare" (from this album) and "Skyway" (from the later "Pleased to Meet Me"), both of which I heard as part of my intern work at the Minnesota Historical Society for an exhibit called "Sounds Good to Me: Music in Minnesota". Those two songs were pretty different from each other, so I wasn't sure what to expect. And apparently true to form for them, I didn't get much that I expected. I liked it that the songs were all over the map, ranging from their punk roots (like "Favorite thing") to almost-ballads (like "Androgynous"); I particularly enjoyed the crossover sound of "We're coming out", and the Uncle-Tupelo-esqueness of "Unsatisfied". (I really wanted to enjoy their off-kilter cover of Kiss' "Black diamond", but it seemed strangely faithful to a pretty boring Kiss tune.) I enjoyed it more than I expected, I'll admit, and since we don't have half-star ratings, that nudges it up into 4-star territory for me. It's a curious album choice for this collection in some ways, given that it doesn't have any well-known songs by them, but I don't know their discography enough to say if some other album would be better or more representative (it seems like a lot of people really liked "Tim", though). And very cool that future owners of Bob and Tommy Stinson's parents' house in Minneapolist commissioned a stained glass window of the album cover, and put it into one of the top-story windows of the house where the album cover photo was shot (for all the musical tourists).

fine sprightly rock, maybe don't need to know Gary had a boner. The song about the answering machine didn't age well. Still, good period piece.

The Beatles if they were good. 4/5

This type of thinking is how we've allowed fascism to take over.

Pretty good, nice that it's a bit more complex/interesting musically than a lot of punk rock. If it was much longer, I might give it a lower rating, but I thought it was a good length and hits on interesting topics.

Listens: 2 Standout Tracks: Gary's Got A Boner This whole album seemed pretty childish. It reminded me of a post/punk version of Meatloaf's Bat Out Of Hell; dripping with teenage angst, and a bit less mature. Needless to say, I was not a fan of the music or the subject matter.

awesome

Really like it

Nah

this isn't my music, but the inspiration Connor Oberst drew from this album in his Commander Venus days seems obvious to me "androgynous" - can't quite decide if this is critical of 80s androgyny, or in support of it...? "he might be a father but he sure ain't a dad" is a good line "unsatisfied" and "sixteen blue" are probably the most tolerable tracks for me, the melody of "seen your video" isn't horrid the guitar and general music of sixteen blue remind me of neko case answering machine...a relic of another time

goed album! beetje te lang om heel goed te zijn

What a great surprise. I have heard of them but never really listened to The Replacements. This is a stellar album, it has some punk style and you can hear the seeds of grunge planted here. I think they did a great job with a variety of sounds on this record too

ew

…thought it was Beatles

2.5

Diverting and unpretentious collection of power jangle bangers.

A nice punk album, but not a lot of standouts. The sincerity of it really elevates the tracks. 4/5

Pretty good punk-ish rock album that really feels like its from the 80s but not in a good way. The songs vary in how good they are quite a lot with some that I wont be listening to the good songs are really good and that I've added to playlists straight away.

Great guitar, horrible vocals

Fine! I think I would have liked it more when I was younger

Fun album. chaotic at times.

Garage band

Album 950 of 1089 The Replacements - Let It Be (1984) Rating : 3 / 5 A nice listen overall - some solid indie rock that never really goes past the “this isn’t too bad” level for me. It’s got that scrappy, unpolished charm that made The Replacements who they were, but it just didn’t stick with me beyond the moment. There’s no doubt they had the attitude and energy that influenced a lot of later bands, and I can respect that. The musicianship is good, the songs flow well enough, but nothing here really jumped out as something I’ll be replaying often. It sits squarely in that “good but not great” category - enjoyable while it’s on, but not something that’ll linger.

nicht meine Musik

cool, punk. really enjoyed it

Super Dope

I will let it be, sure.

Expected this to be a generic rock album from the 80's. Turns out, the combination of jangle pop, punk and garage rock made this quite the interesting record. It has a lot of attitude, with the singer almost screaming instead of singing in most of the songs. The guitar riffs can also be very powerful, specially in the more punk inspire tracks, like "We're Coming' Out" (which accelerating pace at ending is very cool) or 'Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out'. It also has some intimate moments. 'Androgynous' is one of them, as it is a ballad about two non-binary individuals being in love with each other. Have to appreciate the inclusion of the LGTBQ+ community. One more thing that I liked a lot about the record is that it feels very organic and genuine. I believe that a lot of music from this time riles too much in effects, while this album doesn't feel as processed as others do. In the end, I don't think this record does anything specially fancy or groundbreaking, but it manages to be very solid and catchy album.

Replacements are always fun. Super energetic alternative rock and punk music. The stuff that sat on the fringes while Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, and INXS reigned supreme. Not quite goth, or early emo, but counter culture enough to push the norms for the mid 80s. Thoroughly impressed by the cohesion and dynamics of this album. It sounds fresh in the big '25, almost as if I unearthed a lost album of theirs that NO ONE has heard. But I know this is one of the bigger releases. Will come back to this.

There were about 3 songs I really liked.

Fan av stilen, tidlig punk rock. Ein aen ting eg e blitt veldig fan av e når ingen av sangene har tittelen te albumet. Beste sang: Answering Machine

Some hits, some misses

It’s like listening to the Sex Pistols but not as good

Pretty solid post-punk but nothing too memorable

5 out of 5. Let it Be is a great album from a great band.

not an album i'd choose to listen to

Their finest moment, in my book. Westerberg is on the top of his game and the band sounds as hungry as ever. 4.5/5

well, its aight. its one of those albums that has a very strong feeling of "timeliness" like its being bounded to that one era it was created it or whatever. still solid

Wonderful bridge between punk, alternative, indie and post-punk. Had heard some of it before, but not listened to the album in one sitting before this.

Pretty run of the mill

Honestly one of my favorite bands and albums, and very happy to see it's inclusion on this list! Best described as "your favorite band's favorite band", The Replacements released some of the greatest rock music of their generation. Westerberg is a legendary songwriter who went on to have a consistently inspired solo career after The Replacements finally called it quits. Regardless if you like this album or not, I highly recommend you check out the book Trouble Boys, which gives you a great look behind the curtain of one of the most self destructive bands ever.

Absolutely The Replacements apex. Perfect all the way down.

A delightfully messy album

Yes.

another MASSIVE gap in my pop music knowledge. I've never listened beyond the Replacements' big songs and singles. I don't know that I would have the nuts to say this in the company of other music fans but I think it stands out more within its moment in history than it does as an all-time great album. It is a great album, but it's more of an evolutionary step than a standout creation? That said, Paul Westerburg is one of those songwriters where if I had written even just one of the all time brilliant classics he dropped a couple at a time on some of these albums, I'd retire and weep every morning with satisfaction. "Unsatisfied" is absolutely perfect.

I don’t like this album as much as Don’t Tell A Soul, but I enjoyed it.

this is great for what it is: a divertite bunch of songs

When the "music" on this album wasn't annoying me, it was boring me to tears. I can manage two stars because some of the guitar and drum work was OK.

I really like the Replacements, but I hadn't listened to this one before. I enjoyed this one a lot even though I'm still partial to Tim and Pleased to Meet Me. I wasn't a huge fan of "We're Coming Out" but "Unsatisfied" sounded a lot like the other Replacements songs I've become familiar with and like the sound of. This gets a 3.5 but I'm rounding up to a 4 because it's better than a true neutral/middle of the road but I don't like it as much as other 4s.

Blending punk energy with heartfelt pop melodies,

it's okay enough, I'd throw it on again for sure.

Not impressed I'm afraid

Great Proto Punk. 3.5/5

So very nearly 5 ⭐️

If you are considering doing a song about someone having a boner - let it be