Suicaine Gratifaction | ||||
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Released | February 23, 1999 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Length | 45:08 | |||
Label | Capitol | |||
Producer | Paul Westerberg, Don Was | |||
Paul Westerberg chronology | ||||
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Allmusic | [1] |
Suicaine Gratifaction is the third solo album from former The Replacements leader Paul Westerberg.
Co-producer Don Was had admired Westerberg for years. He used Westerberg's solo debut, 14 Songs, as daily inspiration while producing the Rolling Stones' Voodoo Lounge. [2] Westerberg once claimed that he had originally been interested in working with Quincy Jones. [3]
Regarding the album's strange title, Westerberg said, "I don't want to think about it too deeply other than the fact that it seems wrong, and therefore it's attractive to me." [4]
The piano solo in the middle of "Born for Me" is the subject of a chapter within Nick Hornby's Songbook, where its simply played, undemonstrative character, of a piece with the song as a whole, is contrasted with virtuosic solos that use the underlying song as a jumping-off point to some unrelated destination. Hornby describes Westerberg as a "born musician" and suggests that he's "a man who thinks and feels and loves and speaks in music." [5] "Born for Me" was rerecorded on I Don't Cares' 2016 album, Wild Stab.
Bonus Track Europe
“Wonderful Copenhagen”
Bonus Track Japan
“33rd of July" – 3:00
Suicaine Gratifaction | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | February 23, 1999 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Length | 45:08 | |||
Label | Capitol | |||
Producer | Paul Westerberg, Don Was | |||
Paul Westerberg chronology | ||||
|
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Suicaine Gratifaction is the third solo album from former The Replacements leader Paul Westerberg.
Co-producer Don Was had admired Westerberg for years. He used Westerberg's solo debut, 14 Songs, as daily inspiration while producing the Rolling Stones' Voodoo Lounge. [2] Westerberg once claimed that he had originally been interested in working with Quincy Jones. [3]
Regarding the album's strange title, Westerberg said, "I don't want to think about it too deeply other than the fact that it seems wrong, and therefore it's attractive to me." [4]
The piano solo in the middle of "Born for Me" is the subject of a chapter within Nick Hornby's Songbook, where its simply played, undemonstrative character, of a piece with the song as a whole, is contrasted with virtuosic solos that use the underlying song as a jumping-off point to some unrelated destination. Hornby describes Westerberg as a "born musician" and suggests that he's "a man who thinks and feels and loves and speaks in music." [5] "Born for Me" was rerecorded on I Don't Cares' 2016 album, Wild Stab.
Bonus Track Europe
“Wonderful Copenhagen”
Bonus Track Japan
“33rd of July" – 3:00