5. The ReplacementsPleased To Meet Me
When I was 13 or 14 years old, this album represented an attitude adjustment for me. I was going through a transitional phase, because I left heavy metal and all that shit back in junior high school and started getting into punk rock. Friends would hand me cassette tapes of Bay Area punk rock stuff, and MTV started around the same time. Also, we had British things on TV like The Young Ones, which was fucking great. Remember that song about Dr. Martens boots? Things are a lot more malleable and accepting nowadays, but I do miss the days where you’d see somebody on a bus stop bench and you’d think, “I bet we’d get along. I bet we have a lot more in common than you’d think.” You could just tell by the way they were dressed that they were either a mod or a rocker or they were a freak. We were all freaks back then, though. We were all getting chased down by the same jocks and meatheads.
