The Replacements- Alex Chilton

This song is off The Replacements’ fifth album, Pleased to Meet Me, released in 1987.  The song references singer Alex Chilton who was the lead singer of two bands, The Box Tops and Big Star. He also played guitar on The Replacements song Can’t Hardly Wait, also on the album Pleased to Meet Me.

The Box Tops are probably best known for the song The Letter (below).

Big Star’s In the Street may sound familiar too as it was covered by Cheap Trick and that cover was used as the theme for That 70′s Show.

The Replacements are playing at the Hollywood Palladium on 4/16.