Suicaine Gratifaction
1999 studio album by Paul Westerberg / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Suicaine Gratifaction is the third solo album from former The Replacements leader Paul Westerberg.
Suicaine Gratifaction | ||||
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Released | February 23, 1999 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Length | 45:08 | |||
Label | Capitol | |||
Producer | Paul Westerberg, Don Was | |||
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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.