Don't Tell a Soul

Originally released in 1989, the band's second major label record, young fans were expecting a record of radio hits and radio was expecting more punk rock antics... They were both right somehow and sadly this record, like many great and creatively expansive albums was overlooked upon it's initial release by the dedicated fan and the newcomer.
Your screaming, yelling and falling to pieces drunken brothers now added sleepy melancholy, violins, waves of layered
guitar, something that sounded like a 'real' recording and a bit if not a lot of personal vulnerability to the mix. The list of
albums that were once dismissed thoroughly only to be coveted later is as long as the history of contemporary music itself, and includes albums from every group imaginable from Pink Floyd to The Stooges to The Beach Boys to Fela Kuti, The
Replacements 'Don't Tell A Soul' certainly fits into that history comfortably. Twenty years later most fans and critics agree
that songs such as 'Achin' to Be,' the haunted 'Rock 'n' Roll Ghost,' the sweetly self-mythologizing 'Talent Show,' and 'I'll
Be You,' are probably among the best songs performed in the 1990's.