Tim (album)

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Tim

Studio album by The Replacements
Released	1985
Recorded	June-July 1985, Nicollet Studios, Minneapolis
Genre	College rock
Length	36:29
Label	Sire Records
Producer(s)	Tommy Erdelyi aka Tommy Ramone
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (A-) link
The Replacements chronology
Let It Be (1984)	Tim (1985)	Pleased to Meet Me (1987)

Tim is an album released in October 1985 on Sire Records by the alternative rock band The Replacements. It was their first release after signing to a major label. It was also the last album made by the original classic line-up of the band.

Tim's mainstream commercial success, like its predecessors, was moderate at best, despite the critical hosannas it garnered. Stylistically, the album shows Paul Westerberg's diverse influences, including Alex Chilton's Big Star on "Hold My Life", Roy Orbison and Duane Eddy on "Swingin' Party" and Chuck Berry and Nick Lowe on "Kiss Me on the Bus". Lyrically, the album is typical of Westerberg's style. The songs are an assortment of alienated narratives from a motley crew of low lifes and losers, often tragically unable to function as a responsible adult.

Like its predecessor Let It Be, Tim is one of the most acclaimed albums of its era. Tim placed 136th on Rolling Stone's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and it ranked #4 in the Associated Press list of the Top 99 albums of 1985-1995.^{[citation needed]}. Along with Let It Be, it is one of two Replacements albums to receive the full five stars from the All Music Guide.

The album also contains the song "Bastards of Young", which was given a now famous video. The black & white video simply was a single shot of a speaker throughout the whole song. At the end of the song, the speaker is bashed in by the person who was listening to the song. Similar videos were also made for "Hold My Life" (in color) and "Left Of The Dial" (minus the speaker-bashing).

The band performed "Bastards Of Young" and "Kiss Me On The Bus" on Saturday Night Live on January 18, 1986. It was the most television exposure the band received at that time, as the band's behaviour resulted in a lifetime ban from SNL. However, Westerberg would later perform on the show as a solo artist.

The album peaked at #183 on the Billboard Music Chart's Top 200.