Don't Tell a Soul

Slim Dunlap, who had replaced Bob Stinson in early 1987, played on a Replacements album for the first time. Matt Wallace produced it with the band at Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles, and Chris Lord-Alge mixed it, aiming for what he called a three-dimensional, radio-ready sound. Westerberg said the little things he had cut in his basement were closer to what he wanted. I'll Be You was the single, and with a peak of 51 on the Hot 100 on 13 May 1989 it was the band's only entry on that chart.

The Village Voice's 1989 Pazz & Jop poll put it 16th. In the Guardian, Michael Hann wrote that Westerberg told him he was trying too hard to write anthems, but he singled out Achin' to Be as the last of the great lovelorn Replacements ballads. Rhino reissued it in 2008 with seven extra tracks. The 2019 box Dead Man's Pop holds a remixed and resequenced version by Wallace, along with demos, rarities and The Complete Inconcerated Live, a two-CD set of a 1989 concert.