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Certain Songs #1853: The Replacements – “I’m In Trouble”

June 26, 2020 by Jim Connelly

Album: Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out The Trash
Year: 1981

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If you’re in love then I’m in trouble

“I’m In Trouble” just might be the greatest song Paul Westerberg ever wrote.

It’s easily the best (i.e. “my favorite”) song on Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash, and clearly I wasn’t the only one, as they chose it as the single from teh album.

And they really didn’t release a lot of singles during the Twin/Tone era: most of the sources I could find just had “I Will Dare” as the only other pre-Sire single, though Wikipedia lists “Color Me Impressed” as a single, which, yeah, it coulda/woulda/shoulda been the single from Hootenanny!, but I never saw any evidence of it existing. Unlike “I’m In Trouble,” the actual physical 7″ single of which I’ll discuss more tomorrow.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: I'm In Trouble, Sorry Ma Forgot to Take Out The Trash, The Replacements

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