Talk:Pleased to Meet Me

Bob Stinson's Departure
There is currently an uncited assertion in this article to the effect "Many have attributed the noticeable shift toward a more accessible American rock and roll sound on Pleased to Meet Me to Bob Stinson's departure. The band recorded the demos for this album in August 1986, while Bob Stinson was still in the band." The (certainly plausible) claim that Bob Stinson played on the demos is repeated in Bob's own Wikipedia article. He is however excluded from the credits for an expanded reissue of Pleased to Meet Me which includes several of those demos, and the Allmusic article claims he left the band shortly before those demos were recorded. He also doesn't get any songwriting credits on either the regular or expanded version of the album. An additional and more subjective reason why I marked this assertion as "dubious" is because the band had always had an accessible American rock and roll sound. The first few albums were admittedly rather crudely and haphazardly produced, but they were not particularly inaccessible. The two most recent albums Let It Be and Tim had also been reasonably polished and radio-friendly, especially Tim which was produced by Tommy Erdelyi of Ramones fame. This album was very much of a piece with the previous two, and Bob's absence didn't change the sound that much. (I am probably making a big fuss over nothing.)Timothy Horrigan (talk) 00:42, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
 * My guess is that the writer of the allegedly dubious statement was alluding to the fact the choice of material for this album was a little less eccentric than the previous two: there aren't any Kiss covers, no songs with titles like "Gary's Got a Boner," no songs about stewardesses, etc. Timothy Horrigan (talk) 00:46, 7 November 2017 (UTC)