The Replacements Let It Be

4 stars out of 5 -- "[The album] captures the perfectly turned punk-pop bravado, the bleeding-heart letters-in-a-bottle, and the proud junk food."
Ranked #15 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums Of The 80's" survey.
4 stars out of 5 - "...The great teenage f***-up record of the Eighties..."
4 Stars (out of 5) - "...It was Westerberg's most mature songwriting so far, and his band's tightest playing. The boyish tomfoolery is still there....Best of all is 'Unsatisfied,' a yearning evocation of adolescent dissatisfaction..."
4 Stars (out of 5) - "...LET IT BE is their finest work. No American alternative act made a better album in 1984..."
Included in Uncut's "100 Best Albums of the Year"
"...One of the most awesome wedges of wild and dangerous rock 'n' roll ever committed to disc..."
Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he quantum leap in Westerberg's self-confidence in delivering such emotionally bruised material as 'Unsatisfied' and 'Answering Machine' ensures the record's indelible impact."
"...A classic of the decade..."
8 out of 10 - "...LET IT BE [is] elegiac, quietly tragic [and] romantically bombed-out....Healthy cynicism still lingers, albeit wiser and more weary..."
5 stars out of 5 -- "The songs are breathless paeans to romance and dissatisfaction, and deserve to be discovered by generations to come."