| Suicaine Gratifaction | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Paul Westerberg |
| Cover: | Suicane_Gratification.jpg |
| Released: | February 23, 1999 |
| Genre: | Alternative rock |
| Length: | 45:08 |
| Label: | Capitol |
| Producer: | Paul Westerberg, Don Was |
| Prev Title: | Eventually |
| Prev Year: | 1996 |
| Next Title: | Stereo |
| Next Year: | 2002 |
Suicaine Gratifaction is the third solo album from former The Replacements leader Paul Westerberg.
Co-producer Don Was had admired Westerberg for years. He used Westerberg's solo debut, 14 Songs, as daily inspiration while producing the Rolling Stones' Voodoo Lounge.[1] Westerberg once claimed that he had originally been interested in working with Quincy Jones.[2]
Regarding the album's strange title, Westerberg said, "I don't want to think about it too deeply other than the fact that it seems wrong, and therefore it's attractive to me."[3]
The piano solo in the middle of "Born for Me" is the subject of a chapter within Nick Hornby's Songbook, where its simply played, undemonstrative character, of a piece with the song as a whole, is contrasted with virtuosic solos that use the underlying song as a jumping-off point to some unrelated destination. Hornby describes Westerberg as a "born musician" and suggests that he's "a man who thinks and feels and loves and speaks in music."[4] "Born for Me" was rerecorded on I Don't Cares' 2016 album, Wild Stab.
Bonus Track Europe
“Wonderful Copenhagen”
Bonus Track Japan
“33rd of July" – 3:00