“The title of the album, Pleased to Meet You, refers to this maybe I’m different to how you imagine me to be. Everyone with their little contrivances and their little preconceptions about the way we are as a band can fuck off, because they don’t actually know us yet.” - Louise

“Pleased to Meet You ?” Sounds like that famous Replacement album Pleased to Meet Me. Actually the title comes from Rollercoaster, which starts off “Pleased to meet you, Mr Morgan.”
This is a track by track breakdown of Sleeper’s third album. Like all songs and lyrics, it’s interpret differently to different people. My opinion here then is mine alone. You might agree, but most likely you will disagree. All quotes from Louise is from The Band Magazine issue four (Nov 97).

1. Please Please Please The most noticeable bit about this song is the bass!! It’s so very good. It’s nothing you’ve ever heard, probably because Andy Maclure wrote it and is played by Chris Giammalvo.... The themes of this album seem to be about breakup and about how everyone is dragging you down. I think it’s a Louise writing about the journalists again! After all this album’s working title was called Cunt London, which is about everyone who hated Sleeper! 2. She’s a Good Girl Louise: “I will take a line or a phrase that sounds good by itself and then work it into a song-- the music always comes first. Take She’s a Good Girl for example. That song has always just gone ‘she’s a good girl na na na na na na’ until I filled in the blanks.” Like Louise said, this line is used elsewhere, most notably the b-side “She’s a Sweetheart” from the Statuesque CD 1 and “Lie Detector” from the album The it Girl. The song actually sounds like Louise is trying to be Aretha Franklin. I think I hear piano

and it sounds really good. The song is about how people perceive the main character, how the media create an image of a person (please see Traffic Accident). Probably a personal song about Louise herself (“An alien make-up on a green skin/Holding her breath in.”) 3. Rollercoaster Easily my favorite track. It’s kind of dodgy that the name used is Mr. Morgan to rhyme with “Morning”. It kind of reminds me of Nice Guy Eddie, in which a young girl falls for an older man. The lines “We could build a caravan from the ocean to the sea/If we really get along we decided all along” really describe a starting relationship isn’t it? There is a police siren in the background if you listen near the end. 4. Miss You This is another breakup song. It’s about how someone can change (“You look just the same in all your pictures/Still somehow you've changed”) and will eventually “leave in the end.” It’s more of a farewell song to Diid Osman?

(concluded in issue four of The it Zine)

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issue four of The it Zine (April 1998) includes: 1. track by track breakdown of Pleased to Meet You 2. Nightly News 3. Tour Diary '98 4. Sleeper internet guide 5. She's a Good Girl Video

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