When the band's first album, Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, was released in August 1981, it received positive reviews in local fanzines. Option's Blake Gumprecht wrote, "Westerberg has the ability to make you feel like you're right in the car with him, alongside him at the door, drinking from the same bottle." The album contained the band's first single, "I'm in Trouble", Westerberg's "first truly good song". Sorry Ma included the song "Somethin to Dü", a homage to another Twin Cities punk band, Hüsker Dü. The Replacements had a friendly rivalry with the band, which began when Twin/Tone chose the Replacements over Hüsker Dü.
When the band's first album, Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, was released in August 1981, it received positive reviews in local fanzines. Option's Blake Gumprecht wrote, "Westerberg has the ability to make you feel like you're right in the car with him, alongside him at the door, drinking from the same bottle" The album contained the band's first single, "I'm in Trouble", Westerberg's "first truly good song". Sorry Ma included the song "Somethin to Dü", a homage to another Twin Cities punk band, Hüsker Dü. The Replacements had a friendly rivalry with the band, which began when Twin/Tone chose the Replacements over Hüsker Dü.