Suicaine Gratifaction is the third solo album from former Replacements leader Paul Westerberg.

He used Westerberg's solo debut, 14 Songs, as daily inspiration while producing the Rolling Stones' Voodoo Lounge.

[3] 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.

"[4] 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.