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Re: Replacements Reissues
'Mats get Rhino-size reissues
The Mats: Chris Mars, Bob Stinson, Paul Westerberg, Tommy Stinson (L-R)
The band's first four albums on the Twin/Tone label will be re-released with bonus tracks April 22.
After years of hinting at it, Rhino/Warner Bros. Records finally announced plans to reissue the first four albums by Minnesota rock legends the Replacements on April 22, complete with bonus cuts, new liner notes and remastering.
The records -- including the debut "Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash," the "Stink" EP, "Hootenanny" and the acclaimed "Let It Be" -- were originally released on the Minneapolis-based Twin/Tone label from 1981 to 1984. Former 'Mats, as the band is known, manager and Twin/Tone co-founder Peter Jesperson compiled the new editions. He reportedly had input and blessing from frontman Paul Westerberg and the other surviving members.
Rare tracks being dusted off for the reissues include oft-bootlegged B-sides and outtakes such as "If Only You Were Lonely," "Bad Worker" and "Staples in Her Stomach"; the solo demos by Westerberg that got the band signed to Twin/Tone; alternate takes of such classics as "Answering Machine," "Sixteen Blue" and "Customer," plus cover songs including Hank Williams' "Hey Good Lookin'," T. Rex's "20th Century Boy" and even the Grass Roots' "Temptation Eyes."
Rhino is promising a similar reissue treatment next year for the band's other four albums on Sire Records (1985 to 1990).
http://www.startribune.com/entertainmen … 99407.html
Nothing new in the reissues to most fans but I'll look forward to reading the new liner notes 
Hopefully it'll get some decent promotion but with Warner Bros involved I highly doubt it.
EDIT : Updated with tracklistings on this thread
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not big sellers but huge critical darlings...all three albums. They were popular on college radio and campuses so unless you went to college between 85-89, you most likely don't get it!
I guess I was too young for them. Not only don't I like what I've heard, I NEVER heard of them or any of their songs until Tommy joined GnR.
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that's cool...I mean they're no Matchbox 20.:rolleyes: I'll bet your boy Rob Thomas knows who Paul Westerberg is.:thumbup: The Replacements have more albums in Rolling Stone's top 500 than Gnr does. Check any list of greatest albums from the 80's and you will frequently find the Replacements higher than Gnr. They also influenced a hell of alot of bands....Nirvana being one of them....wanna know where the album title Nevermind was lifted? Off a Replacements song...they were a great band, every bit the equal of Gnr. Whether you recognize that or not is immaterial....
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I obviously missed The Replacements era...it was either a little before my time or too underground for me and I've yet to hear anything they did that I liked. They were around for a long time to not accomplish anything mainstream like other bands that got their start on college radio did. If they were that good, I'd have at the very least heard of them prior to Tommy's stint in GnR. I'm not saying they suck, I'm just saying I don't care for them and they are overrated if you think of them as a great band.
If influencing Nirvana is their claim to fame, you can keep that too. I'm not a Nirvana fan either. Not my style of music, which again may explain why I'd never heard of The Replacements. I have heard of Nirvana however.
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The three big bands were Rem, U2, and The Mats....obviously, 2 of them made it big. The Replacements were just Minnesota white cracker odd....they had just as many great songs and albums as U2 and REM, but they were never produced for mainstream radio because the band was so anti establishment. The years when they were at their peak, 84-87, they just had too much punk spirit to give in and conform. By the time they gave in, 1988-1990 after Tommy's brother got kicked out, they were a shell of their former selves. The funny thing is, at that time, they were still getting Rolling Stone artist of the year awards and were all over MTV in the alternative, 120 minutes shows. Tommy's brother was a kickass lead guitarist and was completely out of control. From 81-86, he gave them the edge that was a perfect compliment to Westerberg's songwriting. If you don't like this song, you probably will never be a fan. It describes my generation and high school in the 80's, better than any other song I can recall. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tZO94Mhfzk
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
Dreams unfulfilled, graduate unskilled
It beats pickin' cotton and waitin' to be forgotten
We are the sons of no one, bastards of young
We are the sons of no one, bastards of young
The daughters and the sons
Clean your baby's room, trash that baby boom
Elvis in the ground, there will be no beer tonight
Income tax deduction, one hell of a function
It beats pickin' cotton and waitin' to be forgotten
We are the sons of no one, bastards of young
We are the sons of no one, bastards of young
The daughters and the sons
Unwillingness to claim us, ya got no war to name us
The ones who love us best are the ones we'll lay to rest
And visit their graves on holidays at best
The ones who love us least are the ones we'll die to please
If it's any consolation, I don't begin to understand them
We are the sons of no one, bastards of young
We are the sons of no one, bastards of young
The daughters and the sons
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The lyrics don't impress me, but I will check out the youtube link when I get on a computer that isn't having as many problems as this one is. I'm not much of a U2 fan and it took me a long time to get into REM, so it may be the whole genre that I don't care for. I actually did some research on them when this thread started to see if I really missed something special, and I just wasn't impressed.
Prior to hearing Welcome to the Jungle, my musical tastes at the time were pretty questionable anyway...I listened to a lot of music my parents listened to (The Beatles, Gene Pitney, Peter Paul & Mary, The Everly Brothers, etc) - mostly music that had interesting chord progressions or harmonies. WTTJ and subsequently the UYI albums really changed music for me, so to me, no band will ever be bigger than that was for me. I was aware of other modern (at the time) music, but didn't really start exploring it until Guns showed me that a rock band could be musically good and still be an outlet for the emotions I was feeling at the time. Music has been very important to me ever since. Slash was my inspiration to play guitar. Axl's lyrics expressed both the rage and passion I felt at the time. It was the perfect storm for me at that time of my life. Maybe that's what the Replacements were for you, and if so, I do get it even if I don't get the band itself.
