‘Mats reissues, Round 2
Posted on July 17th, 2008 – 3:50 PMBy Chris Riemenschneider
As was promised when the first four albums were reissued in April, the latter four albums in the Replacements discography are set to be reissued with bonus tracks galore. Rhino Records has just announced a Sept. 23 release date, and it included a list of the extras on each album.
Coincidentally or not, Sept. 23 is also the date Rhino is issuing “Stay Golden: The Best of Golden Smog,” which includes a couple unreleased tracks (a cover of Brian Wilson’s “Love and Mercy” and demo of “Until You Came Along). Click here to read about that.
Here’s a list of the ‘Mats bonus tracks:
Tim: Can’t Hardly Wait (acoustic demo, Alex Chilton session) / Nowhere Is My Home (Alex C produced outtake) / Can’t Hardly Wait (electric demo, also w/ Alex C) / Kiss Me on the Bus (alt) / Waitress in the Sky (alt) / Here Comes a Regular (alt)
Pleased to Meet Me: Birthday Girl (demo) / Valentine (demo) / Bundle Up (demo) / Photo (demo) / Election Day / Alex Chilton (alt) / Kickin’ It In (demo) / Route 66 / Tossin’ ‘N Turnin’ / Can’t Hardly Wait (alt) / Cool Water
Don’t Tell a Soul: Portland / Wake Up / Cruella DeVille / Talent Show (demo) / We’ll Inhert the Earth (mix #1) / Date to Church / We Know the Night
All Shook Down: When It Began / Nobody / One Wink at a Time / Torture / Attitude Happy Town (all demos) / Tiny Paper Plane / Sadly Beautiful (demo) / Kissin’ in Action / Ought to Get Love / Satellite
Only about a fourth of those tracks appeared on the “All for Nothing/Nothing for All” two-disc compliation, so there’s enough there to interest the diehards. “Nowhere Is My Home” is one of my personal favorite outtakes, as is “Satellite,” our first clue that Tommy was due to front his own band soon. I’m really interested in hearing all the “All Shook Down” demos, which (if memory/legend serves) back then were supposed to amount to Westerberg’s first solo album. Let’s go ahead and call it a travesty that “All He Wants to Do Is Fish” didn’t get included.
8 Responses to "‘Mats reissues, Round 2"
don’t have a home, don’t have a name, he don’t know fortune and he don’t know fame……
travesty #2 would be the omission of “like a rolling pin”, which is a fine caught on tape blackout.
I wonder if that ‘Valentine’ demo is the bootleg version I’ve heard with Bob on guitar.
‘Nowhere Is My Home’ is one of my all time favorite outtakes by the band, too.
Wait, there’s more good news. Westerberg’s site says he’s going to issue 49 minutes of music for $.49 this Saturday. Check it out: http://members.aol.com/paulspage/4949.htm
Apparently Paul hasn’t heard that all the cool artists are GIVING AWAY their music these days! That $.49 is really greedy of him.
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It would be great if they would release the promo-only “Inconcertrated” as part of the bonus material for “Don’t tell a soul”
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