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- Record Label: Rhino / Warner Bros.
- Release Date: Oct 9, 2020
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- Summary: The remaster of the Minneapolis rock band's 1987 album includes previously unreleased demos (some of which are the last with Bob Stinson), rough mixes, and outtakes.
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- Record Label: Rhino / Warner Bros.
- Genre(s): Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Hard Rock, Rock & Roll, College Rock
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Oct 15, 2020Every Replacements record is extraordinary in its way, but none exemplifies their garbage-to-grandeur alchemy like Pleased To Meet Me, which rocks like early Kinks, swaggers like T. Rex, and pays tribute to their spiritual godfather Alex Chilton.
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UncutOct 9, 2020It is arguably, the Replacements album that best balances the tension between the snotty punk rockers they began as, and the crossover success they were terrified of becoming ... [The included demos and mixes] will find favour with adherents of the rougher, readier Replacements, who around now were struggling with whether or not to blossom into something bigger. [Nov 2020, p.52]
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Oct 9, 2020The most interesting stuff here is in the Blackberry Way Demos, some of which came out on a previous expanded edition of the album. ... Even the collection’s rough mixes — usually the most over larded part of a box set — offer new insights.
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Oct 9, 2020The best "new" material here are the 15 demos, 11 of which were previously unreleased, that were recorded at Blackberry Way Studios in Minneapolis during the summer of 1986. ... And covers songs such as Billy Swan's "I Can Help" and B-sides like "Election Day" have merit. One might quibble and not include every track on this compilation, but old fans will find many diversions here.
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MojoOct 9, 2020This exhaustive reissue includes his [Bob Stinson] final contributions, though the real gold comes in their studio sessions with Jim Dickinson. [Nov 2020, p.95]
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Oct 9, 2020It remains a great, perhaps the greatest, example of The Replacements’ studio output. Whether you need all the extras, most of which are solid and worth hearing, depends on how attached you are to the contents and band.
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