Back By Unpopular Demand: The Replacements' Studio Albums Boxed By Rhino In April

Back By Unpopular Demand: The Replacements’ Studio Albums Boxed By Rhino In April

The unlikely reunion of The Replacements – a.k.a. founding members Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson plus recent additions Dave Minehan (The Neighborhoods) and Josh Freese (The Vandals, Devo, Weezer) – marches on this spring (to perhaps everyone’s surprise!) with the month-long “Back by Unpopular Demand” tour kicking off April 9 in Seattle. To coincide with this latest jaunt for the Minneapolis alt-rock heroes, Rhino has unveiled The Complete Studio Albums 1981-1990, containing the band’s full original studio discography in a new 8-CD box set.

This release, due on April 14, presents the band’s 1982 Stink EP plus all seven studio albums: Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash (1981), Hootenanny (1983), Let It Be (1984), Tim (1985), Pleased To Meet Me (1987), Don’t Tell a Soul (1989), and All Shook Down (1990). Though all eight albums will utilize the remasters from Rhino/Rykodisc’s 2008 campaign, the bonus tracks found on the 2008 expanded editions have all been excised.

But why should you trust us? The Replacements have had their own say on this set as they’ve hijacked Rhino’s press release!

The anarchic spirit of rock-and-roll is alive and well on The Replacements’ Complete Studio Albums 1981-1990. Check it out on April 13 in the U.K. and April 14 in the U.S. from Rhino!

The Replacements, The Complete Studio Albums 1981-1990 (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

Contains original album sequences of:

Stink EP (1982)
Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash (1981)
Hootenanny (1983)
Let It Be (1984)
Tim (1985)
Pleased To Meet Me (1987)
Don’t Tell a Soul (1989)
All Shook Down (1990)

Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song and beyond, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with labels including Real Gone Music and Cherry Red Records, has released newly-curated collections produced and annotated by Joe from iconic artists such as Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Spinners, Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Meat Loaf, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Liza Minnelli, Darlene Love, Al Stewart, Michael Nesmith, and many others.

Joe has written liner notes, produced, or contributed to over 200 reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them America, JD Souther, Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, BJ Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, Petula Clark, Robert Goulet, and Andy Williams.

Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray.

Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

1 thought on “Back By Unpopular Demand: The Replacements’ Studio Albums Boxed By Rhino In April”

Bill Janowski
March 9, 2015 at 12:02 pm

Why did they drop the extra songs?? I was kind of interested in this until you mentioned it.

I suspect those 2008 versions will soon be selling for wallet-rape prices online.

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