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Tommy Stinson kicked off 2017 with a revival of his post-Replacements group Bash & Pop, featuring an all-new lineup and album. This fall, Omnivore will revisit Bash & Pop’s first album, Friday Night is Killing Me, in a generously-expanded deluxe edition.

From the ashes of the ‘Mats (and with a fitting name selected through a radio station contest), Bash & Pop was Stinson (switching from bass to guitar), Replacements drummer Steve Foley, his brother Kevin on bass and second guitarist Steve Brantseg. Produced by Don Smith of Cracker and Keith Richards fame and featuring Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Friday Night is Killing Me was their first and only album for Sire Records–a bit of a throwback to Stinson’s old band’s more raucous history. Indeed, Rolling Stone praised the album for “flash[ing] the easygoing, knockabout charm missing from The Replacements’ last few albums.” While Bash & Pop were short-lived, Stinson found a fascinating next act as one of the few consistent members of Guns N’ Roses in the late ’90s and 2000s.

Omnivore’s version of Friday Night adds a bonus disc of 18 mostly unreleased and generally rare recordings. (Two B-sides make their CD debut, and “Making Me Sick” from the soundtrack to Kevin Smith’s Clerks is included, alongside a trove of demos and alternate versions heard here for the first time.) Bob Mehr, author of the definitive Replacements tome Trouble Boys, provides liner notes.

Friday Night is Killing Me is available September 8. Pre-order now and check out the full track list!

Friday Night is Killing Me: Deluxe Edition (Omnivore Recordings, 2017)

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Disc 1: Original album (released as Sire 45133, 1993)

1. Never Aim to Please
2. Hang Ups
3. Loose Ends
4. One More Time
5. Tickled to Tears
6. Nothing
7. Fast & Hard
8. Friday Night (is Killing Me)
9. He Means It
10. Tiny Pieces
11. First Steps

Disc 2: Bonus material (previously unreleased except where noted)

1. Never Aim to Please (Home Demo)
2. First Steps (Home Demo)
3. Hang Ups (Home Demo)
4. Tiny Pieces (Home Demo)
5. Situation (B-side to “Fast & Hard” – Sire Pro-S-5932-A, 1992)
6. Harboring a Fugitive (from Soil X Samples single #10/Warner Bros. Records PRO-S-6107, 1993)
7. Making Me Sick (from Clerks: Music from the Motion Picture – Chaos Recordings/Miramax Records/Columbia OK 66660, 1994)
8. Nothing (Alternate Version)
9. One More Time (Alternate Version)
10. He Means It (Alternate Version)
11. Loose Ends (Alternate Version)
12. Hang Ups (Alternate Version)
13. Tickled to Tears (Alternate Version)
14. Fast & Hard (Alternate Version)
15. Friday Night (is Killing Me) (Alternate Version)
16. Tiny Pieces (Alternate Version)
17. Never Aim to Please (Alternate Version)
18. Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace (Instrumental)