The Replacements may be done as a band (again), but Rhino is giving fans something exciting to remember, with the release of a vintage live show in October.
For Sale: Live At Maxwell's 1986 captures the Minneapolis legends (lead singer Paul Westerberg, guitarist Bob Stinson, bassist Tommy Stinson and drummer Chris Mars) for a raucous set at the famous Hoboken, New Jersey club in the winter of 1986. The band had signed to Sire Records the previous year and released their fourth album Tim; a good deal of that album features on this release, as does "Can't Hardly Wait," a track that would appear on the band's next album, 1987's Pleased to Meet Me. (That album would also be the first without Bob Stinson, who was asked to leave the band later that year due to the substance abuse issues that led to his passing in 1995.)
The album, which also features covers of The Beatles, KISS, Sweet and T. Rex, was recorded on a 24-track mobile studio by Warner Music, but the tapes remained untouched until they were mixed in 2007 during Rhino's Replacements reissue campaign. And yet, none of those mixes were used as bonus tracks during that time. (This is only the second official live document for The 'Mats, the first being the cassette-only The Shit Hits The Fans in 1985.)
For Sale goes for sale on October 6 on 2CD or 2LP. Bob Mehr, who wrote the definitive Replacements biography Trouble Boys: The True Story of The Replacements last year, pens liner notes for the set. Rolling Stone has an audio preview, while we have the full track list below.
For Sale: LIve At Maxwell's 1986 (Sire/Rhino, 2017)
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada (TBD) / Amazon U.K.
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada (TBD) / Amazon U.K.
Disc 1
- Hayday
- Color Me Impressed
- Dose of Thunder
- Fox On the Run
- Hold My Life
- I Will Dare
- Favorite Thing
- Unsatisfied
- Can't Hardly Wait
- Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out
- Takin' a Ride
- Bastards of Young
- Kiss Me On the Bus
- Black Diamond
Disc 2
- Johnny's Gonna Die
- Otto
- I'm In Trouble
- Left of the Dial
- God Damn Job
- Answering Machine
- Waitress In the Sky
- Take Me Down to the Hospital
- Gary's Got a Boner
- If Only You Were Lonely
- Baby Strange
- Hitchin' a Ride
- Nowhere Man
- Go
- Fuck School
All tracks recorded at Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ - 2/4/1986 and previously unreleased
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This sounds great! Probably my favorite period of the band. I wish they'd put The Shit Hits The Fans on CD.
was gonna congratulate the writer for not using the horrid " 'Mats" moniker for this band but he dropped it in right at the end. So close. You almost made it, man.