Color Us Impressed: 1986 Replacements Set Makes CD Debut from Rhino

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

Mike Duquette

Mike Duquette (Founder) was fascinated with catalog music ever since he was a teenager. A 2009 graduate of Seton Hall University with a B.A. in journalism, Mike paired his profession with his passion through The Second Disc, one of the first sites to focus on all reissue labels great and small. His passion for reissues turned into a career, having written at and worked for all three major catalogue music labels and contributing to Allmusic, Billboard, Discogs, City Pages and Ultimate Classic Rock. He's penned liner notes for Verve, Chess, Mondo and Soul Music Records.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Mike lives in Astoria, Queens with his wife, a cat named Ravioli, twin daughters and a large yet tasteful collection of music.

2 thoughts on “Color Us Impressed: 1986 Replacements Set Makes CD Debut from Rhino”

Murray
July 19, 2017 at 2:49 pm

This sounds great! Probably my favorite period of the band. I wish they’d put The Shit Hits The Fans on CD.

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bob
July 20, 2017 at 12:54 pm

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.

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