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Before breaking through to the big leagues with major label albums on A&M and most crucially, Columbia, Minneapolis-based alternative rock band Soul Asylum recorded four albums for the local Twin/Tone Records label.  On July 20, Omnivore Recordings will reissue the first two of those Twin/Tone LPs as deluxe, expanded CDs loaded with rarities and previously unreleased tracks.

Say What You Will…Everything Can Happen arrived in 1984 on Twin/Tone, produced by Bob Mould of Husker Du.  Core members Dave Pirner, Dan Murphy, and Karl Mueller had been inspired by the likes of Mould’s band and The Replacements, who also recorded for Twin/Tone, but carved out a niche with their own intelligent brand of punk-influenced hard rock.  Omnivore’s reissue of Say What You Will includes the original album plus fourteen bonuses including outtakes, demos (one previously unreleased), and tracks recorded under the names of Loud Fast Rules and Proud Crass Fools.  The five songs appended to the album for the 1988 reissue entitled Say What You Will, Clarence…Karl Sold the Truck are all included.  The booklet promises to include a new essay by Robert Vodicka plus photos, artwork, hand-written lyrics, and memorabilia images.

Omnivore’s second reissue expands Soul Asylum’s sophomore album Made to Be Broken.  Also produced by Bob Mould, it arrived on Twin/Tone in 1986 and introduced new drummer Grant Young, who had replaced Pat Morley in the line-up.  This reissue adds a whopping fifteen bonus tracks to the album’s original twelve songs including “Long Way Home” (which had been added to subsequent reissues) and nine previously unissued recordings.  Gina Arnold has penned the new essay for the deluxe booklet.

Both of these reissues, produced by Twin/Tone co-founder Peter Jesperson and Omnivore’s Cheryl Pawelski, are due from Omnivore on July 20.  You can peruse the track listings and place pre-orders at the links below!

Soul Asylum, Say What You Will…Everything Can Happen: Expanded Edition (Omnivore OV-312, 2018) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Link TBD)

1. Long Day
2. Voodoo Doll
3. Money Talks
4. Stranger
5. Sick Of That Song
6. Walking
7. Happy
8. Black and Blue
9. Religiavision
10. Draggin’ Me Down
11. Do You Know
12. Spacehead
13. Broken Glass
14. Masquerade
15. Black and Blue (Demo) – Loud Fast Rules
16. Job For Me (Demo) – Loud Fast Rules
17. Cocktails (Demo) – Loud Fast Rules *
18. Nowhere To Go (Demo) – Loud Fast Rules
19. Out Of Style (Demo) – Loud Fast Rules
20. Your Clock (Demo) – Loud Fast Rules
21. Propaganda – Loud Fast Rules
22. Bad Moon Rising – Proud Crass Fools
23. Happy – Proud Crass Fools

Tracks 1-9 from Twin/Tone Records TTR-8439, 1984
Tracks 10-14, 16 and 18-20 from Time’s Incinerator – Twin/Tone Records TTR-8677C, 1986
Tracks 15 and 21 from Barefoot and Pregnant – Reflex Records B, 1982
Track 17 previously unreleased
Tracks 22-23 from Kitten Kompilation – Reflex Records C, 1982

Soul Asylum, Made To Be Broken: Expanded Edition (Omnivore OV-313, 2018) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

1. Tied To The Tracks
2. Ship Of Fools
3. Can’t Go Back
4. Another World, Another Day
5. Made To Be Broken
6. Never Really Been
7. Whoa!
8. New Feelings
9. Growing Pain
10. Lone Rider
11. Ain’t That Tough
12. Don’t It (Make Your Troubles Seem Smell)
13. Long Way Home
14. Another World, Another Day (Alternate Version) *
15. Fearless
16. Freeway
17. The Snake
18. Hey Bird
19. Friends
20. Can’t Go Back (Alternate Version) *
21. Swingin’ *
22. Lost In Your Face *
23. Circles *
24. Song Of The Terrorist *
25. To Go There *
26. 20 Year Itch *
27. Ramblin’ Rose *

Tracks 1-12 from Twin/Tone Records TTR-8666, 1986
Track 13 from B-side to “Tied To The Tracks” – Twin/Tone Records TTR-8560, 1986
Tracks 14 and 20-27 previously unreleased
Tracks 15-19 from Time’s Incinerator – Twin/Tone Records TTR-8677C, 1986