The Replacements have teamed up with Rhino for their fourth mega-box set edition of a classic album from their catalogue.

After heavy-duty expansions of debut Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, Pleased to Meet Me and a reorganized version of Don't Tell a Soul called Dead Man's Pop, the Minneapolis punk legends have announced the "Let It Bleed" edition of Tim, their first album for a major label and their last featuring the original band lineup. The 4CD/1LP box set will hit stores on September 22.

The set will feature two editions of the album: a new remaster and a new remix by Ed Stasium, issued as a corrective to the original album's mix as done by album producer Tommy Erdelyi - better known as Tommy Ramone. (Stasium, of course, produced or engineered six Ramones albums between 1977 and 1992, and also engineered the debut album by Talking Heads.) Additional bonus material includes a disc of mostly unreleased studio rarities, largely drawn from a session with Big Star frontman Alex Chilton and a previously unreleased live set from the group's 1986 tour, taken from a soundboard recording.

Tim was a crucial transition of sorts for the band. Critics and a devoted fan base admired The Replacements' work on the indie Twin/Tone label - an urgent push/pull of singer/frontman Paul Westerberg's inspired songcraft and the thrashing style of guitarist Bob Stinson, his brother Tommy on bass (who'd turn 19 a month after Tim's release) and drummer Chris Mars. But Twin/Tone's shaky distribution and the band's own finances made it hard to stay afloat; Bob Stinson was moonlighting in a pizzeria when not recording or touring. The band finally found a kindred spirit in Sire Records, whose head honcho Seymour Stein was content to let them work as they wanted. (Stein and the band were party to an infamous record company bash in Memphis in 1986 in the run-up to Pleased to Meet Me.)

Working with Erdelyi in the producer's chair, Tim boasted some of Westerberg's most inspired songs yet: edgy songs like "Swingin Party" and "Kiss Me on the Bus," the bright "Bastards of Young" and "Left of the Dial," and the subdued closer "Here Comes a Regular." ("Bastards of Young," a surefire choice for a single, was accompanied by a bizarre video, in heavy rotation on MTV's 120 Minutes and featuring a man simply listening to the song in an apartment.)

Further promotion was even more challenging: on January 18, 1986 - a week after the live set in the box - the band made a last-minute, heavily-intoxicated appearance on Saturday Night Live which earned them a ban from the program. (A show recorded weeks after that, for an aborted live album, was released by Rhino in 2017.) By summer's end, The Replacements' hard-partying ways culminated in Bob Stinson's exit from the band; he succumbed to substances in 1995, after the band had broken up. When the dust had settled, the album became the group's first to dent the Billboard 200, a sign that these misfits were somehow finding a larger audience.

The Tim box features new liner notes by 'Mats biographer Bob Mehr (a two-time Grammy winner for his notes in the Dead Man's Pop box and last year's reissue of Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot), a 180-gram vinyl of Ed Stasium's album remix cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering, and a new album cover for the 12" x 12" box, featuring a shot of the band in their Minneapolis practice space. Pre-orders of the album from Rhino come with a 7" of two of the unreleased studio tracks ("Nowhere is My Home" and a "cello version" of "Can't Hardly Wait").

The box is now available to pre-order everywhere.

Tim (Let It Bleed Edition) (Sire/Rhino, 2023) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

CD 1/2: Original album (Ed Stasium Mix (1 - previously unreleased) and 2023 Remaster (2 - originally released as 25330, 1985))

1. Hold My Life
2. I'll Buy
3. Kiss Me on the Bus
4. Dose of Thunder
5. Waitress in the Sky
6. Swingin Party
7. Bastards of Young
8. Lay It Down Clown
9. Left of the Dial
10. Little Mascara
11. Here Comes a Regular

CD 3: Sons of No One - Rare & Unreleased (* previously unreleased)

1. Can't Hardly Wait (Acoustic Demo)
2. Nowhere is My Home (Alternate Mix) *
3. Can't Hardly Wait (Electric Demo - Alternate Mix) *
4. Left of the Dial (Alternate Version) *
5. Nowhere is My Home (Alternate Version) *
6. Can't Hardly Wait (Cello Version) *
7. Kiss Me on the Bus (Studio Demo)
8. Little Mascara (Studio Demo) *
9. Bastards of Young (Alternate Version) *
10. Hold My Life (Alternate Version) *
11. Having Fun *
12. Waitress in the Sky (Alternate Version)
13. Can't Hardly Wait (The "Tim" Version - Alternate Mix) *
14. Swingin Party (Alternate Version) *
15. Here Comes a Regular (Alternate Version)

Tracks 1, original mixes of 2-3, 7, 12 and 15 released on expanded edition of album - Sire/Rhino R2 513893, 2008
Original mix of Track 13 released on All for Nothing/Nothing for All - Reprise 46807, 1997

CD 4: Not Ready for Prime Time - Live at The Cabaret Metro, Chicago, IL - 1/11/1986 (previously unreleased)

1. Gary's Got a Boner
2. Love You 'Till Friday
3. Bastards of Young
4. Can't Hardly Wait
5. Answering Machine
6. Little Mascara
7. Color Me Impressed
8. Kiss Me on the Bus
9. Favorite Thing
10. Mr. Whirly
11. Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out
12. I Will Dare
13. Johnny's Gonna Die
14. Dose of Thunder
15. Takin' a Ride
16. Hitchin' a Ride
17. Trouble Boys
18. Unsatisfied
19. Black Diamond
20. Jumpin' Jack Flash
21. Customer
22. Borstal Breakout
23. Take Me Down to the Hospital
24. Kids Don't Follow
25. Nowhere Man
26. The Crusher
27. I'm in Trouble
28. Go

LP: Ed Stasium Mix