The Replacements

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 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. The Tim box features new liner notes by 'Mats biographer Bob Mehr, a 180-gram vinyl LP 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").