3. It will feature a newly mixed version of the original album (on both vinyl and CD), a CD of alternate studio versions from earlier, shelved sessions in Bearsville, N.Y., and two more discs featuring a concert recording from the “Don’t Tell a Soul” tour stop at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on June 2, 1989. Bits + Pieces: Dad Rock on The Replacements; You Am I; Win Stuff! Mehr says an early tracklist once included the Tom Waits collaboration “Date to Church”), that breathes new life into a relic once consigned to the dollar bins of Tower Records and Hastings. “For me,” he admits, “[Don’t Tell a Soul Redux] was the project of a lifetime […] to be able to go back and complete an album in the way it was originally intended.”, Where the Lord-Alge mix is all wooly obfuscation and two-dimensional restraint, if not benignly pleasant, Wallace’s interpretation is a revelation. 20. 9. I brought them back to Memphis where we had them transferred (fittingly enough) at Ardent Studios. But breaking up, as Neil Sedaka observed, “is hard to do.” Despite his cultivation of the “lovable loser” shtick, Westerberg was–to the contrary or, like a true contrarian, also–competitive, hungry for the limelight and tired of pretending otherwise. 4. “The market hasn’t been saturated and there is still quality material in the vaults,” he divulges. But it wasn’t very “punk.” Ultimately, the Replacements, in adopting this alleged soul-sucking formula for rock record-making, were, Mehr suggests, “the pioneers that got the arrows.” And how! 1. It’s an excavation “back into the past to the point of inception, the moment of inspiration, the second the band changed the electricity in the room.”, And electric is the mot juste. Valentine (Live at University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, 6/2/1989) “The true spirit of the Replacements was always there on the recordings we did back in 1988, and now you can hear and feel it clearly,” Wallace said in a release from Rhino. Born To Lose (Live at University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, 6/2/1989) 1. The man, the myth, Brian Kehew — who mixed “Live at Maxwell’s 1986” for us — was brought back onto the team to help mix the bulk of the material that appears on the disc of rarities, “We Know The Night: Rare & Unreleased.” Brian also did a masterful job mixing “The Complete Inconcerated Live” show – and actually did some heroic salvage work on several tracks that had technical issues. A hard core of the Replacements’ fandom consistently ranks their seventh record Don’t Tell a Soul well below the messy, flash-in-the-pan brilliance of Let It Be, the anthemic and tender Tim, even the group’s sedate and arguably toothless swan song All Shook Down. A circuit judge scheduled a jury trial for a 40-year-old man who was charged with murder in the death of his 18-month-old daughter, Kytana Ancog. To punk partisans of a certain stripe, however, growing up is giving up. 10. The 32-year-old winger is now a serious doubt to be fit enough to make the U.S. Olympic squad Tobin Heath has returned to the United States after suffering an … Bowman has plans to triple the size of her herd, which will crowd out the other ranchers on the available range. Ever the feckless fatalists, to court success at the expense of complete creative control was anathema (and, undoubtedly, moronic) to a band that majored in the pathos of self-sabotage. Its “Gasoline Alley” twang and twinkling honky-tonk piano now feel like essential counterpoints to the song’s incessant power pop riffing. “[Paul] and I discussed the idea of mixing the album so you couldn’t tell if it was mixed in 1970, 1990 or 2010.” To his credit, Don’t Tell a Soul is no longer orphaned in late-‘80s purgatory. They’re Blind (Matt Wallace Mix) Intimately familiar with the band’s appetite for destruction, he’d quietly pocketed reel upon reel of tape of the recording sessions at Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles and Prince’s Paisley Park in Minneapolis in the fall of 1988. Such smile-inducing surprises abound on the 60 tracks (a horde of unreleased outtakes, recordings from the legendary Bearsville sessions with producer Tony Berg and the full 29-song Inconcerated Live set, originally released as a six-track promo) of Dead Man’s Pop. 5. “You have to kind of breathe and whisper ideas into the air and hope that the summer wind might carry them toward a receptive ear, brain and heart.” Bless the weather, then, that brought the ‘Mats back to Matt Wallace. I was lucky enough to have produced the project (along with the estimable and ever diligent Jason Jones of Rhino) and wrote the liner notes. Later that night, Dempsey and Jeff watch as another train hopper kills the brakeman. Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman cut a beautiful vinyl master of “Redux” for us under the supervision of Matt Wallace (when you get your copies of the box, be sure to check the run-out groove on the LP). 5. Rolling Stone’s Ira Robbins called Don’t Tell a Soul “audacious” and “quietly powerful” and blessed it with four (out of five) stars. [WARNING: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Season 1, Episode 2, “The Star-Spangled Man.”]. Buried within was Wallace’s “lost mix,” a document of the record-that-could-have-been, hammered out in an afternoon knowing Chris Lord-Alge was soon to assume official mixing duties. Note this disclaimer posted on the RSD website: DISCLAIMER: There are a lot of independent stores that participate in Record Store Day. There’s a funny bit of backstory as to how this set came about…which, like the band, started in a basement in South Minneapolis. Dance On My Planet And in keeping with the narrative established by Dead Man’s Pop and For Sale: Live at Maxwell’s 1986 Mehr is confident there’ll be “ways to curate the catalog and dig into the archives that [are] creative and worthwhile and tell a story.”, But, he adds, “For now, hopefully everybody will just go and get a copy of [Dead Man’s Pop].” Psssst! A perfect encomium for a band built on such contradictions. Rock ‘n’ Roll Ghost (Matt Wallace Mix), Disc: 2 In the scenes where Kirk Douglas's character is standing next to the cattle train, the car's identification marks state it was built in December 1923 (BLT 12-23) which was well after the film's late 1800s time period (There were no railroads in 1823). 2. Perhaps they’re blind. The very kiss of death. Talent Show (Matt Wallace Mix) 3. 10. But, the truth is, it didn’t *sound* much like the album the Replacements had recorded. Primavera Sound: First 2015 Show Announced! Look no further than “They’re Blind,” unlikely recipient of the record’s most thrilling transformation, for proof of the pudding. Don’t Tell a Soul, which peaked at #57 on the Billboard album charts, has, according to the documentary The Replacements: Color Me Obsessed, sold 300,000 copies since its release on February 1, 1989. Rock ‘N’ Roll Ghost (Bearsville Version) As rock critic Robert Christgau, former editor of The Village Voice, said of Don’t Tell a Soul, “At its best […] it sounds like old times.”. The expanded version of the band’s most slickly produced and commercially touted record for Reprise/Warner Bros. is titled “Dead Man’s Pop” and will be released Sept. 27. I’ll Be You (Live at University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, 6/2/1989), Disc: 4 I Won’t (Live at University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, 6/2/1989) 4. Dempsey has a female acquaintance in town (Idonee) and both men decide to stay, after being hired to work (as alleged fellow-Texans) by Strap Davis, on a 10,000 head ranch for its new owner Reed Bowman. Tom Waits) Happily, this is now a sparkling and remarkable sounding set, that’s every bit as important a document of the band’s Slim-era lineup as Maxwell’s was to the original foursome. Or “Darlin’ One,” (sadly) no longer the triumphant fist-pumping closer but a regal coda to the largely untouched, melancholic romp of “Achin’ to Be.” Mars’ martial waltz, pushed to the fore, swings and, more than ever, gives shape to the amorphous swarm of satisfyingly odd (and oddly emotional) guitar licks that haunt the song like wailing banshees. It’s worth noting here that the released version, the Lord-Alge mix, is a fine LP – and was, quite frankly, the more commercial and radio-geared record that needed to be released in 1989 to keep the band afloat. A dying anti-social scientist unintentionally comes upon the perfect vessel in which to preserve his intellect and arrogant personality - Data. 6. Teams have found it very difficult to stop them. Wake Up (Alternate Mix) [Bearsville Version] Back to Back (Matt Wallace Mix) Pei’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, where it doesn’t. Obsessive chroniclers of ‘Mats minutiae will recall, too, that at Minneapolis’ Longhorn Bar in the summer of 1980–their first performance (according to The Replacements Bible) as a band–they debuted with a song called “I Wanna Be Loved.”. “I’ll just leave it at that.” Leave it to Mehr, then, to suss out the possibilities. And, of course, Wallace’s Redux now bows out with “Rock ’n’ Roll Ghost,” a fitting reinvention for a record saddled with doubt and a sense of finality. It’s as if he’s given the master tapes an acid bath, dissolving thirty years of dust and grime to finally shine a light on the hidden heart of the record the Replacements intended to release in 1989, but, because of industry intervention and the pop politics of “hit-making,” could not. Color Me Impressed (Live at University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, 6/2/1989) 8. I’ll Be You (Bearsville Version) 2. When Bowman finally arrives, Dempsey is surprised to find that he has been working for a very attractive woman (Jeanne Crain). Whatever the reception, Wallace considers it, personally at least, a highlight of his career behind the mixing console. “It’s almost embarrassing not to have had [a “smash hit”] by now,” Westerberg admitted to Ralph Heibutzki in a 1993 story for Goldmine. Portland (Alternate Mix) [Bearsville Version] Find a participating store near you. “He doesn’t enjoy talking about music-especially the Replacements or his past,” says his manager Darren Hill. Begrudgingly working with each other towards a common goal appears to be their defining characteristic, their attempts to out-intimidate the other proving a real highlight. Listening back to Matt’s original (if admittedly hurried, somewhat incomplete) Paisley Park mix it was clear that a far different version of “Don’t Tell a Soul” actually existed than the one that had been mixed by Chris-Lord Alge and released in 1989. There’ll also be, inevitably, speculation of what’s next for the ‘Mats. In the spirit of his work on Westerberg’s 1993 solo effort 14 Songs, where–in conversation with Mehr for a 2004 piece in Harp–Westerberg confessed together they’d “see how much we could take away before it collapsed,” Wallace presents the band on Dead Man’s Pop as the inheritors of–truly–classic rock: a sound, like author Emmanuel Carrère’s idea of “perfect grace,” that consists “not in exterior ornamentation of the substance, but in the simple fitness of it’s form.”, “You can really hear the band playing and laughing and breathing and performing,” says Mehr. Another Girl, Another Planet (Live at University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, 6/2/1989) 15. 14. Its Wallace-honed siblings deserve, at minimum, such a fate. Have a first listen to a few songs before the Sept. 27 release date. 13. Enter Chris Lord-Alge. 8. “He let Matt be his hands and ears on it, on the mix side.”, “Typical of Paul and the ‘Mats, you don’t want to speak too directly at someone or to a particular challenge,” says Wallace. Here Comes A Regular (Live at University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, 6/2/1989) We’ll Inherit The Earth (Live at University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, 6/2/1989) Anywhere’s Better Than Here (Matt Wallace Mix) Then he finds out the disfigured recluse living nearby is an ex-teacher. BOLTON — A Bolton man was arrested on Monday after police said he drove drunk and without a valid license. From the Star-Tribune: New box set from Minneapolis’ Replacements to include live record, Tom Waits cuts. The whole package is presented in a 12 x 12 hardcover book – loaded with dozens of rarely seen photos — and features a detailed history of the “Don’t Tell A Soul” era written by yours truly. 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