The Replacements - Let It Be

The Replacements — Let It Be

Deluxe Edition 4LP Set

Let It Be by The Replacements — Paul Westerberg, Bob Stinson, Tommy Stinson, and Chris Mars — originally released by highly revered indie label Twin/Tone Records, is widely hailed as one of the greatest albums of the 1980s and a cornerstone of indie rock.

The Deluxe Edition gathers a wide range of unreleased material from the Let It Be sessions, including alternate versions of "Gary's Got A Boner" and "Favorite Thing," as well as previously unreleased outtakes "Who's Gonna Take Us Alive" and "Street Girl." The alternate version of "Androgynous" out today features a different vocal take and the full piano intro, restored for the first time. All five bonus tracks from 2008's Let It Be (Expanded Edition) are included here, newly remastered for this set.

The collection also includes Goodnight! Go Home!, an unreleased 28-song performance recorded in August 1984 at the Cubby Bear in Chicago. Sourced from an audience tape and newly remastered, it finds the Minneapolis quartet charging through material from the not-yet-released album ("I Will Dare" and "Unsatisfied"), early favorites ("Color Me Impressed" and "Takin' A Ride"), and characteristically offbeat covers "Help Me Rhonda/Little G.T.O." (originally done by The Beach Boys/Ronny & The Daytonas) and "Can't Get Enough" (Bad Company).

 

LP 1 Side A

1. I Will Dare (2025 Remaster)

2. Favorite Thing (2025 Remaster)

3. We're Comin' Out (2025 Remaster)

4. Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out (2025 Remaster)

5. Androgynous (2025 Remaster)

6. Black Diamond (2025 Remaster)

LP 1 Side B

1. Unsatisfied (2025 Remaster)

2. Seen Your Video (2025 Remaster)

3. Gary's Got a Boner (2025 Remaster)

4. Sixteen Blue (2025 Remaster)

5. Answering Machine (2025 Remaster)

LP 2 Side A

1. Gary's Got a Boner (Alternate Version)

2. Favorite Thing (Alternate Version)

3. Perfectly Lethal (Outtake) [2025 Remaster]

4. Temptation Eyes (Outtake) [2025 Remaster]

5. Who's Gonna Take Us Alive

6. Heartbeat, It's a Lovebeat (2025 Remaster) 7. Answering Machine (Home Demo #1)

8. Answering Machine (Home Demo #2)

LP 2 Side B

1. Street Girl (Takes 1 and 2)

2. Sixteen Blue (Alternate Version) [2025 Remaster]

3. Unsatisfied (Alternate Mix) [Full-Length Version]

4. Androgynous (Alternate Version)

5. 20th Century Boy (2025 Remaster)

6. Hey Good Lookin' (Live at Merlyn's, Madison, WI) [2025 Remaster]

LP 3 Side A

1. Can't Hardly Wait (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

2. Left In The Dark (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

3. Unsatisfied (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

4. I Will Dare (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

5. Favorite Thing (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

6. Kids Don't Follow (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

LP 3 Side B

1. Run It (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

2. Color Me Impressed (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

3. Hayday (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

4. Nowhere Is My Home (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

5. Love You Till Friday (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

6. Help Me Rhonda/Little G.T.O. (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

7. Takin A Ride (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

LP 4 Side A

1. Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

2. Gary's Got A Boner (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

3. Johnny's Gonna Die (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

4. Can't Get Enough (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

5. I'm in Trouble (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

6. Don't Ask Why (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

7. Take Me Down to the Hospital (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

LP 4 Side B

1. Shiftless When Idle (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

2. Mr. Whirly (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

3. Hitchin' a Ride (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

4. Black Diamond (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

5. 20th Century Boy (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

6. Go (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

7. Gimme Noise (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

8. White and Lazy (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

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