{"id":1970473,"date":"2025-08-20T14:32:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1970473"},"modified":"2025-08-20T14:32:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:32:31","slug":"the-replacements-bolster-let-it-be-for-41st-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-replacements-bolster-let-it-be-for-41st-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"The Replacements Bolster \u2018Let It Be\u2019 For 41st Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Replacements\u2019 third album, Let It Be, will be back in stores in deluxe form<\/a> on Oct. 24, a few months after the 41st anniversary of its release. The Rhino project includes four LPs and three CDs that help trace the evolution of the material on Let It Be, which has long been regarded as one of the best rock albums of its era.<\/p>\n

The Minneapolis-reared band\u2019s final album for indie Twin\/Tone before jumping to major-label Sire, Let It Be is an order of magnitude more vibrant, catchy and soul-stirring than any prior Replacements release from the first jaunty guitar lick of \u201cI Will Dare.\u201d As further demonstrated by its iconic rooftop-shot album cover,\u00a0it burbles with an honest ambivalence that\u2019s never far from the surface.<\/p>\n

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Paul Westerberg\u2019s writing takes giant leaps for rock\u2019n\u2019roll-kind here, and he\u2019s no longer singing or screaming\u00a0at\u00a0you, but\u00a0to\u00a0you. You can practically see him sitting at a beat-up piano, lit cigarette precariously dangling from his mouth, as a solitary lightbulb sways from the ceiling on \u201cAndrogynous,\u201d a \u201clove who you want to love\u201d ballad tackling subject matter rarely touched in underground music of this era. The winsome guitar figure of \u201cUnsatisfied\u201d permeates with a sly sincerity capable of making you re-examine your own life choices, and \u201cAnswering Machine\u201d crystallizes the pangs of love from a distance with a litany of rhetorical questions (\u201chow do you say I\u2019m lonely to an answering machine?\u201d).<\/p>\n

The album will now feature alternate versions of \u201cAndrogynous\u201d (which can be heard below), \u201cFavorite Thing\u201d and \u201cGary\u2019s Got a Boner,\u201d the previously unreleased outtakes \u201cStreet Girl\u201d and \u201cWho\u2019s Gonna Take Us Alive\u201d and remastered takes on five bonus tracks previously unearthed for a 2008 deluxe edition.<\/p>\n

Also included is a previously unreleased 28-song concert from the Cubby Bear in Chicago in August 1984, more than two months before the release of Let It Be. Rhino.com is offering versions with an exclusive 10-inch vinyl of Live at City Garden, taped in February 1984 at the Trenton, N.J., club of the same name.<\/p>\n

To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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