Podcast: The Replacements live @ Al’s Bar in Los Angeles, CA (11.04.84)

Throughout 2008, the catalog of The Replacements (both the Twin/Tone years and the Sire/Warner Bros era) has been re-released, repackaged and remastered, giving an added depth and quality to already classic albums, like Let it Be (our favorite) and Tim (update: in a weird alignment of the blog stars, Aquarium Drunkard has a nice piece on the Sire/Warner re-releases today, go check it out). That said, one thing the remastered discs can’t do is erase some the highly dated ’80s slick-shlocked production, a sound that would have completely marred the LPs had Paul Westerberg’s songwriting and the Replacements’ sheer Faces-in-a-frenzy energy not pushed them to such ridiculously catchy, insistent and, yes, even moving–”Answering Machine,” c’mon!–heights.

As such, it’s always nice to revisit the Replacements without thick gobs of knobtwisted studio vaseline chunked across such gems as “I Will Dare” or the aforementioned “Answering Machine’–which is why the ‘ments live will always be a gift to the ears, as they most especially were in November of 1984, touring behind Let it Be in L.A. Enjoy.

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The Replacements live @ Al’s Bar in L.A. (11.04.84)

01. I’m In Trouble…(cuts out–sorry)
02. 20th Century Boy
03. I Will Dare
04. From the Halls of Montezuma
05. Johnny’s Gonna Die
06. Shut Up
07. Color Me Impressed
08. Unsatisfied
09. Mr. Whirly
10. Mabelline
11. Black Diamond
12. I Hate Music
13. 16 Blue
14. God Damn Job
15. Run It
16. Gimme Noise
17. Nowhere Is My Home
18. White and Lazy
19. Kids Don’t Follow
20. Hitchin’ A Ride
21. Answering Machine
22. Rock Around the Clock

October 20, 2008 | Filed Under Podcasts 

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2 Responses to “Podcast: The Replacements live @ Al’s Bar in Los Angeles, CA (11.04.84)”

  1. Rick Filler on March 5th, 2009 6:37 pm

    how do i play this

  2. travis on March 5th, 2009 7:04 pm

    Some computers with outdated or older security programs have been causing problems with the podcasts. Instead of pressing the ‘play’ button, click the ‘audio mp3′ button directly beneath it. Should work for you then.




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