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“We know the night could fall at any time:” 12 Essential tracks on the 60-track Replacements’ Box Set “Dead Man’s Pop”

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Over at The Ringer my buddy Adam Nayman and I got deep into the weeds and chose our twelve favorite tracks from the new sixty song Replacements’ box set Dead Man’s Pop! It’s an interesting reissue gambit for sure — a re-imagining of Don’t Tell A Soul, the polarizing 1989 LP I wrote about earlier this year in this very space. Whatever its merits and demerits, there is plenty to enjoy for hardcore ‘Mats fans and casual enthusiasts looking for something new to groove to.

It is in some ways predictable that this most fetishized, self-loathing of bands would elect to foreground what should presumably be a lucrative reissue campaign with a release that practically no one could agree upon. The assembled 60 tracks, composed of Don’t Tell a Soul’s initial brawnier mix, outtakes from an abortive attempt at recording the record in upstate New York, a raw but funny session with fellow reprobate Tom Waits, and a mostly great live show in Milwaukee attempts to recast the experience of the record as a kind of counterfactual history known as Dead Man’s Pop. (Apparently the group’s preferred title for the album—no idea why Sire might push back.)

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