The Replacements - Sorry, Ma Forgot To Take Out The Trash (4CD/1LP Deluxe Edition Box Set)

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The Replacements’ 1981 Twin/Tone Records debut, SORRY MA, FORGOT TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH, heralded the Minneapolis-based band’s competing tendencies toward indelible genius and reckless abandon. The ’Mats’ legendary founding line-up – lead singer/songwriter and guitarist Paul Westerberg, drummer Chris Mars, and brothers Bob and Tommy Stinson (lead guitar and bass respectively) – unleashed a thrilling, dynamic sound on the album with now-classic songs like “Takin’ A Ride,” “Shiftless When Idle,” and “Customer.”

We're celebrating the 40th anniversary of SORRY MA, FORGOT TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH this fall with a 4CD/1LP set that offers a remarkable document of The Replacements’ formative years. Of the set’s 100 tracks, 67 have never been released before, including the first demos the band recorded in early 1980, as well as a professionally captured concert from January 1981. Along with a newly remastered version of the original album, it also uncovers many unreleased rough mixes, alternate takes, and demos from the band’s first 18 months together. The LP included in the set, titled Deliberate Noise, presents an alternate version of the original album using these previously unreleased tracks.

SORRY MA, FORGOT TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH (DELUXE EDITION) is presented in a 12 x 12 hardcover book loaded with dozens of rarely seen photos. The set was produced by Twin/Tone Records co-founder Peter Jesperson, Rhino’s Jason Jones, and Replacements’ biographer Bob Mehr, who received a Grammy for Best Album Notes for his work on the band’s acclaimed 2019 boxed set Dead Man’s Pop. Mehr again penned the detailed liners that accompany this set, which features new interviews with The Replacements. Former Replacements manager Jesperson also provides a remembrance of the Sorry Ma era.

The boxed set opens with a remastered version of the original album that’s been expanded with the non-album B-side, “If Only You Were Lonely.” From there, a second disc, titled Raised in the City, delves into the group’s very first recordings (“Try Me,” “She’s Firm,” “Lookin For Ya”), as well as studio demos for album tracks (including “Shutup” and “I Hate Music”), outtakes (“Shape Up,” and “Get On The Stick,” among them) and rare basement recordings (“Lie About Your Age,” “Johnny Fast”). A handful of these appeared on Rhino’s 2008 reissue of Sorry Ma, but more than a dozen included on the new set have never been released.

Four outtakes on the collection’s third disc, Tape’s Rolling, debuted on the same 2008 reissue, but here they’re joined by more than two dozen unreleased recordings. Highlights include electrifying alternate versions of “Johnny’s Gonna Die” and “Love You Till Friday,” alternate mixes for “Rattlesnake” and “More Cigarettes,” plus Westerberg’s home demos of “You’re Pretty When You’re Rude” and “If Only You Were Lonely.”

The Deluxe Edition ends on a high note with the earliest professional live recording of The Replacements. The previously unreleased concert, dubbed Unsuitable for Airplay, was captured by Twin/Tone’s mobile unit on January 23, 1981, at the 7th St Entry in Minneapolis, MN. A portion of the show was later broadcast on the local community radio station, KFAI.

The concert took place as the band was in the midst of work on Sorry Ma. The show’s setlist is packed with evolving versions of songs that would appear on their debut album (“Hangin Downtown,” “Somethin to Dü,” “Rattlesnake”), along with other early numbers that were never released (“Mistake,” “Excuse Me”), plus choice covers of The Heartbreakers’ “I Wanna Be Loved,” Slade’s “My Town,” The Kinks’ “All Day and All of the Night,” and Dave Edmunds’ “Trouble Boys,” among others.

Disc One: Original Album (2021 Remaster)

1.            “Takin A Ride”

2.            “Careless”

3.            “Customer”

4.            “Hangin Downtown”

5.            “Kick Your Door Down”

6.            “Otto”

7.            “I Bought A Headache”

8.            “Rattlesnake”

9.            “I Hate Music”

10.          “Johnny’s Gonna Die”

11.          “Shiftless When Idle”

12.          “More Cigarettes”

13.          “Don’t Ask Why”

14.          “Somethin To Dü”

15.          “I’m In Trouble”

16.          “Love You Till Friday”

17.          “Shutup”

18.          “Raised In The City”

19.          “If Only You Were Lonely” – B-Side

 

Disc Two: Raised In The City – The Early Recordings

1.            “Try Me” – Demo

2.            “She’s Firm” – Demo

3.            “Lookin For Ya” – Demo

4.            “Raised In The City” – Demo

5.            “Shutup” – Demo

6.            “Don’t Turn Me Down” – Demo

7.            “Shape Up” – Demo

8.            “I Hate Music” – Studio Demo

9.            “Careless” – Studio Demo

10.          “Shutup” – Studio Demo

11.          “Otto” – Studio Demo

12.          “Get On The Stick” – Studio Demo

13.          “Oh Baby” – Studio Demo

14.          “Raised In The City” – Studio Demo

15.          “Shiftless When Idle” – Studio Demo

16.          “More Cigarettes” – Studio Demo

17.          “You Ain’t Gotta Dance” – Studio Demo

18.          “Don’t Turn Me Down” – Studio Demo

19.          “Rattlesnake” – Basement Version

20.          “Takin’ A Ride” – Basement Version

21.          “Lie About Your Age” – Basement Version

22.          “We’ll Get Drunk/Customer” – Basement Version

23.          “Johnny Fast” – Basement Version

24.          “Mistake” – Basement Version

25.          Basement Jam - Rehearsal

 

Disc Three: Tape’s Rolling – Studio Outtakes, Alternates & Home Demos

1.            “Careless” – Alternate Version

2.            “Takin A Ride” – Alternate Version

3.            “Shutup” – Alternate Version

4.            “Otto” – Alternate Mix

5.            “Raised In The City” – Alternate Version

6.            “Rattlesnake” – Alternate Mix

7.            “Love You Till Friday” – Alternate Version

8.            “Customer” – Alternate Version

9.            “Somethin To Dü” – Alternate Version

10.          “Johnny’s Gonna Die” – Alternate Version

11.          “I’m In Trouble” – Alternate Version

12.          “I Hate Music” – Alternate Version

13.          “We’ll Get Drunk”

14.          “More Cigarettes” – Alternate Mix

15.          “Get Lost” – Instrumental

16.          “Hangin Downtown” – Alternate Version

17.          “Shutup” – Alternate Version 2

18.          “Somethin To Dü” – Alternate Version 2

19.          “Don’t Ask Why” – Alternate Mix

20.          “Kick Your Door Down” – Alternate Mix

21.          “Love You Till Friday” – Alternate Mix

22.          “Johnny’s Gonna Die” – Alternate Mix

23.          “Like You” – Outtake

24.          “Get Lost” – Outtake

25.          “A Toe Needs A Shoe” – Outtake

26.          “You’re Pretty When You’re Rude” – Solo Home Demo

27.          “If Only You Were Lonely” – Working Version/Solo Home Demo

28.          “Bad Worker” – Solo Home Demo

29.          “You’re Getting Married” – Solo Home Demo

 

Disc Four: Unsuitable for Airplay – The Lost KFAI Concert (Live at the 7th St Entry, Minneapolis, MN, 1/23/81)

1.            “Careless”

2.            “Takin A Ride”

3.            “Trouble Boys”

4.            “Hangin Downtown”

5.            “Like You”

6.            “Off Your Pants”

7.            “Get Lost”

8.            “Excuse Me”

9.            “Customer”

10.          “I Wanna Be Loved”

11.          “Mistake”

12.          “My Town”

13.          “Shiftless When Idle”

14.          “Oh Baby”

15.          “I’m In Trouble”

16.          “Johnny’s Gonna Die/All By Myself”

17.          “More Cigarettes”

18.          “Otto”

19.          “Don’t Ask Why”

20.          “Slow Down”

21.          “Somethin To Dü”

22.          “Love You Till Friday”

23.          “Raised In The City”

24.          “Rattlesnake”

25.          “All Day And All Of The Night”

26.          “I Hate Music”

27.          “Shutup”

 

LP: Deliberate Noise – The Alternate Sorry Ma…

Vinyl Track Listing

 

Side One

1.            “Takin A Ride” – Alternate Version

2.            “Careless” – Alternate Version

3.            “Customer” – Alternate Version

4.            “Hangin Downtown” – Alternate Version

5.            “Kick Your Door Down” – Alternate Mix

6.            “Otto” – Alternate Mix

7.            “I Bought A Headache” – Alternate Mix

8.            “Rattlesnake” – Alternate Mix

9.            “I Hate Music” – Studio Demo

 

Side Two

1.            “Johnny’s Gonna Die” – Alternate Mix

2.            “Shiftless When Idle” – Studio Demo

3.            “More Cigarettes” – Alternate Mix

4.            “Don’t Ask Why” – Alternate Mix

5.            “Somethin To Dü” – Alternate Version 2

6.            “I’m In Trouble” – Alternate Version

7.            “Love You Till Friday” – Alternate Mix

8.            “Shutup” – Alternate Version

9.            “Raised In The City” – Alternate Version