The Twin/Tone Years (LP4)

LPA

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

LPB

1. Johnny's Gonna Die
2. Shiftless When Idle
3. More Cigarettes
4. Don't Ask Why
5. Somethin To Dü
6. I'm In Trouble
7. Love You Till Friday
8. Shutup
9. Raised In The City

LPC

1. Kids Don't Follow
2. Fuck School
3. Stuck In The Middle
4. God Damn Job

LPD

1. White And Lazy
2. Dope Smokin' Moron
3. Go
4. Gimme Noise

LPE

1. Hootenanny
2. Rn It
3. Color Me Impressed
4. Willpower
5. Take Me Down To The Hospital
6. Mr. Whirly

LPF

1. Within Your Reach
2. Buck Hill
3. Lovelines
4. You Lose
5. Hayday
6. Treatment Bound

LPG

1. I Will Dare
2. Favorite Thing
3. We're Comin' Out
4. Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out
5. Androgynous
6. Black Diamond

LPH

1. Unsatisfied
2. Seen Your Video
3. Gary's Got A Boner
4. Sixteen Blue
5. Answering Machine

The Replacements signed with Minneapolis-based Twin/Tone Records in 1980. Over the next four years, the band helped shape the future of alternative rock with its “Left of the Dial” sound and notorious live shows, where the band often danced the razor’s edge between brilliant and belligerent.

Rhino revisits the influential quartet’s early years with a new vinyl boxed set that includes the Replacement’s first four releases, which are being pressed on vinyl for the first time in over two decades. THE TWIN/TONE YEARS will be available on Friday, August 14 as an individually numbered, limited edition of 8,000 copies.

The collection features: Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash (1981), the Stink EP (1982), Hootenanny (1983) and Let It Be (1984). Later this year, Rhino will also release a second vinyl boxed set that highlights the four albums the band recorded for Sire Records between 1985-90.

Paul Westerberg, Chris Mars, Tommy Stinson, and brother Bob Stinson started out in Minneapolis playing in basements and garages before Peter Jesperson signed the band to Twin/Tone Records in 1980. Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash arrived a year later with songs like “Takin’ A Ride,” “I Bought A Headache,” and “Shiftless When Idle.”

The band returned in 1982 with the Stink EP. The indelible lead track “Kids Don’t Follow” is bolstered by the whiplash rhythms and sneering defiance of “God Damn Job” and “Dope Smokin’ Moron.”

The band began to expand its musical horizons the following year on Hootenanny. There were rockers — “Mr. Whirly” and “Color Me Impressed” — but also the moody groove of “Within Your Reach,” the slurry shuffle of “Treatment Bound” and “Loveline,” a swinging vamp on the want ads.

The group’s final Twin/Tone album, Let It Be (1984), brought all of the ’Mats’ strengths together. It’s recognized today as one of the greatest albums of the 1980s thanks to classic  tracks like “I Will Dare,” “Androgynous,” and “Unsatisfied.”