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This Rhino.com exclusive bundle includes the 4CD/1LP boxed set, a 7 reissue of The Replacements first single, Im In Trouble b/w If Only You Were Lonely, bumper sticker, and a pin pack.

The Replacements 1981 Twin/Tone Records debut, SORRY MA, FORGOT TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH, heralded the Minneapolis-based bands 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 sets 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 bands 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, Rhinos Jason Jones, and Replacements biographer Bob Mehr, who received a Grammy for Best Album Notes for his work on the bands acclaimed 2019 boxed set Dead Mans 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 thats 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 groups very first recordings (Try Me, Shes 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 Rhinos 2008 reissue of Sorry Ma, but more than a dozen included on the new set have never been released.

Four outtakes on the collections third disc, Tapes Rolling, debuted on the same 2008 reissue, but here theyre joined by more than two dozen unreleased recordings. Highlights include electrifying alternate versions of Johnnys Gonna Die and Love You Till Friday, alternate mixes for Rattlesnake and More Cigarettes, plus Westerbergs home demos of Youre Pretty When Youre 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/Tones 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 shows setlist is packed with evolving versions of songs that would appear on their debut album (Hangin Downtown, Somethin to D, Rattlesnake), along with other early numbers that were never released (Mistake, Excuse Me), plus choice covers of The Heartbreakers I Wanna Be Loved, Slades My Town, The Kinks All Day and All of the Night, and Dave Edmunds Trouble Boys, among others.

Available on October 22nd, all Rhino.com pre-orders come with an exclusive flyer reproduction from their show at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis, MN, in 1981.