Recorded live at the Uptown
Bar, Minneapolis, 19th January 1985.
Set-list:
1.
Nowhere is My
Home
2.
Hear You Been to
College
3.
Color Me Impressed
4.
I'm in Love with a Girl (Big Star
cover)
5.
Can't Hardly
Wait
6.
I Will Dare
7.
Favorite Thing
8.
Polly Wolly
Doodle (Traditional)
9.
Waltzing
Matilda (Traditional)
10.
September Gurls (Big Star cover)
(Paul: “Alex might get embarrassed; this is his best song”)
11.
Time is Tight
12.
Baby Strange (Marc Bolan /
T-Rex cover)
13.
Black Diamond
14.
Lovelines
15.
When the Lights are
Out (Slade cover?)
16.
Heart of Stone
17.
Left in the Dark
18.
Answering
Machine
19.
Left of the Dial
20.
Gary's Got a
Boner
21.
Go
22.
If I Only Had a Brain (from
the Wizard of Oz?)
23.
Kansas City Star (Roger Miller
cover)
24.
Yeah Yeah
25.
Takin' Care of
Business
26.
Help Me Rhonda (Beach Boys cover)
27.
Little GTO
28.
Can't Get Enough of Your
Love
29.
I'll Be There
30.
Hitchin' a Ride
Notes:
Complete show: Yes.
Musicians: The Replacements
v 1 plus Alex Chilton
CD quality: Perfect,
seamless copy apart from rough edits which appear on the original (see below).
Remarks:
Not bad. I like this show, a 6 on
my highly subjective scale. The band are a little drunk, which is like saying
they are a little sober. Which is to say nothing really. The point being that
it’s a damm fine show, I like it, so there. The Foshay Tower site had this to say:
It's January 1985, and Alex Chilton was in town to
produce the next Mats album. Of course they only finished three songs and then
quit, but Alex did manage to attend this show while he was in the Twin Cities.
So, between songs in this typical 1985 setlist, you get to hear Paul ask
Chilton to come up onstage (which he finally does, toward the end of the show).
This show includes a rare live performance of "Nowhere is My Home,"
one of the songs Chilton produced.
SOUND QUALITY: Professionally recorded soundboard tape,
in stereo. Quality is 7 out of 10. Note: there are 2 or 3 sloppy edits between
songs which are noticeable and slightly detract from the quality.