“Beat Girl”, The
Replacements, 1994.
Set-list:
Disc One: (73:30)
1.
Kissing
In Action
2.
Ought
To Get Love
3.
Satellite
4.
Like
A Rolling Pin
5.
Can't
Hardly Wait (All
15 minutes of it! But before you get excited, see note below)
6.
Date
To Church
7.
If
Only You Were Lonely
8.
Nowhere
In My Home
9.
Route
66
10.
Election
Day
11.
Tossin
and Turnin
12.
Jungle
Rock
13.
Cool
Water
14.
Cruella
DeVille
15.
20th
Century Boy
Notes:
Complete show: Nah, this is a compilation of
B-sides, rarities and other stuff.
Musicians: The Replacements v1.
CD quality: Fine copy.
Sound quality: You’ll find better versions of some of these songs elsewhere on other compilations and on the officially released “All for Nothing / Nothing for All”.
Remarks:
OK, so the quality isn’t that great. In fact, here’s what our AMR regular Charles wrote
Beat Girl is
pretty poorly made. Considering the
source of it is pirated material, the sound is awful. Even though the tracks are available on LP and CD, it sounds like
the bootlegger first transferred them from their original medium to a cassette
tape, and then made the CD from that cassette.
"Date to Church" comes from a scratchy 45 copied to cassette,
even though it was readily, easily available on the "Just Say Mao"
cd. "Beat Girl" also has manufacturing
flaw, in that track five contains the first four tracks repeated before it gets
to "Can't Hardly Wait". 6 of
the fifteen tracks from "Beat Girl" are on NFA.
The plus point for me is that some of these are so bad, lo-fi quality. In fact, if they had put “Go” on here, I’d flip.