Tag: Alternate
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Wilco, Crosseyed Strangers: An Alternate Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, 2023 on Nonesuch / dBpm
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot would be one of my desert island disks: so much wonderful, complex, hook-filled, and just plain fun music across that album. This released came out on Record Store Day 2023, compiling various versions (including live ones) of songs from the album, taking it’s title from “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart”:…
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The Replacements, Dead Man’s Pop, 2019 on Sire
Each time I visit Minneapolis I try to find some Replacements vinyl, but it doesn’t always work out. Dead Man’s Pop was released in 2019, including the previously unreleased Matt Wallace mix of what became Don’t Tell a Soul – later mixed by Chris Lord-Alge whose very name sounds made up to infuriate the Replacements,…
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a-ha, Hunting High And Low (The Early Alternate Mixes), 2019 on Rhino / Warner
a-ha, Hunting High And Low (The Early Alternate Mixes), 2019 on Rhino / Warner The original Hunting High And Low was 1985. Yes, this is the album kicked off by “Take On Me,” which has become an 80s cliche – but the band was (and is) way more talented than just that song – if…
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Fleetwood Mac, The Alternate Fleetwood Mac, 2019 on Reprise.
Fleetwood Mac, The Alternate Fleetwood Mac, 2019 on Reprise. 25 years after the 1975 self-titled release, which was itself their 10th LP and 2nd self-titled release. It was the first album with Stevie Nicks / Lindsey Buckingham Great early versions here of Landslide, Rhiannon. and Over My Head