{"id":33342,"date":"2025-09-12T14:24:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=33342"},"modified":"2025-09-12T14:24:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:24:26","slug":"listening-to-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=33342","title":{"rendered":"Listening To&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><b>The Replacements &#8211; Tim (Let It Bleed Edition)<\/b><br \/>\nThere are 54 (!) songs in this release: two full versions of the album (a full remix and the 2023 remaster), 15 demos and alternative versions, and then 28 live tracks. Whew. So far, I have only listened to the first of the two new versions of the album: the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ed_Stasium\">Ed Stasium<\/a> remixes. I heard two tracks of this on Spotify and knew I had to get the rest. It&#8217;s amazing. The original, like a lot of mid-80s indie records (the other Replacements&#8217; records, Sonic Youth&#8217;s &#8220;Sister&#8221;, Dino Jr&#8217;s early albums, etc.), always sounded a bit muffled to me. But this is the complete opposite of muffled. Everything is crisp and loud. More than just a remaster (which is like adjusting brightness or color balance of a picture after you&#8217;ve taken it), this is a full remix (which is more like rearranging the objects and lighting and taking the photo again); instrument levels and their stereo positioning are different, effects applied in the original version weren&#8217;t applied here, and different editing choices were made. The drums and bass are <em>way <\/em>up front, the guitars are sharp but pushed back in the mix and the vocals are incredibly clear. Tons of things that the original recordings buried or outright muted were left in: little guitar frills everywhere, Paul Westerberg&#8217;s vocal interjections, background vocals(!). The way various parts are raised or lowered vs the original gives many of the songs very different vibes. Which I find fascinating. I had to listen very closely at first to make sure they weren&#8217;t entirely new versions that Westerberg had recorded (pulling a Taylor Swift move or something). A couple of songs are even longer: &#8220;Little Mascara&#8221; is almost a minute longer (the original faded out long before the band stopped) and &#8220;Here Comes A Regular&#8221; has a few extra seconds (including a line that was dropped) near the end. What a great thing. I wish more bands would do this. (Just found out that Robyn Hitchcock is doing this with &#8220;Globe Of Frogs&#8221;, yay).<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hold My Life (Ed Stasium Mix)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A99QdbpiNXU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<li><b>Horsegirl &#8211; Phonetics On And On<\/b>. A couple of months ago I didn&#8217;t know I wanted to hear anything that sounded like a mixture of Stereolab&#8217;s vocals, early Pavement&#8217;s guitars all in something like The Vaselines&#8217; or Beat Happening&#8217;s general sunny but happily-primitive vibe. Now I realize I did. And I&#8217;m better for it. Great album. Very catchy.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Horsegirl - &quot;Sport Meets Sound&quot; (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6uLwVEKSS1s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<li><b>The Sorcerers &#8211; Other Worlds And Habits<\/b>. This modern British trio specializes in exploring the sounds of 1960&#8217;s Ethiopian jazz. And they do it very well. The only thing that would cause one to mistake this for original 60&#8217;s Ethiopian jazz is the fact that it doesn&#8217;t sound like it was recorded on sketchy gear, 60 years ago. Fun.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Sorcerers \u2013 Ancestral Machines (Live to Tape at ATA Studios)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/knQ3UoFjNAk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<li><b>Shellac &#8211; To All Trains<\/b>. Losing Steve Albini last year was a huge blow to the indie music scene in general. He was a giant. And specifically, it means this was Shellac&#8217;s last album. And it&#8217;s a good one. Shellac had a very specific sound: very clean production of very loud instruments with a lot of empty space for contrast. They got a lot of mileage out of it, and yet it always sounded fresh. I would have kept buying these records forever. Alas. Fittingly, the last song is named &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Fear Hell&#8221; (&#8220;If there&#8217;s a heaven, I hope they&#8217;re having fun \/ because if there&#8217;s a hell I&#8217;m gonna know everyone!&#8221;).<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I Don&amp;apos;t Fear Hell\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x1vyzQXHpQk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Replacements &#8211; Tim (Let It Bleed Edition) There are 54 (!) songs in this release: two full versions of the album (a full remix and the 2023 remaster), 15 demos and alternative versions, and then 28 live tracks. Whew. So far, I have only listened to the first of the two new versions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listening-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33343,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33342\/revisions\/33343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}