{"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..."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><b>The Replacements - 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's amazing. The original, like a lot of mid-80s indie records (the other Replacements' records, Sonic Youth's \"Sister\", Dino Jr'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'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'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'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't entirely new versions that Westerberg had recorded (pulling a Taylor Swift move or something). A couple of songs are even longer: \"Little Mascara\" is almost a minute longer (the original faded out long before the band stopped) and \"Here Comes A Regular\" 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 \"Globe Of Frogs\", yay).<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hold My Life (Ed Stasium Mix)\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" 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 - Phonetics On And On<\/b>. A couple of months ago I didn't know I wanted to hear anything that sounded like a mixture of Stereolab's vocals, early Pavement's guitars all in something like The Vaselines' or Beat Happening's general sunny but happily-primitive vibe. Now I realize I did. And I'm better for it. Great album. Very catchy.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Horsegirl - &quot;Sport Meets Sound&quot; (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" 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 - Other Worlds And Habits<\/b>. This modern British trio specializes in exploring the sounds of 1960's Ethiopian jazz. And they do it very well. The only thing that would cause one to mistake this for original 60's Ethiopian jazz is the fact that it doesn'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=\"625\" height=\"469\" 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 - 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's last album. And it'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 \"I Don't Fear Hell\" (\"If there's a heaven, I hope they're having fun \/ because if there's a hell I'm gonna know everyone!\").<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I Don&#039;t Fear Hell\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" 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 - 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. 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