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  Let It Be (Replacements album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Let It Be is the title of a 1984 album released by The Replacements.
The fourth Replacements LP was released in 1984 on Twin/Tone Records.
It was rated by Rolling Stone magazine as the fifteenth best album of the 1980s in 1990 and the 239th greatest album of all time in their 2003 list of the "Greatest Albums of All Time".
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 The Replacements - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Replacements (also known as The Mats or The 'Mats by fans) were a seminal alternative rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
They released the four albums on Twin/Tone Records (based in their hometown of Minneapolis), the last two of which, Hootenanny and Let It Be, are widely considered classics by fans of what alternative rock was in the 1980s.
The title was typical Replacements: deliberately thumbing their nose at The Beatles' legacy, and putting out a subversive, brilliant, melodic punk record might have been embraced by modern audiences.
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 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Let It Be   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Let It Be is also the name of an album by The Replacements and an album by Laibach.
Let It Be was an album by The Beatles, released on May 8, 1970.
Let It Be is the title of a 1970 film, released by United Artists and directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, documenting The Beatles' recording of the album as well as the interpersonal conflicts which eventually split the group apart.
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 Encyclopedia: Let It Be (Replacements album)
Paul Westerberg is the former lead singer and songwriter of The Replacements, one of the seminal indie rock bands of the 1980s.
Hootenanny was the second album by The Replacements, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music).
Ted Nugent performs at a USO concert at Naval Support Activity, Naples, Italy, June 1, 2004 Ted Nugent (born December 13, 1948) aka the Nuge and the Motor City Madman is a guitarist from Detroit, Michigan, originally gaining fame as a member of the Amboy Dukes.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Let It Be [Remaster] - The Replacements at Epinions.com
I knew The Replacements had been around and appreciated in the world of underground music, somehow managing to seep in the brains of college students and aspiring rock stars.
This 1984 album is filled with sometimes punky, sometimes angsty, sometimes soulful (or rather, as soulful as a punk can be) laments the child of punk can relate to.
The Replacements should be remembered as a band that, although never as successful as those they inspired, introduced sounds many of us have grown to love and know as a part of rock and roll.
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 Sam Ulward Album Reviews: Replacements
For the period, the album feels sloppy even for a punk record, but the good songs are the ones that hold it together.
Keeping this in mind, the Replacements became unlikely heroes as they attracted their largest audience with this album, which for many was their introduction to the band.
I believe they did find their true melodic voices on the next two albums, but Let It Be is important as firstly, their breakthrough record, and more importantly, a demonstration of Westerberg's developing gifts as a songwriter.
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 Replacements - Tim, Pleased To Meet Me, Let It Be Review
Their sound was a little cleaned up from their indie treat, Let It Be, but they still had the free-spirited sound that made the Replacements what they would be.
It was on Let It Be where The Replacements moved from an everyday punk band to the blueprint for so many alt.rock bands to come.
This album was originally released in 1984, in the middle of the 80s where music as intelligent as this was unheard of.
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 MELOY, COLIN - THE REPLACEMENTS: LET IT BE 33 1/3 VOL. 16 - MEMORIBILLIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
MELOY, COLIN - THE REPLACEMENTS: LET IT BE 33 1/3 VOL.
THE REPLACEMENTS: LET IT BE 33 1/3 VOL.
Book 120 pages: One of the greatest moments of College Rock in the 1980s, Let It Be had a huge impact on the fans who fell under its spell.
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 The Replacements Album Reviews
The Replacements weren't really a hardcore band at heart, but they started with that style simply because those were the only kinds of clubs that they could play in.
Simply put, this is the album on which this influential band of loveable drunks came of age, as their agreeably raw sounded remained intact while Westerberg distinguished himself as a premiere songwriter with a knack for memorable melodies.
Actually, this is a Replacements album in name only, since the contributions of the other band members were minimal and 11 session musicians are credited.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Let It Be [Remastered] [Original recording remastered]: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Let It Be is not only a highlight of the US underground of the 80s, but one of the greatest rock& roll albums ever released.
Let It Be shows us what ballless, soulless, corpotate posturing we have had to suffer since the horrors of Britpop- listening to this, it's easy to see how false a brand like Oasis are.
Let It Be is a key indie album, a key four-piece/gang-band album, one that stands out as a key US album of that era- alongside Husker Du's Zen Arcade/New Day Rising, REM's Murmur/Reckoning & Meat Puppets second album.
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 The Replacements: Pleased to Meet Me ---Ink Blot Magazine
The Replacements began in 1979 as a punk/hardcore band taking a sloppier approach to what fellow Twin Cities rockers Hüsker Dü were trying to do.
It wasn't until 1983's Hootenanny that anyone cared, however, and that album's wider musical palette pointed the band towards Let It Be, wherein they became a proper rock band with roots and passion and songwriting skills on display.
If you ask Replacements fans which album they consider the band's best, almost all would say Let it Be or Tim.
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 The Drum Report Store - The Replacements' Let It Be (33 1/3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
It starts off with his first purchase of a Replacements Album when he was about ten, all the way through to his Jr.
The Replacements were the soundtrack to his coming of age years, reading this book takes you back, you simply can't read it without thinking about your own elementary school and junior high years, and about the bands and musicians that kept us company through those moments, channeling and giving voice to our own emotions.
The point is not how many albums were sold, or how many singles went gold or platinum but rather what the music means to the listener.
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 The Penske File
The same could be said of the album’s first single, the current hit “Little Sister.” This is one of the many tracks where Homme is able to further establish his lead and rhythm guitar work as some of the most unique in rock today.
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 Early Look at the Replacements "Let It Be"
Through three albums and an EP, they've blossomed from an infectiously obnoxious quasi-punk act to an honestly compelling rock 'n' roll band capable of pathos as well as bracing crudity.
Let It Be's tunes are grippingly melodic, and Westerberg's confessional lyrics trade the bluster of old for emotional honesty.
The Replacements spent their first years staggering from stage to stage, not making any money and not winning many fans.
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 Welcome To Mechantiques   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
In fine restored condition (older restoration), with four expertly replaced teeth, and with a number of discs (actually there are 9 original discs plus 13 reproductions from one source and 4 from another source, I believe all from the 9 originals).
Finials are nice replacements but a little taller than they should be (we have one or two of the originals).
Coin slide is a much later replacement and is arranged now so that just pushing the slide in starts the governor — however it was always coin operated despite the missing coin linkage as the original coin drawer is there.
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 Tower Records - Let It Be [Remaster] - The Replacements   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The Replacements were one of America's greatest bands of the 80s, irrespective of genre, though they received thin acknowledgement outside of informed critics during their lifetime.
LET IT BE demonstrates why they drove fans to devotion and critics to supplication.
It was 1984, and the Replacements had left behind their sonic links to the Minneapolis punk scene.
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 Swizzle-Stick
And I owe it all to The Replacements' "Let It Be."
But she told me that one side was a band called The Replacements and the album was called "Let It Be." Originally released in 1984, I had to admire the cheekiness of taking the Beatles' name.
He had hinted at having the capabilities to be thoughtful on earlier albums with songs like "Johnny's Gonna Die" and "Within' Your Reach." But this would be the first time he fully meshed the rocker and poet sides of his personality.
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 The Replacements: Tim ---Ink Blot Magazine
In 1985 The Replacements were kings of American college radio.
Robert Longo was famous at the time for a series of fl and white paintings of well-dressed yuppie types being attacked/hit/strangled/pushed by invisible sources.
Tim is the album for those who are taking a beating and don't see the point.
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 The Covers Project: The Replacements
The cover version of this song appears on the The Replacements album Let It Be.
The original version of this song appears on the The Replacements album Let It Be.
The original version of this song appears on the The Replacements album Maniac: Live - 860204 - Hoboken, NJ (Disc 1 of 2).
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 Laibach : Let It Be - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Probably the band's most famous release in the English-speaking world, Laibach's Let It Be -- unlike the Replacements' album -- didn't just name itself after the Beatles' swan song, it full-on covered every last bit of it, with the notable exception of the title track ("Maggie Mae" gets a Slovenian folk tune substituted for it).
Having spent some time beforehand drawing any number of parallels of right-wing extremism with their home country's government and the West alike, especially when it came to the resemblance of big rock concerts to totalitarian rallies, all Laibach had to do was tackle what they felt was the Beatles' worst album.
In some respects, Let It Be wasn't that hard of an effort -- songs like "Get Back," "I Me Mine," and "One After 909" simply had to have the Laibach elements applied (growled vocals, martial drums, chanting choirs, overpowering orchestrations, insanely over-the-top guitar solos) to be turned into bizarre doppelgängers.
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 Amazon.com: Let It Be [ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
In a legacy of outstanding and important albums by the Replacements and Westerberg, "Let it Be" is the best - which makes it one of the best of all time.
Actually, a friend (let's call him Alex since that was his name) did try to introduce me to the Replacements while I was in college, but I wasn't buying it.
I don't have the vocabulary to express how important this album was [and is] to me. When you're young, confused, angry, in unrequited love, fearful of the future but dissatisfied with the present, and anxious to get on with it, or any combination of these feelings, this album is a salvation.
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 Let It Be, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic
Let It Be, along with R.E.M.'s Murmur, the Pixies' Surfer Rosa and Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation, was a cornerstone of alternative rock, its raw nerves and unrepentant sloppiness challenging the corporate gloss of '80s megastars like Madonna and Michael Jackson.
Westerberg could thrash like the best of them in mindless toss-offs like "Gary's Got a Boner," but when he quieted down and let his vulnerabilities show, he was a minimalist Springsteen, laying emotions bare in a few simply turned phrases.
The album's title was a crass swipe at the Beatles, but it turned out to be awfully prescient — for the malcontents who populated the '80s underground, Let It Be was as classic as rock & roll could be.
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 Powell's Books - The Replacements' Let It Be (33 1/3) by Colin Meloy
The authors provide fresh, original perspectives — often through their access to and relationships with the key figures involved in the recording of these albums.
What binds the series together, and what brings it to life, is that all of the authors — musicians, broadcasters, scholars, and writers — are huge fans of the album they have chosen.
Their first two albums, Castaways and Cutouts and Her Majesty the Decemberists, have been released to widespread critical acclaim.
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 Peter S. Scholtes - Complicated Fun - May 06, 2004 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Back-cover liner notes hint at the seriousness of it all, for anyone keeping score at home: "Paul on 12-string electric, piano." Actually, on the sleeve it says "acoustic" rather than "electric," which may be an attempt to dismiss the so-uncool notion of musicianship.
The rest of the album rumbles and soars with the kind of intensity and confidence that results from men at work.
I’ve been playing in bands playing Replacements songs for damn near 20 years, and I can honestly say that in all the times I’ve been a part of covering "I Will Dare"--probably no less that 300, but who’s counting--all the various combos I’ve played with have really nailed the song maybe five times.
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 MAGNET Interview: Decemberists
Your book about the Replacements album Let It Be was very personal, as opposed to the abstractions of the Decemberists’ lyrics.
In this band, a lot of attention gets put on the overt narrative songs, but there are songs on the new record, for instance, that are more personal.
One of the things I drew from the Replacements was not to take things too seriously.
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 Amazon.com: Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out The Trash [ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The Replacements' 1981 debut, like the Stink EP that came on its heels, is laden with hardcore punk that was the flavor in underground rock of the time, albeit of a customized strain.
Paul Westeberg recently appeared on one of Paul Collins solo albums in 2000, playing guitar and singing despite the fact that The Beat is still together as a band.
The rest of the band propbably let it in in exchange for Paul kicking butt on the rest of the album.
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 The Replacements: Let It Be   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The Replacements initially formed in 1979, when Paul Westerberg joined a garage punk band formed by brothers Bob (guitar) and Tommy Stinson (bass) and drummer Chris Mars.
Originally, the band was called the Impediments, but they changed their name to the Replacements after being banned from a local club for disorderly behavior.
However, the Replacements were wilder and looser than the Hüskers and quickly became notorious for their drunken, chaotic gigs.
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