The Ledge #692: New Releases (Pt. 3)

The unprecedented third show of new releases this month ends the series not with a whimper but with triumph. These aren't extras or third-rate fillers. The tracks aired tonight proudly stand next to those played in the first two shows. In fact, this episode is not only the longest but most varied of the trio.

Part of the reason for the length, though, is the last minute decision to add a set devoted to today's release of the reissue of my third favorite album of all time, Let It Be by The Replacements. This new box includes a disc of outtakes and other rarities, along with a live album recorded in Chicago on August 17, 1984.

I also added a couple of songs by a band I saw in Minneapolis last Saturday. Playing with our friends the Daniel James Gang (led by former Indonesia Junk front man Daniel James and accompanied by Geoff Palmer on second guitar) and opener Cheap Glue (oh man, I need them to record ASAP), Smart Shoppers are a performance art/punk band from Green Bay, and Shop Among Us is quite fun.

There's also sets devoted to two tribute records this week - Play On: A Raspberries Tribute and Killed By Deaf: A Punk Tribute to Motorhead. There's also long-awaited returns by Sugar and The Lemonheads, and a maybe not so long-awaited record by Guided By Voices. (I saw that because it was just a few months ago that Robert Pollard announced that GBV was hanging it up.)

What tracks are you into this week?

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1. Todd Snider - The Human Condition

2. The Replacements - Who's Gonna Take Us Alive

3. The Replacements - Favorite Thing  (Alternate Version)

4. The Replacements - Unsatisfied (Alternate Mix)  (Full-Length Version)

5. The Replacements - I Will Dare  (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, 8/17/84)

6. Smart Shoppers - SPURS

7. Smart Shoppers - START OVER

8. Mary Strand - Yours Until Tomorrow

9. Mozart Estate - Electric Rock And Roll

10. Humbug - Open Season

11. Frank Turner - Bar Staff

12. Frank Turner - Little Life

13. Paul Kelly - Rita Wrote A Letter

14. Ski Van - Now

15. Shoes - Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)

16. Ken Sharp - I'm A Rocker

17. Cherie Currie - Hands On You

18. The Toms - Every Way I Can

19. Guided By Voices - (You Can't Go Back To) Oxford Talawanda

20. Guided By Voices - Phantasmagoric Upstarts

21. The Lemonheads - Deep End

22. The Lemonheads - Wild Thing

23. Naïm Amor & Kid Congo Powers - Murder We Wrote

24. Naïm Amor & Kid Congo Powers - Showdown

25. Jim Jones All Stars - Burning Your House Down

26. Jim Jones All Stars - Rock N' Roll Psychosis

27. Nico Bones - Satin Doll

28. Oruã - Deus Dará

29. Sunflowers - I Got Friends

30. The Smelters - Suppose To Be

31. Cosmic Psychos - This Could Be The Greatest Beer Of My Life

32. Pennywise - Ace of Spades

33. Rancid - Sex and Death

34. Lagwagon - Rock 'n' Roll

35. Motörhead (feat. The Damned) - Neat Neat Neat

36. Sugar - House of Dead Memories