Let It Be by The Replacements—Paul Westerberg, Bob Stinson, Tommy Stinson, and Chris Mars—is widely hailed as one of the greatest albums of the 1980s and a cornerstone of indie rock.
The landmark 1984 album returns in a newly remastered and expanded edition on 4xLP and 3xCD configurations. This deluxe archival edition features a new remaster of the album from the original two-track analog stereo tapes, alongside previously unreleased and rare studio outtakes and intimate Paul Westerberg home demos. Delve into the band's infectious live energy with a complete, previously unreleased concert recorded in March 1984 at Cubby Bear in Chicago, IL.
As music journalist Elizabeth Nelson writes in the liner notes, Let It Be “is a record for girls, for the working poor, for the terminally shy, for anyone who ever felt like a freak in their own skin. And it still is... It is, in short, the blueprint for what so many of us wanted and needed rock and roll to be: a refuge, a provocation, a mother, a middle finger, and, in the end, a way out.”
Disc 1: Original Album Remastered
1-1. I Will Dare
1-2. Favorite Thing
1-3. We’re Comin’ Out
1-4. Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out
1-5. Androgynous
1-6. Black Diamond
1-7. Unsatisfied
1-8. Seen Your Video
1-9. Gary’s Got A Boner
1-10. Sixteen Blue
1-11. Answering Machine
Disc 2: Kiss My Grassroots: Rarities And B-Sides
2-1. Gary’s Got A Boner (Alternate Version)
2-2. Favorite Thing (Alternate Version)
2-3. Perfectly Lethal
2-4. Temptation Eyes
2-5. Who’s Gonna Take Us Alive
2-6. Heartbeat, It’s A Lovebeat
2-7. Answering Machine (Home Demo #1)
2-8. Answering Machine (Home Demo #2)
2-9. Street Girl (Takes 1 And 2)
2-10. Sixteen Blue (Alternate Version)
2-11. Unsatisfied (Alternate Mix) [Full Length Version]
2-12. Androgynous (Alternate Version)
2-13. 20th Century Boy
2-14. Hey Good Lookin’ (Live At Merlyn's, Madison, WI)
Disc 3: Goodnight! Go Home!: Live At Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, August 17, 1984
3-1. Can’t Hardly Wait
3-2. Left In The Dark
3-3. Unsatisfied
3-4. I Will Dare
3-5. Favorite Thing
3-6. Kids Don’t Follow
3-7. Run It
3-8. Color Me Impressed
3-9. Hayday
3-10. Nowhere Is My Home
3-11. Love You Till Friday
3-12. Help Me Rhonda/Little G.T.O.
3-13. Takin’ A Ride
3-14. Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out
3-15. Gary’s Got A Boner
3-16. Johnny’s Gonna Die
3-17. Can’t Get Enough
3-18. I’m In Trouble
3-19. Don’t Ask Why
3-20. Take Me Down To The Hospital
3-21. Shiftless When Idle
3-22. Mr. Whirly
3-23. Hitchin’ A Ride
3-24. Black Diamond
3-25. 20th Century Boy
3-26. Go
3-27. Gimme Noise
3-28. White And Lazy