Bash & Pop ReIssue "Friday Is Killing Me" w/ 18 Bonus Tracks

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Bash & Pop ReIssue "Friday Is Killing Me" w/ 18 Bonus Tracks

Tommy Stinson‘s post-Replacements band Bash & Pop returned this year with Anything Could Happen (on Fat Possum), the loooong-awaited followup to their 1993 debut Friday Night Is Killing Me. On September 8, Friday Night Is Killing Me will receive an expanded reissue via Omnivore Recordings. The reissue will have 18 bonus tracks, photos, and new liner notes by Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements author Bob Mehr. The reissue was produced by the Replacements’ former manager Peter Jesperson and Omnivore’s Cheryl Pawelsk. One of the bonus tracks, a home demo of “Never Aim To Please,” premieres in this post. Here’s what Peter Jesperson tells us about it:

"A home recording that is a true harbinger. Both a sign-post and a statement of intent from Tommy Stinson in the wake of the Replacements break-up. It heralds the start of his solo career and reeks of defiance and determination."

Friday Night Is Killing Me Expanded Reissue Tracklist
Disc One:
1. Never Aim To Please
2. Hang Ups
3. Loose Ends
4. One More Time
5. Tickled To Tears
6. Nothing
7. Fast & Hard
8. Friday Night (Is Killing Me)
9. He Means It
10. Tiny Pieces
11. First Steps

Disc Two:
1. Never Aim To Please (Home Demo) *
2. First Ups (Home Demo) *
3. Hang Ups (Home Demo) *
4. Tiny Pieces (Home Demo) *
5. Situation
6. Harboring A Fugitive
7. Making Me Sick
8. Nothing (Alternate Version) *
9. One More Time (Alternate Version) *
10. He Means It (Alternate Version) *
11. Loose Ends (Alternate Version) *
12. Hang Ups (Alternate Version) *
13. Tickled To Tears (Alternate Version) *
14. Fast & Hard (Alternate Version) *
15. Friday Night (Is Killing Me) (Alternate Version) *
16. Tiny Pieces (Alternate Version) *
17. Never Aim To Please (Alternate Version) *
18. Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace (Instrumental) *

* Previously Unissued

[bside]

Great album...just picked up the vinyl with the Pledge Music campaign and it looks like they found a way to get more money out of me 6-months later.

[Jer]

Stoked for this, but I wish the Cheap Trick cover wasn't an instrumental. I remember when they did that on that tour, it was killer.

[curmudgeonman]

Jun 26, 2017 9:56:35 GMT -5 Jer said:

Stoked for this, but I wish the Cheap Trick cover wasn't an instrumental. I remember when they did that on that tour, it was killer.

Cheap Trick did not originally write and perform "Speak Now...". Terry Reid did. 
And since Westerberg and Stinson (fans of Reid) both met Reid at a session for All Shook Down, I'm assuming he covered it as a Reid song

[johnnythunders]

Confirmed by Tommy in recent interview

[johnnythunders]

Live version of "Speak Now..." with vocals here replacementslivearchive.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/june-21-laluna-portland-or.html

[johnnythunders]

My review of the expanded Friday Night 2CD set here

onlyrockandroll.london/

[con]

Sept 15, 2017 5:21:31 GMT -5 johnnythunders said:

My review of the expanded Friday Night 2CD set here

onlyrockandroll.london/

Well said, thanks. What were Paul's contributions to "Fast & Hard" and "Loose Ends"? Guitar?

[johnnythunders]

According to the sleeve notes from Bob Mehr, Paul added backing vocals and songwriting encouragement

[Schecky]

I just got around to listening to disc 2.
Some of the songs I'm liking better. Some of the vocals are rougher. I like the more upfront guitar on the alternate takes.
Can anyone ID the guitar type on the Tiny Pieces demo?

[firespirit]

Jun 26, 2017 23:02:22 GMT -5 curmudgeonman said:

Jun 26, 2017 9:56:35 GMT -5 Jer said:

Stoked for this, but I wish the Cheap Trick cover wasn't an instrumental. I remember when they did that on that tour, it was killer.

Cheap Trick did not originally write and perform "Speak Now...". Terry Reid did. 
And since Westerberg and Stinson (fans of Reid) both met Reid at a session for All Shook Down, I'm assuming he covered it as a Reid song

I was lucky enough to see Slim and his band in LA in Oct of 93. Terry Reid got on stage and sang a song or two.