The Replacements are reissuing Let It Be with a handful of unreleased tracks. It will come out in 4xLP and 3xCD sets on October 24 via Rhino, bulked out with unreleased material from the album sessions that includes alternate versions of “Gary’s Got a Boner,” “Favorite Thing,” and “Androgynous,” the last with a different vocal take and the full piano intro. Unreleased outtakes “Who’s Gonna Take Us Alive” and “Street Girl” also feature. Listen to the alternate take of “Androgynous” below, and scroll down for the full tracklist.
Completing the set are five bonus tracks included in a 2008 expansion of Let It Be, newly remastered here, and a live album called Goodnight! Go Home!, comprising 28 songs recorded in August 1984 at the Cubby Bear in Chicago. An additional 10-inch vinyl called Live at City Gardens, a six-song soundboard recording made at a Trenton, New Jersey, punk club, is exclusive to Rhino’s website. Pitchfork contributor Elizabeth Nelson writes the liner notes for the reissue.
Let It Be (Deluxe Edition), 4xLP tracklist:
01 I Will Dare
02 Favorite Thing
03 We’re Comin’ Out
04 Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out
05 Androgynous
06 Black Diamond
07 Unsatisfied
08 Seen Your Video
09 Gary’s Got a Boner
10 Sixteen Blue
11 Answering Machine
12 Gary’s Got a Boner (Alternate Version)
13 Favorite Thing (Alternate Version)
14 Perfectly Lethal
15 Temptation Eyes
16 Who’s Gonna Take Us Alive
17 Heartbeat, It’s a Lovebeat
18 Answering Machine (Home Demo #1)
19 Answering Machine (Home Demo #2)
20 Street Girl (Takes 1 and 2)
21 Sixteen Blue (Alternate Version)
22 Unsatisfied (Full Length Version)
23 Androgynous (Alternate Version)
24 20th Century Boy
25 Hey Good Lookin’ (Live)
26 Can’t Hardly Wait (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
27 Left in the Dark (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
28 Unsatisfied (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
29 I Will Dare (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
30 Favorite Thing (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
31 Kids Don’t Follow (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
32 Run It (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
33 Color Me Impressed (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
34 Hayday (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
35 Nowhere Is My Home (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
36 Love You Till Friday (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
37 Help Me Rhonda/G.T.O. (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
38 Takin’ a Ride (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
39 Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
40 Gary’s Got a Boner (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
41 Johnny’s Gonna Die (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
42 Can’t Get Enough (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
43 I’m in Trouble (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
44 Don’t Ask Why (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
45 Take Me Down to the Hospital (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
46 Shiftless When Idle (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
47 Mr. Whirly (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
48 Hitchin’ a Ride (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
49 Black Diamond (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
50 20th Century Boy (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
51 Go (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
52 Gimme Noise (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)
53 White and Lazy (Live at Cubby Bear, Chicago, IL, March, 1984)