The Shit Hits the Fans
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The Shit Hits the Fans is a Twin/Tone Records
(TTR 8443) cassette-only live album by The Replacements which was released January 25, 1985. It was recorded live at The Bowery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
on November 11th, 1984. Cassette J-Card Cover Art by Chris Mars. According to the Twin/Tone website, 10,000 copies were produced, of which 9,276 sold immediately. The rest were given away as promotional copies.
The source of The Shit Hits the Fans is a Maxell XL II-S audio cassette that was confiscated by Bill MacLeslie (who was The Replacements soundman for that tour) from a would-be bootlegger who was in the process of recording the show. It was confiscated as the band starts to play "Let It Be" (as it appears on the official release). The audio dropout heard during "Hear You Been to College" is caused by Paul Westerberg
who accidentally pressed the record button on a Walkman while listening back to the master copy. If you listen closely he can be heard saying "Stop, 's' enough".
Of the twenty-four songs on the album only five songs are actually written by the band. The remaining nineteen are cover versions of songs by other artists.
The Bowery, the venue where this performance took place, was bulldozed to the ground on March 22, 2007.
Twin/Tone Records
Twin/Tone Records was a record label based in Minneapolis, Minnesota that operated from 1977 until 1994 and helped several local groups receive national attention. The label was born from the Minneapolis punk rock music scene, which included venues like Jay's Longhorn Bar. The label was begun by...
(TTR 8443) cassette-only live album by The Replacements which was released January 25, 1985. It was recorded live at The Bowery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Oklahoma City is the capital and the largest city in the state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, the city ranks 31st among United States cities in population. The city's population, from the 2010 census, was 579,999, with a metro-area population of 1,252,987 . In 2010, the Oklahoma...
on November 11th, 1984. Cassette J-Card Cover Art by Chris Mars. According to the Twin/Tone website, 10,000 copies were produced, of which 9,276 sold immediately. The rest were given away as promotional copies.
The source of The Shit Hits the Fans is a Maxell XL II-S audio cassette that was confiscated by Bill MacLeslie (who was The Replacements soundman for that tour) from a would-be bootlegger who was in the process of recording the show. It was confiscated as the band starts to play "Let It Be" (as it appears on the official release). The audio dropout heard during "Hear You Been to College" is caused by Paul Westerberg
Paul Westerberg
Paul Westerberg is an American musician, best known as the former lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter of The Replacements, one of the seminal alternative rock bands of the 1980s. He launched a solo career after the dissolution of that band...
who accidentally pressed the record button on a Walkman while listening back to the master copy. If you listen closely he can be heard saying "Stop, 's' enough".
Of the twenty-four songs on the album only five songs are actually written by the band. The remaining nineteen are cover versions of songs by other artists.
The Bowery, the venue where this performance took place, was bulldozed to the ground on March 22, 2007.
Track listing
- "Lawdy Miss ClawdyLawdy Miss Clawdy"Lawdy Miss Clawdy" is a song by Lloyd Price. It was first recorded by Price at the New Orleans recording studio of Specialty Records in March 1952. It was released under the Specialty label in April and was number one on the Billboard rhythm and blues chart for seven weeks and stayed on the chart...
" (LLoyd Price) - "Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus" (Robyn Hitchcock)
- "Lovelines" (Westerberg/Stinson/Stinson/Mars)
- "I'll Be There" (Berry Gordy, Jr./Bob West/Hal Davis/Willie Hutch)
- "Sixteen Blue" (Westerberg)
- "Can't Hardly Wait" (Westerberg)
- "I Will DareI Will Dare"I Will Dare" is a song by American alternative rock band The Replacements, written by Paul Westerberg. The song was released as a single on independent record label Twin/Tone Records in July 1984, shortly before the release of the band's album Let It Be that October, on which the song served as...
" (Westerberg) - "Hear You Been to College" (Westerberg/Stinson/Stinson/Mars)
- "Saturday Night Special" (Ed King/Ronnie Van Zant)
- "Iron ManIron Man (song)"Iron Man" is a song by British heavy metal band Black Sabbath from their second studio album Paranoid released in 1970. It was later included on their initial greatest hits compilation We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll , as well as all subsequent greatest hits compilations.-Writing and...
" (Butler/Iommi/Osbourne/Ward) - "Misty Mountain HopMisty Mountain Hop"Misty Mountain Hop" is a song from English rock band Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth album, released in 1971. In the United States and Australia it was the B-side of the "Black Dog" single, but still received considerable FM radio airplay...
" (Page/Plant/Jones) - "HeartbreakerHeartbreaker (Led Zeppelin song)"Heartbreaker" is a song from English rock band Led Zeppelin's 1969 album, Led Zeppelin II. It was credited to all four members of the band, having been recorded at A&R Studios, New York, during the band's second concert tour of the United States, and was engineered by Eddie Kramer."Heartbreaker"...
" (Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant) - "Can't Get Enough" (Mick Ralphs)
- "JailbreakJailbreak (Thin Lizzy song)"Jailbreak" is a song by Thin Lizzy that originally appeared as the title track on their 1976 album Jailbreak. Along with "The Boys Are Back in Town", it is one of their most popular songs, and is a classic rock radio staple, receiving steady airplay....
" (Phil Lynott) - "Breakdown" (Tom Petty)
- "No More the Moon Shines on Lorena" (Alvin Pleasant Carter)
- "Merry Go Round" (Nikki Sixx)
- "Left in the Dark" (Ken Draznik)
- "Takin' Care of BusinessTakin' Care of Business"Takin' Care of Business" is a song written by Randy Bachman and first recorded by Canadian rock group Bachman–Turner Overdrive for their 1973 album Bachman–Turner Overdrive II.-Development:...
" (Randy Bachman) - "I Will FollowI Will Follow"I Will Follow" is a song by rock band U2. It is the opening track from their debut album, Boy, and it was released as the album's second single, in October 1980. Bono wrote the lyrics to "I Will Follow" in tribute to his mother who died when he was 14 years old."I Will Follow" is the only song...
" (Hewson/Evans/Clayton/Mullen) - "Jumpin' Jack FlashJumpin' Jack Flash"Jumpin' Jack Flash" is a song by English rock band The Rolling Stones, released as a single in 1968. Called "supernatural Delta blues by way of Swinging London" by Rolling Stone, the song was perceived by some as the band's return to their blues roots after the psychedelia of their preceding...
" (Jagger/Richards) - "Radio Free EuropeRadio Free Europe (song)"Radio Free Europe" is a song by American alternative rock band R.E.M. "Radio Free Europe" was released as R.E.M.'s debut single on the short-lived independent record label Hib-Tone in 1981...
" (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - "The New World" (Cervenka/Nommensen Duchac)
- "Let It BeLet It Be (song)"Let It Be" is a song by The Beatles, released in March 1970 as a single, and as the title track of their album Let It Be. It was written by Paul McCartney, but credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was their final single before McCartney announced his departure from the band...
" (Lennon/McCartney)
- With corrected song titles and songwriter listings.