Paste’s Replacements Twin/Tone Anthology Playlist

Four seminal Replacements albums were given the Rhino-reissue treatment in April: Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash, Stink, Hootenanny and Let it Be. This playlist compiles the best of the best from the band’s Twin/Tone era. Rip it to your iPod or burn it to disc (it’ll fit nicely), and give it to every rock 'n roll fan you care about—this stuff is essential.

But good luck tracking down an mp3 of "Nowhere Is My Home," which can only be found on the out-of-print 1986 compilation Boink! or rare 1998 bootleg Beat Girl. The song is from an early 1985 Twin/Tone session produced by Big Star's Alex Chilton (whom The Replacements later celebrated in song on their Pleased to Meet Me album). If you can only find "Nowhere Is My Home" on vinyl, you’ll have to dust off that old record-player/tape-deck combo from the basement and make this mix the old-fashioned way, like you would’ve when these songs first came out in the early to mid '80s.

Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out The Trash, 1981
1. "Careless"
2. "Johnny’s Gonna Die"
3. "Shiftless When Idle"
4. "More Cigarettes"
5. "Something to Dü"
6. "I’m In Trouble"
7. "Raised in the City"
8. "If Only You Were Lonely" (originally the B-side of the 1981 "I’m In Trouble" single, now available on the Sorry Ma Rhino deluxe edition)

Stink EP, 1982
9. "Kids Don’t Follow"

Hootenanny, 1983
10. "Color Me Impressed"
11. "Take Me Down to the Hospital"
12. "Buck Hill"
13. "Lovelines"
14. "Treatment Bound"

Let It Be, 1984
15. "I Will Dare" (featuring R.E.M.’s Peter Buck on guitar)
16. "Favorite Thing"
17. "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out"
18. "Androgynous"
19. "Unsatisfied"
20. "Seen Your Video"
21. "Sixteen Blue"
22. "Perfectly Lethal" (deluxe-edition outtake)
23. "Heartbeat—It’s a Love Beat" (deluxe-edition outtake, rough mix)

Boink!, 1986 (Compilation)
24. "Nowhere is My Home" (originally recorded in 1985 with producer Alex Chilton)