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This limited edition and EXCLUSIVE bundle comes with a 14-track cassette featuring highlights from the box along with two additional unreleased tracks: the outtake Asking Me Lies and an instrumental of I Wont (Bearsville Version). The cassette also features the original, unused cover art for Dont Tell A Soul.Back in 1987, Minneapolis rock and roll renegades The Replacements famously stole their Twin/Tone master tapes and threw them in the Mississippi River. A year laterwhile wrapping up work on their Warner Bros. album, Don’t Tell A Soulthe group absconded with a collection of their reels from Paisley Park studios. Thankfully, those tapes were spared a watery fate, and instead stashed away for decades by the band. Now theyve been recovered to form the basis of The Replacements first-ever boxed set, DEAD MANS POP. Although Dont Tell A Soul ultimately became the groups best-selling effort, The Replacements were unsatisfied with the sound of the record. The band has radically reimagined Dont Tell A Soul to create a 4CD/1LP set that features the album mixed as it was originally intended (Dont Tell A Soul Redux), along with a collection of previously unheard tracks (We Know The Night: Rare & Unreleased), and a classic concert from 1989 (The Complete Inconcerated Live).The box features a newly completed mix of the album by Dont Tell A Soul producer Matt Wallace (based on his 1988 Paisley Park mix); a disc of unreleased recordings (including a session with Tom Waits); plus the bands entire June 2, 1989 show at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In total, the box includes 60 tracks58 of which have never been heard before. Presented in a 12 x 12 hardcover book loaded with dozens of rarely seen photos – the set features a detailed history of the Dont Tell A Soul era written by Bob Mehr, who produced the box with Rhinos Jason Jones, and also authored The New York Times bestseller Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements.Mehr writes: While its impossible to unhear a record thats been around for three decades, this version, Dont Tell A Soul Redux, is the album the band made and intended to release. In addition to Matt Wallaces mix, Redux also restores several crucial elements from the sessions, including original drums tracks, vocal takes and tempos that were altered in post-production[and] the bands original sequence of the album.Wallace says: The true spirit of The Replacements was always there on the recordings we did back in 1988, and now you can hear and feel it clearlyThis was the project of a lifetime for me when we recorded it 30-plus years ago, and its even truer today as weve finally fulfilled our original vision.Paul Westerberg, Slim Dunlap, Tommy Stinson and Chris Mars started recording Dont Tell A Soul in June 1988 with Tony Berg at Bearsville Studios, but the chaotic sessions were cut short and mothballed. Nine unreleased tracks from Bearsville appear on Dead Mans Pop, including early versions of Ill Be You, Darlin One and Achin To Be and the previously unheard Last Thing in the World. The collection also features tracks the band recorded with Tom Waits, five of which have never been officially released: among them, Lowdown Monkey Blues, We Know The Night and a cover of Billy Swans I Can Help.The final two CDs of Dead Mans Pop capture the band performing live in Milwaukee during the Dont Tell A Soul Tour. A few songs from the concert originally appeared on the promo-only EP Inconcerated Live (1989), but the bulk of the 29 tracks included have never been released. The entire show has been newly mixed by Brian Kehew (Ramones, The Faces).Additionally, Dead Mans Pop will include Wallaces Dont Tell A Soul Redux mix on 180-gram vinyl.