For Sale: Live at Maxwell's 1986

For Sale: Live at Maxwell's 1986
A close-up of a guitar being strummed
Live album by
The Replacements
ReleasedOctober 6, 2017 (2017-10-06)
RecordedFebruary 4, 1986
VenueMaxwell's, Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
GenreAlternative rock
LabelRhino
ProducerBob Mehr
The Replacements chronology
Songs for Slim
(2013) 		For Sale: Live at Maxwell's 1986
(2017) 		Dead Man's Pop
(2019)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic86/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
American Songwriter[3]
Pitchfork8.7/10[4]

For Sale: Live at Maxwell's 1986 is a 2017 live album by the American alternative rock band The Replacements. Recorded at the famous Maxwell's at the height of the band's commercial and creative arc, it is one of the few good recordings of their live performances. The band's only previous live album—1985's The Shit Hits the Fans—was a limited cassette tape release which features poor audio quality and several false starts and stops on songs. In 2007, bassist Tommy Stinson stated that "There are no good Replacements live recordings",[5] in part due to a lack of high-quality recordings and in part due to the band's notoriously sloppy performances due to alcohol abuse. The album was produced by Bob Mehr, who wrote the 2016 biography of the band Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements.[5]

Recording

The album was recorded with a mobile recording studio as an attempt to market the band by Seymour Stein of Sire/Warner Bros. Records but was canceled after guitarist Bob Stinson left the band a few months later.[5]

Track listing

All songs written by Paul Westerberg, except where noted.

Disc one

  1. "Hayday"
  2. "Color Me Impressed"
  3. "Dose of Thunder" (Chris Mars, Tommy Stinson, Paul Westerberg)
  4. "Fox on the Run" (Brian Connolly, Steve Priest, Andy Scott, Mick Tucker)
  5. "Hold My Life"
  6. "I Will Dare"
  7. "Favorite Thing" (Paul Westerberg, Tommy Stinson, Bob Stinson, Chris Mars)
  8. "Unsatisfied"
  9. "Can't Hardly Wait"
  10. "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out" (Paul Westerberg, Tommy Stinson, Bob Stinson, Chris Mars)
  11. "Takin' a Ride"
  12. "Bastards of Young"
  13. "Kiss Me on the Bus"
  14. "Black Diamond" (Paul Stanley)

Disc two

  1. "Johnny's Gonna Die"
  2. "Otto"
  3. "I'm in Trouble"
  4. "Left of the Dial"
  5. "God Damn Job"
  6. "Answering Machine"
  7. "Waitress in the Sky"
  8. "Take Me Down to the Hospital"
  9. "Gary's Got a Boner" (Paul Westerberg, Tommy Stinson, Bob Stinson, Chris Mars, Ted Nugent)
  10. "If Only You Were Lonely"
  11. "Baby Strange" (Marc Bolan)
  12. "Hitchin' a Ride" (Peter Callander, Mitch Murray)
  13. "Nowhere Man" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
  14. "Go"
  15. "Fuck School" (Paul Westerberg, Tommy Stinson, Bob Stinson, Chris Mars)

Charts

Chart (2017) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[6] 52
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard)[7] 6
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[8] 9

References

  1. ^ "Metacritic Review". Metacritic. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
  2. ^ Deming, Mark. "For Sale: Live at Maxwell's 1986". AllMusic. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
  3. ^ Horwitz, Hal (October 6, 2017). "The Replacements: For Sale: Live at Maxwell's 1986". American Songwriter. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
  4. ^ Berman, Stuart (October 9, 2017). "Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
  5. ^ a b c Riemenschneider, Chris (July 17, 2017). "First proper Replacements live album from 1986 coming out in October". Star Tribune.
  6. ^ "The Replacements Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved October 17, 2017.
  7. ^ "The Replacements Chart History (Top Alternative Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
  8. ^ "The Replacements Chart History (Top Rock Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved March 29, 2019.