Twin Hearts

Be a Powerful Pranic Healer

Alternate Rarities 1-4 are a series of individual bootleg CD's by The Beatles. Originally released by Birthday Records, the credits on the cover state this is an "improved" version of the discs made by Blackhead Walrus in 2003. The rarities in this collection include songs where the versions were mixed or edited differently in other countries, a few of them significantly. It used to be where the only way you would be able to hear them is if you bought them individually via import. Most of them are transferred from vinyl but some may also come from reel-to-reel tape, cassette, or even 8-track for certain versions.

Moving to a major label was inevitable for the Replacements: they garnered too much acclaim and attention after Let It Be to stay on Twin/Tone, especially as the label faced the same distribution problems that plagued many indies in the mid-'80s plus, the 'Mats' crosstown rivals, Hüsker Dü, made the leap to the big leagues, paving the way for their own hop over to Sire. The Replacements may have left Twin/Tone behind but they weren't quite ready to leave Minneapolis in the dust, choosing to record in their hometown with Tommy Erdelyi aka Tommy Ramone who gives the 'Mats a big, roomy sound without quite giving them gloss; compared to Let It Be, Tim is polished, but compared to many American underground rock records of the mid-'80s (including those by the Ramones), it's loose and kinetic.