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Does anyone have "Boink: The Replacements Anthology" (not to be mistaken with the British-only Lp of the same name, this is a bootleg comp) and "How Did Vomit Get On The Ceiling?" (a sequel of sorts that covers the later, WB years)?

My question is, are these worth having? I know some say "Tim" and especially "Pleased To Meet Me" are over-produced, but can you expect good, complete, but 'less-produced' takes on these comps? What about the Twin/Tone stuff, are those outtakes any good?

Here's a cover image of "How Did Vomit...":
http://colormeimpressed.com/covers/mats ... ilinga.jpg

"Boink" has the following:
1. Careless
2. More Cigarettes
3. Otto
4. I Hate Music
5. Shutup
(tracks 1-5 are alternate versions, recorded June 1980)
6. If Only You Were Lonely (b-side of "I'm in Trouble")
7. Hey, Good Lookin' (live 1983, b-side of "I Will Dare")
8. 20th Century Boy
9. Sixteen Blue (alternate mix)
10. Who's Gonna Take Us Alive?
11. Temptation Eyes
12. Street Girl (version one)
13. Street Girl (version two)
14. Gary's Got a Boner(alternate version)
15. Perfectly Lethal
(Tracks 8-15 are Let it Be outtakes)
16. Nowhere is My Home (from the original British Boink!!! LP)
17. Can't Hardly Wait (electric version, different than AFN/NFA version) 18. Can't Hardly Wait (acoustic airshaft version)
(Tracks 16-18 from the early 1985 Alex Chilton sessions)
19. Valentine
20. Birthday Girl (different than AFN/NFA version)
21. Bundle Up ("Jungle Rock" with new, Westerberg lyrics)
22. Red Red Wine
23. PO Box (aka Empty As Your Heart)
24. Time is Killing Us
(19-24 are Pleased to Meet Me rehearsals from August 1986, Bob Stinson's last recordings with the band.)
25. IOU (live)
26. Bastards of Young (live)
(Tracks 25-26 recorded live in May 1986, in the studio of Dutch radio station VPRO.)

MK wrote:Does anyone have "Boink: The Replacements Anthology" (not to be mistaken with the British-only Lp of the same name, this is a bootleg comp) and "How Did Vomit Get On The Ceiling?" (a sequel of sorts that covers the later, WB years)?

I have them. They are fine but have been superceded by a three-cd set which has more stuff (Hootenanny outtakes and All Shook Down demos, mostly) and several sound quality upgrades.

My question is, are these worth having? I know some say "Tim" and especially "Pleased To Meet Me" are over-produced, but can you expect good, complete, but 'less-produced' takes on these comps? What about the Twin/Tone stuff, are those outtakes any good?

I am a completist, so I think everything they did is great and worth having, at least up through Pleased to Meet Me era. My favorite albums are Sorry Ma and PTMM (which I personally do not think is overproduced at all except maybe for "Can't Hardly Wait." Now Don't Tell a Soul, that's another story, way overproduced). So I get the most out of listening to the outtakes from those albums. I guess objectively the best Replacements outtakes out there are the Let it Be outtakes and the PTMM rehearsals with Bob Stinson. The single best rare song is "Nowhere is My Home" from the Boink vinyl.

The "Bob demos" are definitely less produced than the PTMM album proper. They sound like just live in the studio single takes. The bootleg version of "Can't Hardly Wait from the PTMM sessions is interesting, as it is minus the horn overdubs.

PM me if you are interested in the 3-CD outtake set I mentioned above. By all means do not pay anyone for the Boink or Vomit discs.