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The Great Albums

The Replacements - Let It Be (Reprise)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3749 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

In our final episode that'll be part of a regular release schedule, we take a look back at the first album we ever discussed, the Replacements' Let It Be (1984, Twin/Tone). Bill and Brian use the skills they've honed during their years of podcasting experience to see what a conversation revisiting the first album would sound like. Enjoy!

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm done, baby. Okay, Brian, what are we talking about today?

0:09.4

We are talking about Let It Be by the Replacements, a reprise version of our first episode.

0:17.4

Music episode.

0:43.3

What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.

0:49.7

Try to have the conversation around the music that fans do, and we tie it all together with a track-by-track review.

0:50.8

Yes, we do.

1:00.4

And this is going to be our last regularly released episode for the time being and for the foreseeable future.

1:05.7

Yeah, with the caveat, of course, we've said before, we're still doing our regular year-end stuff.

1:07.2

So please stay subscribed.

1:12.8

Massive album November and the year-end episodes are still all happening. But as Bill said,

1:17.1

no more regular week in, week out stuff. Yeah, it won't be every Monday. Instead, it's going to be,

1:22.1

we reserve the right to whenever we feel like talking about music to get together and put microphones in front of our face and call it the great albums. And I feel like that's going to happen.

1:26.6

Like I want to, in my mind,

1:28.6

I'm like, that's going to happen more than we think it is. But in my heart, it's not. I don't know.

1:35.1

I think we're going to, I think there's going to be a long break. Yeah. Like Bill said,

1:39.1

you know, we're basically, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, uh, we're both keeping the keys to the house with the caveat that neither one of us is going to just

1:48.5

suddenly change the locks on the other one.

1:52.2

And also, I feel like we're going to be busy doing other things.

1:56.4

So we're going to be putting out plenty of content for people to consume.

2:01.6

It's not like we're just quitting and being, you know, and just twiddling our thumbs and retiring.

2:07.2

It's, no, we're actually going to be doing other things.

2:09.6

You've got one more with Brian Erickson, which is going to be continuing.

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