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For some reason I feel that I need to like them as much as the original album or I find it disappointing. I agree with the last couple reviews - I liked the outtakes a lot. If there's an annoying trend it is the addition of bad "bonus tracks" at the end of classic reissues. Of course the outtakes are not as good as the originals, although Can't Hardly Wait (acoustic) and Kiss Me on the Bus (outtake) are pretty good considering the stylistic differences. It's way more concise than Pleased to Meet Me and about the same as Let it Be on the quality/quantity continuum.
I'm a long time 'Mats fan so I'm probably biased. The outtakes I thought were awesome as well.
I rushed out to buy it on Tuesday and I cannot stop listening to it. I have been anxiously anticipating the remastering of this album forever and when I heard last spring that it would be coming out this Fall I could barely contain myself.
I am thrilled with it and really enjoyed the liner notes. The remastering of this album is just what it has always needed badly.
the songs sound much crisper and the bass is much more prominent. I mean what can you expect from "outtakes".
In my eyes they could never do wrong.
But, yet again with these Rhino reissues, it is in the presentation of the bonus material that we run into problems. The alternate versions of "Waitress" and "Regular" are obviously inferior to the album versions. "Tim" is another disappointing entry in the Rhino Replacements reissues. And the electric version of "Can't Hardly Wait" is inferior to the version released on "Nothing for All," as this version is an earlier run-through of the song. So, while the bonus material on "Tim" is a cut above the bonus material on the "Let It Be" reissue (and the liner notes are much more informative than the navel-gazing notes for "Let It Be"), the only bonus song really worth having is "Nowhere Is My Home." However, the remastered album sounds great, so it is probably worth updating your old CD. The sound of footsteps and the opening of a door at the end of "Here Comes a Regular" is cheesy and completely unnecessary. The studio demo version of "Kiss Me on the Bus" is an interesting, more rock (rather than rockabilly) version of the song.
Does this actually date from the "Tim" era, or did Rhino add it themselves. Of course this is a great album - possibly the band's best. And what is with the cello at the end of track 17 playing what seems like a snippet of "Can't Hardly Wait". The acoustic version of "Can't Hardly Wait," while okay, isn't as great as Jesperson makes it to be in the notes, calling it "the Holy Grail" of the Sire years. "Nowhere Is My Home" is a pretty good song, but was left off the album for good reason - it just wouldn't have fit. Very odd. Rhino could have treated the Mats with a little more class by losing the footsteps and the cello.
Tim will always be one of my favorite albums so I just had to rush out and buy the remastered and expanded version. The beginning of "Left Of The Dial" is missing the OK, and the end of "Here Comes A Regular" has the sound of a door closing and then footsteps walking to another door. The outtakes and demos are pretty good and a must have for any die hard fan. I only have two complaints with the CD. Then they get out their keys to open that door. I guess they did that so it would sound like you were walking into the room where they were recording the "Can't Hardly Wait" acoutic outtake.
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