| The Shit Hits the Fans | |||
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| Live album by The Replacements | |||
| Released | January 25, 1985 | ||
| Recorded | November 11, 1984 | ||
| Label | Twin/Tone | ||
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The Shit Hits the Fans is a Twin/Tone Records (TTR 8443) cassette-only live album by The Replacements which was released January 25, 1985. It was recorded live at The Bowery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on November 11, 1984. Cassette J-Card Cover Art by Chris Mars. According to the Twin/Tone website, 10,000 copies were produced, of which 9,276 sold immediately. The rest were given away as promotional copies.
The source of The Shit Hits the Fans is a Maxell XL II-S audio cassette that was confiscated by Bill MacLeslie (who was The Replacements soundman for that tour) from a would-be bootlegger who was in the process of recording the show. It was confiscated as the band starts to play "Let It Be" (as it appears on the official release). The audio dropout heard during "Hear You Been to College" is caused by Paul Westerberg who accidentally pressed the record button on a Walkman while listening back to the master copy. If you listen closely he can be heard saying "Stop, 's' enough".
Of the twenty-four songs on the album only five songs are actually written by the band. The remaining nineteen are cover versions of songs by other artists.
The Bowery, the venue where this performance took place, was bulldozed to the ground on March 22, 2007.
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