Don't Tell a Soul (Reissue)

VINYL FORMAT. Mastered from the original analog tapes by Kevin Grey at Acoustech Mastering; pressed at RTI. On 180 gram vinyl! Originally released in 1989, the band's second major label record, young fans were expecting a record of radio hits and radio was expecting more punk rock antics. They were both right somehow and sadly this record, like many great and creatively expansive albums, was over looked upon its initial release by the dedicated fan and the new comer. Your screaming, yelling and falling to pieces drunken brothers now added sleepy melancholy, violins, waves of layered guitar, something that sounded like a "real" recording and a bit if not a lot of personal vulnerability to the mix. The list of albums that were once dismissed thoroughly only to be coveted later is as long as the history of contemporary music itself - and includes albums from every group imaginable from Pink Floyd to The Stooges to The Beach Boys to Fela Kuti; The Replacements Don't Tell a Soul certainly fits into that history comfortably. Twenty years later most fans and critics agree that songs such as "Achin' to Be," the haunted "Rock 'n' Roll Ghost," the sweetly self-mythologizing "Talent Show," and "I'll Be You," are probably among the best songs performed in the 1990's.