Thread by @BobMehr

This is a common misunderstanding of the process. Tim & DTAS were perfectly recorded & produced. Paul wrote great songs, the band cut amazing tracks & they added beautiful touches during overdubs. But much of that work was fundamentally lost/obscured in the mixing stage

https://twitter.com/jzulgad/status/1687848629824860160

Doesn't matter what a band creates in the studio if, in the mixing process, those parts, performances, & ideas are edited out, muddied up, or rendered inaudible. And it's no coincidence that DTAS & Tim are the two mixes the band had the least input on during their entire career.

People say, "Don't mess with it-that's the record the Replacements made!” Bullshit. That’s the record that got *released*. DTAS is WAY more a Chris Lord Alge record than it is a Replacements record. You wanna hear the record The Replacements actually made? That’s Dead Man’s Pop

That's also true for Tim-the '85 mix bears little resemblance to what those tracks sounded like in the band’s conception or in the studio. You can’t redeem a bad recording with a good mix. But you sure as shit can nullify a great recording with a bad mix.

That’s what happened on Tim, and what's being rectified with Let It Bleed. It's a natural impulse for people to cling to things that are familiar and cherished. But when you hear this Tim remix there's gonna be no doubt which version is the record The Replacements actually made.