Soul Asylum's First Twin/Tone Albums Receive Expanded Reissues from Omnivore on July 20th

Say What You Will … Everything Can Happen and Made To Be Broken reissues are produced by Twin/Tone veteran Peter Jesperson. 
Both contain unreleased tracks, unseen photos and memorabilia, and liner notes by Robert Vodicka and Gina Arnold, respectively.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Soul Asylum first hit the Minneapolis music scene in late 1981. Core members Dave Pirner, Dan Murphy and Karl Mueller met at local punk rock shows. With all the incredible bands they saw in those days, like Hüsker Dü and The Replacements, it was daunting for them to share the same stages but, ultimately, it inspired them to work all that much harder. Soul Asylum stood out immediately because of that work ethic and their smart, punky hard rock sound.They made four records for hometown label Twin/Tone Records before moving  on to the majors; first A&M, then Columbia, where they scored two platinum albums and won a Best Rock Song Grammy® for “Runaway Train.” They even played Bill Clinton’s 1993 inauguration gala.

The first two Twin/Tone releases, 1984’s Say What You Will . . . Everything Can Happen and 1986’s Made To Be Broken, both originally produced by Bob Mould of Hüsker Dü, have been remastered and thoughtfully expanded by Omnivore Recordings and are due out July 20, 2018. 
This reissue of Soul Asylum’s debut, Say What You Will . . . Everything Can Happen,collects the original album, plus rare 
outtakes and demos from the band’s
 early years, including an unreleased
 song and many long-out-of-print tracks.
 The packaging provides an array of never-before-seen photos, artwork, and hand-written lyrics from Pirner’s collection. It also includes a brilliant historical essay, written by academic Robert Vodicka, that illuminates Soul Asylum’s lasting importance. 

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The Made To Be Broken set contains 15 bonus tracks, nine of which are previously unreleased. It includes an impassioned, thought-provoking, frequently hilarious essay— written by legendary Bay Area music journalistGina Arnold  — that puts Soul Asylum’s influence in perspective and tells the story of how the band’s live show knocked the writer flat.
 
Both reissues were co-produced by Twin/Tone Records co-founder and Replacements
 manager Peter Jesperson, who first signed Soul Asylum, and Grammy® winner Cheryl Pawelski, with remastering by Grammy® winner Michael Graves.
 
According to Jesperson, an early observer of the Twin Cities scene: “When this band first hit the Minneapolis scene they went toe-to-toe with some heavy (and healthy) competition, and, remarkably, they held their own. Soul Asylum achieved an international prominence the others didn't but these reissues are their punky roots and will make you feel like you were there.”

Say What You Will … Everything Can Happen  Track Listing:
1. Long Day

2. Voodoo Doll
3. Money Talks
4. Stranger

5. Sick Of That Song
6. Walking
7. Happy

8. Black And Blue
9. Religiavision

Bonus Tracks:
10. Draggin Me Down
11. Do You Know

12. Spacehead

13. Broken Glass
14. Masquerade

15. Black And Blue (Demo) – Loud Fast Rules
16. Job For Me (Demo) – Loud Fast Rules

17. Cocktails (Demo) – Loud Fast Rules*

18. Nowhere To Go (Demo) – Loud Fast Rules
19. Out of Style (Demo) – Loud Fast Rules 

20. Your Clock (Demo) – Loud Fast Rules
21. Propaganda – Loud Fast Rules
22. Bad Moon Rising – Proud Crass Fools
23. Happy – Proud Crass Fools
 
* Previously Unissued 
 
Made To Be Broken  Track Listing:
1. Tied To The Tracks 
2. Ship Of Fools 
3. Can’t Go Back 
4. Another World, Another Day 
5. Made To Be Broken 
6. Never Really Been 
7. Whoa! 
8. New Feelings 
9. Growing Pain 
10. Lone Rider 
11. Ain’t That Tough 
12. Don’t It (make your troubles seem small) 
 
Bonus Tracks:
13. Long Way Home 
14. Another World, Another Day (Alternate Version)* 
15. Fearless

16. Freeway

17. The Snake

18. Hey Bird

19. Friends

20. Can’t Go Back (Alternate Version)*

21. Swingin’*

22. Lost In Your Face*

23. Catch Me If You Can*

24. Song Of The Terrorist* 
25. To Go There*

26. 20 Year Itch*

27. Ramblin’ Rose*
 
* Previously Unissued ​

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