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Title: Part II of the "Trilogy"
Review: Same year I saw Springsteen's Born in the USA tour, I caught these guys in an SF club, and witnessed the Greatest Band In The World. I've always considered Tim to be Pt. II of a series of an incredible triple (you guys know the other two albums...). Other than the obvious comments I can go on about the extremely high quality of the songs, I have to give Tim a 4 star rating because Tommy Ramone's (yes, THAT Tommy) production was so one-dimensional; he actually mixed this album using HEADPHONES because he was almost deaf from playing drums with the Ramones. But it's par for the course; leave it to the Replacements to hire a near-deaf producer. Seriously, along with Elvis Costello's first three, The Beatles catalog, Big Star's albums, and the Rolling Stones' Mick Taylor period, the ' Mat's three middle releases are some of rock's most listenable and important albums in rock's recent history...
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