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Where to start with The Replacements
Start with Answering Machine — Let It Be, 1984. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 11 The Replacements tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 15,847 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 11 The Replacements tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 11 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The years need a caveat: every dated track comes from one record, so these years describe what is in the room, not a career. Read the year column below as the date on the copy in this room, not the date the music arrived in the world.
Every track is filed under alternative rock; nothing here crosses into another genre.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Answering Machine — Let It Be, 1984. Of the 11 The Replacements tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
If you want the ambient end
Androgynous — Let It Be, 1984. The lowest energy reading of any The Replacements track in the room (40 out of 100). This is as far towards ambient as the collection goes.
If you want the driving end
We're Comin' Out — Let It Be, 1984. The highest energy reading here, at 68 out of 100 — a 28-point swing across the collection towards driving.
Where The Replacements sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are The Replacements's average coordinates and the range they cover.
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Let It Be | 1984 | 11 |
Every The Replacements track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Androgynous | Let It Be | 1984 |
| Answering Machine | Let It Be | 1984 |
| Black Diamond | Let It Be | 1984 |
| Favorite Thing | Let It Be | 1984 |
| Gary's Got a Boner | Let It Be | 1984 |
| I Will Dare | Let It Be | 1984 |
| Seen Your Video | Let It Be | 1984 |
| Sixteen Blue | Let It Be | 1984 |
| Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out | Let It Be | 1984 |
| Unsatisfied | Let It Be | 1984 |
| We're Comin' Out | Let It Be | 1984 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to The Replacements's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
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What the open databases say
This room has no MusicBrainz record for The Replacements, so there are no external facts to report here — only what is in the collection itself.
Questions
How many The Replacements tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 11, across 1 album. 11 of them carry a date, running from 1984 to 1984. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 11 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 11 of these 11 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.