Mr. Big is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its chart-topping album Lean Into It with a remastered and expanded anniversary-edition reissue, available digitally, on CD and as a highly collectible limited-edition box set made up of five individual colored seven-inch singles via evoXS.
Physical editions of Lean Into It reissue will be available today (July 30th). Digital editions are available now.
First released in 1991, Lean Into It is the second studio album by the group, consisting of guitarist Paul Gilbert, singer Eric Martin, bassist Billy Sheehan, and late drummer, Pat Torpey. This is the band’s breakthrough album, with Lean Into It peaking at No. 15 on the Billboard 200 chart, while the single To Be With You hit and remained number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks. The follow-up single, Just Take My Heart, was a Top 20 hit, peaking at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The million-selling album also contains the popular tracks Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy, Alive And Kickin’ and Green-Tinted Sixties Mind. Lean Into It shows that Mr. Big could also strip away all the flash and seven-minute solos and simply create well-written songs with rhythm, groove and good melodies, making the band one of the iconic new wave of progressive “musician’s bands” who could play mind-blowing complicated riffs on their instruments at lightning speeds.
evoXS has remastered the album using the hi-resolution digital transfers from the original analogue master tapes for MQA-CD (2 CD), hybrid SACD, 180g Vinyl LP and Hi-Res digital. The hybrid multi-channel SACD plays on both SACD and regular CD players. MQA is an award-winning technology that delivers the sound of the studio. MQA-CD plays on all CD players. When a conventional CD player is connected to an MQA-enabled device, the CD will reveal the original master quality. The SACD has a new multi-track mix in 5.1 surround sound which provides the ultimate sound quality experience. The MQA-CD (2 CD) – disc 1 contains the remastered tracks from the original album and disc two contains the previously unreleased Kevin Elson-produced tracks Stop Messing Around and Wild Wild Women, hard-to-find bonus tracks and versions minus bass and guitar tracks, specially made for musicians to jam with.
Lean Into It MQA-CD track listing:
Disc 1:
1. Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy (The Electric Drill Song) (2021 Remastered)
2. Alive And Kickin’ (2021 Remastered)
3. Green-Tinted Sixties Mind (2021 Remastered)
4. CDFF-Lucky This Time (2021 Remastered)
5. Voodoo Kiss (2021 Remastered)
6. Never Say Never (2021 Remastered)
7. Just Take My Heart (2021 Remastered)
8. My Kinda Woman (2021 Remastered)
9. A Little Too Loose (2021 Remastered)
10. Road To Ruin (2021 Remastered)
11. To Be With You (2021 Remastered)
Disc 2:
1. Stop Messing Around
2. Wild Wild Women
3. Just Take My Heart (acoustic)
4. Shadows (2021 Remastered)
5. Strike Like Lighting (2021 Remastered)
6. Love Makes You Strong (2021 Remastered)
7. Alive and Kickin’ (early version)
8. Green-Tinted Sixties Mind (early version)
9. To Be With You (reggae version)
10. Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy (The Electric Drill Song) (minus guitar version)
11. Green-Tinted Sixties Mind (minus guitar version)
12. Love Makes You Strong (minus bass version)
13. Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy (The Electric Drill Song) (minus bass version)
Lean Into It SACD track listing:
1. Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy (The Electric Drill Song)
2. Alive And Kickin’
3. Green-Tinted Sixties Mind
4. CDFF-Lucky This Time
5. Voodoo Kiss
6. Never Say Never
7. Just Take My Heart
8. My Kinda Woman
9. A Little Too Loose
10. Road to Ruin
11. To Be With You
12. Love Makes You Strong (original Japan bonus track)
The Lean into It – The Singles seven-inch box set contains four seven-inch colored vinyl singles with their European picture sleeves: Just Take My Heart (Edit) , Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy (The Electric Drill Song), To Be With You and Green Tinted Sixties Mind, plus the bonus single Strike Like Lightning from the movie Navy Seals, which has never been released on seven-inch vinyl. The B-sides include the original hard-to-find tracks To Be With You (Live At NHK Hall Tokyo 1991) and Just Take My Heart (Acoustic) .
The box set, which also includes a guitar pick and poster, is limited to 2,000 numbered copies.
Lean into It – The Singles track listing:
Single 1:
Side A: Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy (The Electric Drill Song)
Side B: Road To Ruin
Single 2:
Side A: To Be With You (Single Version)
Side B: Baba O’ Riley (Live at NHK Hall, Tokyo, Japan, September 26, 1991)
Single 3:
Side A: Just Take My Heart (edit)
Side B: To Be With You (Live at NHK Hall, Tokyo, Japan, September 26, 1991)
Single 4:
Side A: Green-Tinted Sixties Mind
Side B: Just Take My Heart (Acoustic)
Single 5:
Side A: Strike Like Lightning
Side B: Shadows
7 Responses
Why , the songs were OK nothing special
Not sure how many of these they expect to sell , I know they were popular for a minute…
I like that album, a lot, to each their own.
Since we’re both blue murder fans Dana, has John reissued their first album ?? If not that would make sense to make something special out of that ~
Rock Candy records remastered it in 2018, other than that, no. John should do something special, that would be, well, special. 🙂 🙂 🙂
I would love to have that on vinyl ~
Great album, great band .RIP Pat Torpey .
I only logged in to respond to the Blue Murder comment.
Supposedly there is more than an albums worth of demos, many with the late Ray Gillen on vocals.
Also there are quite of alot of demos for “Nothing But Trouble”, some with Kelly Keeling on vocals.
I wish there was a label that would only focus on popular bands we know and love unreleased content, instead of tacking a song or two on a big label pre-release we already own.