Summary: Even the savviest music geek will miss a few records here and there. This week, Soundcheck is going to celebrate your better-late-than-never favorites – and ask you why you missed them in the first place. Today, Tegan and Sara Quin -- the identical twin sisters that lead the band Tegan and Sara who joined Soundcheck earlier this week to record a session -- share their picks: The Replacements' Let It Be and The Smiths' The Queen Is Dead. Plus, we hear from a few of our listeners about some of their newly discovered favorites. Watch Tegan And Sara perform "Closer" live in the Soundcheck studio: Sara Quin on The Replacements' "Androgynous" from Let It Be One of our first major tours in North America was with Ryan Adams. We got talking one night, and he asked us if we were aware of a band called the Replacements. I had never heard of them before. And he actually ended up gifting us the whole discography. Specifically, Let It Be really resonated with me. I just couldn't believe that I had never heard it before and that it could resonate so much. Tegan Quin, on The Smiths' "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" from The Queen Is Dead When [Sara and I] became teenagers, we got really into the punk rock and indie rock scene in Calgary. My mom would drop us off at gigs on the weekend. And we became obsessed with this Calgary band called Red Autumn Fall. I remember, I was probably 18 or 19, stumbling upon The Smiths' record The Queen Is Dead and thinking to myself, "These people sound just like Red Autumn Fall!" But not thinking, "Oh, Red Autumn Fall must be ripping off The Smiths." I thought I had discovered a new band.
