R.E.M. is over
09-23-11 | 03:02 AM
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09-23-11 | 07:15 AM
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Re: R.E.M. is over
Oh, no. Now what will douchey college kids, pretentious hippies, and old men long past their high school prime who think they're cool but aren't...listen to now ?
09-23-11 | 07:49 AM
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Re: R.E.M. is over
I remember when Reveal came out. All the reviews I read said it was a total return to form. I even read one that compared it to AFTP and said it was just as good. I tried soooooo hard to like that album. I even bought the DVD-A of it. In retrospect, it's nearly unlisteneable.
I never listened to Around the Sun so for me Reveal was the musical nadir of their career. A truly wretched album from a once great band.
I never listened to Around the Sun so for me Reveal was the musical nadir of their career. A truly wretched album from a once great band.
The last album I really listened to and liked was Up (but I feel/felt New Adventures was there last 'great' album).
So maybe my brain isn't working right here, but I keep hearing how Reveal is so great...and I thought it was terrible. And yet I keep hearing how Around the Sun is terrible, and yet I'm really liking it and find it closer to their older music.
09-23-11 | 08:27 AM
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^More coincidence than irony.
I think I'll refrain from ever listening to Around the Sun. I'd rather remember the band for the IRS years and a few great albums after that. From what I've heard from the album it doesn't sound anything like what I liked about early REM.
I think I'll refrain from ever listening to Around the Sun. I'd rather remember the band for the IRS years and a few great albums after that. From what I've heard from the album it doesn't sound anything like what I liked about early REM.
09-23-11 | 08:31 AM
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True, true. Add me to the list of people that use ironically incorrectly.
And no, Around the Sun definitely is nothing like the early IRS days.
It might come as blasphemy to a lot of people, but R.E.M. made some truly great music for almost 10 years after leaving IRS.
And no, Around the Sun definitely is nothing like the early IRS days.
It might come as blasphemy to a lot of people, but R.E.M. made some truly great music for almost 10 years after leaving IRS.
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09-23-11 | 09:47 AM
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09-23-11 | 11:07 AM
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09-23-11 | 03:53 PM
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09-23-11 | 07:59 PM
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This is just my opinion, but while I agree that the IRS albums are the best of R.E.M. and maybe the best music that's been created consecutively in my lifetime, I'd go on to add every single album they released through NAIHF as the best run any band has had other than the Beatles -- and the Beatles are in a completely different league than everyone else anyway.
Green, Out of Time (the songs on this album that weren't singles or played much on radio were better than the ones that did), AFTP, Monster, and NAIHF.
Yes, Losing my Religion got overplayed and Radio Song is kind of annoying, and Shiny Happy People is really annoying. But Low, Near Wild Heaven, Belong, Country Feedback, and Me in Honey...wow, I find those songs to be brilliant and a lot of people just take shots at this album because Losing my Religion was so over-praised and over-played. I still think it's a damned great record.
Automatic For the People- I bought on its release day and I was 5 minutes from home and decided to put the cd into my car player and not wait until I got home. I was so blown away that I got home and didn't get out of my car until I'd listened to the entire cd, went inside and played it again. Called my best R.E.M. friend and talked about the album until about 2 am.
Monster-This was sort of a weird time in music. It seemed like a very commercial time and this album seems to reflect the time, but I still think it was very good for that time. Crush With Eyeliner was my favorite after my first listen, but I still will defend "Kenneth" to any criticism and the energy of the song and video used to make my wife and I (not married at the time) dance around our apartment every single time it came on MTV and the speed of our car would go up when we'd listen to it there. If this was the worst of the albums they made until after Hi-Fi, that only shows you how incredible their music was and how high the expectations were for them to release another Automatic for the People.
New Adventures in Hi-Fi- Not only a GREAT album, but REM got totally away from making the more commercial, MTV sounding album to something that was not only catchy, but also completely original again. From How the West was Won and Where it Got Us, this was easily their last GREAT record.
But from the early 80's to what was then 1996/7 (I can't remember which year exactly it came out), that's one hell of run. I'd say no other band has had a run like that. Kind of like that RS magazine guy said, the were like two different bands and BOTH of them were equally great.
And if anyone thinks they really know the lyrics to Sitting Still, I'd love to see what you think.
Green, Out of Time (the songs on this album that weren't singles or played much on radio were better than the ones that did), AFTP, Monster, and NAIHF.
Yes, Losing my Religion got overplayed and Radio Song is kind of annoying, and Shiny Happy People is really annoying. But Low, Near Wild Heaven, Belong, Country Feedback, and Me in Honey...wow, I find those songs to be brilliant and a lot of people just take shots at this album because Losing my Religion was so over-praised and over-played. I still think it's a damned great record.
Automatic For the People- I bought on its release day and I was 5 minutes from home and decided to put the cd into my car player and not wait until I got home. I was so blown away that I got home and didn't get out of my car until I'd listened to the entire cd, went inside and played it again. Called my best R.E.M. friend and talked about the album until about 2 am.
Monster-This was sort of a weird time in music. It seemed like a very commercial time and this album seems to reflect the time, but I still think it was very good for that time. Crush With Eyeliner was my favorite after my first listen, but I still will defend "Kenneth" to any criticism and the energy of the song and video used to make my wife and I (not married at the time) dance around our apartment every single time it came on MTV and the speed of our car would go up when we'd listen to it there. If this was the worst of the albums they made until after Hi-Fi, that only shows you how incredible their music was and how high the expectations were for them to release another Automatic for the People.
New Adventures in Hi-Fi- Not only a GREAT album, but REM got totally away from making the more commercial, MTV sounding album to something that was not only catchy, but also completely original again. From How the West was Won and Where it Got Us, this was easily their last GREAT record.
But from the early 80's to what was then 1996/7 (I can't remember which year exactly it came out), that's one hell of run. I'd say no other band has had a run like that. Kind of like that RS magazine guy said, the were like two different bands and BOTH of them were equally great.
And if anyone thinks they really know the lyrics to Sitting Still, I'd love to see what you think.
