Hi-Fi was the first REM album that me stand up and take notice. And I adore every song on that thing. I struggle with a lot of the REM catalog. They have some truly phenomenal songs, but they don't have a lot of albums that I love. Hi-Fi, Automatic and Collapse are excellent. Up and Monster are really, really good, but each have songs I don't care for. Everything else is really uneven, I think.
Which is further evidence that I really don't belong in an REM thread, let alone a tournament.
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Lament wrote:I get my pick of Monty Got a Raw Deal, New Orleans Instrumental No. 1, and Everybody Hurts. Not bad for round sixteen.
Not bad at all. It helps that there are basically no bad songs on AFtP. And no songs that feature rappers.
Funny you say that. I consider parts of Radio Song to be the most AFtP sounding stuff the band has that's not on that album.
I love rap music, but it does not mix well with R.E.M. Not a big KRS fan either, so that doesn't help. I really like the two R.E.M. songs that feature rappers - except for the parts where the rappers come in.
Lament wrote:I get my pick of Monty Got a Raw Deal, New Orleans Instrumental No. 1, and Everybody Hurts. Not bad for round sixteen.
Not bad at all. It helps that there are basically no bad songs on AFtP. And no songs that feature rappers.
Funny you say that. I consider parts of Radio Song to be the most AFtP sounding stuff the band has that's not on that album.
I love rap music, but it does not mix well with R.E.M. Not a big KRS fan either, so that doesn't help. I really like the two R.E.M. songs that feature rappers - except for the parts where the rappers come in.
I didn't like the KRS one at all, but the Q-Tip one was pretty good.
Lament wrote:I get my pick of Monty Got a Raw Deal, New Orleans Instrumental No. 1, and Everybody Hurts. Not bad for round sixteen.
Not bad at all. It helps that there are basically no bad songs on AFtP. And no songs that feature rappers.
Funny you say that. I consider parts of Radio Song to be the most AFtP sounding stuff the band has that's not on that album.
I love rap music, but it does not mix well with R.E.M. Not a big KRS fan either, so that doesn't help. I really like the two R.E.M. songs that feature rappers - except for the parts where the rappers come in.
I realized during the last R.E.M. tournament that there's a version of the the Q-Tip one that has Stipe instead of Q-Tip. It's much better.
