Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Thu September 12, 2019 2:52 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Thu September 12, 2019 3:56 pm
by VinylGuy
They botched this one twice?
Not a good sign.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Thu September 12, 2019 4:18 pm
by kreng
VinylGuy wrote:They botched this one twice?
Not a good sign.
wut
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Thu September 12, 2019 4:21 pm
by VinylGuy
kreng wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:They botched this one twice?
Not a good sign.
wut
It was a song they made for Reveal, and then it was supposed to came out with Around The Sun.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Thu September 12, 2019 4:22 pm
by verb_to_trust
If it didn't fit on either of those two albums it's probably a pretty decent song.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Thu September 12, 2019 4:30 pm
by VinylGuy
It also didnt make it with Accelerate and Collapse.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Fri September 13, 2019 1:42 am
by Kevin Davis
I like it! Honestly I think it sounds more like "Up" than like "Reveal" or "Around the Sun," though it's not like it would have been interrupting some impeccable flow by displacing one of the clunkers on those records. I wonder what else they've got tucked away...
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Fri September 13, 2019 1:45 am
by Norah
Kevin Davis wrote:I like it! Honestly I think it sounds more like "Up" than like "Reveal" or "Around the Sun," though it's not like it would have been interrupting some impeccable flow by displacing one of the clunkers on those records. I wonder what else they've got tucked away...
yeah it definitely sounds more Up, i like it
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Fri September 13, 2019 1:39 pm
by washing machine
Wow. Curious to hear it.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Fri September 13, 2019 6:32 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Sun September 29, 2019 2:45 pm
by liebzz
The next album journey is in full swing. Through Chronic Town, Murmur, Reckoning, Fables of the Reconstruction, and partially through Life’s Rich Pageant. All of these are great. I always thought Document was their first turn toward a tighter and less jangly sound (I mean, that could be due to advances in recording technology?), but I think that turn really started with Life’s Rich Pageant.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Sun September 29, 2019 3:02 pm
by epilogue
LRP is so good.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Sun September 29, 2019 4:53 pm
by Norah
it really is
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Sat October 05, 2019 2:18 pm
by liebzz
Quick thoughts: I listened to Monster non-stop in ‘95, put it away, and never picked it back up. It’s better than I remember.
Automatic For the People is still one of their best and there are so many great songs.
Out of Time is very up and down but always enjoyed it.
Green is awesome and I always think among the most underrated of their albums.
Document is amazing. It used to be on my list of all time favorites, faded over the years, but now it’s back!
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Sat October 05, 2019 2:22 pm
by VinylGuy
I was surprised on how good and experimental Monster is when i came back to it this year. It turned into one of my favorites from this band, top 3 album.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Sat October 05, 2019 2:27 pm
by raven2001
VinylGuy wrote:I was surprised on how good and experimental Monster is when i came back to it this year. It turned into one of my favorites from this band, top 3 album.
And with "Circus Envy" they even did a "grunge" song. I was flabbergasted when I heard that one for the first time. That being said, I think it's great!
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Sat October 05, 2019 2:40 pm
by liebzz
I read something maybe in Consequence of Sound, about them being 25 years ahead of their time, what with the whole non-binary themes going on. They were wrong, however, that the album represented the begin of their decline.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Sat October 05, 2019 3:13 pm
by VinylGuy
begin of their decline? weird.
I think what i love the most about the album is their guitar approach. They sound so trippy, so loud and weird...they are not afraid of doing a song like King Of Comedy. Its so fucking bold.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Sat October 05, 2019 8:50 pm
by liebzz
VinylGuy wrote:begin of their decline? weird.
I think what i love the most about the album is their guitar approach. They sound so trippy, so loud and weird...they are not afraid of doing a song like King Of Comedy. Its so fucking bold.
I was really enjoying King of Comedy this go round. I think time has actually aided rather than dated Monster. The ideas still are bold years later, and it feels more connected as an album than I remember. I heard this album maybe 30-40 times in 1995 or so. It was good then but it went on the shelf and was taken over by frankly other R.E.M. albums I am more passionate about but it sits more front and center hearing them all in a row.
Edit: i’ll add that the justification, I am sure, for what appeared to be the decline comment are the large swaths of R.E.M. fans that live on the IRS years and discount what they did after that. I am honestly a bigger fan of the post-IRS years. There’s just so much more tinkering with the sound and variety from album to album.
Next up is going to be New Adventures in HiFi, which, if I haven’t mentioned already, is a top 10 all time album for me.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread