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Post subject: Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Fri March 18, 2016 1:57 pm
The worst
Joined: Thu December 13, 2012 6:31 pm Posts: 39468
I'm excited for this because I love REM almost as much as pearl jam (sometimes more), but I don't have the same carefully ordered preferences and invested opinions. No dogs in this fight. Just love.
Post subject: Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Mon November 14, 2016 3:49 pm
Production Police
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47017 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
Michael Stipe's interview on Here's the Thing is pretty good. Probably not a lot of new stuff if you're a dedicated fan, but it was interesting for a casual fan like me.
We were really stretching ourselves, trying really hard to push what we did. Looking back, it makes sense that the next record would be “Automatic for the People,” that it’d be a radically different step. And the next would be “Monster,” a record that nobody liked. But everyone expected another version of “Automatic” and we weren’t about to give them that. So in a way we shot ourselves in the foot. But it turns out, 20 years later, that’s not a bad record, “Monster.” And then we released my favorite album of our entire canon, which is “New Adventures in Hi-Fi.” It’s a band at our very peak. And then, of course, Bill [Berry, the group’s original drummer] left the band.
Post subject: Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Sun November 20, 2016 8:15 pm
Future Drummer
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 2:21 am Posts: 2870
here's a link to some really great write ups about each album. They're very well done and place the albums under the environment they were recorded and of the political era.
Post subject: Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Mon November 21, 2016 3:27 pm
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 12:20 am Posts: 8292
Question: I was going to order the Out of Time 25th anniversary package and want that live album as part of it. But my understanding is that I need to order the CDs, as there's no digital download. Really? iTunes has just the remastered album plus the demos, but not the live show....
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