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New Adventures in Hi-Fi

pirlo21pirlo21 Posts: 534
edited December 2010 in Other Music
Not listened to this album for a couple of years. Started listening to it again a few weeks ago and it's blowing me away!
Forgot just how incredible it is.

Always been more of a fan of the pre-Green REM, but I've grown a new appreciation for the later albums just recently. Monster, Up, Reveal, Automatic...

Just wondered if there was any love out there for New Adventures... ?
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  • smarcheesmarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    I too have been listening to this record alot lately

    I have really been digging the track Leave, it's very moody and with that weird sample player over and over
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  • bigeye21bigeye21 Posts: 981
    pirlo21 wrote:
    Not listened to this album for a couple of years. Started listening to it again a few weeks ago and it's blowing me away!
    Forgot just how incredible it is.

    Always been more of a fan of the pre-Green REM, but I've grown a new appreciation for the later albums just recently. Monster, Up, Reveal, Automatic...

    Just wondered if there was any love out there for New Adventures... ?
    Love this album! I've long said that this album and No Code had to be the two most under-appreciated albums of 1996!
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  • aspoonfulweighsatonaspoonfulweighsaton Posts: 2,055
    bigeye21 wrote:
    pirlo21 wrote:
    Not listened to this album for a couple of years. Started listening to it again a few weeks ago and it's blowing me away!
    Forgot just how incredible it is.

    Always been more of a fan of the pre-Green REM, but I've grown a new appreciation for the later albums just recently. Monster, Up, Reveal, Automatic...

    Just wondered if there was any love out there for New Adventures... ?
    Love this album! I've long said that this album and No Code had to be the two most under-appreciated albums of 1996!

    I couldn't agree more!

    This is my favorite R.E.M album and No Code is my favorite PJ album. The fact that they were released a week apart always freaks me out!
  • analogueaddict72analogueaddict72 Posts: 307
    Always loved Leave since Adventures was released, I particularly like E bow the letter and the opening track of the album, a most underrated gem , would love to own it on vinyl, hoping for 180 gram reissue soon.
  • JP33JP33 Posts: 1,348
    Excellent album........Its like everyone I talk too,never heard of it ..........One of the most underrated album ever
  • jwillmojwillmo Posts: 471
    When I tell people "Be Mine" is my favorite REM song, they always think I mean "Strange Currencies" off of Monster. Which is also a great song.

    There is a great version of Thom Yorke doing Be Mine with REM that I downloaded back in the Napster days, that I can't find now. It's killing me!

    Criminally underrated album. I recently acquired it on vinyl. How it should be heard!
  • pretextpretext Posts: 1,294
    My absolute favorite! Most fans seem to think that's crazy, and occasionally I'll turn back to Life's Rich Pageant. But it's really Hi-Fi that does it for me. I bought it at The Wall in Oxford Valley Mall. One of the perfect Fall albums of all time. And yeah, I would kill for the vinyl.
  • tcaporaletcaporale Posts: 1,577
    "E-Bow the Letter" might be their best song, and "Low Desert" is very underrated.
  • zisforzisfor Posts: 19
    Probably my favorite REM album. Hard for me to even pick the song I like best from it. I was sitting here reading the track listing and couldn't decide which is my favorite because they all are. Happy they played Electrolite when I saw them in concert last summer.
  • Evacuation RulesEvacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    My favorite REM album by far.
  • goldrushgoldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,618
    It's easily my favourite REM album! "E-Bow The Letter" and "Leave" together - gives me goosebumps every damn time!
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  • gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
    jwillmo wrote:
    When I tell people "Be Mine" is my favorite REM song, they always think I mean "Strange Currencies" off of Monster. Which is also a great song.

    There is a great version of Thom Yorke doing Be Mine with REM that I downloaded back in the Napster days, that I can't find now. It's killing me!

    Criminally underrated album. I recently acquired it on vinyl. How it should be heard!

    Not an mp3, but here's a Youtube link for the Thom Yorke performance.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3_9bCJrHjY
  • tcaporaletcaporale Posts: 1,577
    Thom Yorke performed "E-Bow the Letter" with them too!

    And R.E.M. in turn helped Radiohead perform "Lucky".
  • evenflowevenflow Posts: 401
    My freshman year in college is when the album was realeased and I went to school in a town that was 4 hours from my parents house. On the weekends that I would go home and drive back that's the album that I played. Whenever I hear a song from Hi-Fi I'm instantly transported back to that time. That album will always hold a special place for me.

    Not to mention it's my favorite R.E.M. album...
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  • ZosoZoso Posts: 6,425
    pirlo21 wrote:
    Not listened to this album for a couple of years. Started listening to it again a few weeks ago and it's blowing me away!
    Forgot just how incredible it is.

    Always been more of a fan of the pre-Green REM, but I've grown a new appreciation for the later albums just recently. Monster, Up, Reveal, Automatic...

    Just wondered if there was any love out there for New Adventures... ?

    I do love this album this is possibly there best 1990's work and post 80's work full stop. I thought Up & Around The Sun were bad records but I really like Accelerate, Monster & New Adventures..

    You gotta love Electrolite, So Fast, So Numb, E-Bow, Leave & New Test Leper.
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  • smarcheesmarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    cranked Leave last night

    it sounded great

    slowly becoming one of my top 20 REM songs
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  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,951
    i absolute LOVE E-bow the letter, it is one song that i can listen to 3 times in a row...its soo dark and beautiful...i asked for this album for xmas 96 and got it, listen to it every now and then...it truly stands as one of their best.

    i've been listening to monster more lately though, just love the fact that grunge was huge and REM was putting a song like tongue out. great stuff.
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  • AndySlashAndySlash Posts: 3,262
    Leave is my favorite REM song. And one of my favorite songs by any band.
  • goldrushgoldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,618
    AndySlash wrote:
    Leave is my favorite REM song. And one of my favorite songs by any band.

    Leave has to be one of their best ever songs, it's almost too good. Apparently Michael Stipe was never happy with his vocals on it - the re-recorded version on In Time has different vocals but it doesn't have the punch of the New Adventures version
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  • UKDaveUKDave Posts: 5,557
    Was just deciding what to listen to, thanks for the inspiration, not listened to this for ages but really like it, one of my favourite REM albums too, possibly top... will tell you shortly ;)
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  • anothercloneanotherclone Posts: 1,688
    I really like New Adventures.

    Does anyone else feel elements of another REM song in 'Departure'. It's always reminded me of that other REM song 'Me In Honey'. I've always thought that and since you're a bunch of nerds about New Adventures like I am, I thought I'd ask.

    Just listen to 'em both. You'll hear what I mean.
  • pretextpretext Posts: 1,294
    anotherclone wrote:
    I really like New Adventures.

    Does anyone else feel elements of another REM song in 'Departure'. It's always reminded me of that other REM song 'Me In Honey'. I've always thought that and since you're a bunch of nerds about New Adventures like I am, I thought I'd ask.

    Just listen to 'em both. You'll hear what I mean.

    Huh. They both have a sort of forward motion sound to the main riff. And Stipe's vocal delivery is similar, though much harder on Departure (there is a "honey" quality to the other). But that's typical of his development as a singer over time. Interesting comparison.
  • tcaporaletcaporale Posts: 1,577
    It's my second-favorite '90s R.E.M. record behind the classic Automatic for the People.
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    I was never a huge REM fan until last summer. I remember in high school hearing Out of Time and Monster, and not particularly caring for either. I ended up with both their greatest hits albums though and enjoyed them. Then Accelerate came out and it was super cheap and there was so much hype around it I bought it out of curiosity and I lived it. I went with my gf to see them last summer and it was probably the best arena show I've seen outside PJ in my life. I was floored.

    I ended up buying Automatic for the People after the show and loved that. Then I went back and picked up all the old IRS albums and each one was a gem. I finally came back to the 90s REM albums I hadn't liked before. Green and Out of Time are both good, enjoyable albums. I still don't much are for Monster. But New Adventures is awesome, rivals Automatic for their best in my mind. Leave is an awesome song.
  • pretextpretext Posts: 1,294
    Got home from Philly today after four unbelievable nights of PJ. On my doorstep: Hi-Fi on VINYL!!! Birthday present from a great friend. Just when I thought this past week couldn't get any better...Wow. :mrgreen:
  • jr19jr19 Posts: 338
    monster is my personal Rem fav. but i gotta lot of love for new adventures in hi fi.
  • JP33JP33 Posts: 1,348
    What a fantastic album........Its like nobody knew they released that album
  • albert83albert83 Saskatoon, SK Posts: 109
    From what I remember it came out quickly without anyone really knowing much about it. Most of it was recorded in soundchecks and then finished up after the tour. I remember watching Muchmusic when they first played the "Ebow the letter" video. Rick the temp said "here's a brand new REM video it just got delivered here 5 minutes ago, and i guess they have a new album in a couple weeks."
    Definatley my favorite REM record, The vinyl sounds amazing as usual too. You're gonna love it.
  • JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,673
    Such a great album! They were playing songs from this album during the Monster tour (before the album was released), and I love hearing new songs live before hearing them on record.

    There was very little hype for this album because it seemed as if most people had have their fill of REM after "Monster" and the related tour was finished.
  • whgarrettwhgarrett Posts: 574
    Great album. My favorite of 1996. :D
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