I like Reveal, but I am a huge fan of Up. I believe i'll be alone in this though, as few people seem to like that album.
I love "walk unafraid" and "Lotus"
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I love New Adventures in Hi Fi. I think "E-Bow The Letter" is a great song with an excellent video. I rank "Electrolite" as one of the greatest album closers of all time and I love "Be Mine."
I can't get over people not loving Reveal, though. What a great record. I love every song on it, mainly "The Lifting," "All the Way to Reno," and "Imitation of Life,"
I also think Around the Sun is underrated,
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we sit around and wonder exactly why our marriage should feel threatened by gay marriage
Thirty-six threads and not one mention of Lifes Rich Pageant? Nothing for Reckoning? Nothing for Fables? Heck, I don't think MURMUR's even in here anywhere!
Without sounding like an old "remember when" jackass that everyone hates, I can remember listening to college radio in the mid-80s when all my friends were into like Loverboy and Night Ranger and Sammy Hagar and crap, and thinking that liking those early REM albums was like being in some secret "cool" club. I'll always love the early stuff. Call me "the apologist" I guess.
Sorry gang, I love R.E.M., and I respect everyone's opinions, but my feeling is that the last 5-6 albums or so have been kinda "unessential" if that's the word. Sure, there are some gems in there, but overall, they just don't really knock me over.
Though I guess I'd say that I feel about R.E.M. albums the same way Yogi Berra once compared pizza to sex:
"When it's good it's great; when it's bad it's still pretty good."
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Thirty-six threads and not one mention of Lifes Rich Pageant? Nothing for Reckoning? Nothing for Fables? Heck, I don't think MURMUR's even in here anywhere!
Without sounding like an old "remember when" jackass that everyone hates, I can remember listening to college radio in the mid-80s when all my friends were into like Loverboy and Night Ranger and Sammy Hagar and crap, and thinking that liking those early REM albums was like being in some secret "cool" club. I'll always love the early stuff. Call me "the apologist" I guess.
Sorry gang, I love R.E.M., and I respect everyone's opinions, but my feeling is that the last 5-6 albums or so have been kinda "unessential" if that's the word. Sure, there are some gems in there, but overall, they just don't really knock me over.
Though I guess I'd say that I feel about R.E.M. albums the same way Yogi Berra once compared pizza to sex:
"When it's good it's great; when it's bad it's still pretty good."
I am kind of with you on this. They lost me too a while back, although I still love their sound.
My favorite songs are 'SO. central rain' and 'Perfect Circle'...oh and 'World Leader Pretend'...but that's cuz Micheals talking on that one Read the lyrics of that song..AMAZING! And still very applicable to these days I would say.
I kept track of them until Monster. Somehow I did not feel like listening their latest cd's more then three times or so. Maybe I should give it another go!
I would love to see them live once again. They blew off a concert here once a day before they would come and I had this nice little ticket..grrr.
Just put Green in the media player here...Nice.!!.
Why not be mediocre and be the best at it that you can be?
I'll never understand the bad rep that Around The Sun gets..I thought it was a really good one...definitely tons better than Reveal..which I believe to be the worst one that R.E.M. have made. It's not bad..it just could have been a lot better.
And to get back to the point..yes New Adventures in Hi Fi is definitely a great one! I remember buying it and No Code on the same day!
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I love "walk unafraid" and "Lotus"
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Walk Unafraid is one of my favourite REM songs of all time.
I don't wanna think, I wanna feel
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Around the Sun just sucks. Their only misstep in an incredible career.
Up is my second favorite REM record, behind Automatic.
And Imitation of Life, She Just Wants to Be, and I'll Take the Rain are the only reasons I bother to put in Reveal. I absolutely cannot stand Reno.
Final Straw is the ONLY reason I'd listen to Around the Sun.
I can't get over people not loving Reveal, though. What a great record. I love every song on it, mainly "The Lifting," "All the Way to Reno," and "Imitation of Life,"
I also think Around the Sun is underrated,
we sit around and wonder exactly why our marriage should feel threatened by gay marriage
Without sounding like an old "remember when" jackass that everyone hates, I can remember listening to college radio in the mid-80s when all my friends were into like Loverboy and Night Ranger and Sammy Hagar and crap, and thinking that liking those early REM albums was like being in some secret "cool" club. I'll always love the early stuff. Call me "the apologist" I guess.
Sorry gang, I love R.E.M., and I respect everyone's opinions, but my feeling is that the last 5-6 albums or so have been kinda "unessential" if that's the word. Sure, there are some gems in there, but overall, they just don't really knock me over.
Though I guess I'd say that I feel about R.E.M. albums the same way Yogi Berra once compared pizza to sex:
"When it's good it's great; when it's bad it's still pretty good."
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97: Oakland
98: Sacramento
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02: Seattle (2)
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05: Vancouver
06: Albany, Hartford, Denver (2), LA (2), SF (3)
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apart from a few songs on up I don't like it.
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I am kind of with you on this. They lost me too a while back, although I still love their sound.
My favorite songs are 'SO. central rain' and 'Perfect Circle'...oh and 'World Leader Pretend'...but that's cuz Micheals talking on that one
I kept track of them until Monster. Somehow I did not feel like listening their latest cd's more then three times or so. Maybe I should give it another go!
I would love to see them live once again. They blew off a concert here once a day before they would come and I had this nice little ticket..grrr.
Just put Green in the media player here...Nice.!!.
And to get back to the point..yes New Adventures in Hi Fi is definitely a great one! I remember buying it and No Code on the same day!
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but if i had to rank em
1.AFTP
2.monster
3.out of time
4.NAIHF
5.UP
the rest