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I love Dirty.... That tour was amazing, saw them with Pain Teens and Pavement opening up...
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Man, You just listed 4 LP's I dislike very much.....
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I like Adore a lot, but the rest of those...
Rob we seem to be in agreement on Dirty.
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I love Wish Fulfillment more than Genetic...Mote is as great as Wish Fulfillment. Also really love Pipeline/Kill Time, Saucer-Like, Skip Tracer, Hoarfrost, both Karen and Walking Blue.
I donīt also like much Radiohead, R.E.M and Smashing Pumpkins (always hated Billy Corganīs voice). Elvis Costello is only one I think maybe should listen more... |
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I have been a huge REM fan since I heard Pretty Persuasion on MTV and bought all their albums. I stopped giving a fuck around Out of Time because I could sense a sea change in what they were aiming for (they became adult contemporary). I love all their early LP's. Chronic Town EP, Murmur, Reckoning, Fables of the Reconstruction, Life's Rich Pageant, Document and Green.
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Punch the Clock and the follow-up Goodbye Cruel World are considered by fans and El Costello himself to be the lowest points of his career. Just saying.
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I think you're taking OUT and AUTO for granted, which is understandable after all these years. But they really are (were) surprising, original and very good albums. I agree neither rocks very much, and I think Buck made a deliberate attempt to move from his jangle thing, but they're both classic REM's as far as I'm concerned. The first 8 are part of the rock cannon, I say. Adult contemporary? Gin Blossoms/Matchbox 20, etc might sometimes sound like REM, but REM never sounded like the Gin Blossoms, if you know what I mean. But yeah, after AUTO, the best one could hope for was 4 or 5 good songs an album. I still deny the "adult contemp" charge. Simply a bewildering vanishing of great material. |
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Out of Time and Automatic have some great songs, but they are not my thang.
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It wouldn't matter to me if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. rose from the dead and claimed that Punch the Clock is his least favorite album of all time. All that matters to me is my emotional reaction to just about every song on that album. That's proof enough for me that I absolutely love that album. And Trust, and Imperial Bedroom. Can't stand his first few albums. Haven't heard Goodbye Cruel World, but if Elvis groups it with Punch the Clock to be a low point, perhaps I might love it. I went out of my way to specifically mention a few albums I love that get a bad wrap. For the most part, I love the same albums that everyone else does. For example, I love every Beatles album, just like everyone else (though Beatles for Sale is a bit weak). The only other REM albums I've heard are Green, Out of Time, and Automatic. I only like about 5 songs on those albums, but I like everything on Monster. Perhaps someday I'll find another REM album I love. But I haven't been able to find a decent REM message board to bother about that yet. I'll be back with some SY album reviews soon. I agree with Mortte that my review of Dirty doesn't do a good job of really describing what exactly it is about each song that I like or don't like. It's really difficult to put an emotional reaction to music into words, and especially a lack of emotional reaction. If I spent enough time meditating on it, maybe I could figure out how to do so. Or maybe I'll be better off not attempting that and just posting some shorter reviews. |
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I see. It was easy to assume you were just being willfully contrary. Turns out you just haven't heard enough good stuff.
You really should listen to REM's first five albums and then decide where Monster should rank. Any REM message board would say the same. Actually, there's a good time-saving compilation I'd recommend: And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982–1987 If you prefer poppy Elvis to rocking Elvis, maybe check out SPIKE. Overproduced, but interesting instrumentation and really good songs. The follow-up, MIGHTY LIKE A ROSE, has a similar production but the material isn't as good. His 3rd worst album, I think. You might love it. |
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androgynous mind is a cool track, and starfield road fucking owns. a nice drum sound on exp jet set, very dry and substantial.. dig the muted quality of the sounds.
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I really like also how Sister & Experimental sounds (sear sound studio -sound). RR also sound me much better than Eternal even it has much more modern sounds than those other two.
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One of the heaviest reviews I've read in a long time
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Well I may not agree with the each critique of each song...but Dirty is probably my least favorite. Not because of material...but sound. SOmething is lacking for me.
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i'm not saying everyone should like every song there, but throwing out words like "nice" "okay" "great" "vomit" over & over isn't really "reviewing." then again, listening to the smashing pumpkins is like listening to constipated vomit ![]() ![]() ![]() (but for serious...) |
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EJSTNS has all kinds of elements that connect it to various other records they made, but if you're not in a receptive state right now it will all fall on deaf ears. --- eta: but i'm gonna go out on a limb now and say try a thousand leaves. if that doesn't work for you then i'd suggest tahiti-- i hear it's a magical place. ![]() |
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Both EJSTNS and Dirty are great records. That review, if you can call it that, is pants.
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Hey it still was better than anything on Pitchfork
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Just as boring, I'll give it that.
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