Pros: Decent lyrics, Good music, Intriguing vocals Cons: Many, many incomprehensible lines
For quite some time, I have been meaning to hunt down more R.E.M. albums. I have a few (see links at bottom) and I have had the idea from "The Kids In The Hall" that because most of the works I like by R.E.M. are their radio singles and "Best Of" ...
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Pros: Good look at the band in its early days; some good songs on here. Cons: Stipe mumbles a lot; vocals should have been turned up a bit; a lot of the songs sound close to being the same
Before folks get all hot and bothered and accuse me of picking on this fine album, let me point out that this is a good early effort from R.E.M. However, the vocals just drive me up the wall. Michael Stipe has a reputation for writing insightful and...
Pros: no filler, lots of hummable tunes Cons: some of the lyrics are impossible to figure out!
Released in 1983, this is REM's first full-length album. It is also their best. No REM fan should be without it. From the first notes of the rollicking "Radio Free Europe" to the wistful "West of the Fields" the listener is treated to some truly great...
Pros: Excellent instrumental harmonies, beautiful songs Cons: Has a specific sound. No song is that different from the other.
For some reason, I've managed to own five R.E.M. albums. Something causes me to come back to them every time. In spite of the fact that I find their egos highly disturbing, I can't disagree with the fact that R.E.M. has created some of the most...
Pros: An honest early work from genuine American pop geniuses Cons: Somewhat sparse production, a certain early crudeness
Sometime in the late eighties, I started wondering what happened to R.E.M. Was it a vengeful Voodoo queen? A premature alien autopsy? A bad can of Beenie Weenies? WHAT? I loved this band in the mid eighties when I discovered their dense American sound,...
Pros: Moody, atmoshperic. A long way off from "Shiny Happy People" Cons: If you like your lyrics to make sense, skip it.
R.E.M. is a funny band. They hit their stride four years after this album, and yet if you listen to the album that eventually did break through commercially (Document) in relation with Murmur, you’d swear it was a different band. Even lead singer...
In the early 1980s, the rock music scene was dominated by bands that were leftover from the 1970s and metal bands that were sporting an overblown glam look. When R.E.M. came into the music scene around that time, they helped brought attention to the...
Pros: Vaguely minimalistic, but in a good way. Cons: Not many special tracks. It's a very even album.
Back in 1983, Rolling Stone, back then the premier music magazine, awarded album of the year honours not to any of the popular acts of the day, but instead to a little known band called R.E.M. on the IRS label. The album, of course, was Murmur....
Pros: the perfect high school antidote, circa 1983 Cons: none
R.E.M. in general, and Murmur, Reckoning, and Fables (Of The Reconstruction)and others by other bands help make up my high school anti-soundtrack. Michael Jackson and Prince sucked then, now, and forever. R.E.M. not only didn't suck (which would simply...
Pros: Unique-sounding Cons: Takes time to get used to (though I don't consider that a con)
REM's first full length LP "Murmur" is still as unique as it was upon its 1983 release. Its homespun, relaxed, informal sound was a blueprint for what we now call "Alternative Rock;" back then, the heavily Byrds-influenced sound of...
Pros: beautiful, beautiful Cons: some people might not like beauty
Nothing sounds like this. REM doesn't sound like this. I don't know how it happened, how that rock group was able to pull it off. I don't care too much, though, either, since there is nothing -- no thing -- that sounds like this. It's kinda folky in...
This album showed the promise that REM delivered on later in their careers. The quirky, jingly-jangly guitar lines by Buck and unintelligble lyrics by Stipe gave this album a mysterious quality that other groups of the time did not seem to have. I can...
R.E.M.'s "Murmur", their first official full-length release, aches with a decided innocence and beauty, a testament to the band's early Southern-influenced, "jangle"-rock style.
The album's first song, "Radio Free...
Pros: good, catchy songs Cons: Stipes lyrics are a bit mumbled
The first critically acclaimed album from an up coming and young REM i thought was a definate favourite for me. released in the year that i came into this earth (1983) it immediatly attracted me to it after i heard the track 'perfect circle'. This being...
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