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| From | "Ford Prefect" <poatway@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: More REM |
| Date | Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:25:12 -0400 |
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>Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:35:08 -0600
>From: Not Lame <popmusic@notlame.com> To: <audities@smoe.org> Subject: More
>REM
>Message-ID: <BD9A823C.1BCAA%popmusic@notlame.com>
>
>I literally finished listening to it on the way to work just now and my
>first response is dead=center to Stewart's above. I pick up every album
>by
>the band, always will, but it's way, way too similar sounding to their work
>of the last 6/7 years and, frankly(this is just one listen, though, keep in
>mind---I'm open to change), it struck me somewhat uninspired.
>
>I can't help but think the lack of Berry drumming for them left them w/o an
>important spark that I have yet to recover from.
>
>I don't expect a rehash of familiar paths w/ them but this one is all too
>familiar w/o any memorable songs to get pumped up to put on an Ipod.
>
>It's all pleasant enough, but it has a searching, uncertain, not terribly
>confident feel to it. Stipe, m ost definitely, can do better in the lyric
>department, not in the top 3/4 of his best work in that department(granted
>no one can understand all the lyrics on the first four albums, so we'll
>grant a pass there).
As the English say, I think they're past their sell-by date. Maybe they
should have taken a cue from Led Zep and quit when the Bonham did instead of
going the Who-route, plodding along after Moon checked out.
I saw some of the recent footage of them with Springsteen during the
anti-Bush concerts. It was kinda sad to see Stipe playing rock star for the
cameras. At this rate, they'll be playing the casino circuit, flogging 25th
anniversary reunion t-shirts and opening for Styx before Kerry's first term
is up.
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