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| From | KeanuBear@aol.com |
| Subject | REM |
| Date | Tue, 19 Oct 2004 02:25:51 EDT |
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I just saw R.E.M. in Berkeley and they put on a great show. A good mix of new
and old.
I personally thought "reveal" was the most dull and lifeless album ever, even
boring, which REM had never done before in my book. "up" had a few good songs
on it, but at the least the things that didn't work for me were not really
boring, they just didn't work.
"New adventures" has some good songs but the concept behind it dooms it from
the start. They wanted to record an album on the road, at soundchecks, live,
whatever. It sounds good till you realize that what works live does not always
work on a CD. Every song, IMHO, is a minute or 2 or 3 too long. All the
instruments sound the same from song to song. Whenever I hear a few songs from it,
any of the songs, they sound OK, even pretty good, its when you hear more songs
together, somehow the record falls apart. Kinda like "back to the egg",
individual songs sound good, then when they run together it just gets worse and
worse somehow. "electrolite" is a classic REM tune though.
The new songs sounded really great live, so I am gonna pick up the new CD.
I still think "automatic for the people" is the best album of the 90's.
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