I own their entire catalog of albums......most I like, some I don't. All of their albums prior to Monster are good albums IMO. They are hit or miss after that....."Up" was not good, their new album is not bad.
While Murmur is indeed fantastic, I'd rate Document and Life's Rich Pagaent as their 2 best albums. > Murmur is probably one of the best albums ever made by anyone ever, but > REM hasn't been REM for... oh, 15 years or more now. I saw the Green > tour in - 1988 maybe? Memory... Fading... - and I was agog at albums > like "Murmur" and "Document" at that point - I was maybe 13 or so. > "Green" was pretty good, but it never really carried me through. I > bought "Out of Time" the day it came out and, interestingly, I thought I > loved it. "Losing my Religion" is still a very good song, but much of > the album, after listening to it repeatedly, just lost so much. It > sounded so /clean/ - it felt out of place with the rest of their albums. > > I haven't bothered with any further REM albums since. They don't strike > me as "bad" as much as just "beyond their prime" at this point. I > caught them on "Sesame Street" a year or so ago singing "Shiny Happy > Monsters", which made me smile, though. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Protect your mail server with built in anti-virus protection. It's not only good for you, it's good for everybody. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=39 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:153759 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
