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Re: @ REM (No OtR)
Bruce Lachey wrote:
> Jeez, REM has always been pop. Make no mistake, there's nothing wrong
> with that. Murmer, almost universally hailed as a masterwork, was just
> folk tinged pop (Catapult, 9-9, We Walk). I typically only enjoy like
> half of any REM album of the last 10 years (save Automatic, which drew
> me in start to end). Monster had "Let Me In" and "King of Comedy",
> Hi-Fi had "Leave".
Yeah. "Leave" is really great. "E-Bow the Letter," too. And "Be Mine" has
always struck some chord in me. I just don't seem to like the "glammy" REM
as much, I guess. It just doesn't sit well with me for some reason. It's
like it doesn't fit or something like that.
> Definitely OoTime's "Country Feedback" is up there on the list of
> sublime songs. It was one of them that I hated in the beginning, and
> it's the only thing I love of the CD still.
Really? It's actually kind of surprising to me that people here don't seem
to dig _Out of Time_. I think it's really great. In '91 and '92, there
wasn't a better band, imo.
> The new one, Up, out next Tuesday, is said to be really good stuff. But
> WB promotions has us believing that about everything. They've been
> playing "Lotus" on the radio here a bit, something other than
> "Daysleeper" from the new one. Really good. The album graphics are
> pretty cool.
Is "Lotus" more loud, glammy stuff? I've heard it's pretty much the only
real rock song on the CD.
np: my roommate watching SportsCenter in the other room
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