Album Rating: 4.5
Bang and Blame is massively underrated.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Is a nice track but my favorite here is Strange Currencies.
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Album Rating: 3.5
I completely forgot how devastating the closer is, can’t believe they chose to finish the album with Stipe’s painful moan “youuuuu”, and how great they did so! Not quite the mood they kickstart with …Kenneth.
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Album Rating: 4.5
It’s bloody underrated.
I always go back to this as how it was at the time.
R.E.M were absolutely massive, monumental between Out of Time and Automatic. Just ridiculously colossal and somehow got swept into the grunge/alt/independent rock thing as a result of being a pre-cursor to it all.
This album was meant to be their ‘rock’ album in a period where the soul of rock had been ripped away with Cobain dying and things moving on.
Things definitely had moved on but this album although not being truly iconic is the last proper R.E.M album.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Agreed
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Album Rating: 4.0
the new adventures erasure there is insane
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Album Rating: 4.5
Hi-Fi was cobbled together bubs.
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Album Rating: 4.0
but does that really matter when every parameter of it is much better than this?
also they wrote most of their albums on the spot so that applies no more to new adventures than it does murmur
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Album Rating: 4.5
E-Bow and Electrolite are two of the greatest songs ever written.
The band as a unit were missing something though after this album, once the magic goes it goes and the magic ultimately is what it’s all about.
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Album Rating: 4.0
yeah i just do not buy for a second that this is of all r.e.m. albums is the last album with the magic lmao, i dont even think its new adventures. up is brilliant and the opposite side of this albums coin even with berrys absence. not bringing in anyone else helped maintain the artistic sync between the three of them until they started grossly overpolishing themselves by around the sun
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Album Rating: 4.5
Loved Up and Reveal when they came out and listened to them for a good few years.
The band hand forever changed though. That crack of excitement and elastic energy that they could create at the drop of a hat had definitely dwindled.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Around the Sun can get to absolute fuck
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Album Rating: 4.0
they were changing pretty dramatically with every release by this point tbf
i do think by accelerate, which is an album i do love, that the chemistry by that point feels completely different. i think what keeps up feeling separate from everything else in their discog is a. bill strongly advocated for that albums creative direction and greatly encouraged them when they thought they were gonna break up and b. they basically made it intending it for it to be their last artistic statement. by the point they got it back together though theres a change, although still plenty of good tunes
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Album Rating: 4.0
Around the Sun is bad but Leaving New York is a great song
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Album Rating: 4.0
the live versions of the songs on that album are honestly mostly pretty good but the studio version of pretty much all those songs are dismal lol
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Album Rating: 4.5
For what it all means though these are without question one of the greatest bands of all time
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Album Rating: 3.0
Hi-Fi absolutely smokes this it's not even close lmao
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Album Rating: 4.5
Behave yourself Row
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Album Rating: 3.0
hmm will i listen today to REMs most diverse album, with an absolutely gorgeous mix and Stipe at the top of his game lyrically and vocally. or this absolute headache of an album with Stipe going against all his strengths as a vocalist and writing about cunnilingus for an hour
tough choice!
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Album Rating: 4.5
lol
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