This is the Thread Where You Bash REM's Monster

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Photograph? I think my wife had it on the Born to Choose comp

I have a cassette in the attic of some live thing where they called themselves Bingo Handjob and covered Tom's Diner

mothersbaugh of invention (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 13:30 (two years ago) link

I recently discovered there’s a super high-quality remaster of Photograph on a Natalie Merchant compilation.

juristic person (morrisp), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 13:49 (two years ago) link

this was a live thing where Natalie was singing "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and Michael was singing a different cover song as a duet and then he starts singing "I've got the music in me! I've got the music in me!" -- I have confidence that someone reading this knows about this and that it isn't a rare thing at all actually.

sarahell, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link

The guitar thing where it goes "what's the frequency Kenneth, is your Benzedrine uh uh" WOKKAWOKKAWOKKAWOKKA is one of the best sounds ever

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link

otm

STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link

that tremelo effect was hot in the 90s

Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link

omg michael's outfit in the video was like the platonic ideal of what to wear in high school for me. a few years after the fact, as almost everything was in utah (96-2000)

Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 15:29 (two years ago) link

that effect blew my mind when i was 11

call all destroyer, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 15:29 (two years ago) link

that solo is also still hot shit imo

Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 15:34 (two years ago) link

years later i finally hear all the 70s power pop / jangle / light psychedelia in r.e.m.'s sound. quite an achievement that they took it to the bank in the 80s and 90s. that sort of thing seemed really out of fashion esp in the 90s? at the time i don't think i really understood what i was hearing, too young.

Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 15:37 (two years ago) link

Which bands in particular are you thinking of?

juristic person (morrisp), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link

"Star 69" is a jam!

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link

this was a live thing where Natalie was singing "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and Michael was singing a different cover song as a duet and then he starts singing "I've got the music in me! I've got the music in me!" -- I have confidence that someone reading this knows about this and that it isn't a rare thing at all actually.

― sarahell, Wednesday, October 20, 2021 9:26 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJPvMub2JXI

Wow I had a LOT of REM boot cassettes back in the day and I assumed this was something I had but this one's new to me -- love loopy Stipe (same goes for the Tom's Diner Bingo Handjob tape)

Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 16:21 (two years ago) link

Anyway I'm glad the forces of good have reclaimed this thread and made it into the Monster appreciation thread this record deserves

Star 69 forever

Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 16:23 (two years ago) link

is bashing one's monster a euphemism

Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 16:24 (two years ago) link

Which bands in particular are you thinking of?

― juristic person (morrisp), Wednesday, October 20, 2021 5:15 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

big star, the byrds

Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link

wonder if there's a timeline where r.e.m. relaunches the byrds like pearl jam relaunched neil young

Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 16:32 (two years ago) link

i'm just shitposting, anyway monster is a cool album

Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link

xxxp I had never heard that Leaving on a Jet Plane / multiple-VU-songs mashup bootleg either... nice

juristic person (morrisp), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

this has aged p well actually

I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE DIAPER GOT LOOSE (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 19:11 (one year ago) link

This was great then and is still great now.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 19:16 (one year ago) link

Great album that I've never truly been able to get to the centre of. Much about it which is true is also not true.

you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 19:35 (one year ago) link

Aged better than the remix.

pplains, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link

I'm not
commodity

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 20:43 (one year ago) link

The first side is great.

Crush and Frequency, plus Bang, remain solid for me. Sorry if that's a basic opinion.

I only lose the plot at Reveal.

forbidden fruit salad (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 21:20 (one year ago) link

Monster was and is shit. Radiohead killed REM on that tour. Mike Mills wearing those ridiculous suits is just more shame accenting the end of REM.

brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 21:48 (one year ago) link

strange currencies > everybody hurts

not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 21:52 (one year ago) link

not really

not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 21:53 (one year ago) link

We have to bash Rem as a whole

CerebralCaustic, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 23:23 (one year ago) link

The final three songs are a final act almost as great as the final three songs on Automatic.

(I'm sure many would point to Circus Envy as the weak link there but I really like how infected and deep fried it sounds. The mid-point between Radio Friendly Unit Shifter and the Manics' My Guernica).

you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 2 February 2023 08:05 (one year ago) link

probably my favorite "rock" track on the album.

got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 2 February 2023 12:48 (one year ago) link

It’s significantly better and more cohesive than Document

beamish13, Thursday, 2 February 2023 14:39 (one year ago) link

not really
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Wednesday, February 1, 2023 4:53 PM (yesterday)

I think you made a typo intending to say "no, really"

billstevejim, Thursday, 2 February 2023 15:45 (one year ago) link

eight months pass...

“bang and blame” is 75% of a great song, unfortunately the other 25% is the chorus

is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 23:21 (six months ago) link

The second best thing about this entire album is the jangly rhythm guitar in the verse of Bang and Blame

The best thing about this entire album is the acoustic guitar in the verse of Bang and Blame

Road House: Songs and Stories (Master of Treacle), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 23:43 (six months ago) link

I keep hoping that 25th anniversary remaster box set of this will start popping up in used bins with the frequency of the original release, but no dice so far. Haha.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 00:11 (six months ago) link

The guitar thing where it goes "what's the frequency Kenneth, is your Benzedrine uh uh" WOKKAWOKKAWOKKAWOKKA is one of the best sounds ever

otm

Lily Dale, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 00:15 (six months ago) link

i.e. tremolo (unless you're Leo Fender when you call it "vibrato" on the amp because you previously named vibrato bridges wrongly)

assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 00:52 (six months ago) link

I can still hum the melodies of all the feedback on this record

The first and last four tracks + Tongue are all good to great

This record is like your health as a fortysomething - not the best, but as good as it gets until you break up

Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 11:50 (six months ago) link

I hear it more as a DUGADUGADUGADUGA

...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 12:13 (six months ago) link

The first NEW rem album that came out after I became a super fan. I liked it at the time because it wasn't awful and I was IN on the band so much. I tried to listen to it the other day and couldn't get through it. "Tongue" is the one I still like because it isn't overworked. In a perfect world I would switch it with "Ignoreland" on Automatic, putting "Ignoreland" on Monster so I could toss the whole damn thing.

Radiohead did indeed slay on their opening slot touring.

Cow_Art, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 13:16 (six months ago) link

Sonic Youth opened for REM on the Monster tour date that I saw (KC) and similarly upstaged them. REM had a lot of sound problems with the mix that night too, I don't know if that was atypical

erasingclouds, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 13:35 (six months ago) link

i was at that show!

andrew m., Wednesday, 4 October 2023 13:52 (six months ago) link

I saw REM on the Monster tour with Radiohead, at Milton Keynes Bowl (?), and "High and Dry" was the most out-of-tune vocal I've ever heard, like literally a whole field of people wincing. Great show though

Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 14:01 (six months ago) link

As in, "Don't leave me [much too high] highhhhh, don't leave me [much too low] dryyyyyyyy"

Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 14:02 (six months ago) link

Blur opened on one of the Milton Keynes dates. Bit weird to think about imo.

you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 14:37 (six months ago) link

from what I read on Wikipedia, bill berry was really influenced by Echobelly for the Monster guitar sound. I think maybe they did that tremolo thing too?

brimstead, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 16:09 (six months ago) link

five months pass...

Surreally, Dan Rather interviewing the band and even performing a bit of "What's The Frequency, Kenneth?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96ucWfkML7g

paisley got boring (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 14:33 (four weeks ago) link

the cover art is the worst thing about this album, in retrospect

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 13:54 (three weeks ago) link

special 12" remix of Dan Rather singing "Kenneth."

poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 14:10 (three weeks ago) link


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