anyway if you've been thinking about the vinyl i would definitely pull the trigger on this. on the bad and hated hoffman boards, praise for the new pressing/master seems almost universal which is rare
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 November 2021 18:05 (two years ago) link
thanks for the heads up! buying now
― lukas, Thursday, 4 November 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link
Listened to this quite a bit during my final year of high school in 1997. Returning to it today, it's definitely patchy, but that said, Electrolite could be one of their best songs. I'd completely forgotten about it.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 4 November 2021 20:39 (two years ago) link
wow, did not realize the original had become one of those $200 records for some reason. tempted to shine mine up, sell it off, and grab the new one, but it's not really how i relate to my stuff.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 4 November 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link
I fucking love this record.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 4 November 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
ty for the nudge ums, i hedged and bought the package with both the vinyl and cds
― call all destroyer, Friday, 5 November 2021 01:10 (two years ago) link
aluminum, it tastes like fear
― brimstead, Thursday, 14 September 2023 01:03 (seven months ago) link
idk why i thought this album had a bad reputation (must have missed ivy's p4k review lol), but i listened for the first time ever today and it might be my favorite post-reckoning r.e.m. album? combines the best aspects of automatic and monster with fewer clunkers and higher highs
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 15:11 (five months ago) link
like "undertow" in particular sounds to me like they're subconsciously saying, "sorry about monster we have actually figured out how to use feedback now"
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 15:13 (five months ago) link
it's always been one of my favorites, i think it has a pretty strong cult following
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 15:22 (five months ago) link
It got great reviews on first release, did better business in the UK, and has never gone away.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 15:24 (five months ago) link
my parents had out of time, automatic, and monster on cd, but not this one. maybe that's what tricked me
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 15:31 (five months ago) link
Wake Up Bomb and Undertow feel like they've fully realised their straight-up glam side whereas Monster is this weird, slightly stunted mix of things (not a criticism).
Hi-Fi was the first R.E.M. CD my mum didn't have so I get believing that this one was where things fell apart. I only knew about it when I was little through my uncle's CDs (ditto the next two).
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 15:50 (five months ago) link
yeah this always had a positive reputation but it was definitely the first R.E.M. album in awhile that didn't make any radio impact iirc. It didn't have big singles, it's entirely stellar deep cuts. Classic album.
― omar little, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 15:58 (five months ago) link
R.E.M. from this point on did benefit from the way the UK singles chart's infrastructure changing though - lengthier gaps between radio and physical and crucially having built a dedicated enough fanbase helping contribute to the new climate of first week peaks and front-loaded sales (and the marketing and managing that pushed this change). Hence, E-Bow being their highest charter to date, despite probably having not been played on the radio since (and, if they could help it, probably not too much at the time either).
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 16:08 (five months ago) link
I've always wanted to call a song "E-Bola, The Virus" but never got around to it
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 16:19 (five months ago) link
I enjoy Monster now, but, when E-Bow came out as the first single, it was such as relief to have "the old REM" back. And "Electrolite" is so pretty.
These days I think New Adventures is very listenable but is also kind of... their first boring record? Almost everything sounds like another, older, better song.
I always thought "Low Desert" was an intentional Stone Roses' Second Coming pastiche -- the swampy riffing and the "hey heys".
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 17:06 (five months ago) link
Every good band releases one of these variety packs a couple times in their careers: a summa of what they do best (think Tattoo You, Lil Wayne's Funeral, any number of Yo La Tengo albums).
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 17:10 (five months ago) link
I adore this album. Well, except for “wake up bomb” and “bittersweet me”.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 18:13 (five months ago) link
Do I think The Cure’s Wish might be one of these?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 18:19 (five months ago) link
* I think, that should’ve said.
I was thinking the same thing ha. That's the first album with no genuine new territory covered (for all that there are shoegaze guitars and beefy dance-via-baggy rhythms on some songs). Rather it's a this-is-us-and-we're-top-of-the-mountain record.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 18:23 (five months ago) link
it's a record of synthesis, not evolution. the fact that it was all recorded while on the road, and they were playing selections from all over their catalog, probably contributed to that (and also gave them an idea of the kinds of experiments that worked and did not)
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 18:37 (five months ago) link
― piscesx,
Why I love it best.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 18:39 (five months ago) link
Adore NAIHF, loathe Wish
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 18:58 (five months ago) link
despite a half decade of the most intense Cure fandom preceding it
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 18:59 (five months ago) link