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
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
Banged by Blame
― pplains, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 14:44 (three weeks ago) link
Warner Bros - release the Rather mixes, you cowards....
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Thursday, 4 April 2024 11:51 (three weeks ago) link