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