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Re: So, what are you listening to?
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I'm dying for a little subtlety myself, but I get your point.


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Well you nailed that. The band I grew up with and a song originally off what's probably my favorite album of all time. I just posted about buying up the Beatles catalogue, and R.E.M. will be next I think. I missed out on some good stuff in the later years (and some pretty weak stuff to be fair.) Thanks for the tip of the hat!

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You're very welcome.

My favorite post-Berry song of theirs is "The Great Beyond."


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A coworker passed me a copy of the next-to-last album "Accelerate" and I was really happy with it. It seemed like the "rock" album I always wanted "Monster" to have been.

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Yeah, although I think Monster is pretty underrated. It was the elder statesmen showing the young'uns how it's done.

My best friend, who I've been trying to convert to REM, likes Crush With Eyeliner.


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Yes, it is definitely better than I thought it was at the time. Based on the pre-release hype (Back to Rock!) I was expecting something more like "Document." Needless to say "Monster" was something else entirely so I was never going to like it right out of the box. I've heard live versions of some of the deeper cuts that made me re-evaluate it for the better.

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Upon hearing Faith No More is working on a new album, I dug out their last album from 18(!) years ago, "King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime", and gave it a new listen. I remember hating it when I first got it, but it's been playing constantly these past few days, and while it's not my favorite FNM album (Angel Dust!), it's really good on its own merits. I think my initial disdain for KFAD,FFAL was the lack of Jim Martin on guitar, but I can see where he and the band had grown apart stylistically.

The title track, "Richochet", "Take This Bottle", and "Caralho Voador" are my favorite songs.

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Originally Posted by matlock
Yes, it is definitely better than I thought it was at the time. Based on the pre-release hype (Back to Rock!) I was expecting something more like "Document." Needless to say "Monster" was something else entirely so I was never going to like it right out of the box. I've heard live versions of some of the deeper cuts that made me re-evaluate it for the better.


TBH, having been introduced to them through their first couple Warner Bros albums, I struggled for a long time with most of their IRS albums. I loved Lifes Rich Pageant straight out of the gate, but the other four took a lot of listens to appreciate. Challenging music can often be rewarding.


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Re: So, what are you listening to?
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Thanks to Fickles, I've been on a Beatles kick this week too. So much I'd not really listened to before. Not to mention so many influences I can see on other bands. Chemical Brothers was the obvious one I'd not picked up before as their Let Forever Be is eerily similar to the Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows.

I've not listened to REM for a long time. I seem to recall thinking it was all getting a bit samey after over a decade (an opinion based on a passing thought probably). I remember The One I love being on a tape that my brother was given. So, when I saw an album at a second hand store I asked for it. That turned out not to be Document but Life's Rich Pageant going quite cheap for some reason.

As for Faith No More: musically some great stuff, but I never quite thought the vocals quite compared. Mind you, the lead singer must have passed puberty now, so that my well have got better too.;) What was the reason the old lead singer was dropped? Not that I thought that compared too well either to the music.





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Thoth, glad to learn I inspired you to reacquaint yourself with the Beatles.

Regarding REM, I think albums like 1994's Monster and 1998's Up were a deliberate effort to prevent their sound from getting codified into formula. When audiences proved resistant to change, they retreated to safer ground on those albums' respective follow-ups, 1996's New Adventures Hi-Fi (one of my least favorite albums of theirs) and 2001's Reveal.


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I liked "Up," it has a nothing-to-lose vibe since it was their first album without Bill Berry. I think some of the drift after that may have also been due to not having a permanent drummer. Having Bill Riflin play on their last couple albums gave them a more coherent "band" feel.

I am waiting patiently for a Mike Mills solo album, I'd be more interested in that than a Michael Stipe one to be honest.

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It may still be Sunday for you, but That's Where the Story Ends for my Sunday. It's Monday here, and since I'm on holiday, it must be a...






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^Not bad, but I prefer the Def Leppard version.



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You don't like Mondays? Just like this lot...





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LOL lol

I adore the Rats. Bob Geldof is one of my heroes.

Unfortunately, YouTube says that video isn't available. sigh


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Bah! Must be a locational thing, as I've just watched it.

Mind you, I heard they didn't like Mondays because they didn't like the Reading, Writing & Arithmetic. I had to tell them that they were thinking of the Sundays, and they disbanded in the huff.




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Been thinking about this song since I mentioned it earlier in the Kill This Thread thread. Great song, great video:



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As I may have given away in the shouty box...

the comics related...



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I love XTC. Cleome loves them even more than I do. I wish she was here tonight.


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I went for decades only ever hearing the making plans for Nigel one. Silly radio stations.


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Most Americans only know them for "Dear God", which was actually a B-side until a disc jockey flipped it over.


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I don't think I've heard that one....and now I have...I'd have thought that song would have certain groups out huffing and puffing.




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Oh, it did, it most surely did. That just contributed to its popularity. Silly religious nutcases! lol

Oh, and it was from the Skylarking album.


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