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Post by melon1 on Jan 26, 2006 17:11:21 GMT -5
I think that's all of the LPs. Correct? Well, mine was a toss-up between Murmur and Life's Rich Pageant and for some reason I went with LRP. As far as which will win this one, my guess would be Automatic For the People followed ever so closely by Murmur.
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Post by rockysigman on Jan 26, 2006 21:42:31 GMT -5
Automatic for the People is probably their best, but I voted for New Adventures in Hi-Fi, just because it deserves some recognition here, and I fear that it will probably be overlooked in this whole thing.
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Post by rockysigman on Jan 26, 2006 21:42:51 GMT -5
Alright, who's the jackass who voted for Around the Sun?
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Post by Galactus on Jan 26, 2006 21:45:08 GMT -5
AFTP is so obviously the best...
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Post by JACkory on Jan 26, 2006 22:06:20 GMT -5
I think that's all of the LPs. Correct? Actually there is the CD issue that combines the Chronic Town EP with the Dead Letter Office LP. I wouldn't blame anyone who might want to vote for Chronic Town for bemoaning it's absence, but it isn't an LP and the Dead Letter Office LP was a B-sides/outtakes collection, so perhaps the combo disc doesn't meet the criteria. I can't imagine how anyone could prefer Around the Sun over ANY of the other REM albums on the list. And Automatic For the People, IMO, is the most absurdly over-rated album in their catalogue. New Adventures In Hi-Fi, though it recieved only a fraction of praise that AFTP got, is a much more thoroughly satisfying listen (just skip over "The Wake-Up Bomb"). |
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Post by rockysigman on Jan 26, 2006 22:13:13 GMT -5
So which one did you vote for, JAC?
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Post by Weeping_Guitar on Jan 26, 2006 22:28:00 GMT -5
Votes for Murmur, Reckoning, Life's Rich Pageant, Automatic for the People or New Adventures in Hi-Fi are all quite acceptable.
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Post by Kensterberg on Jan 27, 2006 1:07:52 GMT -5
Votes for Murmur, Reckoning, Life's Rich Pageant, Automatic for the People or New Adventures in Hi-Fi are all quite acceptable. Add Document to that list ... and there's no apostrophe in Lifes Rich Pageant.  BTW, I voted for Automatic (I was the first vote after Melon). It's cliche now, but it is still R.E.M.'s best album. And the last three tracks are among the greatest closing trilogy in rock, right up there with the runs at the end of Ziggy Stardust and Who's Next. |
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Post by maarts on Jan 27, 2006 6:41:43 GMT -5
Acceptable? I feel like if I vote for any other album, I will be expelled Yeah, I have to hand it to Automatic too- perhaps the least abrasive of the mob but so easily the most satisfying. |
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Post by Dr. Drum on Jan 27, 2006 7:38:50 GMT -5
AFTP makes it reasonably close but on this one I always have to come down for Murmur. I got it in what was the wet, foggy summer of 83 where I was living (western Newfoundland) and from day one it’s always seemed like it was on some other plane. Hard to explain but as good as albums like Reckoning and Document were, Murmur had this magical 'otherness' to it. It still does. Whenever someone around here dismisses R.E.M. as boring, I think they must not have ever given it a really good listen.
Top five R.E.M. albums:
Murmur
Automatic for the People
Document
Reckoning
Fables of the Reconstruction
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Post by JACkory on Jan 27, 2006 8:56:41 GMT -5
So which one did you vote for, JAC? Thanks for asking... I voted for Fables of the Reconstruction, voting for MY FAVORITE as opposed to "best" (which, I have to agree with Drum here, is probably Murmur). There is something about Fables that just really hits me. Songs like the frantic "Life and How to Live It", the melancholy "Kahoutek", the ethereal "Feeling Gravity's Pull" (which has to be one of the oddest album openers of all time)...there's just a feel behind the whole thing that grabs me. And, of course, there are strong sentimental reasons back of my passion for Fables and the time it was released in relation to significant events in my life... Michael Stipe, while promoting the Up tour, claimed that Fables was his personal favorite after years of dismissing it (hard to believe, perhaps, but I've got video of him saying it). The only things on Fables that I don't really like are "Can't Get There From Here" (although Stipe's "eek" and pre-chorus whines are a hoot) and the maudlin "Old Man Kinsey", but even that one has grown on me over the years. |
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Post by riley on Jan 27, 2006 9:46:33 GMT -5
I went with Murmur, but on certain days I might opt for Reckoning. I'm less partial to anything released after Document to be truthful, while recognizing they've still released some solid music after leaving the IRS label, just not as solid as when they were there.
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Post by JACkory on Jan 27, 2006 9:54:38 GMT -5
I went with Murmur, but on certain days I might opt for Reckoning. I'm less partial to anything released after Document to be truthful, while recognizing they've still released some solid music after leaving the IRS label, just not as solid as when they were there. Yep. That's the way I see it, too. Lots of really good songs scattered amongst the lot, but not nearly as consistantly good ALBUMS (the exception being, IMO, New Adventures In Hi-Fi...once again, with CD player programmed to skip "The Wake-Up Bomb"). |
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Post by bowiglou on Jan 27, 2006 17:45:31 GMT -5
Reckoning has always been my favorite...I had the good fortune to see REM in a small West LA club circa 1983 right around when Radio Free Europe was getting some airplay...other acts on the bill (that I had no idea who they were!) were Fleshtones and Let's Active...it was must an amazing show..REM were almost kinda punky...but I tell ya, if any of you know/knew who Fleshtones were/are, what a killer live band!!...but Reckoning has always had a soft spot for me what with So Central Rain, Don't go Back to Rockville, etc.....
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Post by Kensterberg on Jan 27, 2006 17:52:18 GMT -5
Bow -- Reckoning is my sentimental fave as well, and I've been a fan since Murmer also. So Central Rain is probably my favorite R.E.M. song ever. AFTP is a "better" album (though I also agree with Drum that it's very close between it and Murmer), but Reckoning holds a very special place in my heart.
The Fleshtones ROCKED! Anyone know if any of their catalog ever made it to cd?
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