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I mean, New Adventures in Hi-Fi, Up and Accelerate are right there... The first two suffer from bad choices of first track. Up is weird because it takes absolu
by moomin 5y ago
I mean, New Adventures in Hi-Fi, Up and Accelerate are right there...
The first two suffer from bad choices of first track. Up is weird because it takes absolutely ages to get into it but I contend it's a surprisingly fine album that was extremely badly received.
I'm not gonna try to defend Reveal and Around The Sun. Even REM seem to hate Around The Sun in particular.
(For post-Cosmic thing gems, try "Revolution Earth", "Juliet of the Spirits" or "Pump" (not on YouTube, though, boy there's some lousy sound quality there...)
- tptacek 5y agoThey're right there, but the problem with them is that they're bad. There isn't an album worth of listenable songs between them. I tried working this out on Twitter and this playlist was all I could come up with: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/post-monster-r-e-m/pl.u-YmMeMtg27GX https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/post-monster-r-e-m/pl.u-...
- moomin 5y agoSadly I can’t view that, because I’m sure I’d have a great time debating the various merits. But we don’t have to like the same things. :)
- tptacek 5y agoUsing the best available R.E.M. expertise available on Twitter, I've qualified the following post-Monster songs as "listenable": Supernatural Superserious and Living Well Is The Best Revenge off Accelerate, Imitation of Life, Hope and Daysleeper off Up, and Leave and Electrolite off New Adventures.