Green sure is a shitty album.

Everything before was great though.

I like a lot of Green, its just not an oil painting.

Green sounds strange to me now.

I think that their will to please was getting stronger than their need to impress at this time.

An uneasy mixture of pretentiousness and commercialism is not the kind of strangeness I'm looking for.

"World Leader Pretend" + "Hairshirt" > "You Are The Everything" + "The Wrong Child".

But now for the equation:

REM = CRAP

"The Wrong Child" is the worst music concievable.

HOUSTON_M wrote:placeholder:

I love this R.E.M. song "Bad Day" an awful lot. I'd made a mental note that I particularly liked this song, but forgot how it sounded.

It sounds like "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)".

Yes. It sounds almost exactly like this song, but with the cutesy schtick replaced by some semblance of humanity. I love this song.

This new R.E.M. record seems pretty good so far, judging by the few songs I've heard.

I listened to Lifes Rich Pageant today for no good reason.

That record and Fables of the Reconstruction are very good records.

drew patrick wrote:I listened to Lifes Rich Pageant today for no good reason.

That record and Fables of the Reconstruction are very good records.

I think these two are the worst of the first seven or so REM albums. There are some good songs on these albums but they pretty much meander around too much for me.

Chronic Town
Murmur
Reckoning
Document = All Great Albums.

The rest, meh. REM has probably given us more dreadful crap at this point than they have provided us with goodness (even though I admittedly love those four albums I just mentioned) so I am changing my vote to

CRAP.

Minotaur029 wrote:Are there any other people who like the new album here?

Surprisingly, I can't stop listening to the new R.E.M. album "Accelerate".

The song "Man-Sized Wreath" just kills me. It really does.

Music could provide the light you cannot resist, indeed.

Salut, R.E.M. I love you.

Confidential to Bill Rieflin: Nice work!

If my arm was twisted, I would choose Reckoning.

Crap.

Bradley's continued reverence and unabashed love for R.E.M. is a beautiful thing. Salut!