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Thrillho:
I've only heard 'Orange Crush' and 'Stand' from it. I love the former, but the latter is fucking terrible.

Thrillho:
I dunno, I hate almost all U2 songs. If 'Orange Crush' is REM doing U2, they're doing it a lot better than U2 do it.

Thrillho:
Updates!

Well I managed to ignore your guys' advice which was not exactly my own fault.

I've picked up five REM albums in the last few weeks because they were in sales, Accelerate, Reveal, Monster, Up and Green.

Accelerate is brilliant even though the cynic in me wants to hate it.
Reveal has left virtually no impression on me no matter how much I've listened to it.
Up I've not listened to yet.
Monster is pretty bad but has a few decent moments.
Green has some decent songs but is mostly crippled by its production and overly political conscience. Saying that, the handful of songs on it that I like are true greatness.

I'm thinking of not buying their first four albums until last so that I don't end up going downhill from their best. I figure I'll fill in the post-Green gaps, and then start over with Murmur.

tricia kidd:
i don't know what's wrong with you all, Monster is a fantastic album, aside from a few boring tracks in the first half.  "I Took Your Name", "Let Me In", "You", and "Circus Envy" are great.

also yes, New Adventures In Hi-Fi is insanely underrated.  i would even say it's roughly as good as Document and Automatic For the People.

i don't get the hate for Green.  "get up" and "stand" are really the only two bad songs on it.  "World Leader Pretend", "I Remember California", "The Wrong Child", and the untitled last song are brilliant and haunting, "Orange Crush" and "Turn You Inside-Out" are great rockers, and "Pop Song '89" is serviceable.  i guess i could see hating "You Are the Everything" for being too... "typically 80s new-age" or whatever but there's plenty of that on Automatic For the People and Out of Time as well - "Nightswimming" is worse than anything on Green.

Out of Time is pretty forgettable aside from "Country Feedback" which is probably the best song they have ever done.  i guess "Me in Honey" is fun enough and "Losing My Religion" was awesome the first 1,000 times i heard it i guess.

Murmur i don't really get the love for, either.  a few good songs, the rest is just kind of there.  Chronic Town is perfect, yes.  Dead Letter Office has some really great, goofy stuff on it, especially the alternate take of "Seven Chinese Brothers" with Michael Stipe reading the liner notes to a gospel album.  for years i thought those were actual alternate lyrics.

doombilly:
E.Spaceman is right. Chronic Town is where it's at.

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