Red Mosquito • View topic - the first 3 R.E.M releases are their best

glorified_version · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:28 am

Chronic Town
Murmur
Reckoning

love these albums so much

washing machine · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:30 am

I can get behind this thread. I love the sound on Chronic Town especially. These albums are perfect when played any time after 4:00pm between the months of October and February.

glorified_version · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:37 am

it's good fall music

R.E.M. has some great tunes and they deserve credit for wandering from their original folk-rock sound, but it was still their best. It sounds the most natural and Stipe's lyrics are better.

Peeps · **Joined:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:15 am **Posts:** 33031

see, while i like some of their songs, over all i just cant get behind them. stand, orange crush, crushed with eye liner, whats the frequency kenneth and a few others are solid tunes to me, but i tend to shy away from the political bands out there, which i lump them into with u2, pj and ratm. not so much the songs are political (they are) but more of the preaching they do

washing machine · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:41 am

Laughing gets me every single time.

glorified_version · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:47 am

that's why I like the early albums actually, the lyrics are more cryptic and obscure

some of Stipe's earnestness kind of gets to me later on

YessCode · **Joined:** Mon Oct 18, 2004 2:12 am **Posts:** 3783

I also appreciate Stipe's more cryptic, at times bizarre, lyrics... but Automatic and Hi-Fi are such solid albums at every level. They win for me.

godeatgod · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 2:01 am

I bought Green at zellers for $8 when I was a kid

there was a song about soda on it

andynomore · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 2:24 am

I'd extend it to Document. I've been listening a lot to Fables recently and have always loved Document and Pageant.

Mojopin · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:24 am

Those three are great. And then they raised the bar from there with Fables.

davo499 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:21 am

maybe its just me, but i love green, automatic for the people, new adventures and up. i cant get behind this thread.

stip · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:19 pm

they're all great albums but I prefer mid period REM to this

JimNasium · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:02 pm

Monster was the first CD I bought. Still love it

Hatfield · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:15 pm

stip wrote:

they're all great albums but I prefer mid period REM to this

I'd have to go Green, Out of Time, Automatic.

or even Automatic, Monster, New Adventures. Nothing touches New Adventures for me.

Stephen_Malkmus · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:17 pm

stip · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 5:44 pm

Hatfield wrote:

stip wrote:

they're all great albums but I prefer mid period REM to this

I'd have to go Green, Out of Time, Automatic.

or even Automatic, Monster, New Adventures. Nothing touches New Adventures for me.

automatic, monster, and Hi-Fi would probably be my 3 record run. Green and Out of Time have better songs than the best stuff on monster, but they're comparitvely inconsistent records.

But as i've said elsewhere the murmur to hi-fi run of records is probably the longest string of incredible albums any band has ever produced. If someone picked any 3 record stretch from there I'd take them seriously even if I didn't agree

digster · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:17 pm

I have to agree with stip on this one; Murmur through Hi-Fi is untouchable; any three album run in there could be in the running for a best all time run. That they did that not for 3 albums but 10 (and that's not including the stellar Chronic Town EP) is unparalleled.

Chris_H_2 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:47 pm

1. New Adventures
2. Document
3. Fables
4. Automatic
5. Reckoning

dyingonahilltop · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:57 pm

Definitely prefer Lifes Rich Pageant to Chronic Town. Their IRS releases are far and away their greatest material.

sianofthedead · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:13 pm

Life's Rich Pageant
New Adventures
Document
Accelerate
UP

:nice:

the first 3 R.E.M releases are their best

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