liamcool
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C'mon, Disturbance At The Heron House is amaaaaaazing.
C'mon, Disturbance At The Heron House is amaaaaaazing.
Electrolite is discount Nightswimming.
The album ends on a fantastic note with the final three songs. If anything, it stumbles a bit in the middle. By far their best non-IRS effort.
As good as opportunity as any to say that I have always been thoroughly underwhelmed by the majority of Automatic for the People.
I feel guilty for being unable to really get into R.E.M's first few albums. Especially Murmur, I've listened to it in full a number of times but regretfully can't remember anything from it.
Once upon a time, when I was getting into REM and had a bunch of their eighties and early nineties albums (none of the recent shit), I rated Murmur as their worst album.
Few albums have ever been greater growers for me. Now I'd rank it second after Fables of the Reconstruction.
Monster is decent. Strange Currencies and Bang and Blame have always been my favorites off the album. Tongue is a weird little song, but I like it. King of Comedy is just horrible, though. Really kills the 1st half of the album for me.
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Automatic's good, but Drive and Find the River are the only tracks I really love. I wouldn't mind if I never heard Everybody Hurts ever again. I can't believe how many people I've met who think REM are a lame old man band because they've only heard Everybody Hurts.
I wouldn't say I'm underwhelmed by Automatic, but I will take Monster (for sentimental reasons) and New Adventures (for quality reasons) over it.
Monster is decent. Strange Currencies and Bang and Blame have always been my favorites off the album. Tongue is a weird little song, but I like it. King of Comedy is just horrible, though. Really kills the 1st half of the album for me.
And since hardly anyone has praised it yet, I will say that Automatic is a top 10 album for me, by any artist. Other than the Abbey Road medley, it has my favorite closing run of songs and even the throwaways have humor and character. It seems to be more of a general public favorite than a fan favorite, but that's OK with me. Very few albums stir me emotionally like that one does and that pathos counts for a lot.