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By the way, I'm curious now about how many million copies sold each R.E.M. worldwide.
Is there any available data about that?
Is there any available data about that?
90% of those copies are now residing in bargain bids at used CD stores.Monster isn't even really up there, overall. It's sold less than 3 million here, and it didn't do especially well internationally.
only if they're videos of studio tracks everyone should already know if they've opened this thread.How about 10 more YouTube clips? Those are awesome.
only if they're videos of studio tracks everyone should already know if they've opened this thread.
yeah but have you seen this one?
REM- Losing my religion (Video) - YouTube
it's definitely one of their best. and won a lot of awards at the MTV awards for videos.
I too remember the orange glow of the REM section at the used CD store from all those Monster albums. I love Monster, it came out the week of my 15th birthday and I remember receiving at as a birthday present.
I picked up Automatic years ago cos it was the one of theirs I always heard about. Quite fucking overrated, in my esteemed opinion.
I think it's a good tune, but I'd probably rank in the back half of New Adventures. Agree that it's a great driving album and also think it's a fine synthesis of the softer/harder 90s REM sound.Speaking of sounding the same, I am amazed at the number of people who say "New Test Leper" is one of their favorite R.E.M. songs. It's among my least favorites, the only dull track on an otherwise excellent album. I hate it because it's so repetitive -- verse after verse with the same melody, over and over again. To me, the best R.E.M. songs take you in directions you didn't expect.
The opening mandolin riff of Losing my Religion is a jolt to the system, much like Smells like Teen Spirit by Nirvana
I picked up Automatic years ago cos it was the one of theirs I always heard about. Quite fucking overrated, in my esteemed opinion.
If the popular consensus is that Automatic is their finest album, I would consider it overrated in that sense. In my opinion, every album from the IRS years trumps it in terms of songwriting, mystique, and especially subtlety. A song like Everybody Hurts is not exactly shy about its message, which for me runs counter to the willful abstraction and eccentricity that is at the core of the early albums. That is to say that the abstraction is what draws me to the band. And I also despise Sidewinder, though I am not quite sure why.