Monday, August 16, 2004
August 5: REM - Automatic for the People
For a long time, I would have said this was the best album of the '90s. Listening to it again after two or three years, I still think it's in the top 2 or 3. But I'm not convinced it's the best (a sub-par instrumental and a poorly-advised political song in the middle hurt).
That being said, the one-two-three punch of "Man on the Moon," "Nightswimming," and "Find the River" is easily the best 10 minutes of music ever, in my opinion.
This is REM's "death album," in between Out of Time, the "life album," and Monster, the "sex album."
If you don't own this, what is wrong with you? Even when Dashboard Confessional covered a bunch of songs off this album for an MTV special last year, they sounded great.
That being said, the one-two-three punch of "Man on the Moon," "Nightswimming," and "Find the River" is easily the best 10 minutes of music ever, in my opinion.
This is REM's "death album," in between Out of Time, the "life album," and Monster, the "sex album."
If you don't own this, what is wrong with you? Even when Dashboard Confessional covered a bunch of songs off this album for an MTV special last year, they sounded great.
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