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Wednesday, September 29, 2004

September 20: REM - Life's Rich Pageant 

The one where the band start to run out of material. It's 1986, and they're working on their fourth album in four years, this time with Don Gehman, who produced John Mellencamp (and later produced Hootie and the Blowfish and Better than Ezra). Of the 12 tracks, there's one quasi-instrumental, one cover ("Superman"), one song left off of Reckoning and one song left off of Fables. The other eight? They're pretty good. One of my main complaints about this album is that the track listing on the back isn't right, and I think it's on purpose. I have the European reissue, which comes with bizarre covers of Aerosmith's "Toys in the Attic" and the Everly Brothers' "Dream (All I have to do)".

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