Thursday, September 30, 2004
September 26: REM - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
After the "life" record, the "death" record, and the "sex" record, this is REM's "road" record, primarily recorded while on the never-ending Monster tour. It's also their last really good record, in my opinion.
Thematically, it's a bizarre cross between Monster and Automatic, with hard-rocking songs mixed with softer ones. I like the harder ones better, especially "Wake-Up Bomb," "Undertow," and "Leave," which I used to listen to really loud freshman year of college to piss off my roommate (it utilizes a siren effect the whole way through).
In a lot of ways, this is the last real REM record. It's the last with Bill Berry, it's the last with Scott Litt producing, and it's the last one where Jefferson Holt was the manager (he got fired right before the album came out after a bizarre sexual harassment incident). The REM that came back in '98 with UP was, in a lot of ways, a different band.
Thematically, it's a bizarre cross between Monster and Automatic, with hard-rocking songs mixed with softer ones. I like the harder ones better, especially "Wake-Up Bomb," "Undertow," and "Leave," which I used to listen to really loud freshman year of college to piss off my roommate (it utilizes a siren effect the whole way through).
In a lot of ways, this is the last real REM record. It's the last with Bill Berry, it's the last with Scott Litt producing, and it's the last one where Jefferson Holt was the manager (he got fired right before the album came out after a bizarre sexual harassment incident). The REM that came back in '98 with UP was, in a lot of ways, a different band.
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