Heston and Marky's Friday Top 5

[Flex]

Hello,

youtube.com/watch?v=FxmGWMm-BCk

A classic!

[revbob]

Ah, Slackdaddy fan. I should have known.

Is that anything like Shadadowdaddy?

Actually, more like your beloved Phish. My understanding is that they're one of those soul-gnawing jam bands.

I still remember in my younger days seeing a large line of people outside a bar and thinking wow must be something good. No it was Phish.

Maybe they were lined up because they really had to piss badly. That's a more comforting scenario.

My buddy was teying to pickup one of the ladies but it was clearly a lost cause.

[Dr. Medulla]

Is that anything like Shadadowdaddy?

Actually, more like your beloved Phish. My understanding is that they're one of those soul-gnawing jam bands.

I still remember in my younger days seeing a large line of people outside a bar and thinking wow must be something good. No it was Phish.

Maybe they were lined up because they really had to piss badly. That's a more comforting scenario.

My buddy was teying to pickup one of the ladies but it was clearly a lost cause.

Patchouli STDs must be horrible.

[WestwayKid]

1. Murmur
2. New Adventures In Hi-Fi
3. Monster
4. Fables
5. Reckoning
6. Accelerate
7. Green

Chronic Town would be right up there for me as well. When I first heard Chronic Town I was hooked, then Murmur came out and it was an epiphany for me, that album changed me in ways I am still realizing all these years later.

I'm glad to see someone else appreciated New Adventures in Hi-Fi!

[WestwayKid]

They don't have a top 5.

Not a fan then Kory?

I only like one Athens band.

Guadalcanal Diary?

[Heston]

Damn Marky, I missed my Boney M top 5 dedication!

Rasputin
Painter Man
Belfast
Ma Baker
Gotta Go Home

[weller259]

1. Murmur
2. New Adventures In Hi-Fi
3. Monster
4. Fables
5. Reckoning
6. Accelerate
7. Green

Chronic Town would be right up there for me as well. When I first heard Chronic Town I was hooked, then Murmur came out and it was an epiphany for me, that album changed me in ways I am still realizing all these years later.

Umm top 5.

Um, yes it would appear I lost the whole "point-of-this-thread" sort of thing, for that I apologize. My R.E.M. list after the top 3 is transient really, all the Bill Berry albums have a special place in my musical soul. Ranking them after the top 3 is very difficult for me.
Counting is too apparently.

[weller259]

1. Murmur
2. New Adventures In Hi-Fi
3. Monster
4. Fables
5. Reckoning
6. Accelerate
7. Green

Chronic Town would be right up there for me as well. When I first heard Chronic Town I was hooked, then Murmur came out and it was an epiphany for me, that album changed me in ways I am still realizing all these years later.

I'm glad to see someone else appreciated New Adventures in Hi-Fi!

New Adventures is brilliant, its a culmination of all their work up to then, some truly great stuff on that one. I really wasn't sure at that time how they were going to follow up that album because it was so complete. It was like "where do they go from here?"
Its a fantastic album and is R.E.M. at the very top of their game.

[Marky Dread]

Damn Marky, I missed my Boney M top 5 dedication!

Rasputin
Painter Man
Belfast
Ma Baker
Gotta Go Home

No worries I just figured you were in Moscow dancing.

[Marky Dread]

They don't have a top 5.

Not a fan then Kory?

I only like one Athens band.

Pylon?

[Marky Dread]

1. Murmur
2. New Adventures In Hi-Fi
3. Monster
4. Fables
5. Reckoning
6. Accelerate
7. Green

Chronic Town would be right up there for me as well. When I first heard Chronic Town I was hooked, then Murmur came out and it was an epiphany for me, that album changed me in ways I am still realizing all these years later.

Chronic Town is great but it's not an album more an e.p.

[WestwayKid]

1. Murmur
2. New Adventures In Hi-Fi
3. Monster
4. Fables
5. Reckoning
6. Accelerate
7. Green

Chronic Town would be right up there for me as well. When I first heard Chronic Town I was hooked, then Murmur came out and it was an epiphany for me, that album changed me in ways I am still realizing all these years later.

I'm glad to see someone else appreciated New Adventures in Hi-Fi!

New Adventures is brilliant, its a culmination of all their work up to then, some truly great stuff on that one. I really wasn't sure at that time how they were going to follow up that album because it was so complete. It was like "where do they go from here?"
Its a fantastic album and is R.E.M. at the very top of their game.

Yes, this is spot on. This review (I think from Pitchfork) sums it up: "The sound of New Adventures In Hi-Fi is like blending all the different styles R.E.M. ever pursued into one solid state. You've got a bit of the early Murmur and Reckoning sound, a dab of Reconstruction of the Fables and Life's Rich Pageant, a teaspoon of Green and Out of Time, and a pound of Automatic for the People, marinated ever so lightly in a Monster-esque production broth."

I think (obviously) Bill leaving the group had a huge impact. Instead of replacing him and continuing on their trajectory, they used it as a jumping off point into the great unknown. Sadly, the great unknown was bland and mostly tuneless/lifeless. The Up/Reveal/Around the Sun had moments, but as a whole don't do much for me. I think they tried to hook back into that New Adventures in Hi Fi sound with Accelerate/Collapse Into Now, but too much time had passed.

[weller259]

1. Murmur
2. New Adventures In Hi-Fi
3. Monster
4. Fables
5. Reckoning
6. Accelerate
7. Green

Chronic Town would be right up there for me as well. When I first heard Chronic Town I was hooked, then Murmur came out and it was an epiphany for me, that album changed me in ways I am still realizing all these years later.

Chronic Town is great but it's not an album more an e.p.

Yes exactly, it was an EP, or if you put all 5 songs together it would have made a good side of an album. They just had this sound that was different from what was going on musically at that time and it resonated with me so strongly, I knew they were going to be huge if they kept at it.

[Marky Dread]

1. Murmur
2. New Adventures In Hi-Fi
3. Monster
4. Fables
5. Reckoning
6. Accelerate
7. Green

Chronic Town would be right up there for me as well. When I first heard Chronic Town I was hooked, then Murmur came out and it was an epiphany for me, that album changed me in ways I am still realizing all these years later.

Chronic Town is great but it's not an album more an e.p.

Yes exactly, it was an EP, or if you put all 5 songs together it would have made a good side of an album. They just had this sound that was different from what was going on musically at that time and it resonated with me so strongly, I knew they were going to be huge if they kept at it.

I agree I loved that ep. And in fairness they stayed decent a lot longer than most.

[weller259]

I think (obviously) Bill leaving the group had a huge impact. Instead of replacing him and continuing on their trajectory, they used it as a jumping off point into the great unknown. Sadly, the great unknown was bland and mostly tuneless/lifeless. The Up/Reveal/Around the Sun had moments, but as a whole don't do much for me. I think they tried to hook back into that New Adventures in Hi Fi sound with Accelerate/Collapse Into Now, but too much time had passed.

Same for me, once Bill left and they decided to continue on, I was happy for them to keep going but while Up/Reveal/Around The Sun do have some moments that are wonderful, those records as a whole didn't do much for me either. Accelerate was a breath of fresh air and to me it showed that they could still get loud and still make records that were fun to listen to, it was a really good reaffirmation that they were still rockers at heart and showed they weren't afraid to change things up. Collapse Into Now was their swan song but Accelerate to me was the last great gasp of their musical legacy and a fitting one at that.