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Heston and Marky's Friday Top 5
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Re: Heston and Marky's Friday Top 5
My buddy was teying to pickup one of the ladies but it was clearly a lost cause.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 8:34pmMaybe they were lined up because they really had to piss badly. That's a more comforting scenario.revbob wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 8:30pmI 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.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 8:26pmActually, more like your beloved Phish. My understanding is that they're one of those soul-gnawing jam bands.
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Patchouli STDs must be horrible.revbob wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 8:48pmMy buddy was teying to pickup one of the ladies but it was clearly a lost cause.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 8:34pmMaybe they were lined up because they really had to piss badly. That's a more comforting scenario.revbob wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 8:30pmI 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.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 8:26pmActually, more like your beloved Phish. My understanding is that they're one of those soul-gnawing jam bands.
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I'm glad to see someone else appreciated New Adventures in Hi-Fi!weller259 wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 3:21pm1. 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.
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Guadalcanal Diary?
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Damn Marky, I missed my Boney M top 5 dedication!
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Painter Man
Belfast
Ma Baker
Gotta Go Home
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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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.Marky Dread wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 3:35pmUmm top 5.weller259 wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 3:21pm1. 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.
Counting is too apparently.
From what I see there's still a little hope
That's if we don't hang from too much rope
That's if we don't hang from too much rope
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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?"WestwayKid wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 11:19pmI'm glad to see someone else appreciated New Adventures in Hi-Fi!weller259 wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 3:21pm1. 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.
Its a fantastic album and is R.E.M. at the very top of their game.
From what I see there's still a little hope
That's if we don't hang from too much rope
That's if we don't hang from too much rope
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No worries I just figured you were in Moscow dancing.
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My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
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No fuchsias for you.
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Pylon?
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
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Chronic Town is great but it's not an album more an e.p.weller259 wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 3:21pm1. 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.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia
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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."weller259 wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 3:16amNew 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?"WestwayKid wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 11:19pmI'm glad to see someone else appreciated New Adventures in Hi-Fi!weller259 wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 3:21pm1. 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.
Its a fantastic album and is R.E.M. at the very top of their game.
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.
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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 wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 3:25amChronic Town is great but it's not an album more an e.p.weller259 wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 3:21pm1. 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.
From what I see there's still a little hope
That's if we don't hang from too much rope
That's if we don't hang from too much rope
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I agree I loved that ep. And in fairness they stayed decent a lot longer than most.weller259 wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 1:34pmYes 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 wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 3:25amChronic Town is great but it's not an album more an e.p.weller259 wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 3:21pm1. 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.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia
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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.WestwayKid wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 9:23amI 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.
From what I see there's still a little hope
That's if we don't hang from too much rope
That's if we don't hang from too much rope