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Talk About the Passion - R.E.M.'s Discography Reviewed

  • 07-07-2010 3:14pm
    #1
    madehq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭


    Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Peter Buck and Bill Berry, four young ambitious musicians not content with small town life came Athens, Georgia, a small community that would soon become famous as the college music capitol of the United States. There they found each other and formed a band which, after several name changes, would come to be known as R.E.M.

    Fourteen studio albums and millions of record sales later, the band remains a powerful force in music, constantly evolving musically and lyrically and selling out shows in the process. Such success stories are the stuff of legends, and as one of the most critically respected and adored bands of the past thirty years, R.E.M. have effectively solidified their legendary status. In short, R.E.M. are perhaps the single group that has influenced me most musically, changing my life in the process.

    In this thread I will review all of R.E.M.'s studio albums, plus an array of live albums, b-sides compilations and greatest hits selections. Each review will have a selection of three key tracks from the album that you can download at will. A "Next Step" feature will also be implemented. For each studio album I review, the "Next Step" album will be an album to look into after listening to the reviewed album, which you may be interested in if you liked the reviewed album. Feel free to send me a private message if you ever want anything, and thanks for reading!

    Studio albums:

    IRS Records (1982-1987)

    Chronic Town (EP - 1982) - 9
    Murmur (1983 - Reissued 2008) - 10, 8.5
    Reckoning (1984 - Reissued 2009) - 10, 8
    Fables of the Reconstruction (1985) - 10
    Lifes Rich Pageant (1986) - 10
    Document (1987) - 7

    *Rick's Essential R.E.M. Volume 1: The I.R.S. Years*

    Warner Brothers Records (1988-Present)

    Green (1988) - 7.5
    Out of Time (1991) - 7
    Automatic for the People (1992) - 10
    Monster (1995)
    New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996)
    Up (1998)
    Reveal (2001)
    Around the Sun (2004)
    Accelerate (2008)

    Live Albums:

    Tourfilm (1990) - 9
    Blue (MTV Unplugged) (Unauthorized - 1991) - 7.5
    R.E.M. Live (2007)
    R.E.M. Live at the Olympia (2009)

    Compilations:

    Dead Letter Office (1987) - 5
    Eponymous (1988) - 8.5
    R.E.M.: In the Attic – Alternative Recordings 1985–1989 (1997)
    In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 (2003)
    Itunes Originals - R.E.M. (2004)
    And I Feel Fine...: The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 (2006)


    Note: Compilations will be reviewed song by song, whereas studio albums will be reviewed as a whole, taking cohesiveness into account.

    Other Albums:

    Man on the Moon OST (1999)
    r.e.m.IX (2002)


    Rating System:

    10 - Mindblowing/Flawless. A cornerstone of any record collection.
    9 - Classic/Essential. A nearly perfect album. Finding flaws will be very difficult.
    8 - Exceptional/Great. A very good album worth multiple listens.
    7 - Good. A valiant effort, flawed but ultimately worth it
    6 - Decent/Above Average. Verging on mediocre, or a musical experiment gone wrong.
    5 - Average/Mediocre. Fans of the band may find worthwhile parts, others may be disappointed.
    4 - Poor. Verging on bad, not worth paying money for.
    3 - Bad. Not worth downloading
    2 - Awful. Not worth considering downloading.
    1 - Bane of my existence. Should you be in the presence of a record with this score, destroy it.


    _________________
    B.R.
    gia sư


Comments

  • #2
    SilverScreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    Hmmm looks very familiar to this... :D

    http://www.musicbanter.com/album-reviews/46951-talk-about-passion-r-e-m-s-discography-reviewed.html


  • #3
    Bog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭Bog


    There's some bands I'd like to name-check
    And one of them is R.E.M.
    Classic songs with a long history
    Southern boys just like you and me

    R.E.M.

    Flashback to 1983
    "Chronic Town" was their first EP
    Later on came "Reckoning"
    Finster's art...
    Titles to match "So. Central Rain"
    "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville,"
    "Harborcoat"
    "Pretty Persuasion,"
    You're born to be a "Camera"
    "Time After Time"'s my least favorite song
    "Time After Time" was my least favorite song

    The singer, he had long hair
    And the drummer, he knew restraint
    And the bassman, he had all the right moves
    And that guitar player was no saint

    So let's go way back to the ancient times
    When there were no fifty states
    And on a hill, there stands Sherman
    Sherman and his mates...

    And they're marching through Georgia
    (They're marching through Georgia)
    They're marching through Georgia
    (G-G-G-G-Georgia)
    They're marching through Georgia
    (They're marching through Georgia)
    They're marching through Georgia
    (G-G-G-G-Georgia)


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