Description:Though R.E.M. titled a later album Monster, this 1991 smash was the true monster, with the little Athens, Georgia, quartet graduating once and for all from its jangling independent-rock roots. The confusion Michael Stipe communicates in the catchy "Losing My Religion" and the dark-and-dreamy "Low" hit the mainstreaThough R.E.M. titled a later album Monster, this 1991 smash was the true monster, with the little Athens, Georgia, quartet graduating once and for all from its jangling independent-rock roots. The confusion Michael Stipe communicates in the catchy "Losing My Religion" and the dark-and-dreamy "Low" hit the mainstream-rock audience when it was most primed for uneasy angst. (Nirvana's Nevermind was released a few months later.) There are also odd but successful experiments, such as ceding the opening "Radio Song" to rapper KRS-One (with Stipe playing the moaning straight man) and going peppy for the surprisingly non-sarcastic "Shiny Happy People". --Steve Knopper... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : Warner Release date : 11 March 1991 Number of discs : 1 EAN: 0075992649629 UPC: 075992649629
"My first R.E.M. album & one I still listen to even now. The older I get, the more appreciation I have for their music whereas in my younger days I often grew easily bored with some of their mellower songs.
Favorite song: "Low"
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"Released: March 12, 1991
Genres: Pop/Rock, Jangle Pop, Alternative Rock
Favourite Tracks:
- Half A World Away
- Losing My Religion
- Low
- Me In Honey
- Radio Song
- Shiny Happy People"
""Shiny Happy People"
The corny-ass guitar intro generally puts people off their Overly-Serious Angry mood before the lyrics even kick in and further discourage them."
"“All R.E.M. wanted to accomplish with its seventh album was the reinvention of the love song. Rather than treat the most overdone of emotions directly, Michael Stipe took an oblique approach, writing impressionistic lyrics about the way love manifests itself in loneliness ("Belong"), regret ("Country Feedback") and, most famously, obsession ("Losing My Religion"). The music was similarly inventive. Peter Buck put down his Rickenbacker and picked up a mandolin, while Mark Bingham's sugar-free s"
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