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Advantages:
whats the frequency, Kenneth?
Disadvantages:
dull and lifeless in places
Recommend to potential buyers:
no
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Well, it was always going to happen, wasn't it? Automatic for the People and Out of Time proved too difficult an act to follow for Michael Stipe and the boys from Athens. Time will decide the fate for this offering, it may be the low point in the middle of a glorious career or the start of a major slide. Saying this, Monster has its ups as well as downs, noteably the truly Monster track "whats the frequency, Kenneth?", if CD singles hadn't been created, this one would be worth the RRP by itself with its edgy, distortion blessed guitar riffs. The bad far outweighs the good, unfortunately and at best I would have to label this as a mediocre Monster, claws ground down and teeth extracted.
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snaps, crackles, and pops. An album that wraps itself to 1970s glam finery while reaching out to the flannel-clad post-Nirvana throngs, it largely succeeds at demo...
Monster -
R.E.M. pushed the jangle out of the picture withMonster, replacing it with reverberating
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snaps, crackles, and pops. An album that wraps itself to 1970s glam finery while reaching out to the flannel-clad post-Nirvana throngs, it largely succeeds at demo...
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