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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'sNevermindwas 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
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Though R.E.M. titled a later albumMonster, this 1991 smash was the true monster, with the ... more
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'sNevermindwas 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
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Advantages: Great songs, great band Disadvantages: A bit too earnest
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Out Of Time is the band's 1991 album, and while it doesn't have near the instantaneous classic and pull of the superb Automatic For The People set, but it's nevertheless a wonderful, wonderful collection which you?d struggle to find fault with, apart (I suppose) from the boring cover, and boring photos, and boring cartoons on the fold out booklet in the CD. Lord, they're even on Warner Bros, ferchrissakes. Still, boredom and dullness ... ...lost, badly hurt and turned out of the village, like a lost watcher, persecuted by the bigger boys in the class. Losing My Religion has hidden depths of beauty and even merits the flowing, gorgeous strings which never quite overpower everything. No one else writes classic pop rock quite as well as these boys and few use the mandolin as eloquently, at least since Rod Stewart and the Faces in their heyday (sorry, folks, but check out Mandolin Wind, ... more
American rock has always been the stuff of legend - somehow so much more authentic than our own home bred mimics. The US had Elvis Presley and Eddie Cochrane, Britain had Cliff Richard and (perish the thought) Tommy Steele (remember Little White Bull). We had The Motors and The Jags and they had REM, 'nuff said. Ah well, we've had our share of high spots, but the band from Georgia who named themselves after the acronym for Rapid Eye Movement have always been honorary Brits, with their thoughtful, uplifting, earnest, consideration, like the Smiths but with a singer who wasn't a joke and melodies which flowed rather than chugged (sorry, Mozza and Johnny, but you know what I mean).
REM have always dripped credibility with their studious image and student-crowded following, intellects who could write a mean tune which mattered, and they've garnered a huge and committed following over in Blighty and demanded your attention. REM are/were Bill Berry (drums, percussion), Peter Buck (guitars and other stringed things), Mike Mills (bass, keyboards) and Michael Stipe (vocals), one of the smallest men in rock. They're a captivating, serious, artistic bunch of old men who matter.
Their mythical, taxing, rewarding albums have always done well over here and earned an appreciative audience.
In fact, REM have nearly everything imaginable going for them. There's just one bad thing about them, in fact. THEY'RE SO GODDAMNED BORING AND DULL. Nice black and white clothes, moody careworn faces, decent haircuts and a worthy approach to life. They play well, sing well and write good songs, offering excellent value, and being genuinely difficult to find fault with, but there?s always that nagging, worrying problem about them. THEY MAKE YOU GO TO SLEEP. Still, listen to tracks like Losing My Religion and Shiny Happy People and you can forgive them (virtually) everything.
Out Of Time is the band's 1991 album, and while it doesn't have near the instantaneous classic and pull of the superb Automatic For The People set, but it's nevertheless a wonderful, wonderful collection which you?d struggle to find fault with, apart (I suppose) from the boring cover, and boring photos, and boring cartoons on the fold out booklet in the CD. Lord, they're even on Warner Bros, ferchrissakes. Still, boredom and dullness and worthiness are what REM are all about and no one does it any better than them, do they?
Radio Song Blissful, transatlantic pop with great guitar and organ, and aching, gorgeous vocals, this one rocks. It bounces along, tugging you irresistibly in its flow. These men are grown up, but they certainly write a mean single and have a certain way with hooks which you'd be hard pressed not to like. They've got all the slow bits and strings and pauses in exactly the right place like all the real bands do, but they manage to breathe new life into orthodox rock and inject urgency and meaning where there is vapid emptiness. Classic, classic REM this, putting the competition firmly in their place, while smacking unmistakably of the B-52s.
Losing My Religion A massive hit single, which is most memorable for its wonderful mandolin lines and classic Stipe vocal - little boy lost, badly hurt and turned out of the village, like a lost watcher, persecuted by the bigger boys in the class. Losing My Religion has hidden depths of beauty and even merits the flowing, gorgeous strings which never quite overpower everything. No one else writes classic pop rock quite as well as these boys and few use the mandolin as eloquently, at least since Rod Stewart and the Faces in their heyday (sorry, folks, but check out Mandolin Wind, Farewell and some other of the man?s early work pre-Britt and the blazers).
Low Nagging, fidgety urging, understated and muted in tone, but every bit as gripping as all the other great songs on this album. The insistent blocked guitar riff and swirling organ build the mood up nicely, but Stipe continues his low key love poetry, picking away at our senses and using neat wordplay and some of his classic phrasing tricks to pique our interest. REM are wonderfully good at songs and moods like this, totally controlled at one minute, yet always capable of letting go and giving free rein to their wilder side.
Near Wild Heaven Jingle jangle orthodox American folksy rock of the kind which REM have always excelled at, but seem to churn out so effortlessly that you often think they're operating on automatic and do the stuff without even having to think about it. Never trust a gifted American instrumentalist, no backbone these boys and they insist on calling footie Soccer (with that damned annoying capital S). Sadly, this is them at their dullest.
Endgame This is interesting in a very boring way, or boring in a very interesting way (whichever you prefer), all acoustic finger picking and poetry, though there's some captivating guitar lines on here.
Shiny Happy People Enough of the makeweights, more neat stop-start REM hit single material, and one of their most uplifting, addictive songs, although you can never really imagine Michael Stipe laughing or even smirking, can you? However, the irony ain't lost on the band and at least they do have an earnest kind of self deprecation to their bows. I love this song, with its lovely, timeless quality and sense of order and orthodoxy. REM will never win any prizes for earth shattering experimentation, but they can certainly write a decent song. Could have done without the slow middle bit, but at least it gives Mikey the chance to sing "Here we go" and embarrass himself as they pick their way up from it.
Belong A moody, rumbling piece of music which drips authenticity and feeling. Leaden paced, but filled with some nice rhythm guitar jangles and understatement. Ho hum, this album is so good, it?s getting terribly boring.
Half A World Away More gorgeous mandolin lead, more neatsy folk rock, more yearning, pleading vocals, more effortless brilliance. You just wish they'd fall flat on their collective smug faces for once in their entire worthy lives. It's a goodie.
Texarkana Nice, country tinged music which reminds one of nothing so much as a speeded up Dire Straits, but Michael Stipe is a much better singer than Mark Knopfler and he doesn?t bother with a head band (still, he?s bald, uh ho, Knopfler's not exactly overflowing with hair himself). At last, though, this is a routine number which you'll struggle to remember. Oh damn, I just heard a pretty neat stop-start bit with a neat bass rumble which'll make me come back to admire its beauty. Don't these guys ever let up? Bloody hell, they've done it again. I hate them.
Country Feedback Lovely pedal steel guitar from John Keane is the most distinctive part of another song with country overtones. Still, REM don't trade in distinctiveness, they trade in hugely consistent, great rock music, and this is more of the same.
Me In Honey Look at them, upping the tempo on the closer, to leave you on a high note, what an obvious bloody trick, didn't they think we'd spot such cack handed manoeuvres. Well I did, but who can argue with them.
PS Don't believe all my narking, bickering and moaning. REM are a special talent and deserve every plaudit they've been given. I admire them with every fibre of my being and I'm glad they've seen fit to shower us with their work. Out Of Time is a great, great album, a classic of the 90's.
Advantages: Four fantastic songs, Still better than most bands Disadvantages: A lot of fillers, a bit too poppy
I used to think Out Of Time was one of REM's best albums, mainly because my ears were slightly biased due to its great commerical success. However, one day somebody described it to me as "Four good songs and the rest are fillers", and I saw the light...
That statement might sound a bit harsh to some of you...and I suppose it is considering - on the positive side - that the four tracks in question are not good but very good. Though it needs little ... ...REM had considerable success before Out Of Time, especially with Document and Green. However, the album took them to a new plateau of achievment, selling by the bucketload. This is probably due to the fantastic Losing My Religion and the cheesy pop of Shiny Happy People making the album attractive to the masses. Once you actually listen to the album fully you begin to realise that its actually one of the weaker of REM's albums and lacks that special ...
Pleb 27.08.2001
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Advantages: Catchy, breezy, R.E.M. at their most accessible best Disadvantages: Perhaps a little patchy
Hailing from the tiny town of Athens, Georgia in America's deep south, R.E.M. have created a legacy as one of the most influencial and biggest selling guitar bands of the past 25 years. Throughout their career, the band have always been characterised by chiming, melodic guitar riffs, and the uniquely intelligent stream-of-conscience lyrics of frontman Michael Stipe. In the band's early years, R.E.M. were signed to the tiny I.R.S. record label, and ... ...muffled, mysterious garage-rock ("Murmur", 1981) with growing confidence and increasing political and social awarness. In 1988, with the signing of an $80 million deal with Warner Brothers and the release of the band's most commerical album "Green" the band had reached a watershed, and were propelled to the status of one of the world's biggest bands. Released in 1991, "Out Of Time" is R.E.M.'s second full-length release for Warner Brothers, and can ...
gold_soundz 08.02.2005
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Advantages: Classic songs Disadvantages: Shiny Happy People
Out of time was the album which turned REM from popular also-rans to worldwide music stars, and rightfully so. The album itself feels folksy containing a high percentage of acoustic instruments including of course the mandolin losing my religion made famous.
The vocal duties are rotated more than on any other release from REM, with Mills singing 2 tracks, KRS-One and Kate Pierson also getting in on the act.
Track by track:
1. Radio Song - Good ... ...trying to take the mick out of the music industry and suceeds well. It's catchy and the rap presents something out of the ordinary for REM (tried again on 2005s Outsiders with even better effects)
2. Losing My Religion - An all time classic! A tragedy it only ever charted at #19 in the UK! Still do date one of the best-known REM songs. The song itself features one of the always welcome appearance from Peter Bucks mandolin taking lead, it comes complete ...
BadDay 15.11.2007
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Advantages: Losing My religion Disadvantages: Only 3 good songs
I only bought this album because it was on sale. I do quite like R.E.M. but I hadn't heard of any of the songs on this album except for "Losing My Religion" as I didn't already own this song, i decided to buy the album. The first son was pretty good, but nothing special, and I thought that the others would be better. Unfortunately, after "Losing My Religion" it was worse, a lot worse. Apart from "Shiny Happy People" which is quite good and "Texarkana" ...
philrange 14.07.2000
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Advantages: A mixture of Stipe/Berry/Mills singing. Disadvantages: ??
REM's first album of the 90's, a new decade but still old REM, but this album is still a great. Radio Song opens the album, it is a good song, combining clean reverbed guitar with guitar noises over a simple bass line. A song which starts off on the radio with someone singing along to it- a good start to the album. 2nd is probably REM's most heard/ favourite/ popular song of all time- Losing my religion. this song uses a mandolin as the main instrument, ... ...beat. Stipes vocals are outstanding and makes it one of my favourite songs of all time. Low is a very slow song, deep vocals, an easy bass line, but a catchy tune. Near Wild heaven is sang by Mike Mills, and he really can sing. Its the first of 2 songs sand by him on the album, the second is Texakarna in which he plays a classic Mills bass line. Other songs off this album include Shiny Happy People, with Kate Pearson of the B52's adding vocals, and ...
TomHolt 16.07.2000
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to steer clear.
It's perhaps early days for me to say this but I'm certain I can, in years to come when people look back with fondness to great moments from R.E.M. the material on this album will not be at the forefront of their minds. There are no true classics here. Most R.E.M. albums, even the disappointing recent offerings of Up (1998) and Reveal (2001) have contained a couple. In their heyday of the early 90s albums like Out Of Time and Automatic For The People were filled with instant classics, pop songs like Losing My Religion and Man On The Moon and timeless, seminal pieces of inspired, awe-inspiring songwriting like Everybody Hurts. The quality of their work has been gradually on the wane since and now it seems to me the band itself may soon be Out Of Time.
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R.E.M.: Bill Berry (vocals, piano, drums, congas, percussion); Mike Mills (vocals, organ, harpsichord, bass); Michael Stipe (vocals, bass melodica); Peter Buck (guitar, mandolin).
Additional personnel includes: KRS-One, Kate Pierson (vocals); Peter Holsapple (guitar, bass); John Keane (pedal steel guitar); David Kampers, David Braitberg, David Arenz, Ellie Arenz (violin); Paul Murphy, Reid Harris (viola); Andrew Cox, Elizabeth Murphy (cello); Kidd Jordan (bass clarinet, alto, tenor & baritone saxophones); Cecil Welch (flugelhorn); Ralph Jones (acoustic bass). Engineers include: Mike Reiter, John Keane, Ted Malia. Recorded at Soundscape Studios, Athens, Georgia. R.E.M. are the most successful band of recent years, their stream of acclaimed albums illustrates the importance of R.E.M. as America's greatest post-Springsteen export. Michael Stipe's thinking person's lyrics are almost buried by the band's Byrdslike arrangements of the notable 'Radio Song' and 'Shiny Happy People'. There are those that have criticized R.E.M. for stepping out of a parochial indie scene, but their impact in the 90s was as welcome as the Sex Pistols were in the 70s. Their catalogue is destined to endure as critics reluctantly accept their considerable importance in the history of rock. They will continue to make albums as good as this.
Album Reviews
Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.48) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's." Spin - Ranked #2 in Spin's list of "The 20 Best Albums Of 1991" Q (12/99, p.70) - Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums of the 1990s" Q - Included in Q's list of "50 Best Albums of 1991" Melody Maker (12/91) - Ranked #3 in Melody Maker's list of "Top 30 Albums of 1991" - "...A merry breakdown and a mighty breakthrough..." CMJ (1/6/03, p.16) - Included in CMJ's list of "Top 25 College Radio Albums of All Time"
Rolling Stone (3/21/91) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...R.E.M. has done it again: defied and fulfilled the conflicting expectations of a broad, mainstream audience and a smaller, more demanding, and possessive, cult....This may well be America's best rock & roll band....surely, America's most resourceful rock & roll band..."
Spin (3/91) - "...More textured, lighter, brighter, and poppier than 1988's GREEN....This album will nail it once and for all: They're no longer innovative, original, or particularly exciting in the way they used to be--but they are writing more consistently excellent songs..." New York Times (1/1/92) - "...Sing about love in a self-conscious era, R.E.M. toyed with its own sound--playing unfamiliar instruments, sometimes adding a string section--to create eccentric yet indelible songs..."
New Musical Express (3/16/91, p.30) - 10 - Classic - "...REM are back after a period of self-imposed reinvention, and OUT OF TIME is easily their most eclectic and wildly inspired album yet, although it is still very identifiably REM--a brand new book from a familiar author...."
Titles on disc 1
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Radio Song
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Losing My Religion
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Low
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Near Wild Heaven
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Endgame
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Shiny Happy People
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Belong
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Half A World Away
9.
Texarkana
10.
Country Feedback
11.
Me In Honey
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