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Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-01-28 08:42:23 +0000

My favorite REM album, hands down. Harborcoat Perfect pop song. And Mike Mills' heavily accented backing vocals are priceless - my first exposure to Southern pronunciation, having grown up in a household which collectively despises country music. 7 Chinese Bros. Always cheers me up. She will return. So. Central Rain Lyrically always brings me down. But the bass line. The freaking bass line! Pretty Pursuasion Sounds like a Velvet Underground cover. Time After Time (Annelise) I'll be honest - not my favorite song. Second Guessing WOO HOO HOO! Letter Never Sent Love love love this song. Camera Why I like Bill Berry so much. (Don't Go Back To) Rockville My all-time favorite REM song. Have you heard the version Mike Mills sings? He only started singing his own lyrics a few years back I think. Um, like ten. I'm old. Little America Fantastic. Full, no doubt, of in-jokes I don't understand - which I guess is part of the appeal. Jefferson, I think we're lost.

Posted by tommy on 2008-01-28 15:38:00 +0000

Mills sang "Texarkana" on Out of Time, I think. 17 years ago. I was in college. I'm old.

Posted by tommy on 2008-01-28 15:52:19 +0000

Like Pamsterdam, my buddy The Juice considers this the best REM album. I never felt that way. I might even use the term "sophomore slump" for this, as I always thought that this was the weakest of their first six full-lengths. The lyrics on this one get "in the way" for me. "The smell of sweet short-haired boy woman offers pull up a seat"??? Michael, you gotta mumble that shit! Not to pick on this one too much. It's still very good. Its best songs are awesome: Rockville, So. Central Rain, Pretty Persuasion are all beautiful songs. Harborcoat and Second Guessing are pretty damn good, too.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-01-28 16:19:16 +0000

Out of Time was released 17 years ago? Jesus Christ, I was in college too. Wasn't one of the songs the one they played while the lead characters in Dawson's Creek lost their virginity? My head = spinning.

Posted by ConorClockwise on 2008-01-28 16:17:17 +0000

"'Time after Time' was my least favorite song. 'Time after Time' was my least favorite song!"

Posted by deejayhubris on 2008-01-28 19:56:51 +0000

I could never take them seriously because they mumbled so much of their lyrics, at least, in the beginning...

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-01-28 20:21:23 +0000

Agreed - of their older stuff I like the tracks w/ enunciation.

Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-01-31 16:05:57 +0000

This one's okay. Just saying: "Seven Chinese Brothers" was my favorite story as a little boy.