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Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-03-03 05:32:17 +0000
R.E.M. Immersion #8 -- "Out Of Time" (1991)
Record is here .
Released March 11/12 1991 by Warner Bros. Records.
1991 The Billboard 200 1 (109 weeks on chart)
1991 UK album chart 1 (183 weeks on chart)
Posted by tommy on 2008-03-03 18:34:16 +0000
This album was a disappointment for me when it came out, and I haven't changed my opinion about it much since. I wouldn't really say there's anything on here that's bad, and there are a couple of great tracks, but on the whole, it's just average. There's not much to grab onto here.
Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-03-03 18:46:12 +0000
This came out the year I graduated from high school and started college. There's something very "Felicity" about listening to these songs - they conjure up images of places and people I haven't thought about in ages. I listened to a lot of REM that year, but this album was kind of a soundtrack for certain experiences. Moving into Hubbard Hall. Smoking Swisher Sweets on that grassy knoll in front of the Memorial Union Building. Trawling second-hand clothing stores for the perfect pair of "old man pants". Going to radio station parties where I didn't fit in. Being the designated driver to pretty much everything - shows in Boston, shows in Portland, raves in God knows where. Sitting on some guy's dorm room floor while he picked out the chords to a Stone Roses song. A whole lot of feeling awkward.
Near Wild Heaven still makes my eyes sting like nobody's business.
Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-03-03 19:07:44 +0000
Man, they really knew how to start this album, huh? What a humiliating beginning. Album hardly recovers from that misfire. And I'm sorry, KRS-ONE has never been required listening.
Posted by MF DU on 2008-03-04 19:45:33 +0000
mahatma - get 'Criminal Minded' and repent at once, please. thanks.
After Scott LaRock passed, it can definitely be argued that BDP and KRS -One weren't all that.
Post 1989 A lot of the 'edutainment' and the lecturing/preachy lyrics are tiresome, but that 'South Bronx' shit? I can't believe anyone would dislike that.
Posted by ConorClockwise on 2008-03-04 20:07:54 +0000
Seconded. 'By Any Means Necessary' is also still fresh and funky.
Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-03-04 20:35:35 +0000
Not on any bittorrents I can find. Will keep the eyes open tho.
Posted by MF DU on 2008-03-04 21:32:50 +0000
Let the record show that Conor is a gentleman as well as a hip hop scholar.
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