1001 Albums Summary

I reckon REM’s consistently strongest album, albeit still with a couple of lower points: The vocal on sidewinder is so high in stipe’s range that I think it gets grating, and ignoreland is just a skipper. Overall though, some brilliant songs and arrangements, and a good mix of acoustic feel and expansive strings. And Drive is a cracking album opener.

High 2. Listened with a bleach / mother love bone hat on and found it patchily good E.g. think Would? is great, a classic of its genre. Overall too many uninteresting, self-indulgent songs though.

Magnificent

Enjoyed this, particularly the slightly surprising (to me) quality of their bluesy singing. But don’t feel that compelled to return.

Decent enough opener but the rest was tedious

Scraped a 2 as thought Let me roll it was ok and quite liked some of the abbey road/white album touches in the BOTR song. 1985 also good. Otherwise, pretty awful, and at times cringe-inducing.

Loved the song variety, authentic performance and amazing virtuosity from start to finish.

Listened once and glad when it was over. Was between 5 and 15 songs I think.

Like his voice and front-man energy. Found Geno and There There stand-out tracks and the rest all listenable enough if unmemorable.

Some great musicianship but too many uninteresting stretches and too long.

Magic