Rem - Reckoning
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Free Music Review: 14 years of pleasure
Hit: 5 Stars
I put this on the other day, in between listening to Morecheeba's Big Calm and Nick Drake's Bryter Later. Now I like all of these a lot, but I realised that I bought Reckoning as my first R.E.M. release 14 years ago. It still moves me more than most things, it's still music I can immerse myself in totally. A pefect album. Yet it is constructed back to front, the backing vocals are in front of the lead vocals and the bass carries the main melody lines. It sounds weird yet makes perfect sense when you hear it. And don't you just love the way they do Rockville almost to say, "And this is how we can do straight songs when we feel like it - better than anyone else"Free Music Review: a classic
Hit: 5 Stars
It's not often that I award an album five stars, but this album deserves it. A quintesential college-rock masterpiece. REM at their best (although I would still put the shimmering 'Murmmer' above this). How 'Automatic For the People' has come to be accepted as this band's masterpiece I'll never know. Tracks like the whiney 'Man on the Moon' could never have the appeal of the ghostly yet beautiful 'Camera' (a song devoted to an early REM friend who was killed in a car wreck), or the jangly 'Don't Go Back to Rockville'.
In the early 80's every band wanted to sound like REM and every college kid wanted to be in REM. This album is why.
Free Music Review: A sophomore effort to be reckoned with
Hit: 5 Stars
Not quite as good as their debut album, "Murmur," but then again that's one of the best rock albums of all time. "Reckoning" is an excellent album in its own right and features another batch of great songs. "7 Chinese Brothers" is one of the best songs they've ever done, and "So. Central Rain," "Camera" and the pleading "Don't Go Back to Rockville," are all not far behind. Michael Stipe is still slurring the vocals, and that's a good thing. Early R.E.M. is so much better than what followed in the 1990s. Listen for yourself and see.Free Music Review: Excellent follow-up to "Murmur"
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD ranks up there with some of REM's best. Instead of rehashing the avant-garde sound of "Murmur," REM instead chose to give their songs an earthier, more personal mood. Some of REM's best "relationship songs" are on this CD, such as "So. Central Rain," "Don't Go Back to Rockville," and "Pretty Persuation." While their later 80s work was mostly stadium fare, these songs feel like they'd be more at home in a smoky dive bar on the edge of town. Great music to listen to on your front porch with a nice bottle of Rolling Rock.Free Music Review: That one time, you know?
Hit: 5 Stars
Okay, let me just say that I didn't spend my '80's analyzing REM lyrics and getting stoned. However. HOWEVER. This was that pivotal album that I cannot hear without remembering a time and a place and several men, in particular. Everybody's got an album like that, and if you are still out there trying to define your life by the CDs floating around in the back seat of your car, give this one a try. It's that one album that you can sing along with better after a bottle of wine.