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Let It Be - Some band called the Beatles.

Oddly this album has always passed me by, no idea why. Possibly as it contains two of my most hated Beatles Songs (The Long & Winding Road and Across The Universe). Heard "One After 909" on t'radio last week, and it's a proper balls-out rocker.
 
To celebrate 25 years since Automatic For The People was released, 6Music did a two hour show last night deidicated to R.E.M. Not just their songs, but tracks that were inspired them, or ones with a connection to the band - e.g. Billy Bragg's "You Woke Up My Neighbourhood", which featured Michael Stipe and was co-written by Peter Buck.

All good stuff and an excellent two hours of radio. They also played an R.E.M. cover of this song which I'd never heard before. And I'm glad I have now.

[video=youtube;gw1ZDzBoUf8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw1ZDzBoUf8[/video]
 
I never really liked Automatic For The People or Out Of Time however Near Wild Heaven is probably my favourite REM song.

I preferred their 80's stuff.
 
Mad Cyril said:
I never really liked Automatic For The People or Out Of Time however Near Wild Heaven is probably my favourite REM song.

I preferred their 80's stuff.
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Fussy git. They're superb albums - from hence on they became patchy in the extreme. The resignation of Bill Berry compounded it IMHO. A lot of their later works, bar the occasional single, are terrible.
 
Mad Cyril said:
I never really liked Automatic For The People or Out Of Time however Near Wild Heaven is probably my favourite REM song.

I preferred their 80's stuff.
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The 1-2-3 punch at the end of "Automatic" of "Man On The Moon"-"Nightswimming"-"Find The River" is as good an end to an album as any.

That said, I do tend to like the earlier stuff more - "Murmur" and "Fable Of The Reconstruction" vie for favouritism depending on my mood.

MK Shrimper said:
Fussy git. They're superb albums - from hence on they became patchy in the extreme. The resignation of Bill Berry compounded it IMHO. A lot of their later works, bar the occasional single, are terrible.
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"New Adventures In Hi-Fi" is really good. But yes - those last three or four albums have very little to recommend them beyond the singles.
 
MK Shrimper said:
I honestly don't remember it. I'm no fan of E-Bow the Letter.
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Certainly a curious choice for first single off the album! Quite a long album - over an hour - but well worth a revisit some 21 (!) years on. "Electrolite" is a just about perfect final track too.
 
I managed to pull my earphones out if the monitor socket yesterday and the office was treated to a blast of Illusion by Imagination.
 
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