Re: (TV) Re: REM

["Philip P. Obbard" <pobbard@yahoo.com>]

LIFE'S RICH PAGEANT is also my favorite REM album - and maybe it's the
association with my freshman year of college, but I've always loved much of
AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE, esp. "Nightswimming" and "Find the River". I can't
argue that it's sort of AOR "cack" though.

Other favorites: MURMUR and DOCUMENT. And about 1/2 of MONSTER was great, I
thought, but very few people agreed. I *really* enjoyed NEW ADVENTURES, maybe
more than it deserved. Haven't bought UP yet.

BTW, the history major in me can't resist pointing out that PT Barnum didn't
actually say "there's a sucker born every minute" - it was said by his rival
and has been misattributed ever since! A brief version of the story can be
found at: http://thehistorychannel.com/exhibits/hoax/answer3.html

--Philip

--- Raymond <ray@wavewalker.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> "Shiny happy people" was a fair warning sign that things were going
> seriously awry but i thought "Automatic for the people" was/is the real
> nadir of their career-a depressing pile of AOR/ Christopher Cross-esque
> cack -although very slickly marketed...millions disagreed with me of course
> and bought it by the bucketload proving HP Barnum's dictum that there is
> indeed "a sucker born every minute" -I mean why ignore the likes of
> "Murmur", "Reckoning", "Green" or "Pageant" (their finest hour) for this
> bollocks?



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