I was always annoyed that Monster was written PURELY so they would have an album to tour with. Now, i'm eternally grateful that they DID tour, otherwise I might not have ever seen them (missed the Green tour)...as Stipe's stage fright was pretty severe there for awhile.
I remember Stipe saying that they needed an album that was more "tour" friendly. (Ugh). I would have been perfectly fine going to a concert that featured tunes purely from Automatic, Out of time, Document, Pagaent, Reconstruction, Reckoning, etc. (They did play So. Central Rain at their concert in KC when touring for Monster...which is off a REAL early album...either Reckoning or maybe even Murmur, can't remember) On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > I still like Monster but, yeah, the early albums were definitely the > best. They were a band where their albums are of course quite > influential but also each of the members has been influential outside > the group. Definitely a classic band with a pretty firm legacy. > > Judah > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:06 AM, GMoney <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > My three favorite albums of theirs as well....though I liked > Reconstruction > > of the Fables quite a bit too. > > > > DLO was great.....for whatever reason, i loved the song where he just > sang > > the lyrics he was reading off the cover liner of an old gospel album. > > > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:27 AM, William Bowen <william.bo...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > >> > >> Document, Life's Rich Pageant and Dead Letter Office are still on my > >> slightly-more-frequent-than-just-occasional listening queue, Out of > >> Time and Automatic are an occasional listen. Green went in the bin > >> shortly after purchase... After Automatic I kinda gave up... > >> > >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:18 AM, GMoney <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > One of my top 3 favorite bands of all time. Bought Green when i > >> > was....either in 7th or 8th grade, and never looked back. Last really > >> great > >> > album of theirs was probably Automatic. > >> > > >> > I bought their latest album sort of on a whim a few months ago...and > oh > >> > my.....it's unlistenable. Just terrible. I think they probably agreed > and > >> > decided it was time to go. > >> > > >> > I'll treasure my catalog though....."Document" is such a killer album. > >> > > >> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> > >> wrote: > >> > > >> >> > >> >> 31 years of making music together. They've got a heck of a back > catalog. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/arts/music/rem-breaks-up-after-31-years-as-a-band.html > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:342948 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
