Yeah, great track and a brave choice for lead single considering how many other obvious hits were on that album.

A shame that they've never deemed it worthy of a place on a 'Best Of'.

Cloudbuster said:

Yeah, great track and a brave choice for lead single considering how many other obvious hits were on that album.

A shame that they've never deemed it worthy of a place on a 'Best Of'.

i always thought that artists leave some hits off their best of packages to encourage

people to buy the actual album the song was on.

if you'd put all of the singles from "automatic" on a best of, there wouldn't be a real

reason for a casual listener to buy that album.

now. not everyone can afford to do these kind of things. especially not in a world

where it became common practice to release a 'best of' or 'greatest hits' when you

only had 4 singles in the charts.

you'd need to fluff that shit out with whatever you could scrape from the barrell.

"oh but this album track was an obscure promo in taiwan, it deserves a place on our

greatest hits man!"

rem had more than enough hits by the time of their first 'best of', to comfortably

omit a few songs. or maybe i'm just thinking this way because personally i feel it

is such a good album that it should be experienced as a whole and not just as it's

singles.

I hear ya, but the fact that the same four songs from Automatic For The People were on two different Best Of albums is a drag.

Cloudbuster said:

I hear ya, but the fact that the same four songs from Automatic For The People were on two different Best Of albums is a drag.

they have too many best of albums anyway, don't they. or was that another group?

i never keep track of those kind of releases. except for the one from rem that had

lots and lots of stuff on there, including an outtake from "monster".

great, now i'm gonna have an rem month again, i can just feel it

IstenSzek said:

they have too many best of albums anyway, don't they. or was that another group?

i never keep track of those kind of releases. except for the one from rem that had

lots and lots of stuff on there, including an outtake from "monster".

great, now i'm gonna have an rem month again, i can just feel it

There are worse things in life, like a Nicki Minaj hour.

Cloudbuster said:

IstenSzek said:

they have too many best of albums anyway, don't they. or was that another group?

i never keep track of those kind of releases. except for the one from rem that had

lots and lots of stuff on there, including an outtake from "monster".

great, now i'm gonna have an rem month again, i can just feel it

There are worse things in life, like a Nicki Minaj hour.

Cloudbuster said:

IstenSzek said:

Cloudbuster said:

ah, i see that's broadened your smile

IstenSzek said:

ah, i see that's broadened your smile

So yeah, Drive is a great song.

yes, it is

IstenSzek said:

Cloudbuster said:

I hear ya, but the fact that the same four songs from Automatic For The People were on two different Best Of albums is a drag.

they have too many best of albums anyway, don't they. or was that another group?

i never keep track of those kind of releases. except for the one from rem that had

lots and lots of stuff on there, including an outtake from "monster".

great, now i'm gonna have an rem month again, i can just feel it

I've had an R.E.M. quarter recently. Took the leap in May and been listening to all the album cuts from Mumur to Adventures....been really appreciating Monster lately too. How did Strange Currencies not become a hit?

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Funkcreep said:

IstenSzek said:

Funkcreep said:

I've had an R.E.M. quarter recently. Took the leap in May and been listening to all the album cuts from Mumur to Adventures....been really appreciating Monster lately too. How did Strange Currencies not become a hit?

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Well, the video used to be on mtv quite often iirc. Monster is my favorite rem album. It's got that unique sound on the whole album like it's from an other world all on it's own. Similar to Achtung Baby, Choirgirl Hotel, Parade and a couple more. Love it start to finish. Great, great album.

yeah I would put the album in R.E.M.'s top 3. Let Me In is a powerful song, never heard anything like it. It seems like the harder edge of Monster spilled over in to New Adventures which I also like.

This is my favorite R.E.M. song:

My 2nd favorite R.E.M. song:

and my 3rd favorite R.E.M. song:

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Funkcreep said:

IstenSzek said:

Funkcreep said: Well, the video used to be on mtv quite often iirc. Monster is my favorite rem album. It's got that unique sound on the whole album like it's from an other world all on it's own. Similar to Achtung Baby, Choirgirl Hotel, Parade and a couple more. Love it start to finish. Great, great album.

yeah I would put the album in R.E.M.'s top 3. Let Me In is a powerful song, never heard anything like it. It seems like the harder edge of Monster spilled over in to New Adventures which I also like.

I think that's my fave of theirs. That or AFTP.

i've been listening to "hope" a lot the last year. i just keep going back to it.

and when i play it, i always play it at least 5 times.

their back catalogue is so deep, there's so much to rediscover each time.

Great track! & video

Automatic was a big album.. shame this track did not get much more exposure.

Nightswimming is another underrated single.