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- Posted: 07/04/2021 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#3850): Lifes Rich Pageant by R.E.M.
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Today's album of the day
Lifes Rich Pageant by R.E.M. (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1986.
Country: 
Overall rank: 522
Average rating: 80/100 (from 650 votes).
Tracks:
1. Begin The Begin
2. These Days
3. Fall On Me
4. Cuyahoga
5. Hyena
6. Underneath The Bunker
7. The Flowers Of Guatemala
8. I Believe
9. What If We Give It Away?
10. Just A Touch
11. Swan Swan H
12. Superman
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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DommeDamian
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Age: 23
Location: where the flowers grow.
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- Posted: 07/05/2021 15:52
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| DommeDamian wrote: | | have not heard it yet but what is that cover? |
The top half is drummer Bill Berry and the bottom half is a couple of bison. Not totally sure about the significance but I think that this is around the time that their environmental concerns were coming to the fore so maybe something around that theme.
Interesting question though and one that I hadn't really pondered before
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RoundTheBend
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- Posted: 07/07/2021 05:44
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| DommeDamian wrote: | | have not heard it yet but what is that cover? |
It's worth a spin (imo) - but I am indoctrinated into the church of REM.
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babyBlueSedan
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- Posted: 07/07/2021 15:41
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| Johnnyo wrote: | The top half is drummer Bill Berry and the bottom half is a couple of bison. Not totally sure about the significance but I think that this is around the time that their environmental concerns were coming to the fore so maybe something around that theme.
Interesting question though and one that I hadn't really pondered before |
It's an environment thing but it's also a pun - Buffalo Bill.
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Cyrax
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- Posted: 07/14/2021 16:02
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Wasn't impressed with my first listen, What If We Give It Away? was the one that stood out the most.
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Skinny
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- Posted: 07/14/2021 17:20
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The highs are ridiculously high (‘Cuyahoga’, ‘Swan Swan Hummingbird’, ‘Fall On Me’, ‘I Believe’, ‘The Flowers of Guatemala’ - all are probably in my top twenty R.E.M. songs), but there are a lot of indistinguishable autopilot jaunty pop-rock numbers here.
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- Posted: 07/15/2021 11:38
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| Skinny wrote: | | The highs are ridiculously high ...but there are a lot of indistinguishable autopilot jaunty pop-rock numbers here. |
I find that is my slight issue with a lot of early REM. Murmer is the exception that proves the rule.
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junodog4
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- #9
- Posted: 07/15/2021 18:55
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| theblueboy wrote: | | I find that is my slight issue with a lot of early REM. Murmer is the exception that proves the rule. |
100%
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- Posted: 07/16/2021 07:03
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| theblueboy wrote: | | I find that is my slight issue with a lot of early REM. Murmer is the exception that proves the rule. |
You’re probably right. I don’t love anything on Murmur (or any other REM album, for that matter) as much as I love ‘Cuyahoga’, though. That right there is a perfect song, as resonant today as it ever was, with a bassline that lives rent-free in my mind. And Stipe’s delivery, wow. So haunting, but with this massive soaring hook. Genuinely one of the greatest pop songs of all-time.
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