All produced by Mitch Easter. But each LP has a different feel; RECKONING feels like live act on tape for first timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOAbRT_vdLM …
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Easter+co-producer Don Dixon got a sound that was in some ways simpler, but even more alluringly exotic, out of REMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzVFcB45DbQ …
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Stephen Malkmus may insist that "TIME AFTER TIME WAS MY LEAST FAVORITE SONG!!!" but I adore it. I'm naming my firstborn daughter after it.
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Elsewhere, the evolution on RECKONING saw REM 'heighten the contradictions': more physical in their rock, AND more shadowy in their murk.
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"Harborcoat" was for decades my fav REM song: 1st time after "9-9" their midtempo gait brought more than mere melodyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntY15gVsgJA …
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As last chorus of "Harborcoat" kicks in, w/overdubbed guitar & 3 vox singing 3 diff interlocking melodies? One of REM's transcendent moments
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Immediately after "Harborcoat" comes one of the most transfixingly simple songs of their career: "7 Chinese Bros":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1u-Yx3asvw …
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Guitar hook of "7 Chinese Bros" so rock-simple that hearing it akin to looking at Mondrian painting: "aw, I coulda come up with that."
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Sure you could have, buddy. Sure you could have. Whatever you say. Simplicity that hides deceptive depth. Early R.E.M. in a nutshell.
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Lyrics of "7 Chin Bros" always haunted me; abt Chinese folktale read to me in kindergarten nobody else my age seems to remember. Stipe did.
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I remember it from kindergarden !
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I remember reading it as a kid, not sure what grade.
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