Bad news folks, REM are working on a new album. And, I mean, really, how mamy more dogs can they scare the paying public with.
Remember last years disaster. Their rock and roll albbum -wow, that’s a fucking joke. Four stars from Stone -the deaf sycophants.Accelerate, right? “Everybody here comes from somewhere…” Ugh. “No one remembers and nobody cares…” “Sweetness Follows” it ain’t.
Now here comes the leader of the Posies Ken Stringfellow telling NME: “It’s sounding really great, very old school. The first track had vocals which were mixed super low which I couldn’t understand and I was like, ‘Yes a return to form’. Mike was on about pushing the vocals up and I was like, ‘No, don’t do it’.”
Oh. for fuck’s sake. How many returns to form can these guys have?
This is how it goes folks: if you don’t own em buy their cover of “King Of The Row Road” and “Wall Of death” and buy the following albums (plus grade):
Out of Time (1991) Grade: A
Automatic for the People (1992) Grade A+
Monster (1994) Grade: A-
New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996) Grade: A
And ignore everything else.
Oh, and forget em live, they suck I’m gonna go listen to “Nightswimming” again.