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Monster does seem like it’s trying too hard sometimes, but it continues even today as my choice for most underrated R.E.M. My father gave me Monster a week after buying it, calling it “the most pretentious piece of shit I’ve ever heard.” This is funny because the whole point of Monster was a shot at unpretentiousness. Then Monster was released, and the goodwill started disappearing. I remember sitting in my room and listening to “Star Me Kitten” and giggling at the “fucks,” air-guitaring poorly to “Ignoreland,” looking up the political references on “Drive,” rewinding “The Sidewinder Sleeps” tonight and formulating thousands of guesses as to what Michael Stipe was saying (“Come on Konichiwa” was my most frequent reading). I wasn’t far from middle school’s social alienation and my redemption in high school, but I was far enough. at an age where cool and uncool didn’t even matter.

So buying Automatic for the People had no internal significance in terms of cool and uncool, because I hit R.E.M. is built admittedly on hearing the songs before even knowing the word counterculture existed, much less subscribing to it. started with my father, who constantly spun Out of Time and Green when I was younger. even as they built themselves on their blueprint. Teenage rebellion is built on a rejection of what parents like, and counterculture had no choice but to reject R.E.M. R.E.M.’s decline in the public eye has nothing to do with the two lackluster albums before their 2008 return to form Accelerate (I stand by Up as deeply underrated, but Reveal and Around the Sun are unforgivable), but instead simply because of age. I’m specifically referring to songs like “Losing My Religion,” “What’s The Frequency Kenneth,” “It’s The End of the World As We Know It” and “The One I Love.” All the songs just listed are fantastic pop songs, but in the eyes of younger generations, because their parents liked them, they were automatically shit. Set aside “Shiny Happy People” and its ubiquitous aggravating music video, as that song is only really still played on radio stations that no self-respecting person under the age of 50 should be listening (even those who do aren’t listening to indie rock, anyway). What makes their story both fascinating and sad is that the songs that developed their uncool reputations are really fucking good. In other words, the music the kids listen to is the same as R.E.M., but the influence has become so ingrained in music in general that they frequently don’t even realize the influence exists.īut that’s not the interesting thing about R.E.M. This is despite the undeniable influence of their work with I.R.S. is seen by my generation as being distinctly uncool. They had near-complete creative control.īut now R.E.M. The contract they signed with Warner was pretty unprecedented, and resembled Sonic Youth’s deal with Geffen. at that point was Pearl Jam, who were actually selling more records, and R.E.M. The only band really competing with R.E.M. Nevermind was supposed to be a fluke until what happened in his greenhouse. It’s often thought that Nirvana were bigger, but they weren’t - In Utero didn’t really move until Cobain killed himself.

were one of the biggest bands in the world. The first album I ever bought has shaped my understanding of music and helped foster the innate love that stands even today.

I’m not too young to forget about savoring albums as they came out, though. I am a child of that generation, not even a teenager when Napster rolled around and changed everything about music. Thinking in these terms is strange, but digital distribution has changed music in ways that we can’t even fully understand at this point. But Our Love to Admire destroyed the goodwill their first two albums had created, and now I simply don’t care. I have no expectations whatsoever for the new Interpol album, and may not even listen to it.

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It’s shocking how easily a band’s reputation can be shredded to bits by a bad album or two, especially considering how easy it is to click a Mediafire link and download whatever you want in a matter of minutes.