http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes Stay plugged into the A with Creative Loafing's music blog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:50:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/10/15/rem-and-tom-waits-are-alive-and-free/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/10/15/rem-and-tom-waits-are-alive-and-free/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:08:39 +0000 Curt Holman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/?p=11842 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/10/15/rem-and-tom-waits-are-alive-and-free/feed/ 0 Free downloads of live recordings from Georgia's REM and Tom Waits. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/26/remtrospective-12-new-adventures-in-hi-fi/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/26/remtrospective-12-new-adventures-in-hi-fi/#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:37:23 +0000 Curt Holman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/?p=2114 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/26/remtrospective-12-new-adventures-in-hi-fi/feed/ 0 Title: New Adventures in Hi-Fi Released on: Sept. 9, 1996 Favorite tracks: “The Wake-Up Bomb,” “Undertow,” “E-Bow the Letter,” “Leave” In 1997, about a year after New Adventures in Hi-Fi came out, my wife and I bought the house in which we still live. For the previous five years, we’d lived in a place with a dishwasher but [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/19/remtrospective-11-monster/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/19/remtrospective-11-monster/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:24:00 +0000 Curt Holman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/19/remtrospective-11-monster/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/19/remtrospective-11-monster/feed/ 0 Title: Monster Released on: Sept. 26, 1994 Favorite tracks: “King of Comedy,” “Star 69” After the relatively low-key, mellow tones of Automatic for the People, REM clearly wanted to turn the amplifiers up to 11 and rock out again with Monster. In one interview, guitarist Peter Buck described Monster as “a ‘rock’ record, with the rock in quotation [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/12/remtrospective-10-automatic-for-the-people/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/12/remtrospective-10-automatic-for-the-people/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:49:54 +0000 Curt Holman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/12/remtrospective-10-automatic-for-the-people/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/12/remtrospective-10-automatic-for-the-people/feed/ 0 Title: Automatic for the People Released on: Oct. 5, 1992 Favorite tracks: [None] If the REMtrospective’s have so far seemed like an aging fan’s on-line admiration society (“See you next tour!”), well, now we come to Automatic For the People. Huge hit. Three top 40 hits in the U.S. and U.K., 75 weeks on the album charts [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/05/remtrospective-9-out-of-time/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/05/remtrospective-9-out-of-time/#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:06:28 +0000 Curt Holman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/05/remtrospective-9-out-of-time/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/09/05/remtrospective-9-out-of-time/feed/ 0 Title: Out of Time Released on: March 11, 1991 Favorite tracks: “Radio Song,” “Losing My Religion,” “Low,” “Country Feedback” Out of Time represents a peak for REM. It’s one of their most commercially successful of their albums, with “Losing My Religion” being their biggest hit single and possibly their “most famous” song. It turned the band from [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/08/29/remtrospective-8-green/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/08/29/remtrospective-8-green/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:07:26 +0000 Curt Holman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/08/29/remtrospective-8-green/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/08/29/remtrospective-8-green/feed/ 0 Title: Orange Green Released on: Nov. 7, 1988 Favorite tracks: “Turn You Inside-Out,” “Orange Crush,” “You Are the Everything” I really enjoy REM’s first album for Warner Bros., Orange Green. Given that it features the hit song “Orange Crush” and has that distinctive orange-colored album cover, Orange Green is just the perfect name for the album. I think [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/08/22/remtrospective-7-document/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/08/22/remtrospective-7-document/#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:47:26 +0000 Curt Holman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/08/22/remtrospective-7-document/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/08/22/remtrospective-7-document/feed/ 0 Title: Document Released on: Sept. 1, 1987 Favorite tracks: “Finest Worksong,” “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine),” “King of Birds” A thumbnail sketch. A jeweler’s stone. A mean idea to call my own. Document could be my favorite R.E.M. album. Of course, I have a lot of favorites, including Murmur [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/08/20/remtrospective-6-dead-letter-office/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/08/20/remtrospective-6-dead-letter-office/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:18:33 +0000 Curt Holman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/08/20/remtrospective-6-dead-letter-office/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/08/20/remtrospective-6-dead-letter-office/feed/ 0 Title: Dead Letter Office Released on: April 28, 1987 Favorite tracks: “Voice of Harold” My “REMtrospective” project, a chronological, album-by-album review of the work of R.E.M. from the band’s first EP Chronic Town through its latest release Accelerate, seems to have experienced a “Can’t Get There From Here” episode. Despite having been derailed in late May (thanks [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/05/22/remtrospective-5-lifes-rich-pageant/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/05/22/remtrospective-5-lifes-rich-pageant/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 19:50:09 +0000 Curt Holman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/05/22/remtrospective-5-lifes-rich-pageant/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/05/22/remtrospective-5-lifes-rich-pageant/feed/ 1 Title: Lifes Rich Pageant Released on: July 28, 1986 Favorite tracks: “These Days,” “Begin the Begin,” “Swan Swan H” “Let’s begin again,” Michael Stipe sings in “Begin the Begin,” the first song on Lifes Rich Pageant. When the members of R.E.M. start their fourth full-length album with an anthemic message to start anew, it’s almost like they’re [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/05/09/remtrospective-4-fables-of-the-reconstruction/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/05/09/remtrospective-4-fables-of-the-reconstruction/#comments Fri, 09 May 2008 21:36:54 +0000 Curt Holman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/05/09/remtrospective-4-fables-of-the-reconstruction/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/05/09/remtrospective-4-fables-of-the-reconstruction/feed/ 0 Title: Fables of the Reconstruction Released on: June 10, 1985 Favorite tracks: “Feeling Gravitys Pull,” “Old Man Kensey,” “Can’t Get There From Here” Supposedly Fables of the Reconstruction (or would that be Reconstruction of the Fables?) is about the American South. The term “Reconstruction” harks back to Dixie following the Civil War, and there are little references [...]