oSuJeff97

Ooooh yes. Great example.

Oh I agree. My thing with that song is that it was just inescapable for several years... MTV, radio, TV shows, movies....you couldn't avoid it if you tried... so much so that it went from being a song that didn't care for to one that I actively loathed. And so now if I play Automatic for the People I still just cringe when that song comes on.

I almost don't count Zither as a song.. it's more like an instrumental interlude. "Low Desert" sounds like R.E.M.'s attempt to make a great grunge song. I freaking love "So Fast, So Numb." Yeah Lifes Rich Pageant is also my favorite... I love most of Automatic for the People, but like I said upthread, "Everybody Hurts" just kills that album for me. I can't stand that song... it's a good song in a vacuum, but man did it ever get driven into the ground by MTV and FM radio back in the day. Then it became sort of a parody of itself... so much so that I still can't stand it to this day.

Yeah I know what you mean, re: bluetooth, but just FYI you can get a bluetooth receiver for fairly cheap that you can just run into one of the line inputs on the back. Something like this. It's not going to be audiophile quality, but it gets the job done if you just want to play your iPhone/iPad/whatever through your receiver. I use something like this for when we are entertaining and I don't want to get up and flip records every 10-15 minutes.

Oh yeah agreed. They could certainly re-make it along those lines, but my point was there were tons of jokes in the original that would in no way, shape or form fly today.

Awesome. Yeah I love it, too. I bought it when I first got back into vinyl and looking for a dedicated stereo receiver. I couldn't be more happy with it. And thanks for the link!

1. I think we have the exact same receiver. Is that the Yamaha R-S500? 2. I love that "Now Spinning" display. Did you make that or buy it somewhere?

Yes very cool. According to the sleeve on my recent vinyl purchase, it broke down like this: Recorded in-studio in Seattle: How the West was Won New Test Leper E-Bow the Letter Be Mine Recorded during various soundchecks on the Monster tour: The Wake-up Bomb (Charleston) Undertow (Boston) Leave (Atlanta) Departure (Detroit) Bittersweet Me (Memphis) Blinky the Doormat (Phoenix) So Fast, So Numb (Orlando) Low Desert (Atlanta) Electrolite (Phoenix) And finally "Zither" was recorded in their dressing room in Philly.

LOL Revenge of the Nerds is the first one I thought of. Tons of casual racism, homophobia along with some light sexual assault.

I mean I hate defending OUsucks, but if you start the season in the top 5-10 and lose in the national title game or CFP I'm not sure I would put that in the same "overrated" camp as the teams being discussed here.

Yeah that's pretty pricy. I mean The Athletic is like $8 a month for extensive coverage of NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, College football, college basketball, etc. If they bumped theirs down to like $5 a month I'd probably jump on it.

Negative here. I've thought about it a few times, but they do provide a fair amount of free content, plus both Kendall Rogers and Aaron Fitt are pretty active on Twitter discussing their views. Fitt tweeted a ton about the OSU-Vandy series.

I feel you. I had a chance to see Nirvana in OKC my sophomore year on the back end of the In Utero tour. Like a guy literally had a ticket and asked if I wanted to go. It was on a Tuesday or Wednesday night and I had a test the next day in some class so declined. My theory was I would catch them on their next tour. Nice move, young dipshit oSuJeff.

New D1 Baseball poll out: #1 Texas #4 Oklahoma State #17 TCU #20 Texas Tech

I've felt that way for a while. It was never my favorite. I will admit to bias in that a large part of this is that I've never liked "Everybody Hurts." I thought it was sappy and too on-the-nose when I was in high school, and it hasn't aged well, IMO. I just can't stand that song. There are other songs on the album I really like, but that one song just killed that album for me.

Another great thing about it - fantastic album cover:

Yeah and I’l say this - the remastered vinyl that I bought sounds FANTASTIC. It’s a great pressing. I love to turn it up to 11 on “So Fast, So Numb.”

Same. It’s a fun record. The R.E.M. nerds don’t like it because it was a “sell out” record or whatever the fuck. I don’t understand how you can’t like Monster AND Murmur. Both are great records.

LOL I get that, but it's not like New Adventures is their most recent. It was released in 1996 and they put out 6 more albums after it.

Yeah agreed about long-term fans. I always liked R.E.M. and I had a buddy in high school who was super-fan who always talked about how much better their early stuff was and got me listening to Murmer, Lifes Rich Pageant, etc., which I did like more than the late 80s/early 90s stuff. I also did really dig "Monster" when it came out and then "New Adventures." I still do really like Monster, but I just think "New Adventures" is next level. I also just went down the rabbit hole of reading about the album and came across an old Grantland interview with Michael Stipe where he said that he thought "New Adventures" was their best album, which I thought was interesting, given that you can never get a straight answer on that from most artists.

So yeah this is pretty random. I loved this R.E.M. album in college, but it's really one of those that really fell off my radar over the years. I've listened to it some here and there, but it's not something I've listened to a ton. When I want my R.E.M. fix, I've found myself going back to their earlier work; in particular "Lifes Rich Pageant" has always been my favorite. But recently I was in my local record store and saw a copy of the re-mastered "New Adventures in Hi-Fi" and decided to pick it up on a whim. I've been listening to it like crazy the past few weeks, and man... I forgot just how damn good this record is. Listening to it with almost "new ears" at this point, I feel like this album had a real influence/impact on 2000s alt-rock, with it's noisy weirdness and sprawl. It's kind of all of the place, which maybe turned people off originally, but I really enjoy. The album has probably two of their best pure pop songs ("Bittersweet Me" and "Electrolite"), as well as one of their best avant-garde efforts ("E-Bow the Letter") and then just a wild back-and-forth mix of sort-of-poppy but weird and disjointed numbers from "Undertow" to "Leave" to "Low Desert" and so on. Then there are several deep cut gems like "Wake-Up Bomb", "So Fast, So Numb", and "New Test Leper." Anyway - just a few thoughts... I really think this is a GREAT record... almost definitely their last great one. It's really my favorite record of theirs outside of the 80s. I really prefer it to "Automatic for the People" and certainly "Green."

All we know is it's in between ROTS and ANH. My guess is that it's mostly the relatively early in that gap since Hayden Christensen is playing Vader in the series.

Yeah this is a GREAT record. After listening to it all weekend, I think it’s up there with their best. It stands up well against Kill the Moonlight, Ga, and Gimmie Fiction, IMO.

This is odd considering the episode the Rodriguez did in Mando season 2 was some of the best action in the Mando series. The fight up and down the hillside and the Boba stuff in that one were great.

I may give that spin today. Love to crank it up to 11 on "Bullet the Blue Sky."