Comments on: Live your life filled with joy and thunder—R.E.M.’s Automatic for the People is 25 http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2017/11/11/live-your-life-with-joy-and-thunder-r-e-m-s-automatic-for-the-people-is-25/ Personal blog of Jessica Zafra, author of The Collected Stories and the Twisted series Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:26:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: jessicazafra http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2017/11/11/live-your-life-with-joy-and-thunder-r-e-m-s-automatic-for-the-people-is-25/comment-page-1/#comment-704211 Tue, 14 Nov 2017 08:25:35 +0000 http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=34617#comment-704211 In reply to Angus.

Angus: I love “Near Wild Heaven”. Try Monster. All their succeeding albums are good, but they had moved far from the little indie band from Athens, Georgia they used to be, and their world-view had shifted. And then personnel changes, exhaustion, etc.

Since volume-addict brought up the John Paul Jones contribution, my recent playlists have made perfect sense. I alternate Zeppelin and R.E.M.

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By: Angus http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2017/11/11/live-your-life-with-joy-and-thunder-r-e-m-s-automatic-for-the-people-is-25/comment-page-1/#comment-704210 Tue, 14 Nov 2017 06:06:49 +0000 http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=34617#comment-704210 This and Out of Time are my favorite REM albums. Nightswimming is always the last song I play when I listen to them, then I end up repeating the song manually. I haven’t explored any of their 2000s albums. Any recommendations?

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By: jessicazafra http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2017/11/11/live-your-life-with-joy-and-thunder-r-e-m-s-automatic-for-the-people-is-25/comment-page-1/#comment-704207 Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:38:28 +0000 http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=34617#comment-704207 In reply to volume-addict.

volume-addict: For those heartbreaking strings, the orchestration, they looked up one of the masters.

Follow “Nightswimming” with “All Of My Love”, written after the death of Karac Plant. Talk about thunder. Even if Page probably found it baduy.

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By: volume-addict http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2017/11/11/live-your-life-with-joy-and-thunder-r-e-m-s-automatic-for-the-people-is-25/comment-page-1/#comment-704205 Mon, 13 Nov 2017 20:53:34 +0000 http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=34617#comment-704205 I’m not sure how many people were aware that John Paul Jones collaborated with the band on arrangements to some of the songs that completed the record.

That factoid blew my mind.

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By: turmukoy http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2017/11/11/live-your-life-with-joy-and-thunder-r-e-m-s-automatic-for-the-people-is-25/comment-page-1/#comment-704199 Mon, 13 Nov 2017 02:17:28 +0000 http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/?p=34617#comment-704199 thanks for this post and important anniv marker. was thinking of cancelling already my spotify subscription. now i’m urged to revamp playlist.

i remember you giving away cassettes of ‘new adventures in hi-fi’ on your radio show years ago. i won one for answering a trivia question. i should still have that cassette somewhere. and that album is also quite good.

my not-so-well-known-but-i-like-very-much REM song is strange currencies. stipes’s singing on that record is truly remarkable. sounds like he is begging and demanding at the same time.

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