[ANNOUNCEMENT] Weekly Alternative Album Club: REM - Automatic For The People
Just had a great suggestion from @[email protected] - how about we start a "book club" but for alternative albums! Apparently our friends over at HipHopHeads has started one. I think that sounds splendid!
As [email protected] wrote: "Next week I will start the thread. Every week will be a different album and anybody who is interested can give it a listen, then share their opinions in the weekly thread!"
Sound good?
YOUR ALBUM ASSIGNMENT: REM - Automatic For The People
The band that is our community header that kicked off a 1000 alternative bands of their own. After taking college rock and literally kick starting the "authenticity" alternative music boom of the 90s, REM returned with this brooding dark album.
Hmmm, yeah. I started buying REM records with Reckoning, and stopped with Document. I think I saw them as mainstream after that, no longer the college radio band I loved.
I just checked, that means I missed out on Green, Out of Time and this one, from 92. They were still the same great guys, making great music. I just moved on, personally.
I'm listening to Automatic rn and it's fine. I remember Everybody Hurts being huge in its day. The band was never known for bright and shiny songs, eh, but this isn't The Cure either.