Comments on: My New Music Blog Project! Come Read!

By: Shade

Shade — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:01:46 +0000

It’s EW so they don’t venture to far out of the mainstream obviously. I would have liked them include DC Talks “Jesus Freak”.

By: MarkAndrew

MarkAndrew — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:35:24 +0000

I guess it’s been a couple years (pushing a decade) since I’ve listened to Life’s Rich Pageant. I did like it just not as much as the others.

And I forgot about Reckoning. Yeah, I might put that as the token REM album. Murmur’s more cohesive, but Reckoning has most of my favorite songs.

By: Mike Loughlin

Mike Loughlin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:10:06 +0000

And I like Stories From the City… _because_ it was such a departure from PJ Harvey’s usual sounds, even if I would have put Rid of Me or To Bring You My Love on the list instead.

By: Mike Loughlin

Mike Loughlin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:01:52 +0000

Hell, I like Reckoning more than Murmur. Suck it, indie snobs even snobbier than I!

By: Stefan

Stefan — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:32:16 +0000

I prefer Life’s Rich Pageant to Murmur myself, although it’s pretty close, and if I were choosing any REM album from the 80s it’d be Document, far and away.

Murmur is more consistent and it’s full of great songs, and yeah, it’s more important in the history of rock music. But the highlights of LRP are much more pronounced than Murmur’s. Murmur doesn’t have anything that outshines “Begin the Begin,” “These Days,” “Swan Swan H…” I’m kind of amazed LRP made their list, but the list overall is pretty ridiculous so I can’t expect much rhyme or reason from it.

By: MarkAndrew

MarkAndrew — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:05:02 +0000

“Murmur” was 1983, but I figured it was early enough to miss the 25 year deadline.

“Synchronicity” (June of ’83) was the earliest.

(And, I mean, there’s some strange calls here, but I can’t honestly think they’d go “Life’s Rich Pageant” over “Murmur” if they had their choice. That way lies madness.)

And, yeah, I was writing in word which actually wouldn’t LET me drop the “g”.

Which was annoying. “Getting laid” is an entirely different concept than “gettin’ laid.”

By: Stefan

Stefan — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:05:05 +0000

Enjoyed some of the comments, but the Death Cab For Cutie hate is inexplicable, aside from the obvious (and understandable) grudge against the list as a whole, which is likely to bias you against anything on it that you don’t already love (like PJ). And aside from the merits of the music in question, judging an album from one listen has hardly ever been a good idea. The best music grows on you.

Incidentally… wasn’t Murmur released in ’83?

By: Greg Burgas

Greg Burgas — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:07:53 +0000

ABBA broke up in 1982, or else they would have DOMINATED this list.

By: Brad Curran

Brad Curran — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:35:24 +0000

I did not see a single thing about team-up comics, Steve Gerber, Dave Sim, Kim Deitch, or dropped letters at the end of words, so I can only assume you are Skrull Mark Andrew.