New Adventures in Hi-Fi R.E.M.

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  • Release Date: 09/10/1996
  • Sales Rank: 66,249
  • Label: WARNER BROS / WEA
  • UPC: 093624632023

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New Adventures in Hi-Fi

1LISTENHow The West Was Won And Where It Got Us 4:30
2LISTENThe Wake-Up Bomb 5:07
3LISTENNew Test Leper 5:25
4LISTENUndertow 5:08
5LISTENE-Bow The Letter 5:22
6LISTENLeave 7:17
7LISTENDeparture 3:27
8LISTENBittersweet Me 4:06
9LISTENBe Mine 5:32
10LISTENBinky The Doormat 5:00
11LISTENZither 2:33
12LISTENSo Fast, So Numb 4:11
13LISTENLow Desert 3:30
14LISTENElectrolite 4:05

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Recorded during and immediately following R.E.M.'s disaster-prone Monster tour, New Adventures in Hi-Fi feels like it was recorded on the road. Not only are all of Michael Stipe's lyrics on the album about moving or travel, the sound is ragged and varied, pieced together from tapes recorded at shows, soundtracks, and studios, giving it a loose, careening charm. New Adventures has the same spirit of much of R.E.M.'s IRS records, but don't take the title of New Adventures in Hi-Fi lightly -- R.E.M. tries different textures and new studio tricks. "How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us" opens the album with a rolling, vaguely hip-hop drum beat and slowly adds on jazzily dissonant piano. "E-Bow the Letter" starts out as an updated version of "Country Feedback," then it turns in on itself with layers of moaning guitar effects and Patti Smith's haunting backing vocals. Clocking in at seven minutes, "Leave" is the longest track R.E.M. has yet recorded and it's one of their strangest and best -- an affecting minor-key dirge with a howling, siren-like feedback loop that runs throughout the entire song. Elsewhere, R.E.M. tread standard territory: "Electrolite" is a lovely piano-based ballad, "Departure" rocks like a Document outtake, the chiming opening riff of "Bittersweet Me" sounds like it was written in 1985, "New Test Leper" is gently winding folk-rock, and "The Wake-Up Bomb" and "Undertow" rock like the Monster outtakes they are. New Adventures in Hi-Fi may run a little too long -- it clocks in at 62 minutes, by far the longest album R.E.M. has ever released -- yet in its multifaceted sprawl, they wound up with one of their best records of the '90s. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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New Adventures in Hi-Fiby Anonymous

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July 18, 2003: This album has plenty of good songs to listen to. It is a change from their older music but it will still keep their fans happy.

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September 12, 2002: I am a HUGE R.E.M. fan but I have to say this album is just a let down. The songs here are mostly soundchecks of songs left off of Monster and you can hear why. The beautiful melody you find on all of their other albums (even the hard rocking Monster)just isnt there. These songs just DONT SOUND GOOD. The one keeper is "New Test Leper" which is incredible, but every band is going to miss at some point and R.E.M. did here. All that said, even at their worst I'd take R.E.M. and this album over most of the cr@p now populating the airwaves


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