Michael Stipe R.E.M. "Monster" 1994 Sealed US LP MINT

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R.E.M. / Monster - Warner Bros. Records 45740 (Stereo)(US)(1994) ...This auction is for an original issue, factory sealed Record on US vinyl. This record was made in the U.S. and was very limited.

  Monster doesn't have the conceptual unity or consistently brilliant songwriting of Automatic for the People, but it does offer a wide range of sonic textures that have never been heard on an R.E.M. album before. It is indeed the band's long-promised "rock" album.

   Track listings and reviews include below:

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Detailed item info:

Track listing
(Side One)
1. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
2. Crush With Eyeliner
3. King Of Comedy
4. I Don't Sleep, I Dream
5. Star 69
6. (With Love Come) Strange Currencies

(Side Two)
7. Tongue
8. Bang And Blame
9. I Took Your Name
10. Let Me In
11. Circus Envy
12. You

Details Contributing artists: Thurston Moore Producer: R.E.M., Scott Litt Distributor: WEA Recording type: Studio Recording mode: Stereo
Album notes R.E.M.: Michael Stipe (vocals); Peter Buck (guitar); Mike Mills (bass, vocals); Bill Berry (drums).
Additional personnel: Thurston Moore (guitar); Bertis Downs (keyboards); Jefferson Holt, Sally Dworski, Ane, Lynda, Lou, Rain.
Recorded at Ocean Way Recording, Los Angeles, California; Criteria Recording Studios, Miami, Florida; Crossover Soundstage, Atlanta, Georgia; Kingsway Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana.

MONSTER was nominated for a 1995 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album.

MONSTER has nothing in common with the elegant, mannered sounds R.E.M. has been producing since GREEN.  While you can discern allusions to hard rock icons from Neil Young and Mott The Hoople through Television and Nirvana, MONSTER is neither a fadist grunge album nor a laundry list of influences--but certain subliminal references seem to spark R.E.M.'s muse, inspiring a dozen powerhouse songs.
The classic R.E.M. sound is churned through a meat grinder and served up raw and bleeding on MONSTER.  From the opening power chords of "What's The Frequency, Kenneth?" through the desperate raga rock of "You," Peter Buck is the hero of MONSTER.  Buck's pealing rhythm guitar and bassist Mike Mills' melodic counterpoint are mixed front and center, so that vocalist Michael Stipe has to shout to be heard...imagine a typical P.A. arena mix.
Meanwhile, the enigmatic Stipe experiments with a variety of new vocal guises.  He plays a haughty rock star on the prowl with a droll Bowie delivery on "Crush With Eyeliner," while unveiling a Gabriel falsetto on "I Don't Sleep, I Dream," Southern soul mannersims on "Tongue" and Jaggerish menace on "I Took Your Name."  But the best thing about MONSTER is that in their quest not to repeat themselves, to push the envelope on their performance style--to change their sound--R.E.M. has dipped back into their roots and emerged with a truly classic rock album.

Editorial reviews ...MONSTER proves no one cranks the amplifiers and mumbles lyrics in quite the same thrilling way as the originators... - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly  (09/30/1994)

3 Stars - Good - ...MONSTER is a balder and starker bit of landscaping and whether everything in the garden remains lovely is up to debate...
Q  (11/01/1994)

...the band hasn't really changed at all: the songs still stress melody over meaning, the playing still emphasizes the unit over the individuals, and the sound remains as fresh as it was a dozen years ago...
Musician  (11/01/1994)

Highly Recommended - ...this is its most implacable --and convincing--music since MURMUR....Even as MONSTER flirts with unreason and breaks down old taboos, it observes the strict protocols of the forms it plays havoc with...
Spin  (11/01/1994)

7- Very Good - ...At best stunning, at worst merely diverting, MONSTER sounds like the album they `had' to make, to clear out their system...
NME  (09/29/1994)

3 Stars - Good - ...not half bad, except by R.E.M.'s own standards....who'd pay...for a `deluxe' 52-page art book version?....Sturdy, glossless paper, handsomely bound and filled with lyric-snatches over blurry snaps of the band, a dog and some chairs...
Q  (12/01/1994)

4.5 Stars - Excellent - ...MONSTER is a deeply felt, thematically coherent, consistently invigorating challenge to `evolve or die,' with all the courage of its convictions...
Rolling Stone  (10/06/1994)

Ranked #6 in Spin's list of the `20 Best Albums Of '94' - R.E.M....don't sound like a cliche, which requires a rigor easy to overlook....malevolence and chainsaw guitar we haven't heard before....`What's The Frequency, Kenneth?' is a glorious ode to babble...
Spin  (12/01/1994)