Michael Stipes R.E.M. "New Adventures In Hi-Fi" Sealed Original 1996 US Rock LP

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R.E.M. "New Adventures In Hi-Fi - Warner Bros. Records 46320 (1996) (USA) ...This auction is for an original, factory sealed Double Record on (US) vinyl. This record was available in a limited pressing and are getting harder to find still sealed. Also included is a 2-sided promotional album size poster flat with the album art on one side and a picture of the band on the other side.

 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. 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 the band wound up with one of their best records of the '90s.

Track listing and reviews below...

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Detailed item info:

Album Features UPC: 093624632016 Artist: R.E.M. Format: LP
Release Year: 1996 Record Label: Warner Bros. Genre: Alternative, Rock & Pop
Track Listing:
RECORD 1
Side One
1. How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us
2. The Wake-up Bomb
3. New Test Leper

Side Two
1. Undertow
2. E-Bow the Letter
3. Leave

RECORD 2
Side Three
1. Departure
2. Bittersweet Me
3. Be Mine
4. Binky the Doormat

Side Four
1. Zither
2. So Fast, So Numb
3. Low Desert
4. Electrolite

Details Playing Time: 65 min. Contributing Artists: Patti Smith, Scott McCaughey Producer: R.E.M., Scott Litt Distributor: WEA (Distributor) Recording Type: Mixed Recording Mode: Stereo
Album Notes
R.E.M.: Mike Mills (vocals, piano, organ, Farfisa organ, Mellotron, keyboards, synthesizer, bass); Michael Stipe (vocals, synthesizer); Bill Berry (acoustic guitar, whistle, synthesizer, bass, drums, percussion); Peter Buck (guitar, banjo, mandolin, bozouki, electric sitar, bass).
Additional personnel: Patti Smith (vocals); Nathan December (slide guitar, guitar, tambourine, guiro); Andy Carlson (violin); Scott McCaughey (autoharp, piano, ARP Odyssey synthesizer, Farfisa organ).
Recorded at Bad Animals, Seattle, Washington; John Keane Studio, Athens, Georgia; Louie's Clubhouse, Los Angeles, California.

NEW ADVENTURES IN HI-FI was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance.

 In the wake of the raging, guitar-fueled MONSTER, R.E.M. has made an album dominated by disconsolate ballads and acoustic instrumentation. NEW ADVENTURES has a stately, elegiac feel. It's punctuated by a few all-out rockers, but the overall mood is dusky and introspective. Michael Stipe's stream-of-consciousness imagery has developed into an incisive, poetic style of great power and resonance, from the religious overtones of "Undertow" (which reveals a Can influence) to the breathless travelogue of "Departure."The opener, "How the West Was Won And Where It Got Us," sets a dark tone, with an eerie organ backdrop and a mournful piano providing a staccato riff. Punk goddess Patti Smith guests on "E-Bow the Letter," a wordy ramble that finds Stipe questioning, and ultimately denigrating, "this fame thing." A similar theme is explored on "The Wake-Up Bomb," a MONSTERish raveup that attacks celebrity star trips.NEW ADVENTURES is loaded with musical surprises, including a zippy synthesizer that sparks "Leave," a campy instrumental called "Zither" and various discordant touches throughout. Lyrically and musically, R.E.M. stands its ground throughout, remaining as fresh and innovative as ever.

Editorial Reviews
8 (out of 10) - ...one of the most disillusioned albums ever made....Every lyric...is harrowed from a soul so empty all it seems to hear is the echo of its own resignation....It's a litany of trouble beyond despair....not an easy album but...a great one...
NME

Ranked #16 in NME's 1996 critics' poll.
NME

...a beautiful hodgepodge....Some songs look back at phases of R.E.M.'s career while others suggest new directions....R.E.M. spends half this album experimenting, turning songs into soundscapes with...synthesizers, sitars and bouzouki, Mellotron and Autoharp...
New York Times

Ranked #58 in Mojo's 100 Modern Classics -- [They sound] refreshed and enriched.
Mojo

Ranked #11 in the Village Voice's 1996 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.
Village Voice (19970225)

5 Stars (out of 5) - ...it's easily the most diverse set of tunes R.E.M. have yet chosen to deliver....a seamlessly assembled mix of live performances...soundcheck reditions...'live' studio takes....hits many and varied targets virtually every time.
Q (19961001)

...if the arena-designed, occasionally forced MONSTER felt like a midlife crisis, NEW ADVENTURES IN HI-FI finds R.E.M. returning to their joyful idiosyncrasies....not in years has an R.E.M. album showed such breadth... - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (19960913)

Ranked #4 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 10 Albums And Singles Of 1996.
Entertainment Weekly

6 (out of 10) - ...While the tunes seem banged out, as if the band forced itself to keep having a jammin' good time despite the aneurysms and whatnot, the arrangements are thoroughly tarted up, often by various sidemen. This is a mixed blessing, as NEW ADVENTURES pays greater attention to hip sounds than to happening songs...
Spin (19961001)

Ranked #11 on Spin's list of the 20 Best Albums of '96.
Spin (19970101)

4.5 Stars (out of 5) - ...R.E.M.'s most ambitious album to date....there's a sense of spontaneity here that's rarely been heard on an R.E.M. record....a sense of ambition and liberation that R.E.M. haven't displayed since 1985's FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION...
Rolling Stone (19960919)

Ranked #4 on Rolling Stone's list of the Ten Best Albums of 1996.
Rolling Stone (19970123)