R.E.M. New Adventures In Hi-Fi 2LP WARNER BROS 1996 EUorig+foc STIPE-PATTI SMITH
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R.E.M.
Fronted by the charismatic Michael Stipe, one of the first alt-rock bands to make it big, maintaining
their integrity and a sense of adventure over three decades...
"NEW ADVENTURES IN HI-FI"
1996 2LP WARNER BROS. RECORDS 9362-47946-1
MADE IN GERMANY for the EUROPEAN MARKET ORIGINAL PRESSING
GATEFOLD COVER
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: 0 9362-46320-1 6
LABEL: WB - SILVER LABEL - BLACK TEXT
Label Code: LC 0392
Price Code: WE 351
Catalog on cover: (spine & rear) 9362-46320-1
Catalog on labels: 9362-46320-1
DISC ONE Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): WMME ALSDORF 936 246436-1-A
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): WMME ALSDORF 936 246436-1-B
DISC TWO Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): WMME ALSDORF 936 246436-1-C
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): WMME ALSDORF 936 246436-1-D
Other / Runout (on all sides, Etched): Hü
On labels: Produced by Scott Litt & R.E.M.
(Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe)
© 1996 Night Garden Music, administered on the surface world by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. BMI
? 1996 R.E.M./Athens, L.L.C.
On Inside Panels: Credits & Photos
On back cover: Produced by Scott Litt & R.E.M.
Made in Germany by W Warner......Europe
Warner Bros......© ? 1996 R.E.M./Athens, Ltd........
tracklisting
Side A: HOW THE WEST WAS WON AND WHERE IT GOT US - THE WAKE-UP BOMB - NEW TEST LEPER
Side B: UNDERTOW - E-BOW THE LETTER - LEAVE
Side C: DEPARTURE - BITTERSWEET ME - BE MINE - BINKY THE DOORMAT
Side D: ZITHER - SO FAST, SO NUMB - LOW DESERT - ELECTROLITE
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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...(AllMusic)
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