Did you listen to your copy of REM Monster today?
no, i didn't. i do like this album though. memories of ordering it from the magazines, a penny for like 12 cds. they would come in the mail to me as a child, my parents asking who "Guy Patterson" was, holding a brown cardboard box with the mail. i grab it and run away, to my room and rip the box open, and unwrap all the individual compact discs, admiring the artwork. i remember listening to *69 on a portable cd player, with the windows open in the spring time and a box fan in the window, and across the street a kid was shooting a super soaker at other kids from his window. memories, man. that's a good cover.
>>130901032Based. I remember (in '95 maybe?) our local record store set up this ridiculously huge R.E.M Monster display case with square shaped posters of the album cover and the band all along the walls on either side of it.Then the album sat there in this orange custom cardboard display stand and no one bought a single copy lolIt literally sat there in the front of the store for months and stayed completely full.
>>130900538Which one? I got a dozen from the thrift shop for a buck.
>>130901128I remember always going to second hand cd shops in the 90s and I would always see tons of copies at every store I went to
Yeah it's sandwiched between my Live Throwing Copper CD and this thing.
>>130900538I got multiple REM albums but not that one
>>130901128Surprising because it was a big hit. "What's the Frequency Kenneth" played constantly on MTV.In retrospect it was their last hurrah. It went 4x platinum, the last time they went multi.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycvJHQUqU1M
>>130900538No but I should, its such a great album. One of my favourite childhood memories is going on a trip to America and my parents blasting this on tape in our rented Buick Skyline. Had to be around 95/96.
what we’re Buck and Stipe thinking with this album… distorted power chords and tremolo effects on a fucking R.E.M. album… either sound like The Byrds with an actual rhythm section or lean fully into the elegiac American pastoral. One of the great fumbles in pop music history, MONSTER… it’s garish orange visage still reels our country from the ground up, one used CD section at a time.
