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...Drive," the first song, immediately signals this change in R.E.M.'s emphasis. The metallic guitar-picking of Chronic Town has been replaced with an intimate layered sound--Peter Buck's brooding acoustic strumming, Mike Mills' subdued bass and ex-Led Zeppelin member John Paul Jones' rich string arrangement. Singer Michael Stipe, meanwhile, provides a compelling vocal that aches for carefree youngers years. This is definitely an older Stipe speaking. In Murmur's "Catapult" from 1983, he ponders childhood ("We were little boys/We were little girls...Did we miss anything?"). Now, ten years later, it's early adulthood he recalls...
...upbeat piece about virtually nothing that has Stipe singing faster and higher than he's used to. He blazes through the chorus ("I won't even try to wake her up"), sings of "black-eyed peas, some Nescafe and ice," and chuckles through "reading from Dr. Seuss." Strings and Buck's guitar adorn the song nicely...
Stipe also has fun in the straight-forward "Man on the Moon," a song about Andy Kaufman traipsing around in heaven, Twangs of R.E.M.'s country roots combine with Mike Mills' cool harmonies, Stipe's Elvis impersonation and a funky guitar solo from peter Buck to produce a catchy little tune...
...Drive," the first song, immediately signals this change in R.E.M.'s emphasis. The metallic guitar-picking of Chronic Town has been replaced with an intimate layered sound-Peter Buck's Brooding acoustic strumming, Mike Mills' subdued bass and ex-Led Zeppelin member John Paul Jones' rich string arrangement. Singer Michael Stipe, meanwhile, provides a compelling vocal that aches for carefree younger years. This is definitely an older Stipe speaking. In Murmur's "Catapult" from 1983, he ponders childhood ("We were little boys/We were little girls... Did we miss anything?"). Now, ten years later, it's early adulthood he recalls...
...upbeat piece about virtually nothing that has Stipe singing faster and higher than he's used to. He blazes through the chorus ("I won't even try to wake her up"), sings of "black-eyed peas, some Nescafe and ice," and chuckles through "reading from Dr. Seuss." Strings and Buck's guitar adorn the song nicely...