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...COMPLAINTS THAT AMERICAN PRESIdential campaigns are far too long, lingering like a chronic disease over the lion's share of two years, the country has suddenly found itself experimenting -- unexpectedly -- with what amounts to a one-month contest. For it was only last week, with Ross Perot's second coming made official, and with an agreement on televised debates at last achieved, that Campaign '92's full dynamics were in place...
Listening to Automatic for the People, R.E.M.'s ninth album, you get the sense that the band has grown up a lot in the past decade. Since they released Chronic Town in 1982, R.E.M. has tried many different approaches--from the jangle of Murmur to the spook of Fables of the Reconstruction to the electricity of Document and Green...
...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...
Listening to Automatic for the People, R.E.M.'s ninth album, you get the sense that the band has grown up a lot in the past decade. Since they released Chronic Town in 1982, R.E.M. has tried many different approaches--from the jangle of Murmur to the spool of the Fables of the Reconstruction to the electricity of Document and Green...
...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...