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Rock: R.E.M., preparing for a world tour, is back with Monster, a very...
R.E.M.'s new CD, Monster, out next week, does indeed blast with the boldest, brawniest music the band has ever recorded. In an interview with Time, Stipe described the new sound succinctly: "We wanted noise." Added R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills: "When you're in a band long enough, you want to try different things. On past albums we had been exploring acoustic instruments, trying to use the piano and mandolin, and we did it about all we wanted to do it. And you come back to the fact that playing loud electric-guitar music is about as fun as music...
...best may be yet to come, because the brash new Monster sounds as though it could become the most popular album of R.E.M.'s career. The band is planning a world tour -- its first in six years -- so most of the songs on the album are designed to rock people 10,000 at a time. Still, the songs sacrifice nothing in intelligence or depth. On King of Comedy, a robotic voice attacks pop culture for turning artistry into commerce: "I'm not your television ... I'm not commodity." Bang and Blame, an up-tempo song with meaty guitar hooks...
...shouldn't be dead," she says, sitting in her living room the day after his funeral. There is a white bucket in the corner with a live frog he caught a few weeks ago. "He liked to fish," she says. "People think he was a monster, but he was nice to me." She says she saw him regularly; he called her Reen instead of Mom, and, she admits, "he was always blaming me" for his problems. "They could have saved him and rehabilitated him," she insists. "When he started taking cars, they should have put him away then and given...
...criminal record, will not be eligible for parole for 20 years. Jackson, who will prosecute the case, thinks Green is somebody who can't be let off lightly. He also wonders if lengthy confinement won't make Green worse. "It's kind of scary to think what kind of monster may be created," Jackson says. "He could be released at the age of 33 after having been raised in the department of corrections with some of the most hardened criminals North Carolina has to offer...