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...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 ("Hey kids, rock...
...image of death is explored in "Try Not To breathe," a song that flows like "Half a World Away" from Out of Time but carries a much sadder message. Stipe sings of a man who has lived a long life and is ready to die--a man whom Stipe himself resembles in a picture in the liner notes: The Singer's lifeless eyes, embedded in a scarred, wrinkled face, peer from inside a hooded jacket. In "Breathe," the elderly man's "eyes are the eyes of the old"--the eyes of the hooded Stipe. "I will hold my breath until...
Tonight, the crowd is even closer than usual, dancing around the amps and leaning over the mike stands like an amoeba poised to engorge the band. The Olivz "regulars" sing along with Ganley's clear, Micheal Stipe-esque tenor. People slam dance. There's a brawl. It's chaotic, but tremendous...
There are few other figures in pop music today who could make the transition from poetic lyrics to lyric poetry with such confidence--Dylan, MacGowan and Stipe come to mind--or such success. Reed knows the stakes and the difficulties, making his achievement more impressive: The book is an obliging read...
...extraordinary nature of Yugoslavia's crisis became clear when Stipe Mesic, the country's nominal President and a Croatian, urged federal soldiers to desert and "join the people." According to Belgrade news reports, moreover, federal Prime Minister Ante Markovic tried and failed to force the resignation of Defense Minister Veljko Kadijevic on grounds that the Yugoslav People's Army, in waging open war on Croatia, had proved to be "neither Yugoslav nor of the people...