The second best thing about this entire album is the jangly rhythm guitar in the verse of Bang and Blame
The best thing about this entire album is the acoustic guitar in the verse of Bang and Blame
― Road House: Songs and Stories (Master of Treacle), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 23:43 (six months ago) link
I keep hoping that 25th anniversary remaster box set of this will start popping up in used bins with the frequency of the original release, but no dice so far. Haha.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 00:11 (six months ago) link
The guitar thing where it goes "what's the frequency Kenneth, is your Benzedrine uh uh" WOKKAWOKKAWOKKAWOKKA is one of the best sounds ever
otm
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 00:15 (six months ago) link
i.e. tremolo (unless you're Leo Fender when you call it "vibrato" on the amp because you previously named vibrato bridges wrongly)
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 00:52 (six months ago) link
I can still hum the melodies of all the feedback on this record
The first and last four tracks + Tongue are all good to great
This record is like your health as a fortysomething - not the best, but as good as it gets until you break up
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 11:50 (six months ago) link
I hear it more as a DUGADUGADUGADUGA
― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 12:13 (six months ago) link
The first NEW rem album that came out after I became a super fan. I liked it at the time because it wasn't awful and I was IN on the band so much. I tried to listen to it the other day and couldn't get through it. "Tongue" is the one I still like because it isn't overworked. In a perfect world I would switch it with "Ignoreland" on Automatic, putting "Ignoreland" on Monster so I could toss the whole damn thing.
Radiohead did indeed slay on their opening slot touring.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 13:16 (six months ago) link
Sonic Youth opened for REM on the Monster tour date that I saw (KC) and similarly upstaged them. REM had a lot of sound problems with the mix that night too, I don't know if that was atypical
― erasingclouds, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 13:35 (six months ago) link
i was at that show!
― andrew m., Wednesday, 4 October 2023 13:52 (six months ago) link
I saw REM on the Monster tour with Radiohead, at Milton Keynes Bowl (?), and "High and Dry" was the most out-of-tune vocal I've ever heard, like literally a whole field of people wincing. Great show though
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 14:01 (six months ago) link
As in, "Don't leave me [much too high] highhhhh, don't leave me [much too low] dryyyyyyyy"
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 14:02 (six months ago) link
Blur opened on one of the Milton Keynes dates. Bit weird to think about imo.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 14:37 (six months ago) link
from what I read on Wikipedia, bill berry was really influenced by Echobelly for the Monster guitar sound. I think maybe they did that tremolo thing too?
― brimstead, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 16:09 (six months ago) link
Surreally, Dan Rather interviewing the band and even performing a bit of "What's The Frequency, Kenneth?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96ucWfkML7g
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 14:33 (one month ago) link
the cover art is the worst thing about this album, in retrospect
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 13:54 (four weeks ago) link
special 12" remix of Dan Rather singing "Kenneth."
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 14:10 (four weeks ago) link
Banged by Blame
― pplains, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 14:44 (four weeks ago) link
Warner Bros - release the Rather mixes, you cowards....
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Thursday, 4 April 2024 11:51 (four weeks ago) link