R E M - Dead Letter Office (1987) WMA320
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... which is not to say I was hitting the Athens club scene in the mid-late-80s, I was a disgruntled high schooler in a hick town with a few cool-nerdy friends and we spent a lot of time trying to figure out ways to obtain beer and places to sit around and drink it. Thats when we began to stain our pink lungs with cigarettes and sit on the hoods of cars in fields, playing music on a one-speaker boom box: Elvis Costellos Trust and Armed Forces, Warren Zevon, They Might Be Giants, Nebraska, the Violent Femmes and, especially, REMs Dead Letter Office.
I completely respect a bands right to make the music they want to make, but at the same time Im firmly a fan of REMs pre-Losing My Religion stuff (so fans of latter albums should take my 5-star rave with several grains of salt). And I love Reckoning and Fables and Murmur and most of all Lifes Rich Pageant. Theyre great, hand-tooled classics.
But Dead Letter is loose, banged-out, sloppy music by a surly young band for surly young people growing up in the waning days of the Reagan era.
Ages of You and Voice of Harold and Rotary Ten and King of the Road just kind of sum up winter, 87, for me and I cant listen to them without thinking about warm cans of Milwaukees Best, Lucky Strikes and cottonmouth. And the covers of There She Goes Again and Femme Fatale led me directly to the Velvet Underground. Let me say that again: This Album Led Me to The Velvet Underground. Can an album, or anything, do more for a listener than that? I dont think so.
by Clare Quilty
TRACKLIST:
01 - Crazy.wma
02 - There She Goes Again.wma
03 - Burning Down.wma
04 - Voice Of Herold.wma
05 - Burning Hell.wma
06 - White Tornado.wma
07 - Toys In The Attic.wma
08 - Windout.wma
09 - Ages Of You.wma
10 - Pale Blue Eyes.wma
11 - Rotary Ten.wma
12 - Bandwagon.wma
13 - Femme Fatale.wma
14 - Walters Theme.wma
15 - King Of The Road.wma
16 - Wolves, Lower.wma
17 - Gardening At Night.wma
18 - Carnival Of Sorts (Box Cars).wma
19 - 1,000,000.wma
20 - Stumble.wma
WMA 320Kbps 44100Hz STEREO
DEDICATED TO azza1969
