R E.M. - Dead Letter Office (1987) WMA320

... 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. That's 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 Costello's "Trust" and "Armed Forces," Warren Zevon, They Might Be Giants, "Nebraska," the Violent Femmes and, especially, REM's "Dead Letter Office." I completely respect a band's right to make the music they want to make, but at the same time I'm firmly a fan of REM's 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 "Life's Rich Pageant." They're 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 can't listen to them without thinking about warm cans of Milwaukee's 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 don't 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

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azza1969 (2011-02-06)

Kids these days just dont know about this band....must be getting old !