I live just north of Toronto it was kinda funny about how cold it was for those guys making this album

No Answer and Eldorado will always be my favorite

I am 13 and got some random cassettes at record store and this is easily the best cassette i own and a classic

"Until The Day Is Done" is a gorgeous song that ranks with their very best. It puts chills up my spine every time, it's so good. It and "We All Go Back To Where We Belong" are their final two genuine masterpieces.

Journey's first album (before Steve Perry) spars code aad.

The references to Jacknife Lee's penchant for loud production for R.E.M.'s last two albums in your deep dives for those LPs brought me back here to "Green", and to the 25th Anniversary version, which I bought. Why does this presumably remastered version of "Green" sound so conspicuously low in volume, I wonder? Was it not, in fact, remastered at all, as it seems? I really have to crank "Green" up to get any impact or satisfaction out of it. But the 25th Anniversary versions of all of the IRS albums that preceded it sound great, and full and powerful. I don't get this.

Need some black coffee after this

Great choice! I’m Canadian and grew up with their music. I’ve seen Burton about 4 times & the Guess Who when they reunited for a tour. Something about Burton & he’s seamless. Makes everything look so effortless. Like he’s sitting in your living room or something ❤

Regardless of what anyone says I believe that is Ozzy coughing- it just has his voice characteristics. Also Tony himself said they were a Heavy Rock band not metal. The German band Lucifer's Friend was considered a band that pioneered heavy metal.

This may be my favorite REM album; period. It almost flawless on every level. The themes and musicality is off the charts here; which is really astonishing for a bands 3rd album. I almost don’t even hear these songs as individual tracks; but as connected together in a cosmic dreamscape. You know how when you wake up from a fresh dream and you just can’t make sense of it? That’s what this record feels like to me; a dream, shifting from one scene to the next with no segue ways; and often no sense - like floating downstream on a river and passing by a collection of oddballs, trees, carnivals and campfires. What a gem!! As good as any Beatles album.

What a masterpiece from REM; really is the culmination of their career up to that point. The depth and maturity of their songs is really quite staggering here; they almost followed a Beatles-like progression where each album got deeper, better, more sophisticated in terms of lyrics, themes and musicality. I really like “Odd Fellows Local”, really cool guitars and heavy vibe. This album and most of their 2-3 prior releases were as good as any Beatles album.

Nice video!! Agree, REM just got better and better during this stage of their career. The depth and scale of this album is really staggering when you compare each song. They not only could rock; but also could pen interesting and often profound lyrics. My only disagreement would be with “Swan Swan H”; I think it’s a throwback song to another era; with a heavy southern gothic feel - I could almost imagine this being sung by Confederate soldiers around a campfire on a warm Georgia evening. Listen to it with that in mind!

No king gizzard huh!!

*Sigh.* "Monster". This was the unholy album that drove me away from R.E.M. in self-righteous disgust, and stopped me full-force from listening to them for (gasp!) thirty years. I gather I wasn't alone in this. 🙂 As incredible as it seems to me now, I let "Monster" and my aversion to it prevent me from ever hearing "New Adventures...", "Up", "Reveal", "Around The Sun", "Accelerate", and "Collapse Into Now" when they were originally released. It was only this year, finally - DECADES later - that I decided to buy and explore these later efforts, and maybe to see what I was missing. It was this personal project of exploration and discovery that opened my eyes, and led me to the inescapable conclusion that - by golly , beyond all doubt! - R.E.M. is my all-time favorite American band. It's hard to turn a blind eye - or a deaf ear, I should say - to the sheer volume of quality songwriting in R.E.M.'s catalog over the years, or to the staggering number of great songs and recorded song performances that emerged from them, even as their popularity waned. This was a GREAT band. I can even find merit in "Monster" now, seeing as they were only doing at the time what they've always done, which was to make each album different from the one before. They certainly achieved that with "Monster"! I LIKE the album now...but honestly can't say I love it, or want to listen to it much still. Most of the songs are strong, and "Bang And Blame" is fantastic. I still think "Tongue", "Let Me In", and "Star 69" are some of the worst songs they've done. There's a coldness to the whole thing that keeps me at a distance at times ; maybe it seems overly calculated as "The Great Glam Experiment". I have to be in the mood for it. I definitely like the original mix better than Scott Litt's remix on the 25th anniversary release.

Hi Jeff!!! Well it seems our good ol' friend Steve keeps sending cool Ian Hunter material all over the VC with another awesome VCLT.... i'm not familiar with Ian's solo career, but if Steve send those cds must be killer stuff. cheers and be well

Thanks Jeff! Never even knew TT did a cover of "Revolution" - nice of Josh to send that your way! Amazing thing about Hunter, he is older than Dylan. Pull up the lyrics to "Michael Picasso" when you listen to it. He wrote that about Mick Ronson, and it is a tearjerker of a song. Glad you like him!

God, these songs S.U.C.K !!

I really like this album, to me it's better than Sabotage, a mile better. And "You Won't Change Me" is easily in my Top5 best Sabbath songs

Nice weekend mail for you Jeff! I’d never heard that Thompson Twins version of Revolution that I can remember.

This is well done. 👍 I agree, Capitol did a super job of sequencing the LP (vinyl version). I always loved this cover too. Nice job.👏

Some great VCLT Jeff from two great guys. Longtime Hunter fan, both solo and with Mott. Picked up a Thompson Twins record for a buck last year. Cheers.

Awesome VCLT!!!!! Both guys are great and so generous! Thompson Twins!!! Yes!!!! Steve is spreading the Ian Hunter love around the VC.

Dean and Robert DeLeo from Stone Temple Pilots are on Han Hunters new album? OK, I may have to check that out. Happy to hear you are enjoying your albums from Josh and Steve! Have fun seeing King Gizzard at Aretha Franklin Arena (chene park)

"I Shoulda Worn My Glasses" sounds like it could be a song on Ian's next album 😄

Jeff , you need to pick up Ian Hunter’s Shrunken Heads , and You’re Never Alone With A Schizophrenic albums which are both great as well . Cheers !

I saw Ian on the thumbnail and freaked! He and Mott are in my top tier of faves and it’s great that you have now been turned onto them. Ian is 85 and absolutely indefatigable. Still writing, rocking and the definition of cool 😎. Check out “All American Alien Boy” and the “Mott” LP for starters. Also like the Thompson Twins and did not know they covered “Revolution “. I’m gonna have to check out Steve’s channel…looks like he has good taste, noticed Pretty Things’ “Silk Torpedo” on his wall, another fab 70s album. Anyway, thanks for making my day! 👍

Ian Hunter is as old as a fossil but still makes strong solo albums. The first two Mott The Hoople albums do in fact sound like Dylan. Later they kinda changed to Glam Rock with anthems like ROLL AWAY THE STONE. I seen the two cds you received. Now after your reviews, I need to add them to my collection too.

Killer vclt’s from Josh and Steve!! Happy spinning brother 👍🤘🤘

Steve rules

I am so glaf you love the single.

Your welcome bro 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

or do you want Paul McCartney or

My ideal and personalized mixtape of "Up", pruned for stronger track flow: 1. "Airportman" 2. "Lotus" 3. "Suspicion" 4. "Hope" 5. "At My Most Beautiful" 6. "The Apologist" 7. "Walk Unafraid" 8. "Why Not Smile" 9. "Daysleeper" 10. "I'm Not Over You" (short, hidden demo song, tucked into "Diminished" on the original album) 11. "Parakeet"

Great choices Jeff, I agree with you,,,,

Just because you’ve heard it a lot doesn’t mean it’s not great!

I love Beatles

This is my favorite Black Sabbath album and "Into the Void" is my favorite Black Sabbath track of all time.

Its one of my top favorites, especially the second album. The atmospheric mood to it is great.

Brought a tear to my eye…

Love the Monkees- HEAD poster on the wall when you both are together talking..introduced my wife to that just 2 nights ago😂😂😂

It’s hard to pick a favorite song off this album so I’ll go with all of them

Fantastic episode Jeff. They are definitely my fave Seattle band, just love the minor keys and unusual harmonies. Did not know that much about his young life; what a great, untapped talent. Appreciate your work on this series! 👍

I like the era of Pink Floyd with David Gilmore everything from animals on down hell yeah Chambers Brothers man I got that album Time has come today all 11 minutes of it that UNi record label Elton John used to be on that record label all so 👍🥁🥁 oh wow what happened to Jimi Hendrix I was expecting to see at least one album from him lol

Bill Berry is sorely missed, but there's great variety on "Up". I like to listen to albums sequentially and in their entirety, but "Sad Professor", "You're In The Air", and "Diminished" are weak and sluggish songs that impede the the momentum of the track listing. These contribute to a feeling for me that the LP drags, and is way too long. The backseat producer in me would've purged these songs and also "Fails To Climb", which is too downbeat an ending. This might've made a better B side, with the intriguing "Parakeet" a better choice for the closer. I'd've kept the cool Easter egg and snippet of a demo that's nestled inside "Diminished", though, and slotted it to lead into "Parakeet". I really like all the other compositions on this album, and think each is strong.

great job guys! And what a great intro! I dont even own a suit lol

Awesome from start to finish! Damn, Gary Numan was on my list. I'll strike that one!

I was just playing this album earlier today I still have all my old kiss albums 🥁🥁 I definitely agree with what you said about Ace frehley to me if he wasn't in that band I don't think kiss wouldn't have been as big as they became seriously

Great video love it

I think there a couple of songs on this final album that just sound tired and lacking in inspiration. This observation seems to be supported by Michael Stipe's own remark at the time, about how he needed to be away from "this" for a long while (meaning the creation and performance of new R.E.M. music). There are more than a few great tracks on this, the band's swan song LP. But a few come across as old ground being plowed up again, or replicated conceptually. "Blue" is merely the much better "Country Feedback" revisited, with lyrical nods to "Electrolite" and "E-Bow the Letter". "Oh My Heart", pretty as it is, is basically "Houston" Part 2. There are also two mediocre songs, "Überlin" and "Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I", which add nothing special to the proceedings. "Überlin" promises to be catchy, but it goes on for too long and gets boring fast. As with "Out Of Time", I think the sequencing on "Collapse Into Now" is odd, as well. This could've been a much stronger final statement by the band with better sequencing, and if the weak tracks had been purged and replaced by the three new songs that appeared on the subsequent "Part Lies..." retrospective. If "It Happened Today", "We All Go Back To Where We Belong", and "Hallelujah" had comprised an aural triptych to close out this denouement album, it could've been the band's most powerful LP wind down of 'em all.

I thoroughly enjoyed this presentation!