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@dougpaige7494 4 күн бұрын

Being hardwired to their first three full length LP’s by 1985 this EP got the press it deserved by then. Memories of being stationed in the UK at a cruise missile base permeate my thoughts. REM had just finished ‘Fables’ when I arrived in the spring that year. They were sick of the weather and food. I stuck around for two glorious years but never caught them in Hammersmith or anywhere. When I saw Television in ‘92 it atoned for all the great acts I missed. REM habitually covered ‘See No Evil’ live. I wish the first three LP’s for Warner Bros. sank in like the three records after this one, but they had matured and moved on. A timeless first 5-7 years. Still hardwired after nearly four decades.

@damonla.4134 7 күн бұрын

Awesome

@dr3dg352 9 күн бұрын

Just discovered this EP last December and absolutely love it! 😍Later on in the Winter I finished a game of A Song of Ice & Fire Miniatures with a friend at the gaming bar and went to the local book and record store. They somehow had the picture disc of this EP. Had to grab it immediately! 💜 Carnival of Sorts is my favorite.

@Joaocarlos-po3vj 14 күн бұрын

A maior banda do alternativo. Sem massagem!

@aacallison1535 15 күн бұрын

Sounds as great today as it did when I got it in 1984.

@rileyrosswalker 19 күн бұрын

Always have loved this band - super underappreciated.

@xwngdrvr 21 күн бұрын

Whoever they are, I'd say they have a bright future...you know, musically.

@mikeday9548 27 күн бұрын

I could cry the a.c. is back on.

@mikeday9548 27 күн бұрын

I ueard🎉 heard this tape in jr. High during the mid- eighties.. it is very underrat😢

@cardinalchiropractic7439 Ай бұрын

Great and gardening at night ATL 99 made me cry

@cubalz3806 Ай бұрын

How in the hell did I not know about this album in 1990? It is tits.

@iraqorbust1 Ай бұрын

Then came Murmer another gem.

@MrJoeawsome Ай бұрын

Yep

@paulaclark2915 2 ай бұрын

Had this record way back when and wore it out... They didn't know how much we needed r.e.m.

@mikeday9548 2 ай бұрын

Personal favorite of the eighties.

@mikeday9548 2 ай бұрын

Grandpa was revered and admired at church... Will miss Him of course 😉 2:03

@billbranche2257 2 ай бұрын

Had the cassette

@chayleunes3665 2 ай бұрын

I haven't listened to REM in a long time. I wore out their albums in the 80s and 90s and then lost interest. It's very nice to listen to this again. Brings back great memories!

@patmcgee513 2 ай бұрын

21 minutes of excellence. Was the precursor of things to come....

@dtmcbride 2 ай бұрын

Stumble is so good - those drums

@gelubatir9794 3 ай бұрын

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chronic Town EP by R.E.M. Released August 24, 1982 Recorded October 1981 and June 1982 Length 20:26 Chronic Town is the debut EP by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on August 24, 1982, on I.R.S. Records. Containing five tracks, the EP was recorded at the Drive-In Studio in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in October 1981, eighteen months after the formation of the band. Its co-producer was Mitch Easter, who produced the band's "Radio Free Europe" single earlier in 1981. Chronic Town's opening track, "Wolves, Lower", was re-recorded in June 1982, two months before the EP's release. Regarding the title of the EP, the band's drummer, Bill Berry, said: "A 'chronic town' is a city in the state of mind." It is also part of the lyric to "Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)", the third track on the release,[3] and the name of the first side of the EP. "Poster Torn", also a lyric in "Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)", is the name of side two. I.R.S.'s Jay Boberg said of Chronic Town: "The thing that made me play the cassette again and again was that it kept getting better. It was not the kind of thing you listened to once or twice, casually, and said, 'Oh my God! This is tremendous!' It had a depth to it." NME reviewer Richard Grabel wrote, "Chronic Town is five songs that spring to life full of immediacy and action and healthy impatience. Songs that won't be denied." Grabel praised the songs' auras of mystery, and concluded, "R.E.M. ring true, and it's great to hear something as unforced and cunning as this."[18] Creem writer Robot A. Hull began his review saying, "This EP is so arcane that I had to play it six times in a row to get a handle on it - and even now, I'm still not sure." Hull praised the EP for "[evoking] the music of the late-'60s without any pretensions, mingling past and present to shape both into concurrent moments." Hull concluded, "Despite its eccentricity, R.E.M.'s record is undoubtedly the sleeper EP of the year." Chronic Town ranked second in the EP category of the Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics' poll in 1982. For Record Store Day 2010, held on April 17 of that year, participating independent record stores sold a limited-edition and individually-numbered blue vinyl 12" reissue of the long-out of print EP. Track listing All songs written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe. Side one - "Chronic Town" "Wolves, Lower" - 4:10 "Gardening at Night" - 3:29 "Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)" - 3:54 Side two - "Poster Torn" "1,000,000" - 3:06 "Stumble" - 5:40 Personnel R.E.M. Bill Berry - drums, vocals Peter Buck - guitar Mike Mills - bass guitar, vocals Michael Stipe - vocals

@NickRenshaw-rz1zh 3 ай бұрын

One of the albums that got me into this scene 1990 🎉Stone Roses 1989 🙈🕺🏻. Don’t get me started on Primal Scream ‘Screamadelica’ my favourite album, tune for any mood 🎉👍🏻

@sophiepooks2174 4 ай бұрын

1990 as I recall one of the most fun years of my life, so much change going on in music, great to live in a free country to be 20 years old and healthy these tunes etched in my DNA/ brain even though starting to go senile now.

@markkreuzwieser9195 4 ай бұрын

The production was incredible, Mitch Easter and Don Dixon. Recorded in Charlotte

@GDiazDiazAldana 4 ай бұрын

incredible

@user-bx6zr6my4d 4 ай бұрын

Best of ?

@user-bx6zr6my4d 4 ай бұрын

Lol

@user-ze9ns4hu8m 4 ай бұрын

I had just gotten out of the Navy and started college 1984. My roommate was from Athens, Ga. He played this album constantly along with R.E.M. and all the Alt. College radio stuff coming out. A lot of it went over my head but this right here, like a first childhood memory, is wired in my brain forever.

@ScottGreen-ej4ii 4 ай бұрын

Masterpiece

@user-fg5fi5ki8y 4 ай бұрын

the best first album by any group e ver

@Foxonian 5 ай бұрын

Still have my vinyl copy of this album that I bought new in 1987. Play it now and then.

@user-ut5ku7sk1w 4 ай бұрын

i still have(and play), the e.p. i bought new in 1982. i also have the cd version for in the car.

@tazbt 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely best band I've seen live at Kilburn ballroom, back in the day they had only been together a year and them doves made it such a summer of love ❤️

@djangle67 5 ай бұрын

0:00 You’re not very well 3:30 White shirt 6:55 The only one I know 10:54 Opportunity 17:35 Then 21:48 109 pt2 25:04 Polar bear 30:01 Believe you me 33:43 Flower 39:10 Sonic 42:43 Sproston green

@bobfav4570 5 ай бұрын

Love this EP! So raw yet put together purposefully! Boxcars!

@danielblake8956 6 ай бұрын

This album is a journey

@souldavidthompson4854 7 ай бұрын

It's a bit of an R.E.M. Renaissance lately -- the sound of this EP was epic -- chronic town the anchor to all to come. 😮

@poindexterjones206 7 ай бұрын

On my Top 10 Favorite albums list. I love every song.

@michaelconnolly7681 8 ай бұрын

This record is phenomenal. I loved it when it came out and occasionally i listen to it in its entirety because its the kind of record that is such a pleasure to listen to in its entirety. Its definitely one of the best records of the 90s and in my view one of the best ever. There's so much wonderful things to say about it.