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Artist: RemBrand: Re
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: A&M
Soundtracks:
- Crazy
- There She Goes Again
- Burning Down
- Voice Of Harold
- Burning Hell
- White Tornado
- Toys In the Attic
- Windout
- Ages Of You
- Pale Blue Eyes
- Rotary Ten
- Bandwagon
- Femme Fatale
- Walters Theme
- King Of The Road
- Wolves, Lower
- Gardening At Night
- Carnival Of Sorts (Box Cars)
- 1,000,000
- Stumble
Music reviews of Dead Letter Office
Music Review: "wolves out the door" and "browsing through a junkshop"
Rating: 4 Stars
I was planning on giving this album 3 stars until I noticed that this release includes R.E.M.'s 1982 EP Chronic Town. If you do not have this EP, you are getting some awesome additional tracks with this CD. My review of Chronic Town (5 Stars):
Chronic Town was R.E.M.'s first EP released in 1982. Listening to it now, I can see how this band was "out the door" ready to explode on the music world. The EP offers five tracks and three of them are on my all-time favorite R.E.M. songs list. "Wolves, Lower" is one of their best singles. The unique guitar intro pulls me in every time. "Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)" is a very cool, fun track. I almost always include that track on my R.E.M. compilation tapes as well as "Stumble." I like the overall sound of that track. Of the remaining tracks, my least favorite is "1,000,000." It is not that it is bad, it is just not as memorable as the others. A better version of "Gardening at Night" is found on Eponymous. The version on Chronic Town has weaker vocals. Still, Chronic Town is an awesome debut and should be included in every R.E.M. collection. Now for my review of Dead Letter office (3 Stars):
Dead Letter Office (released in 1987 before Document) is probably a more suitable buy for R.E.M. completest and serious fans as it is a collection of B-sides, covers, and outtakes. There are quite a few gems on this record though for casual fans if they run across a good deal on this one. Each track includes a brief note by Peter Buck who offers some interesting background (i.e. Walters Theme/King of the Road).
My favorite track is the Pylon cover "Crazy." It is an outtake from my favorite R.E.M. album Fables of the Reconstruction and is as good a track as anything R.E.M. has done. I always include it on my R.E.M. compilation tapes. Another of my favorites is "Windout," one of their earliest songs written in 1980, which Buck admits would have fit on Reckoning very well. I agree as it is a catchy rocker. They do nice covers of Velvet Underground's "There She Goes Again" and "Pale Blue Eyes" (the latter is a slow, country-style song). I'm not an Aerosmith fan, but they do an excellent, fanny-kicking cover of "Toys in the Attic." "Burning Hell" may be as close to metal R.E.M. ever got and good thing they didn't move in that direction. It is actually humorous.
As would be expected, there are some fillers on this album. "White Tornado" is an instrumental "surf's up" track while "Rotary Ten" is another instrumental with a 1960s detective show sound. "Bandwagon" is a very silly song ("We won't hurt the horse"). "Voice of Harold" is "7 Chinese Bros." with Stipe seeming to make up lyrics on the fly. Sometimes he sounds like a preacher, other times he sounds like a record promoter. It's got to be heard to be believed as does "Walters Theme/King of the Hill." As Buck writes, "I suppose if we had any shame we would have never allowed this little gem to see the light of day." It is a fun novelty album.
Description of Dead Letter Office
No Description Available.Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 20-APR-1987
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