The REM was always there. But it was like they were htting it violently over the head repeatidly because let's face it, no one wants to be REM.
But because I ca, let me tak of happier times. Hope Is Important happier times.
It's hard to say what it is about the album, but it could well be about the fact thatg they keep sing Times New Roman like it didn't go out of fashion, and never capitalise their titles right (they're proper nouns, dears... ), making them all seems like lines of someone elses poetry. That's probablly a very stupid and vacuous way to approach music but, let's face it... there are a million bands out there who make lovely rackety noise. This one's noise is very prettily dressed up.
There's something about the desolate pictures, and the lovely title, and the general nway they present themselves, that reeks of an admirable spirit and attitude and love of making lovely noise and great guitar songs.
I still remeber watching a documntary when they were a three piece going to perform on a tiny little Scottish island. They were mad, and Roddy was still wearing tees (I got really freaked out the first time I saw him in a shirt, actually. It was bright red, too) and they all seemed so happy that people had come.
I've not heard The Remote Part yet, but atleast I like the pictures on the front, and the handwriting, and the slogan "Support your local poet." capitlised and punctuated like a sensible sentence for sensible people. If I pretend that I've never heard the songs, it still feels like the second best thing I seem to think was part of my teenhood but never was (because I only just got into them). |
