REM - New Adventures in Hi-Fi - Vinyl LP R.E.M. Rar Neu

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R.E.M.-New adventures in Hi-Fi Do-LP

Warner 1996

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Info: Megarare 14-Track-Doppel-LP aus dem Jahre 1996 auf dem Warner Bros-Label (9362-46436-1) als deutsche Pressung im Klappcover.

Tracklist:

1. How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us

2. The Wake-up Bomb

3. New Test Leper

4. Undertow

5. E-bow The Letter

6. Leave

7. Departure

8. Bittersweet Me

9. Be Mine

10. Binky The Doormat

11. Zither

12. So Fast, So Numb

13. Low Desert

14. Electrolite

New Adventures in Hi-Fi is the tenth studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was their fifth major label release for Warner Bros. Records, released on September 9, 1996, in Europe and Australia and the following day in the United States. New Adventures in Hi-Fi was the last album recorded with founding member Bill Berry (who left the band amicably the following year), original manager Jefferson Holt, and long-time producer Scott Litt.

The album was recorded during and after the tour in support of Monster in 1995. The material on the album mixed the acoustic, country rock feel of much of Out of Time and Automatic for the People with the rock sound of Monster and Lifes Rich Pageant. The band have cited Neil Young's 1973 album Time Fades Away as a source of inspiration.[1]

The band noted that they borrowed the recording process for the album from Radiohead, who recorded some of the basic tracks for The Bends while on tour and who were supporting the band in 1994 and 1995. R.E.M. brought along eight-track recorders to capture their live performances, and used the recordings as the base elements for the album. As such, the band's touring musicians Nathan December and Scott McCaughey are featured throughout the album with Andy Carlson contributing violin to "Electrolite." After the tour was over, the band went into the Bad Animals Studio and recorded four additional tracks, "How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us," "E-Bow the Letter," "Be Mine," and "New Test Leper." Patti Smith came to the sessions and contributed vocals on "E-Bow the Letter." Audio mixing was finished at John Keane Studio in Athens and Louie's Clubhouse in Los Angeles with mastering by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering in Portland, Maine.

Critical reaction to the album was mostly positive. Several publications lauded the album for its rich diversity, including Rolling Stone, Q, and Mojo and Stephen Thomas Erlewine from All Music says "in its multifaceted sprawl,[2] they wound up with one of their best records of the '90s." At the same time, however some publications including Melody Maker, criticized the album's empty and flat sound caused by recording in arenas and soundchecks.

New Adventures in Hi-Fi has since appeared on several lists compiling the best albums of the 1990s or all time:

Magnet: Top 60 Albums 1993–2003 (#20]

Mojo: The 100 Greatest Albums of Our Lifetime 1993–2006 (#20)

New Adventures in Hi-Fi, R.E.M.'s fifth Warner Bros. Records release, finds the quartet at a creative juncture that is intriguing, even for a band that has made a career of challenging themselves.

Recorded in various locales - including studios, soundchecks and even a dressing room - on and around their recently completed world tour, the album's generous helping of fourteen new tracks continues the strategy of spontaneous musical combustion that began with 1994's Monster. Almost two years of nearly continuous performing adds a potent new element to the mix, reasserting R.E.M.'s roots as a live band, even as they continue to redefine the expressive potential of their ensemble playing and songwriting.

The result is a record that equals more than the sum of its parts. A live album with a studio gloss, a studio album with a live charge, New Adventures in Hi-Fi is something very much like a calculated accident.

"The idea was to graft together stuff that was recorded live with stuff that was done in the studio, so you can't really tell what's what," explains Michael Stipe. "We didn't want to lose the momentum of the stuff that we'd written and recorded during the tour, so it's kind of like we're still a little bit on the road, and when you're on the road, you do things fast, so we made this record a lot faster." "We talked about trying to capture the kind of swirling, chaotic aspect of touring without actually writing songs about being on the road," Peter Buck concurs. "The last day of the tour, which is normally when everyone's tired, we were all energized about doing these new songs, and that kept it really interesting."

"We've never been able to make a record and tour at the same time," adds Bill Berry. "And it was very exciting. There are definitely live elements to this that you don't hear on any of our other efforts."

"This record really epitomizes what it is to be in a band," asserts Mike Mills. "You tour and you write songs, then you play the songs and put out a record of them. It really defines the best things about being in a band ... very simple and straightforward."

Simple and straightforward in concept, perhaps, but considerably more complicated in execution. The elements of New Adventures in Hi-Fi were assembled from a wide range of sources, including live performances captured on the Monster tour: "The Wake-Up Bomb" (Charleston, S.C.), "Undertow" (Boston), "Binky the Doormat" (Phoenix) and "Departure" (Detroit). "How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us ... .. New Test Leper ... .. E-Bow The Letter" and "Be Mine" came together at Bad Animals Studios in Seattle, while "Zither" found its way onto the album from an impromptu session in a Philadelphia dressing room. Several other selections, including "Leave," "Bittersweet Me," "So Fast, So Numb," "Low Desert" and "Electrolite," originated at soundchecks in Atlanta, Orlando, Memphis and Phoenix.

"For us, going to soundcheck used to mean just getting it over with and then going to dinner," explains Bill. "But this was really a time when we could actually do something, where we could be creative." This intentional invitation to happy accidents also carried into the songwriting itself Again, Bill Berry: "One day in Seattle, I was walking through the studio and Mike was playing this little ditty on the piano. I thought, 'You know, I've got nothing better to do. I'll sit down and play the drums.' Unbeknownst to us, the tape was rolling. When Michael heard it, he went nuts, so we stopped what we were working on and twenty-four hours later that song was completely realized."

Produced by the band's longtime studio collaborator Scott Litt, R.E.M.'s new album is also distinguished by some very notable guest artists, including Scott McCaughey (on loan from Seattle's Young Fresh Fellows), Nathan December (who played second guitar on the Monster tour), violinist Andy Carlson, and punk godmother Patti Smith, who shares vocals with Michael on "E-Bow The Letter."

"We were lucky enough to be able to work with someone that was a big inspiration to us over the years," asserts Peter. "It was really an amazing experience. I remember going to see Patti when I was seventeen, and to be in the studio with her singing on a song that I wrote was just incredibly moving. And she did such an amazing job ... kind of a demented Ronettes girl-group feel."

Whatever else New Adventures in Hi-Fi might be, it represents something of a triumph for the group, not just professionally, but also personally. The Monster tour took its toll in health incidents of varying degrees of seriousness for three of the four members, including Bill Berry's potentially fatal brain aneurysm.

"Walking off stage that first show after my surgery," recalls Bill, "was a really nice hurdle to have cleared. That was my tour highlight."

"There's something to having a near-death experience, or watching a dear friend go through one," admits Michael. "It makes you re-evaluate what you're doing and how worthwhile it is."

The value of what R.E.M. is doing is fully in evidence on an album that finds them, after more than a decade, working at the peak of their creative powers. But, as much as New Adventures In Hi-Fi points the way to the group's future, it is also an often-touching reminder of where they have come from.

"If there is something thematic to this record," concludes Michael, "it's that it is very similar to our first album, Murmur. When we were on the road the first time, in '82 and '83, traveling from town to town and playing small clubs, the songs that emerged were about travel and movement and being away from home, wherever home is. And this record has at least a little bit of the same feel. The songs we wrote on the road have a feeling of movement, of passage, a feeling of being distant, whether it's geographic distance or otherwise."

It's a distance R.E.M. has bridged with some of the most dynamic, authentic and revealing music of their career.

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