Monster..
| R.E.M.
Monster..
Monster is the ninth studio album by American rock band R.E.M., and was released on September 27, 1994 by Warner Bros. Records. Produced by the band and Scott Litt and recorded at four studios, the album was an intentional stylistic shift from R.E.M.'s previous two albums—Out of Time (1991) and Automatic for the People (1992)—with loud, distorted guitar tones and simple arrangements. -Wikipedia
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Stereogum
I’m happy to have Monster out there, but I’m a lot happier to have most of R.E.M.’s other albums out there.
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Rolling Stone
What’s truly impressive about Monster is the way R.E.M. make an album with such potentially grave subject matter so much fun.
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Classic Rock Review
Made for live, raw rock shows.
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Pop Matters
Monster is unfairly maligned, and truly stands as one of their best.
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Consequence of Sound
We grew up on them, and now we're growing old together... And we feel fine.
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BBC
Taken as a whole, it must be seen as a double-edged triumph.
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The Quietus
Sex & Trash Aesthetics
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Sputnik Music
Good.
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Salon
An underappreciated, polarizing album that's aged very well.
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50Thirdand3rd
I assure you that giving it a second chance now twenty years later, you will see that it’s just as poetic and genius as the albums that came before and after it.
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All Music
Monster doesn't have the conceptual unity or consistently brilliant songwriting of Automatic for the People, but it does offer a wide range of sonic textures that have never been heard on an R.E.M. album before.
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uDiscover Music
For their ninth album, Monster, R.E.M. got back to making what guitarist Peter Buck had previously described to the NME as a "real noisy rock’n’roll record".
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Vulture
Glammy and heavy.
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Newsweek
R.E.M.'S MOST MISUNDERSTOOD ALBUM.
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R.E.M. Reviews
This album did it. This is the first R.E.M. album to totally blow.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
'I Don't Sleep I Dream' is probably my song of choice from this collection, but there is so little else truly memorable or worthwhile.
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Mark's Record Reviews
It's not jangly. It's not creative. It's barely pretty. But man-o-bert what a guitar tone.
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John McFerrin Music Reviews
Mediocre/bad.
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Don Ignacio's Music Reviews
They’ve always been a rather tight and neat group ... and the old dogs trying to make something grungy only made them look ridiculous.
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Music KO
The band needed a record to tour after and to continue developing the relationship with their fans. To try and see where it could be taken after the monumental successes that had preceded it. “Monster” was that album.
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Exclaim!
Blew up the idea of what an R.E.M. album could be.
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Prefix Mag
Monster was REM’s aptly named effort at coupling the era’s grunge with a learned retro take on seventies-style glam.
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Robert Christgau
As for Mr. Stipe, he's in the band, where he belongs. Message: guitars. Which after years of politics and sensitivity is well-timed. A minus.
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