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Murmur

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発売日 2023年01月13日
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レーベルEMI Records (Netherlands)
構成数 1
パッケージ仕様 -
規格品番 X13158
SKU 077771315824

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:53:36
R.E.M.: Michael Stipe (vocals); Peter Buck (guitar); Michael Mills (bass, background vocals); Bill Berry (drums). Additional personnel: Jefferson Holt, Bertis Downs. Recorded at Reflection, Charlotte, North Carolina in January 1983. This Dutch import reissue includes four bonus live cuts. Personnel: Michael Stipe (vocals); Peter Buck (guitar); Bill Berry (drums, percussion); Mike Mills (drums). Audio Mixer: Mitch Easter. Liner Note Author: Neil Bogan. Recording information: Reflection, Charlotte, NC (01/??/1983-06/27/1984); Seattle, WA (01/??/1983-06/27/1984). Unknown Contributor Roles: Jefferson Holt; Bertis Downs. R.E.M.'s full-length debut is a landmark album that set the standard for the next 10 years of indie rock. The Athens quartet combined Byrdsy, folk-rock guitar jangle with obscurantist lyrics and a post-punk compositional sensibility to create a vibrant new sound that would soon be imitated by every high-school poet with a Rickenbacker guitar. R.E.M. was also one of the first bands to make the long, hard journey from college radio (when it was still college radio) to mainstream acceptance, and managed the difficult task of maintaining its integrity at every step along the way. MURMUR, far from an embryonic debut, shows a fully-formed unit with a strong artistic vision. (It was preceded by two legendary underground releases: The "Radio Free Europe" single--which was re-recorded for MURMUR--and the CHRONIC TOWN EP.) Producers Mitch Easter and Don Dixon's lofty reputations would have remained intact even if they had never worked on another record after this one. The gentle-but-insistent arrangements and glorious pop hooks of songs like "Catapult" and "Talk About The Passion" provide the perfect contrast to Michael Stipe's earnest, moody vocal style. Drummer Bill Berry's breathless effervescence provides the perfect backdrop for this album of jumpy, intellectual pop.
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)

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    1. 1.
      Radio Free Europe

      アーティスト: R.E.M.

    2. 2.
      Pilgrimage

      アーティスト: R.E.M.

    3. 3.
      Laughing

      アーティスト: R.E.M.

    4. 4.
      Talk About the Passion

      アーティスト: R.E.M.

    5. 5.
      Moral Kiosk

      アーティスト: R.E.M.

    6. 6.
      Perfect Circle

      アーティスト: R.E.M.

    7. 7.
      Catapult

      アーティスト: R.E.M.

    8. 8.
      Sitting Still

      アーティスト: R.E.M.

    9. 9.
      9-9

      アーティスト: R.E.M.

    10. 10.
      Shaking Through

      アーティスト: R.E.M.

    11. 11.
      We Walk

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    12. 12.
      West of the Fields

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    13. 13.
      There She Goes Again

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    14. 14.
      9-9

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    15. 15.
      Gardening at Night

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    16. 16.
      Catapult

      アーティスト: R.E.M.

作品の情報

メイン
アーティスト: R.E.M.

その他
プロデューサー: Don Dixon; Mitch Easter; R.E.M.

オリジナル発売日:1983年

商品の紹介

Rolling Stone (p.96) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[A]nthemic on a bedroom scale, danceable but not robotic, experimental without being oblique." Rolling Stone (11/89) - Ranked #8 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums Of The Eighties" survey. Spin - Included in Spin's list of the Top Ten College Cult Classics - "...an unmitigated delight....spawned the entire breed of what has become known as `college rock'." Entertainment Weekly (3/26/91) - Rating: A Uncut - 5 stars out of 5 -- "It is no exaggeration to suggest that MURMUR amounts to a Rosetta Stone for what is now thought of as indie rock..." Alternative Press (8/01, p.112) - Included in AP's "10 Essential '80s Albums" - "...REM made jangling guitars and mumbled lyrics hip again for American youth..." CMJ (1/5/04, p.12) - Ranked #7 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1983". Q (Magazine) (p.120) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "MURMUR promised not so much a new American underground, as an undergrowth, rustling with secrets." Mojo (Publisher) (p.118) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "MURMUR remains the cornerstone of the R.E.M. legend, the reason they are important....An incredible collection of songs..." Blender (Magazine) (p.106) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[D]isarmingly beautiful music that mixes '60s folk significance with '80s new-wave ambivalence." Blender (Magazine) (p.67) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "MURMUR was a friendly ghost -- brooding but elegant, new-wave moody but folk-rock sunny, hesitant but hopeful." Paste (magazine) (p.60) - "[T]heir sound emerged so fully formed that even after 26 years and 15 proper albums, it's still arguably their best."
Rovi

Leaving behind the garagey jangle pop of their first recordings, R.E.M. developed a strangely subdued variation of their trademark sound for their full-length debut album, Murmur. Heightening the enigmatic tendencies of Chronic Town by de-emphasizing the backbeat and accentuating the ambience of the ringing guitar, R.E.M. created a distinctive sound for the album -- one that sounds eerily timeless. Even though it is firmly in the tradition of American folk-rock, post-punk, and garage rock, Murmur sounds as if it appeared out of nowhere, without any ties to the past, present, or future. Part of the distinctiveness lies in the atmospheric production, which exudes a detached sense of mystery, but it also comes from the remarkably accomplished songwriting. The songs on Murmur sound as if they've existed forever, yet they subvert folk and pop conventions by taking unpredictable twists and turns into melodic, evocative territory, whether it's the measured riffs of "Pilgrimage," the melancholic "Talk About the Passion," or the winding guitars and pianos of "Perfect Circle." R.E.M. may have made albums as good as Murmur in the years following its release, but they never again made anything that sounded quite like it. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Rovi

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R.E.M.のファースト。早稲田祭で彼らのステージに魅せられ、Talk About The Passion が聴きたくてこのレコードを買ったことを思い出します。1984年のことです。当時はペイズリーアンダーグラウンドというジャンルで語られていました。リッケンバッカーのジャラーンという音とマイケル・スタイプの瞑想しているかのようなボーカルスタイルから生み出されるグルーヴに自然と体をふらふら揺らしていました。当時の彼らはサイケデリックなバンドで物凄いカリスマ性を持っていました。
2025/04/30 Dzamaさん
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デビューアルバムにして傑作。
当時ザ・バーズの影響を良く言われていたが、12弦リッケンバッカーのアルペジオは確かに近いものの、よりアップテンポでガレージロック寄りなのが特徴。
そして何を歌ってるのか全然聞き取れないマイケル・スタイプのヴォーカル。
個人的お薦めは⑦"Sitting still"風を切って自転車で疾走してる感じ(←車では無いのがポイント)
そして③"Laughing"、⑦"Catapult"、⑩"Shaking through"
マイケル・スタイプは何を歌ってるのか分からないのに、一緒に歌いたくなること間違いなし。マイク・ミルズのベースラインとピート・バックのリフが美しく絡み合ってます。
そして⑥"Perfect circle"、この曲は泣く。

デビューシングル①"Radio free Eupope"他、どの曲も捨て曲無し。
根底には美メロが常に存在してます。

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