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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0075992649629 Label: Warner Bros / Wea Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea MPN: 26496 Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Warner Bros / Wea Release Date: March 12, 1991 Studio: Warner Bros / Wea Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential recording: Though R.E.M. titled a later album Monster, this 1991 smash was the true monster, with the little Athens, Georgia, quartet graduating once and for all from its jangling independent-rock roots. The confusion Michael Stipe communicates in the catchy "Losing My Religion" and the dark-and-dreamy "Low" hit the mainstream-rock audience when it was most primed for uneasy angst. (Nirvana's Nevermind was released a few months later.) There are also odd but successful experiments, like ceding the opening "Radio Song" to rapper KRS-One (with Stipe playing the moaning straight man) and going peppy for the surprisingly nonsarcastic "Shiny Happy People." --Steve Knopper Amazon.com: Matching their ugliest album cover with some of their most sublime music, Out of Time inaugurates the finest phase of R.E.M.'s work. This meditative yet sometimes seething album offers not only their greatest single since "Radio Free Europe" ("Losing My Religion," about which critics and programmers agreed for once), but a moodscape that ties together that song's ambivalence, the sneer of "Radio Song," the doom of "Low" and the sprightliness of "Shiny Happy People" and "Me in Honey." Their bestseller, and deservedly so. --Rickey Wright Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A ClassicHere it is 17 years later, and I'm still listening to this CD. Every song on here is awesome. A timeless classic. Rating:  - Out of Patience...am I with tirades against this CD! Okay, it's not nearly as good as Automatic for the People or their first three, but it's not unremittingly awful either. Sure, the standout by far is Losing My Religion, but the unheralded other classic here is "Country Feedback," a brillaint, disjointed precursor to the genius of "Drive" and E-bow the Letter." "Texarkana" and "Low" are quite good as well. And I'll defend "Near Wild Heaven," a sweet Beach Boys confection and, really going out on a limb, "Shiny ... Read More Rating: - REM - A Slight Step DownThe two previous albums by REM brought the band to the notice of radio, making them headliners in large venues throughout the country. The momentum would continue with "Out Of Time" the album that would push them over the top into superstar status. The singles "Loosing My Religion" and "Shiny Happy People" were all over MTV getting played dozens of times nationally every single day. Although vastly overplayed "Loosing My Religion" is still a great pop tune and one of the best singles the band ever ... Read More Rating: - Stipe sings! WHOOHOO!Man, it's a good thing I gave this a listen. Automatic For The People bites, and if I would have walked away from R.E.M, I bever would have liked them. This is refreshing to hear, and to be honest, I don't think Michael Stipe dosen't mumble and moan like he did on the next album. Out Of Time is very great for the first eight songs, with the the album really taking a dip after Texarkana. Personally, the songs Country Feedback and Me In Honey are the low points. Country Feedback has a nice ... Read More Rating: - award winning cdThis is REM at their earliest emergence of sheer brilliance. Losing My Religion is simply one of the best songs ever made in the history of music - it alone is worth the price of the cd. The other songs are quite good too, such as Radio Song and Shiny Happy People. While this cd is overshadowed by it's successor, Automatic For The People, it really delivers. It has a folksy feel to it and defines REM as probably their most significant cd ever released. They really reached prominence with this cd. Losing ... Read More |
