Comments on: Revisited Adventures in Hi-Fi

By: Chris in Oxford

Chris in Oxford — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:13:40 +0000

Great post – I have a similar experience with R.E.M. I had really started to lose faith after “Monster” and then they did this one. Damn, if they’ve never been as good since!

I was living in Athens at the time and the R.E.M. boys used to come in to the coffee shop I was working in because their office was upstairs. We were playing Hi Fi a lot at the time and it was always strange when Stipe came in at the same time. We always tried to subtly change the music which may have actually been worse.

I blasted it in my rickety old house on Boulevard though!

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:40:35 +0000

My love for REM seems to mirror your experience, though I think it has proved to be cyclical. At times it’s near wild heaven, and other times feeling gravity’s pull.
A Perfect Circle, indeed.

By: walker

walker — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:20:50 +0000

I am sorry but I disagree. New Adventures In HF was not good. It was done on the road and was rushed. This can be thrown our the window with Monster and anything else they have done since 2000. If you like R.E.M. and want to hear “good” R.E.M then listen to Reckoning, Fables, Document, Murmur and even Automatic FTP. Dont waste your time with this album. Dude, it went unnoticed and was forgotten for a reason!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:37:28 +0000

Oh man, i couldn’t agree more with this.

New Adventures in Hi-Fi went virtually unnoticed & yet was arguably better than any of the previous 3 R.E.M. & certainly far better than anything they have released since.

excellent note on a great (sometimes forgotten) record