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". . .in the half lost phrases
and buried lyrics, there teas
an ambiguity that opened up
the world with real Jam: The
sonys captured the yearn iny
for home and the fact of dis
placement that ruled out liws;
tee thou yht that the I la mi's
music was the most natural
parallel to our hopes, ambi
tions and doubts, and we uvre
right to think so. Flo winy
through thdr music were spir
its of acceptance and desire,
rebell ion a nd a we, ra w excite
ment, g(Hxi sex, open humor
and a magic feel fork istory
a determination to find
plurality and drama in an
Armrica we had met too often
as a monolith. "
Greil Marcus, "Mystery
Train. "
First and foremost, you can't
begin to make the lists you'd like to
make. The guitars combine the ex
quisite electric folk picking of the
Byrds with tne urban proto-slash of
Television. Something of the Under
ground in their sentimental guitar
figures for "Flowers of Guatemala,"
an aching tinge of feedback lacing
the romance with danger, like VTJ's
"Candy Says," or "Femme Fat ale."
Michael Stipe's vocals are a his
tory of American rock and folk
music, the mumble of Blind Willie
McTell (see "John the Revelator"
from the depression days) "and the
growl of GuthrieDylan, the soaring
choruses bring to mind even stronger
voices: Muddy Waters, GeorgeJones
and Elvis.
There is nothing quite definite.
The list is impossible. It is slowly
reduced t o scribbles, poet ry and day
dreams that are only partially
relevant.
Bass and drums roll around behind
the buzzsaws-in-the-distance guitar
lines, the fragments of ghostly voice,
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planting the ethereal firmly into
rock. The rock.
There is a mystery to it that
defies the cordial naming of influ
ences. The mystery of over expan
sionism, of the Lewis and Clark
ghosts that haunt our planning for
cities, farms and resorts, corpora
tions and power plants, a fear of
manifest destiny.
"It ivouldseem that dancing
came into being at the bcyi ti
ll iny of all things, and was
brouyiit to light together with
Eros, that ancient one, for we
see this primeval dancing
clearly setforth in the choral
dance of the constellations, and
in the planets and fired stars,
their interweaving and inter
cluinyeand orderly harmony. "
Lucien
"Life's Rich Pageant" is KEM's
fourth album, a solid masterpiece
and a continuation of the epic that
began with "Murmur." What was at
first a whisper, a pop enigma whose
hooks and novelty made the band
stars become a prototype for an era
of new bands who passionately clutch
their microphone stands and yowl
only semi-coherent, fragmented verse
over a resounding tunnel of guitar.
"Pageant" is mountainous. A
brilliant display of synthesis. Seam
less rushes of liturgical guitar lift
echoing choruses into the realm of
Brahman missals, huge and caver
nous. Topographical sounds. Bleak
and uncorrupted. National and
oblivious. Skull fragments shot all
over the room, synapses carpeted in
12-string verdure, neurons blindly
dancing barefoot. . . Specific and
completely without a shred of
meaning.
Once inside, though, the dance of
Siva begins, the celestial interweav
ing and interchange, something grand
and interplanetary and as motion
less as deep hollows at midnight,
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ominous darkness. . .
The sound is a lost one, a search,
a head down eyes half-open hunt for
pretty pebbles.
"Pageant" isn't as bleak as "Fables
of the Reconstruction," an album
that defined the ghost in REM's
sound, that made the spook tactile,
gave it the motion of train wheels,
the bleat of night birds, the motion
of canoe oars, the carnage of a long
lost war.
"Pageant" is full of an almost
political hope, an anticipation of
paradise, a brooding on essentials.
A dream of morning filtering
through the green dead wood of
barns, sword shafts of new order.
The Band took on the myths of
America, created new Paul Bunyan's
and Pecos Bill's for the '60s. REM is
also concerned with myths, legends,
historical idols, but they are the
empty-eyed idols buried in rubble
and ruin. Fallen paganism, and a
romantic lust for the ancient.
. .take these jewels, wher
ever, wherwer you go. . . "
REM, "TlwseDays"
The Russian filmmaker Eisenstein
once incorporated a soundtrack to
one of his films that echoed the
composition on the screen. The
music would correspond to the fea
tures on the screen from left to
right. If the left hand side of the
screen depicted a flat plain, the
music would flow along on one
pitch. If the plain gradually became
a mountain, the music would get
higher and build to a crescendo.
REM's music is like this, for a
film as yet unmade. The music is
inherently geographical and evokes
geographical images without a co
herent word being spoken. It is a
map for a country long ago swal
lowed by the sea, by the destiny of
its people, by the lies inherent in its
mythos, by ambitions made cold
and sterile by the passage of time.
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First Meeting Tonight
6 PM .
City Union
(room posted)
We're looking forward to
introducing you to a
semester of:
hands-on research
resume writing
internship opportunities
job leads
meeting fellow peers &
instructors
interesting speakers
social events
All ages and majors are welcome
to join us for an exciting year of
growm ana progress in the future.
Hope to see you there!
