R.E.M. ::Life\'s Rich Pageant

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catalog# MFSL 1-361

Artist: R.E.M.
Title: Life's Rich Pageant
Format: Vinyl LP 180 Gram
DiscSet: Rock
Genre: Alternative
Condition: New
Label: Mobile Fidelity

R.E.M. ::Life's Rich Pageant

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1986 Landmark Finds R.E.M. Blossoming Into Iconic Artists: Arguably the Quartet’s Finest-Ever Outing

Half-Speed Mastered From the Original Master Tapes: Mobile Fidelity’s LP Exposes Benefits of Cleaner, More Forceful Production

Very few albums are regularly credited with changing people’s lives. R.E.M.’s Life’s Rich Pageant is one of them. For a generation that came of age in the 80s, as well almost everyone that came within earshot of its contents, the Georgia band’s 1986 landmark effort remains an utterly distinctive sonic blend of elegance and whimsy, seriousness and humor, artfulness and accessibility. It’s here that R.E.M. evolves beyond its college-rock identity albeit retains its youthful innocence, here where Michael Stipe’s enigmatic vocals finally attain the same level of prominence as the group’s potent rhythm section.

Half-speed mastered from the original master tapes and meticulously pressed at RTI, Mobile Fidelity’s 180g LP version of this masterwork allows the record’s expressive punchiness, dynamic extension, treble-driven jangle, and more forceful playing to be experienced as originally intended. Indeed, Life’s Rich Pageant is notable for its production: Board operator Don Gehman lends the group a harder edge and cleaner sound than it had in the past. On this audiophile-grade reissue, the results come to the fore in the form of contemporary-sounding arrangements, cohesive structures, and cleaner tonalities. If anything, this LP helps make the case for the many that Life’s Rich Pageant not Murmur orReckoning stands as the band’s finest hour.

Lyrically, R.E.M. hits upon more concrete themes, and while Stipe’s occasionally mumbled singing still lacks clear enunciation a trait that adds to the songs’ mystique and surrounding texturesthere’s no mistaking the overt political and environmental sentiments in tunes such as the hit Fall on Me” and gorgeous Cuyahoga. Similarly, Flowers of Guatemala epitomizes R.E.M.’s hallmark ability to turn allegory into dreamy poetry, the counterpoint melodies, atmospheric guitar fills, and majestic bridges all enchanting devices of a band that manages to get its point across via spiritual performances and indirect suggestiveness.

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