Albums Produced by Mike Mills (Music Guide) - Monster, New Adventures in Hi-Fi, Automatic for the People, Out of Time, Accelerate, Green (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 23. Chapters: Monster, New Adventures in Hi-Fi, Automatic for the People, Out of Time, Accelerate, Green, Collapse into Now, Document, In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003, Chronic Town, And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987, Reveal, Up, Around the Sun, Dead Letter Office, Man on the Moon, Live from London, Vancouver Rehearsal Tapes, Not Bad for No Tour. Excerpt: Monster is the ninth studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1994 on Warner Bros. Records. Co-produced by the band and Scott Litt, Monster was an intentional stylistic shift from the group's preceding albums, Out of Time (1991) and Automatic for the People (1992), consisting of loud, distorted guitar tones and simple song arrangements. Singer Michael Stipe's lyrics dealt with the nature of celebrity, which he sang while assuming various characters. Led by the single "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?," Monster debuted at number one in both the United States and the United Kingdom. The band promoted the record with its first concert tour since 1989. Early in 1993, the members of R.E.M. convened a four-day meeting in Acapulco, Mexico, to devise a plan for the next two years. The group settled on a plan for 1994 through the end of 1996, which included recording a new album and touring behind it. Drummer Bill Berry was particularly eager to tour (which the band had not done since 1989), and was insistent that the album "rock." The band agreed that after Out of Time and Automatic for the People they did not want to make another slow-paced album. Later that year R.E.M. began recording its ninth album. Preproduction took place at Kingsway Studio in New Orleans under the supervision of Mark Howard, who had previously worked on Automatic for the People. The band wrote 45 songs for the rec...