Its one thing to record a single, two songs that will fill two sides of a 7 piece of vinyl. But when youve got an entire 12 record album to complete, you have to explore new territory with your music. Co-producer Mitch Easter recalls the sessions for Murmur as breaking new ground for R. E. M., especially on Talk About the Passion. That was sort of the beginning of us using a lot of acoustic guitar. That whole album has a lot of acoustic on it playing the same thing as the electric, and it really works well on that song. Both Easter and co-producer Don Dixon pitched in on acoustic guitar on Passion. Peter Buck remembers they hired a cellist from a symphony orchestra to add her colors to the arrangement. We told her roughly what we wanted, and she was dumbfounded that we werent going to give her a score. Talk About the Passion also features Bucks first recorded guitar solo. Though it should be noted that bassist Mike Mills taught him what to play. As far as the meaning of the song goes, Michael Stipe once told a Los Angeles Times interviewer, When I wrote it, I was thinking about all the hunger in the world. The song was about apathy. That meaning escaped most listeners at the time, but when the song was put out five years later as a single from the R. E. M. album Eponymous, the accompanying video featured an image of a homeless person juxtaposed with a contemporary naval warship. The closing scenes displayed the message: In 1987 the cost of one destroyer-class warship was 910 million dollars. Its worth noting that beginning in 2009, the United States Navy was planning to phase in a new stealth destroyer designated the Zumwalt class with 32 ships originally planned with a research and development budget of $9.6 billion. Spiraling costs forced the final production to be reduced to ten ships, and then three with the first having floated out of drydock only last year. youtube/watch?v=zCMy6kq5ZA0
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 03:44:24 +0000
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