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Happy Silver Jubilee, Murmur!
12:40 PM GMT 12/02/2009
IN PETER BUCK’S FIRST interview for a year, he advocates R.E.M.’s controversial 25th Anniversary remaster of Murmur, which hits the UK’s shelves next week.
“So far no-one I’ve talked to likes the original Murmur better,” he tells MOJO. “But I understand people’s attachment to the original. I had Miles Davis’s Kind Of Blue for decades, then I bought the reissue with the corrected speeds and, you know, I like the old speed better!”
The Deluxe Edition of R.E.M.’s debut full-length album – which has been available in the US since late November – comprises two discs. One is a comprehensive remastered version of the 1983 original, so startlingly bright and clean that it‘s tantamount to a remix. The second features a 16-track live recording from Larry’s Hideaway, Toronto, July 1983 – a spunky set augmenting Murmur songs with compositions from the soon-come Reckoning (7 Chinese Brothers and Harborcoat) and a cover of the Velvet Underground’s There She Goes Again.
The new mix has stirred controversy in the MOJO office, where those delighted with the newly muscular and defined Murmur are balanced by some who prefer the faintly foggier, somehow more mystery-laden original.
But who best to settle the argument, and outline the future of the band’s reissue project, if not R.E.M. guitarist, music nut and MOJO pal Peter Buck?
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 12:40 PM GMT 12/02/2009
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