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[captain futility]

anyone want a free download of rem live in dublin?

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i don't do downloads

[HandBanana]

New Adventures is good, has stellar moments but is unusually unfocused IMHO and way too long. Up is good material but badly produced (according to me and Peter Buck ) though I agree it does keep on opening up. Again though, it's too long.

[MEGABOWL]

I have a theory about the length issue in that I think it was a very mid-90s problem.

I think it was the result of bands "growing into" the cd format and throwing more stuff in to fill capacity since they now had 80 minutes to use up without lessening sound quality.

Where in the vinyl/cassette era they would have had to edit tighter.

Just a theory