No,

which was good, because both these albums I was kind of a bit familiar with, and not super familiar with, but familiar with from 20 years ago.

And they were kind of similarly placed in my mind, like, oh, I knew I didn't quite like them as much as Automatic or Out of Timelight or Reckoning, whatever.

At least that's how I felt going into it.

But I think...

I think the reason that this and Green are down the bottom is because they're the only two albums that we've done where I think less of them after we've done this series than I did beforehand.

That happened with Green and it's happened with this again and it hasn't happened with anything else.

So, yeah, we are very much into the entirely uncharted territory of REM for me now.

Okay, without further ado, here are Lyn and I talking about R.E.M.'s Monster.

[upbeat music] Hello, welcome to Gentlemen Don't Get Caught, podcast about the music of R.E.M.

I am Lyn, and I'm here in spirit and internet with Alistair.

Hello.

Hmm.

Um, like you were saying about some of your favorite songs, like Crush With Eyeliner has a great intro, You, uh, I Took Your Name.

Um, even like Let Me In starts quite strong and just sort of carries on that thing.

So, um, yeah, some of the rockier ...

I mean, if...

I'm not going to be there and it makes me sad to think about it.

So don't make yourself sad and go along if you can.

Specifically, it is soundtracked by... tracks from rem's albums monster and new adventures in hi-fi which we have talked about on gentlemen don't get caught they also do cheat and put a song in from green but you know you're allowed to bend the rules a bit so

yeah try and catch it