By Greg Kot
11.27.94
Chicago Tribune
The sun is setting in a desolate district of gangbanger country, South Central Los Angeles, as the members of R.E.M. arrive in a parking lot surrounded by vacant warehouses. The talk is about how little sleep everyone got the night before. Three hours for Mike Mills, four for Peter Buck and Bill [...]
11.18.94
Orlando Sentinel
R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe has opened a restaurant here, but it is not lush and plush. Unlike the glitzy Planet Hollywood and other star venues, the Guaranteed is as stripped-down sincere as its owner.
The ceiling is unvarnished plywood. The lunch counter is pressed tin. The menu is filled with organic-vegetarian-whole-grain goodness. ”What you see [...]
By Howard Hampton
11.16.94
Spin Magazine
Rating: Green
In the beginning, R.E.M. brought forth “Radio Free Europe”: the airwaves were seized by a blurted code no one could quite crack, a call to arms and terms of surrender in the same asthmatic breath. The song held out asylum in place of utopia, ritual instead of desire. (Here, pilgrims bathed [...]
By Vic Garbarini
11.01.94
Musician Magazine
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like books that are written in a foreign tongue. Do not seek the answers. Live the questions.”- Rainer Maria Rilke
“Do you really want me to say which is the deep end?” -Michael Stipe
Wait, I’ve got [...]