The 1986 Listening Post - Guadalcanal Diary - Jamboree

Guadalcanal Diary - Jamboree

#271/1396 LISTENING POST ADMIN DISCOVERY

1986 Housekeeping

Guadalcanal Diary

Jamboree

Genre: This isn’t REM???

4.75 out of 5

Highlights:

Pray for Rain

Michael Rockefeller

Spirit Train

Please Stop Me

Cattle Prod 

I know I said this when reviewing Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man but…how did REM become a thing and not Guadalcanal Diary? They are on the obvious same tracks and the songs are not only similar but interchangeable. Harmonies, instrumentation…even the timbre of Murray Attaway. He could be Michael Stipe’s vocal doppelgänger. 

This album is all joy, how it wasnt a staple on College Radio escapes me. 

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