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R.E.M.

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Nipsey

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Michael Shannon (great actor, ok singer) has been touring with a band, covering full albums they love. Last week in Athens, Georgia, they were playing when R.E.M. themselves jumped on stage to join them for “Pretty Persuasion” off Reckoning.

Had to go back and listen to the original after that, and I came across a YouTube comment that hit me hard:

"Brings back memories of a time in my life when there was so much hope and fun."

It does, right?
 
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*sighs and kicks rock*

I know what you’re saying but R.E.M. wasn’t a band that filled me with a lot of hope and promise. I think very few bands did that.
 
I go into REM in my late teens-early twenties. And yes, that was the most fun time in my life and it brings back fond memories. Forgot about this song. Added to a playlist.
 
Automatic for the People is an all-time great album. Saw REM live once in the late 90's, kind of on a lark. They were in town and I have a twenty dollar bill in hand. Those were the days. It was a good concert and their songwriting is top-notch.
 
Saw them in concert in Lincoln Nebraska circa 1988-89. Main thing I remember is Michael Stipe yelling at us because we were cheering when he was trying to talk. Always been a fan but don’t think they are great.
 
Voted for both 4 and 3, because I could :oldunsure:

The One I Love and Orange Crush are two excellent songs. But I cannot stand Losing My Religion.
 
nirad3 said:
The One I Love and Orange Crush are two excellent songs. But I cannot stand Losing My Religion.
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These are the two songs that immediately sprung to mind, along with Everybody Hurts.
Document and Green are probably the two albums I like most.
Losing My Religion is so overplayed now, but is a great song.
It's the End of the World is also a top choice.


Not sure about giving hope more than being younger when they were hitting it big, so they definitely represent a time and place in my life. I am a fan, but not so much that I go seek them out.
 
Music is a time machine. REM brings me back to 14 year old me at my local record shop, Sound Warehouse. They were spinning Murmur. It was completely different music than I typically heard on the radio, especially in the early 80’s. It was weird. I was intrigued and inspired. Like anything was possible in music. Rough, energetic, raw, could barely make out the vocals. Bought Murmur and Chronic Town. Both were gateway albums to “indie” music for me. Two years later at the same record store, had it happen again with Dinosaur Jr.’s first release. Great memories. Late period REM was boring to me as everything was “alternative” but they were the first band I was exposed to that defined the genre for me.
 
Wildcat said:
Saw them in concert in Lincoln Nebraska circa 1988-89. Main thing I remember is Michael Stipe yelling at us because we were cheering when he was trying to talk. Always been a fan but don’t think they are great.
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A friend of mine, his girlfriend and I saw them at George Washington University around that same time. Our original seats were obstructed view, so we got moved to the floor instead. My friend kept getting mad at the kids in front of us for standing on their seats and his GF had to calm him down several times because he seemed on the verge of violence. He confessed to me years later that he was tripping on acid that night.

For me, I liked them more in their earlier years when Stipe's lyrics were mostly unintelligible. Once I started understanding him, he and the band seemed to turn into a bunch of guys who took themselves too seriously.
 
rockaction said:
*sighs and kicks rock*

I know what you’re saying but R.E.M. wasn’t a band that filled me with a lot of hope and promise. I think very few bands did that.
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No, they were very political (no politics GM) with some of their 80s stuff and weren't very enthused with the men in power at the time. They painted a rather bleak portrait of the world with their lyrics and sound.

And I loved every single bit of it. Except Stand. F Stand.
 
Nipsey said:
Michael Shannon (great actor, ok singer) has been touring with a band, covering full albums they love. Last week in Athens, Georgia, they were playing when R.E.M. themselves jumped on stage to join them for “Pretty Persuasion” off Reckoning.

Had to go back and listen to the original after that, and I came across a YouTube comment that hit me hard:

"Brings back memories of a time in my life when there was so much hope and fun."

It does, right?
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That's awesome! One of the only big bands I've seen play live twice in my life. Was a huge huge HUGE fan. Still am, to some degree, but there was a time this was the backdrop to my adolescent life.
 
Wildcat said:
Saw them in concert in Lincoln Nebraska circa 1988-89. Main thing I remember is Michael Stipe yelling at us because we were cheering when he was trying to talk. Always been a fan but don’t think they are great.
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Yeah, he can be a bit prickly. He called out the city of Dallas for being 'boring' when he played a concert in, you guessed it, Dallas.
 
ericttspikes said:
Music is a time machine. REM brings me back to 14 year old me at my local record shop, Sound Warehouse. They were spinning Murmur. It was completely different music than I typically heard on the radio, especially in the early 80’s. It was weird. I was intrigued and inspired. Like anything was possible in music. Rough, energetic, raw, could barely make out the vocals. Bought Murmur and Chronic Town. Both were gateway albums to “indie” music for me. Two years later at the same record store, had it happen again with Dinosaur Jr.’s first release. Great memories. Late period REM was boring to me as everything was “alternative” but they were the first band I was exposed to that defined the genre for me.
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Sound Warehouse with the headphones on the walls that let you listen to albums before committing the $13.99 or so to buy was the height of technology for a teenage me.
 
If you were a southern teenager in the 80s that listened to "college rock," it's hard to overstate how huge REM was. Their IRS releases, through Document, are some of the foundational pieces of music of my lifetime - leading me to The Replacements, Husker Du, and all that kind of stuff

I just read a new bio of the group, "The Name of this Band is REM." It's very good, if you care enough about REM to read an entire book about them. One of the smartest things they ever did was decide from the outset that all songwriting credit would be split equally among the four band members - they had a friend who was a law student at U of Georgia that advised them on that kind of stuff from the beginning. There's no bad blood between them at all, as demonstrated by getting up on the stage together at the 40 Watt last week, it seems they're just not up for all the work it would take at this point to mount a huge tour. I respect that

A lot of their most popular stuff, - Stand, Orange Crush, The One I Love - are some of my least favorites. Among the popular stuff, Fall On Me, Nightswimming, Man on the Moon, are all ok. I barely listened to Monster and probably haven't listened to anything at all they've done since then

Think I'll put on Life's Rich Pageant right now - I tried for weeks to get that album, finally picked it up about two weeks before heading off to college as a freshman, and every song on it evokes memories of that time
 
The_Man said:
If you were a southern teenager in the 80s that listened to "college rock," it's hard to overstate how huge REM was. Their IRS releases, through Document, are some of the foundational pieces of music of my lifetime - leading me to The Replacements, Husker Du, and all that kind of stuff

I just read a new bio of the group, "The Name of this Band is REM." It's very good, if you care enough about REM to read an entire book about them. One of the smartest things they ever did was decide from the outset that all songwriting credit would be split equally among the four band members - they had a friend who was a law student at U of Georgia that advised them on that kind of stuff from the beginning. There's no bad blood between them at all, as demonstrated by getting up on the stage together at the 40 Watt last week, it seems they're just not up for all the work it would take at this point to mount a huge tour. I respect that

A lot of their most popular stuff, - Stand, Orange Crush, The One I Love - are some of my least favorites. Among the popular stuff, Fall On Me, Nightswimming, Man on the Moon, are all ok. I barely listened to Monster and probably haven't listened to anything at all they've done since then

Think I'll put on Life's Rich Pageant right now - I tried for weeks to get that album, finally picked it up about two weeks before heading off to college as a freshman, and every song on it evokes memories of that time
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Are you me?

Although I did recently give their later work some listens, thanks to my good buddy @YSR who made me a few CDs of their final albums that I had previously ignored. There's some good stuff in there, but I think like most great bands, they had lost their edge by then.
 
The_Man said:
If you were a southern teenager in the 80s that listened to "college rock," it's hard to overstate how huge REM was. Their IRS releases, through Document, are some of the foundational pieces of music of my lifetime - leading me to The Replacements, Husker Du, and all that kind of stuff

I just read a new bio of the group, "The Name of this Band is REM." It's very good, if you care enough about REM to read an entire book about them. One of the smartest things they ever did was decide from the outset that all songwriting credit would be split equally among the four band members - they had a friend who was a law student at U of Georgia that advised them on that kind of stuff from the beginning. There's no bad blood between them at all, as demonstrated by getting up on the stage together at the 40 Watt last week, it seems they're just not up for all the work it would take at this point to mount a huge tour. I respect that

A lot of their most popular stuff, - Stand, Orange Crush, The One I Love - are some of my least favorites. Among the popular stuff, Fall On Me, Nightswimming, Man on the Moon, are all ok. I barely listened to Monster and probably haven't listened to anything at all they've done since then

Think I'll put on Life's Rich Pageant right now - I tried for weeks to get that album, finally picked it up about two weeks before heading off to college as a freshman, and every song on it evokes memories of that time
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Lifes Rich Pageant was probably the last REM album I was really excited about. For me personally, I felt their music started losing the edge I initially felt, despite the fact they wrote some great songs in the 90's. I think I just found other bands that scratched that itch by that time. All that said, I'd put New Adventures in Hi-Fi up there with Murmur/Reckoning/Fables/Lifes Rich Pageant as my favorites. That is a damn good album.
 
ericttspikes said:
The_Man said:
If you were a southern teenager in the 80s that listened to "college rock," it's hard to overstate how huge REM was. Their IRS releases, through Document, are some of the foundational pieces of music of my lifetime - leading me to The Replacements, Husker Du, and all that kind of stuff

I just read a new bio of the group, "The Name of this Band is REM." It's very good, if you care enough about REM to read an entire book about them. One of the smartest things they ever did was decide from the outset that all songwriting credit would be split equally among the four band members - they had a friend who was a law student at U of Georgia that advised them on that kind of stuff from the beginning. There's no bad blood between them at all, as demonstrated by getting up on the stage together at the 40 Watt last week, it seems they're just not up for all the work it would take at this point to mount a huge tour. I respect that

A lot of their most popular stuff, - Stand, Orange Crush, The One I Love - are some of my least favorites. Among the popular stuff, Fall On Me, Nightswimming, Man on the Moon, are all ok. I barely listened to Monster and probably haven't listened to anything at all they've done since then

Think I'll put on Life's Rich Pageant right now - I tried for weeks to get that album, finally picked it up about two weeks before heading off to college as a freshman, and every song on it evokes memories of that time
Click to expand...
Lifes Rich Pageant was probably the last REM album I was really excited about. For me personally, I felt their music started losing the edge I initially felt, despite the fact they wrote some great songs in the 90's. I think I just found other bands that scratched that itch by that time. All that said, I'd put New Adventures in Hi-Fi up there with Murmur/Reckoning/Fables/Lifes Rich Pageant as my favorites. That is a damn good album.
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The songs radio didn't murder off Document and Green are some of my favorites and have gone back recently to re-listen. I was rather proud of 14/15 year old me for digging into this band.

Some of the ones I'm talking about that still sound great today (to me):

Exhuming McCarthy - Document
Disturbance at the Heron House - Document
King of Birds - Document

Get Up - Green
You are the Everything - Green (might be one of my favorite songs period by them)
 
Wildcat said:
Saw them in concert in Lincoln Nebraska circa 1988-89. Main thing I remember is Michael Stipe yelling at us because we were cheering when he was trying to talk. Always been a fan but don’t think they are great.
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That was right before I got into them. I should have went anyway since I was living on east campus.
 
General Malaise said:
ericttspikes said:
The_Man said:
If you were a southern teenager in the 80s that listened to "college rock," it's hard to overstate how huge REM was. Their IRS releases, through Document, are some of the foundational pieces of music of my lifetime - leading me to The Replacements, Husker Du, and all that kind of stuff

I just read a new bio of the group, "The Name of this Band is REM." It's very good, if you care enough about REM to read an entire book about them. One of the smartest things they ever did was decide from the outset that all songwriting credit would be split equally among the four band members - they had a friend who was a law student at U of Georgia that advised them on that kind of stuff from the beginning. There's no bad blood between them at all, as demonstrated by getting up on the stage together at the 40 Watt last week, it seems they're just not up for all the work it would take at this point to mount a huge tour. I respect that

A lot of their most popular stuff, - Stand, Orange Crush, The One I Love - are some of my least favorites. Among the popular stuff, Fall On Me, Nightswimming, Man on the Moon, are all ok. I barely listened to Monster and probably haven't listened to anything at all they've done since then

Think I'll put on Life's Rich Pageant right now - I tried for weeks to get that album, finally picked it up about two weeks before heading off to college as a freshman, and every song on it evokes memories of that time
Click to expand...
Lifes Rich Pageant was probably the last REM album I was really excited about. For me personally, I felt their music started losing the edge I initially felt, despite the fact they wrote some great songs in the 90's. I think I just found other bands that scratched that itch by that time. All that said, I'd put New Adventures in Hi-Fi up there with Murmur/Reckoning/Fables/Lifes Rich Pageant as my favorites. That is a damn good album.
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The songs radio didn't murder off Document and Green are some of my favorites and have gone back recently to re-listen. I was rather proud of 14/15 year old me for digging into this band.

Some of the ones I'm talking about that still sound great today (to me):

Exhuming McCarthy - Document
Disturbance at the Heron House - Document
King of Birds - Document

Get Up - Green
You are the Everything - Green (might be one of my favorite songs period by them)
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when i had my gripper the doctors listened to rem the green album while they were working on me and told me i could not sing along when stand came on true story take that to the bank brochahcos
 
General Malaise said:
rockaction said:
*sighs and kicks rock*

I know what you’re saying but R.E.M. wasn’t a band that filled me with a lot of hope and promise. I think very few bands did that.
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No, they were very political (no politics GM) with some of their 80s stuff and weren't very enthused with the men in power at the time. They painted a rather bleak portrait of the world with their lyrics and sound.

And I loved every single bit of it. Except Stand. F Stand.
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Yeah, that's another terrible one. Funny, they're very polarizing for me. As I've mentioned upthread, I absolutely love a few of their tunes but can't stand others.
 
I read about the Fables of the Reconstruction tour with Shannon a few months back. Thanks for the reminder as they are playing close by later this week!!! but it's sold out. :kicksrock: double turds!
 
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