That half acoustic, half electric thing they were after on Green should/could have been LRP - Guatemala, Swan, Fall on Me, Cuyahoga on one side and Begin the Begin, These Days on the other - problem is they didn't have enough examples of the latter and fleshed it out with light stuff like Superman/Bunker/JAT, which don't fit on the album IMO. Superman I love, but better as a standalone single.
― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 19:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
"My picture that I have of us breaking up is that we'd do a couple of really bad records...and then we'd go to a Chinese restaurant and get drinks with umbrellas in them and say 'you know guys it's been a really haul but we just don't have it anymore', you know, and have a good toast and go home"
Peter Buck 1998.
― piscesx, Thursday, 22 September 2011 02:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
How many bad records had they made at that point?
<- got off the bus with Out of Time
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 22 September 2011 03:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
4
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 22 September 2011 03:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
I just wanted to see Buck with the Baseball Project but he hurt his back and skipped a month of gigs.
So is Stipe gonna do an album with Patti Smith now that REM are broken up ?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 September 2011 03:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
heard some REM news - yay
― let me markers that for you http://tinyurl.com/6jdgf7f (cozen), Thursday, 22 September 2011 19:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol
― some dude, Thursday, 22 September 2011 22:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
wait until you get the Bill Berry ''they've sucked the last decade'' interview now
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 22 September 2011 22:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
album of the year?
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 23 September 2011 02:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
when I heard this my first thought was 'but don't they have an album that is coming out pretty soon?" and then I remembered that it already came out, and I listened to it, and didn't remember anything about it. so I guess that says it all.
― akm, Friday, 23 September 2011 05:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's good, i find myself whistling the beginning of "it happened today" quite a lot
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 23 September 2011 12:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
hearing "blue" now as their "riders on the storm." what a great band
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 23 September 2011 19:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
do we think they knew it'd be the last album so threw their all into 'Collapse...' to go out with some dignity? i mean you know even the title suggests it.
― piscesx, Friday, 23 September 2011 19:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://r-e-m-cycle.blogspot.com/
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.uncut.co.uk/rem/rems-peter-buck-working-on-solo-album-news
― timellison, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 03:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Spotify is crazy comprehensive on these guys now; all the recent IRS years 2 disc remasters are there and even UP which was weirdly missing on there for years.
― piscesx, Thursday, 22 March 2012 10:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't which REM thread to put it on so I am putting a link to this nice live version of "Harborcoat" herehttp://open.spotify.com/track/3xRaBjpIWB444tvpxAeP87
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 May 2012 06:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Although this one is good too http://open.spotify.com/track/3HvhvwCvKUbuIlxPNgUXfv
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 May 2012 06:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
except for the harmonica solo
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 May 2012 06:07 (1 year ago) Permalink