R.E.M. POX

the one i love
kahoutek
gardening
harbourcoat
sitting still
good advices
get up
losing my religion
it's the end of the world
fall on me

What's that one "a hundred million birds fly away...." That would have to be in there.

that's "king of birds," the second side of 'document.' great song. my pox

"carnival of sorts"
"life and how to live it"
"nightswimming"
"me in honey"
"shaking through"
"camera"
"circus act"
"green grow the rushes"
"fall on me"
"belong"

chrono:

sitting still
pretty persuasion
KOHOUTEK
begin the begin
cuyahoga
disturbance at the heron house
orange crush
belong
country feedback
nightswimming

radio free europe
pilgrimage
cuyahoga
life and how to live it
camera
romance
these days
just a touch
you are the everything

and, fuck it, i never would have thought this would make my top 10 but i have to admit i sing it to myself all the damn time

what's the frequency, kenneth?

sort of surprised by how much i weighted this towards the louder side of rem.

nightswimming
king of birds
stand
swan swan h
radio free europe
life and how to live it
the one i love
man on the moon
cant get there from here
near wild heaven

Talk About The Passion
Little America
Can't Get There From Here
I Believe
It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
You Are The Everything
Radio Song
Sweetness Follows
Leave
Hope

'its the end of the world' is maybe the only big r.e.m. radio hit i outright dislike. im not even sure why either other than it seems so insipid

i have a pavlovian positive reaction to hearing it, every single time, imo it's their greatest single. i totally get hating it, though.

i mean i rep for radio song so obv i'm coming from kind of a wrong place with this band anyway

i love that song (and video) but i understand the hate

earliest r.e.m. song i actively disliked was probably "ignoreland"

bring it que

The guitars in the verse of "end if the world" are so dreamy. And then mike mills going "ohhhhh ohhhhh".

i mean i rep for radio song so obv i'm coming from kind of a wrong place with this band anyway

i dont think your take is any worse than my penchant for wistful sweetness!

like ive probably been spending 'too much time on ilx' all day today but part of the reason i mb seem sorta bemused w/ you is that you seem to come at music from a totally different place than i do but at the same time like i look @ yr list and totally get it and it makes me sorta reconsider how i see those songs yknow?

Carnival of Sorts
Gardening at Night (Acoustic)
Laughing
Don't Go Back to Rockville
Driver 8
Oddfellows Local 151
Untitled
Texarkana
Drive
I'm Gonna DJ

pilgrimage
harborcoat
nightswimming
life and how to live it
man on the moon
fall on me
gardening at night
windout
little america
wolves, lower

dude KOHOUTEK

Oh, and the "Sing Along" part of Diminished.

i dont think your take is any worse than my penchant for wistful sweetness!

like ive probably been spending 'too much time on ilx' all day today but part of the reason i mb seem sorta bemused w/ you is that you seem to come at music from a totally different place than i do but at the same time like i look @ yr list and totally get it and it makes me sorta reconsider how i see those songs yknow?

― Duran Duran Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom (Lamp), Wednesday, August 17, 2011 11:08 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

word. this is a band that does wistful sweetness well, though, "nightswimming" and "king of birds" and "life and how to live it" might have been in my POX if i wasn't posting it right after yours fwiw.

1.Harborcoat
2.Laughing
3.Find The River
4.Leave
5.Losing My Religion
6.So.Central Rain
7.Fall On Me
8.Electrolite
9.West Of The Fields
10.The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight

earliest r.e.m. song i actively disliked was probably "ignoreland"

― I'll be interesting in 20 years (rip van wanko), Wednesday, August 17, 2011 11:04 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

ha i cut "ignoreland" from my list at the last second

earliest album i brought home and was like what the fuck was automatic for the people

guess I never did this?

Sitting Still
The Flowers of Guatemala
Letter Never Sent
Endgame
Disturbance at the Heron House
Good Advices
Pop Song 89
Monty Got A Raw Deal
Leave
Circus Envy

Feeling Gravitys Pull
Maps and Legends
Driver 8
Life and How to Live It
Old Man Kensey
Green Grow the Rushes
Kohoutek
Auctioneer (Another Engine)
Good Advices
Wendell Gee

earliest r.e.m. song i actively disliked was probably "ignoreland"

this is otm

buzzaotm

mike mills playing slap bass and/or wearing a nudie suit is hilarious and makes REM 10x more awesome fuiud

Harborcoat
Sitting Still
Fall On Me
Nightswimming
Perfect Circle
Sweetness Follows
Feeling Gravity's Pull
Country Feedback
Circus Envy
Beat a Drum (Dalkey demo and absolutely not the ruined album version)

Fairly arbitrary choice, but the top 3 are untouchable.

overdue.

huh, weird. kind of figured they were at the point of just going on forever, like U2.
when's the reunion!?

I share your sentiments, Tyler. But Peter Buck has been saying for the last few years that he's had more fun backing up Robyn Hitchcock than as part of REM!

I still really enjoy Michael Stipe's vocals, I think perhaps this could be a chance for him to stretch his musical horizons, let's see where else he winds up.

yeah true, could be interesting to see what stipe does. though it'll probably be something horrible, like an album produced by moby or something.
would actually be curious to hear a mike mills solo rec. could go either way maybe. but it's probably a good idea for these guys to make music w/o the burden of being this gargantuan rock band.

I hope Stipe does an album with Metallica.

though it'll probably be something horrible, like an album produced by moby or somethi

lol otm

Stipe replaces Mick for SuperHeavy II.

Should have played their last show NYE 99 like they promised. Glad they're going out like this instead of some other unsavory way. I assume in 10 years they'll reunite to play Murmur in order.

Should have played their last show NYE 99 like they promised.
^^^

i liked most of up, too. it really would have been a great way to go out.

should have changed their name to R.E. after berry left

well then

I don't get people being all tore up about this honestly - it's not like they broke up right as they were in the middle of this amazing string of records

are people tore up about it? my wife is a huge fan, and when I told her she said: "huh."

Who's tore up? A couple of my most REM-obsessive friends are all "well, the time was right" and "now I feel kind of old" but they aren't crying.

I don't get people being all tore up about this honestly - it's not like they broke up right as they were in the middle of this amazing string of records

yeah, this ^^^^. it's a good time for them to break up, since they rebounded with the last disc (which was okay to pretty-good at times).

i think a lot of the torn-up feelings are about fans being reminded that their childhood/adolescence ended a long time ago. that's how i feel.

Lot of posts on fb calling for The Cure and U2 to follow suit. Can't disagree tbh.

yes and for the love of god, the red-hot-chili-peppers.

red hots are gonna keep on rockin forever, nothing can stop them now

That would've been pretty cool if all four of those bands got together and planned to break up on the same day. OPPORTUNITY WASTED!

man SO many "this sucks" on Twitter & Facebook about this. and I kinda don't think it does - even if their last stuff wasn't their strongest, I don't think they ever did the "performing their classic album, _________!" thing which I consider such an embarrassment - I think it kinda rules for a band to ring the bell themselves instead of getting counted out