dude KOHOUTEK
― mookieproof, Thursday, 18 August 2011 03:10 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, and the "Sing Along" part of Diminished.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 18 August 2011 03:10 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Thursday, 18 August 2011 03:12 (twelve years ago) link
1.Harborcoat2.Laughing3.Find The River4.Leave5.Losing My Religion6.So.Central Rain7.Fall On Me8.Electrolite9.West Of The Fields10.The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 18 August 2011 03:12 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 18 August 2011 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
guess I never did this?
Sitting StillThe Flowers of GuatemalaLetter Never SentEndgameDisturbance at the Heron HouseGood AdvicesPop Song 89Monty Got A Raw DealLeaveCircus Envy
― Euler, Thursday, 18 August 2011 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
Feeling Gravitys PullMaps and LegendsDriver 8Life and How to Live ItOld Man KenseyGreen Grow the RushesKohoutekAuctioneer (Another Engine)Good AdvicesWendell Gee
― buzza, Thursday, 18 August 2011 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
this is otm
― mookieproof, Thursday, 18 August 2011 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
buzzaotm
― I'll be interesting in 20 years (rip van wanko), Thursday, 18 August 2011 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
mike mills playing slap bass and/or wearing a nudie suit is hilarious and makes REM 10x more awesome fuiud
― some dude, Thursday, 18 August 2011 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
HarborcoatSitting StillFall On MeNightswimmingPerfect CircleSweetness FollowsFeeling Gravity's PullCountry FeedbackCircus EnvyBeat a Drum (Dalkey demo and absolutely not the ruined album version)
― Count Palmiro Vicarion (Stew), Thursday, 18 August 2011 11:29 (twelve years ago) link
Fairly arbitrary choice, but the top 3 are untouchable.
overdue.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
huh, weird. kind of figured they were at the point of just going on forever, like U2. when's the reunion!?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
I hope Stipe does an album with Metallica.
― thirdalternative, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
though it'll probably be something horrible, like an album produced by moby or somethi
lol otm
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
Stipe replaces Mick for SuperHeavy II.
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― rebels against newton (Z S), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
should have changed their name to R.E. after berry left
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
well then
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
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
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
are people tore up about it? my wife is a huge fan, and when I told her she said: "huh."
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
Lot of posts on fb calling for The Cure and U2 to follow suit. Can't disagree tbh.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
yes and for the love of god, the red-hot-chili-peppers.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
red hots are gonna keep on rockin forever, nothing can stop them now
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
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
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
for all I know they did a Murmur tour though in which case I take it back, eat shit R.E.M. for the Murmur-redux tour
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
xxp like an unwanted 80's bands suicide pact
― V79, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
More time for Buck and Rieflin to play on Robyn Hitchcock records = win
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
they're saving that for their "free-concert-at-the-outdoor-racetrack" phase.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
would be awesome if they did all songs from the album tour for Dead Letter Office
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
More awesome if they did all their fan club singles. Oh and put them out on one CD, damnit!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
epic marketing move for Coachella 2014 (LCD Soundsystem opening)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://twitter.com/#!/nprnews/status/116566425988112384
several dozens of pasty cubicle farmers mourn...
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
REM's been one of my favorite bands since adolescence but I'm happy for the band going out on their own terms. I haven't really loved an REM record since Automatic though I dug big parts of Monster & Up & haven't had much use of anything else of theirs.
but back in the day this would have spurred on more rumors of Stipey's imminent demise from AIDS so I guess we've, uh, grown or something?
― Euler, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
lol, how very "NPR" xp
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
Carnival of SortsShaking ThroughFeeling Gravity's PullFall on MeKing of BirdsHarbourcoatSo Central RainMaps and LegendsDriver 8Cuyohuga (sp?)
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
lmao @ npr
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
I realize my original post was a bit too "Reveal"-centric. Sure, it was much better than its reputation, but by no means their best. Missing "Try Not To Breathe" in that list in particular.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
Having an R.E.M. phase after playing "World Leader Pretend" by chance (It was on a CD-R in the car, on an old holiday compilation).
Bemused to discover there were at least three albums that I hadn't even noticed/that don't even seem familiar in a "I saw that but decided not to bother" sort of way and that "Up" (which I do own) is really good.
― djh, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
i've been having a 'world leader pretend' phase recently, too. i've always liked it but i didn't realize it would be in my r.e.m. POX until recently
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link
Always been one of my faves.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 22:31 (five years ago) link