― Jack Redelfs, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Yeh, anything after 'document' or even 'lifes rich pageant' for that matter is supsect but ya kind of had o be there to understand the significance at the time.....
I but them at this time at of sentimentality
― Michael D, Sunday, 31 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 30 April 2005 13:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 30 April 2005 13:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 30 April 2005 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 30 April 2005 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost:tim, i think that post could cut both ways...
― john'n'chicago, Saturday, 30 April 2005 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 30 April 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link
still classic, even if i hardly ever take these discs off the shelf any more. i used to debate the merits of gardening at night with my trig teacher.
― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Saturday, 30 April 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 30 April 2005 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
I thought The Great Beyond was a lovely single, as was Imitation of Life (even Bad Day fits into this category), but those seem more like lucky accidents than an indication that they could record an entire album as consistent as those 15 years ago.
― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Saturday, 30 April 2005 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link
If "Hi-Fi" had ended with "Be Mine," it'd be classic REM, probably in my top four or five.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 30 April 2005 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 30 April 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― I.M. (I.M.), Saturday, 30 April 2005 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 30 April 2005 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link
having missed the monster tour - which would've been awesome as a high schooler - i was equally thrilled to see them on the UP tour as a college senior. they were ecstatic and did their best to include some older stuff...that the crowd booed!
― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Saturday, 30 April 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link
once they moved from dance clubs to theatres
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Middle ground between what and what?
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 30 April 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link
May I say that this is just an utterly DIRE portrait of the people that like their music?
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 30 April 2005 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 30 April 2005 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 30 April 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― elwisty (elwisty), Saturday, 30 April 2005 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 30 April 2005 23:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 1 May 2005 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link
The Klosterman thing is patronising, but it is true that REM had a certain arty liberal outsider appeal. They were a great band to be into when you're first discovering music. They and Nirvana were the first bands not in my parents' record collections I got into. Both were non-macho, arty rock bands and a great gateway drug into more esoteric pleasures.
So Classic! Despite the undeniable dudness of Reveal and Around the Bum.(That said, Reveal had Beat A Drum, which is terrible on the album, but beautiful in its spare piano demo form).
― stew!, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― dr xo'skeleton, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 28 January 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link
i don't think people were saying the words were inaudible; just indecipherable. stipe didn't really start enunciating until lifes rich pageant, a rumored concession to their label.
― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Monday, 29 January 2007 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Monday, 29 January 2007 00:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 29 January 2007 00:43 (seventeen years ago) link
That rant above is kind of ridiculous, though. R.E.M. were a power pop band who liked Gang of Four and Fairport Convention. If other bands were influenced by them in crap ways, it was their own fault.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 29 January 2007 01:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Monday, 29 January 2007 04:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Tell me they don't look more kick-fucking-arse here than at any point since pre BINGO HAND JOB.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRVxOmu87MA
― pisces, Monday, 15 October 2007 02:36 (sixteen years ago) link
staring sideways at a laptop while singing pretty much removes all "kick-fucking-arse" from a performance
― da croupier, Monday, 15 October 2007 03:27 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck is Stipe's problem? You don't see a goddamn music stand in front of Peter or Mike.
― da croupier, Monday, 15 October 2007 03:28 (sixteen years ago) link
losing my religion casts a spell that makes it totally resilient in the face of being massively overplayed, it never gets tired for me. i wouldn't have asked them to play any other song and i couldn't have asked them to sound any better playing it now, i found it moving
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 14 June 2024 13:47 (four days ago) link
the Youtube above is US only, but i can play CBS's own video in Canada (41min): https://www.cbsnews.com/news/r-e-m-discusses-surprise-reunion-at-songwriters-hall-of-fame-reveals-why-there-wont-be-another/
not sure where the performance is on their site though
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 14 June 2024 14:05 (four days ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATHHACcw3Q4
I'm in the UK and this link to the full 41m works for me
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 14 June 2024 14:24 (four days ago) link
no performance in that video
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Friday, 14 June 2024 14:28 (four days ago) link
i googled "rem songwriters hall of fame performance" and a recording by someone in the crowd that's on youtube came up
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 14 June 2024 14:36 (four days ago) link
Same
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 14 June 2024 15:30 (four days ago) link
sheesh what a song
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 14 June 2024 15:40 (four days ago) link
so nice to see bill just floating along on the hand percussion
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 14 June 2024 15:41 (four days ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8MbXgutzbT/?igsh=bjl3MDFkeXh2dnN6
― curmudgeon, Friday, 14 June 2024 15:52 (four days ago) link
Stipe still sounds great
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 June 2024 15:54 (four days ago) link
xp michael sounds amazing. lyrics still a rich enigma 40 years later. i loved how they described it as a "bumblebee" as in it shouldn't fly at all but it did.
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 14 June 2024 15:55 (four days ago) link
the song gains something from the frailty of age. its shot through with the decrepitude of southern gothicism, so a patina of time and loss does it good
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 14 June 2024 16:01 (four days ago) link
is that Clive Davis in the audience? That guy will never die.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 June 2024 16:01 (four days ago) link
repeating from upthread for anyone who missed it: if you love this band or these people or the song "Losing My Religion" you should watch the Song Exploder episode on it. it's on Netflix and it's like 15 or 20 minutes long, as i recall? some great detail about the song, some great Bill Berry stuff and some of the love, respect, admiration and emotional resonance you get from that CBS interview.
― alpine static, Friday, 14 June 2024 16:11 (four days ago) link
watching through the longer interview now :) love these guys
stipe is one of my favorite interviews ever, he's just so funny, would love to interview him myself one day
― ivy., Friday, 14 June 2024 16:34 (four days ago) link
He has the most original timbre.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 June 2024 16:42 (four days ago) link
Alex In NYC has a nice story on his bloghttps://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2024/06/busy-week.html
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 15 June 2024 07:32 (three days ago) link
this long Mike Mills interview with ILM fav Rick Beato digs deeper than the CBS interview into the band's music, how it was made, and how they handled their business:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRfhX-XAIiY
― Brad C., Monday, 17 June 2024 00:57 (yesterday) link
Great interview thx for posting
― that's not my post, Monday, 17 June 2024 04:17 (yesterday) link
Yep, very good
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Monday, 17 June 2024 21:10 (yesterday) link