R.E.M. POX

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

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

xxp like an unwanted 80's bands suicide pact

More time for Buck and Rieflin to play on Robyn Hitchcock records = win

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

they're saving that for their "free-concert-at-the-outdoor-racetrack" phase.

would be awesome if they did all songs from the album tour for Dead Letter Office

More awesome if they did all their fan club singles. Oh and put them out on one CD, damnit!

epic marketing move for Coachella 2014 (LCD Soundsystem opening)

http://twitter.com/#!/nprnews/status/116566425988112384

several dozens of pasty cubicle farmers mourn...

CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP.

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?