Boxcars are POLLing out of...REM's "Chronic Town"

I remember riding my bicycle home from the record store in the rain with this balanced on the handlebars i.e. I courted death AND IT WAS WORTH IT.

i remember my dad brought this home shortly after it came out because they had it on in the record store and he thought it sounded cool [..] later on, whenever i put on another r.e.m. album, dad would say "i don't hear anything as good as 'carnival of sorts'."

..make me realize how sad it is that I've never held physical copies / CD cases of even my very favorite albums.

Wolves, Lower I guess?? Cannot overstate what this EP does to me.

how sad it is that I've never held physical copies / CD cases of even my very favorite albums.

Wha...?

NYC'ers: What's going on at Kim's Video

Yeah, are you from the future or what?

Please to click on Kim's Video link.

It's kind of not helping.

Wolves, but man, they are all so good.

So is "Carnival" based on this Carnival of Souls?

Until I watched that video I was never quite aware of those crucial Bill Berry backing vocals.

Wild to see video shot at The Pier. Great Raleigh club from the early 80s.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Decisive but fascinating. Thanks for playing, everyone! Next poll going up shortly...

https://www.facebook.com/chronictown/
“music venue • record store • pinball arcade • café • kava bar • vegan waffles • organic smoothies • artisan glass • stereo repair”

Pure gold start to finish, hard to think of any track being that much better than any other

I still have my autographed copy of this EP. The band member who shares my first name wrote "sorry about the name, pal".

I agree w/RVW – the idea of “ranking” these tracks is a bit of a head-scratcher: they’re a perfect set.

(Dr. M – that’s awesome; I’m guessing it was Bill...?)

One of my my favorite musical moments™ is when the bassine under the verse in “Stumble” shifts by one note – subtly, but with great impact – in its final iteration (after the “Don’t need that... jazz” bridge freakout section).

"Coffee Shop in State College, Pennsylvania"

oh HELL no, don't EVEN

I just went to look up who owns this because I lived in State College for two years where one of my only friends (miccio who used to post here) was also a huge REM fan. This turns out to be the only hookah bar I have ever been to in my life- used to be called Tall Shiva.

Watch for my vape shop themed to the first 10,000 Maniacs EP — it’s called
Secrets of the E-Cig.

xp not hating on PSU or State College, I enjoyed my one visit, but an establishment named Chronic Town ought to be located in Chronic Town

This EP is a better representation of what their shows sounded like 1981-83 than Murmur

We need to hate on it because it's a hookah bar. And State College sucks (sorry PSU'ers).