R.E.M. POX

clumsy drum intro (Buck?)
Yup.

IRS

Pilgrimage
So. Central Rain
Harbourcoat
Feeling Gravity's Pull
Life and How To Live It
Begin The Begin
Just A Touch
Finest Worksong
Disturbance at the Heron House
Exhuming McCarthy

Warners

You Are The Everything
Untitled
Find The River
Sweetness Follows
You
Tongue
Circus Envy
Crush With Eyeliner
Binky The Doormat
Electrolite

post-Berry

Hope
Sad Professor
Walk Unafraid
The Great Beyond
I've Been High
The Lifting
Animal
Electron Blue
I Wanted To Be Wrong
Around The Sun

You know what? Take out You and replace it with, oh, Airportman.

I Believe
Try Not To Breath
Sitting Still
Find The River
Nightswimming
Radio Free Europe
Cuyahoga
Shaking Through
Daysleeper
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite

E-Bow the Letter
Star Me Kitten
Gardening at Night
Strange Currencies
King of Birds
Tongue
Losing My Religion
Nightswimming
Stumble
Drive

...how did I forget "Driver 8"?! I suck at these!

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.

I think the best I can do is narrow their catalog down to a core 20 songs… beyond this, it’d just be throwing darts to prune it further (which isn’t really fun for me):

Wolves, Lower
Gardening at Night
Laughing
Perfect Circle
Catapult
Sitting Still
Shaking Through
Harborcoat
7 Chinese Brothers
Camera
Good Advices
Life and How to Live It
Pop Song 89
Get Up
You Are The Everything
Hairshirt
Drive
What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
Crush With Eyeliner
E-Bow the Letter

…oh shit, I forgot “Letter Never Sent” (listening to Reckoning now). POXXI(?)