belong was the first track that grabbed me back then, but i'm sure i ended up voting for country feedback
― mookieproof, Thursday, 25 July 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
I really really like "Radio Song" including the KRS-One part, don't know why I haven't mentioned that in this thread
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 25 July 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
I love Near Wild Heaven. Sounds like how I imagine the Beach Boys could have sounded in 1991 if they'd all still been around and functioning.
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 25 July 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
I like Belong too
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 25 July 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
When I first heard this album I was still quite young and new to alternative rock music, so I didn't know much about what REM looked like. In my head I imagined Michael Stipe looked like Robin Williams. I still think of Robin Williams when I hear 'Endgame' somehow
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 25 July 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
I also like “Radio Song” à lot, all of it, and have probably said so way too many times on this message board.
― L'assie (Euler), Thursday, 25 July 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
Dammit, if I had seen this thread in time I would have voted for Near Wild Heaven and thus pushed it over the top as unchallenged number one.
I never took to Radio Song. I get that they liked rap at the time and wanted to tip their hat to the genre in some way, but it makes about as much sense as Stipe turning up on a hip-hop track. It just doesn't work, and at the very least it certainly shouldn't have been the opening track. (The cascading jangly riff on the chorus is good though.)
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Friday, 26 July 2019 10:53 (four years ago) link
Haven't heard it in years but "Out of Time" was my first-ever cd I got (I was 11 when it came out). Strangely, it was on Top 40 radio as well as "alternative" radio programs. The same thing happened later when "Nevermind" came out. Rather than picking separate songs it's the overall production and baroque sounds/arrangements that make it a highlight of their career. I wonder what the poll results would have been with "Fretless" being an album track. I remember Buck saying it should have been on the album.
― EvR, Friday, 26 July 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
surprised Low polled as poorly as it did.
― campreverb, Friday, 26 July 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
losing my religion towers so many miles above the rest of the album that overexposure can't do it any harm. and i was so much in love with an rem fan at the time that it hurt.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 10 August 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
It's crazy what you could have had if you had 5 more voters, but as it was, you were not near enough.
― ☮ (peace, man), Saturday, 10 August 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
Yeah LMR is a very special track for me too, in a coming of age way. It was so ubiquitous during the summer of 91 and I still feel emotional when I listen to it (rarely though).That said, there are other great tracks on the album.
― AlXTC from Paris, Saturday, 10 August 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
that Unplugged where Michael wears a stupid hat with snaps on the side. 1991-core... barn jacket & shorts, perched on that stool... doing those weird little hand flick motions he was into at this time... luv it
― 60... 90... 120 Minute IPA (morrisp), Saturday, 10 August 2019 21:40 (four years ago) link
every time At 10:35 on an early summer's morning, John Lanchester sat down at his study desk, switched on his new Dell computer, opened up the word processing programme that the computer had come with and began reappears in sna, i think
those creatures jumped the barricades and headed for the seasea
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 September 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
so many of my weirdo friends skipped school to buy this on release day that one of the principals thought something was going down and we all had to talk to the counselor and have our mental health confirmed
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Thursday, 24 September 2020 16:14 (three years ago) link
Yer old.
tempus fugit dept.: released 30 years ago today. a rare song in that I can recall exactly where & how I first heard it (my freshman dorm room; on WFNX) & what I first thought ("that's pretty good--wonder if it'll be a hit, there's a lot of mandolin on it") pic.twitter.com/ejEksBvfGm— Bowiesongs (@bowiesongs) February 19, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 February 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
Pitchfork Mark, in the replies, wants to make sure the world knows he's lukewarm on the song.
― stuck in the version layer (morrisp), Friday, 19 February 2021 20:38 (three years ago) link
30th for the album
ffs
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 March 2021 04:11 (three years ago) link
I am listening to this album in full for the first time ever right now. “Radio Song” and “Shiny Happy People” are universally reviled as the band’s nadir when “Endgame” and “Belong” are RIGHT THERE?!
Fucking hell is “Me in Honey” a great song.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 12 November 2021 15:57 (two years ago) link
I like Me In Honey as a closer, there are two or three more obvious choices but they made the right decision
― PaulTMA, Friday, 12 November 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
"Belong" rules
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Friday, 12 November 2021 20:34 (two years ago) link
otm
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 November 2021 22:32 (two years ago) link
“Radio Song” and “Shiny Happy People” are universally reviled as the band’s nadirIs this true? “Endgame” is kinda weak as a “song,” but I guess it sounded ok at the time, as some texture…
― You Suffer (10 Minute Version) (morrisp), Friday, 12 November 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link
i like endgame, would like it better if it had been arranged/produced in the style of pretty much any other era of good REM though, and if it lost the "lead" vocal
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 12 November 2021 23:48 (two years ago) link
I haven't listened to radio song on purpose in years, but I heard it on the radio, and I kind of thought, eh, if it had no KRS One it might be okay.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 13 November 2021 00:38 (two years ago) link
"Belong," "Shiny Happy People," and "Radio Song" are all better than "Losing My Religion"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 13 November 2021 01:44 (two years ago) link
(none of these are as great as "Me In Honey" obviously, I'm not a madman)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 13 November 2021 01:45 (two years ago) link
Oh I just realized I have already said all this in this thread again and again over the years, sorry
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 13 November 2021 01:47 (two years ago) link
I like "Half a World Away" and could do without every other song on this. R.E.M.'s weakest record.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 13 November 2021 02:06 (two years ago) link
Texarkana -> Country Feedback -> Me in Honey
greatest 3 song run in their catalog imo
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 13 November 2021 03:40 (two years ago) link
The top two are correct. In fact I might even go so far as to say they're all time top 5 REM for me
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Sunday, 14 November 2021 23:42 (two years ago) link
I think I like every song on here. Even Radio Song I really don't mind. I can give or take LMR though
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Sunday, 14 November 2021 23:44 (two years ago) link
Give or take? Take or leave
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 15 November 2021 00:09 (two years ago) link
Went looking for Spitting Image's 'Whiny Crappy People' parody but it's not on Youtube. I recall it had Mike Mills as the lead vocalist, playing double bass like in the SHP video. Why?
― PaulTMA, Monday, 15 November 2021 00:18 (two years ago) link
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, F
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 November 2021 00:28 (two years ago) link