re: REM needs a thread

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know that TD is getting older than dirt, but did anyone here attend?

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Sì, I had no idea who they were but a friend wanted to go so I went with him. I kind of liked their sound so the next week listened to Chronic Town that my friend had and I was hooked.

Not one mention of Big Star?

That's who they based their sound on, even more than the Byrds

They have some of the greatest alternative rock songs of all time from their early albums and they mix in some of the worst commercial songs later. But I have respeck

stipe and merchant dated in the early 80s. Stipe credits her as a major songwriting influence

I think he didn’t come out as gay (or an equal opportunity shopper) much later

Here is stipe with guest vocals on a Natalie Merchant song with 10000 maniacs

Automatic for the People is my go to “chill” album.

I remember watching that, and never having heard anything like it before. I wonder if Peter Buck gets embarrassed by all that awkward guitar dancing he was doing LOL

I’ve been there I know the way

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That's who they based their sound on, even more than the Byrds

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Buck lifted a bunch from LLoyd and Verlaine.

Heard this today.

Pavement's song about REM

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Some bands I like to name check, And one of them is REM Classic songs with a long history Southern boys just like you and me Are - E - M Flashback to 1983 Chronic Town was their first EP Later on came Reckoning Finster's art, and titles to match: South Central Rain, Don't Go Back To Rockville Harbourcoat, Pretty Persuasion You were born to be a camera Time After Time was my least favourite song Time After Time was my least favourite song The singer, he had long hair And the drummer he knew restrait And the bass man he had all the right moves And the guitar player was no saint So lets go way back to the ancient times When there were no 50 states

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