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re: What’s your favorite R.E.M. song and album?
Posted on 8/1/21 at 2:15 pm to 88Wildcat
Posted on 8/1/21 at 2:15 pm to 88Wildcat
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To me there are two R.E.M.s. The 80s R.E.M. and the 90s R.E.M. To put it in album terms there is everything up through Green and everything after Green. I generally like 80s R.E.M. though there are occasional songs that are fingernails on a chalkboard annoying to my ears like Shiny Happy People and Finest Worksong. 90s R.E.M. sucks bloated sheep's bladder. They got so preoccupied making socially conscious messages that they forgot they are supposed to be a rock and roll band. Think of Jackson Browne's career arc pre and post Lawyers in Love album. I absolutely despise Losing My Religion and Everybody Hurts. Those songs destroyed the band because Stipe became all serious all of the time after they became hit songs.
The two REM’s were the IRS years and the Warner Bros years. And REM had always made left leaning socially conscious music. Always. You would be hard pressed to find one song that isn’t.
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Posted on 8/1/21 at 2:26 pm to Stagliano
quote:prolly in my top 10
ive never heard anyone put superman in their top 20 fav REM songs
I prefer the original tho
Posted on 8/1/21 at 2:31 pm to Cdawg
quote:
And REM had always made left leaning socially conscious music. Always. You would be hard pressed to find one song that isn’t.
yes if you can’t mix politics with music you can’t enjoy REM
I bailed out after HiFi and not because of leftism
Posted on 8/1/21 at 5:46 pm to Paul Allen
Radio Free Europe - Favorite song of all time by anybody
Murmur - Favorite album of all time by by anybody
Murmur - Favorite album of all time by by anybody
Posted on 8/1/21 at 10:28 pm to RockAndRollDetective
Great selections
Posted on 8/2/21 at 4:50 am to Paul Allen
Song - Disturbance at the Heron House
Album - Murmur or Document
Album - Murmur or Document
Posted on 8/2/21 at 7:02 am to Paul Allen
Album-Murmer Song-Driver 8
Posted on 8/2/21 at 7:52 am to Paul Allen
Song: Driver 8
Album: this is such a close call, and over the years(my favorite band) I have said there different ones for different reasons. Right now? Reckoning. LRP may be more solid beginning to end. Fables has great high points, but has clunkers. Nothing after LRP interests me at all as an album even though there are great songs mixed in.
Album: this is such a close call, and over the years(my favorite band) I have said there different ones for different reasons. Right now? Reckoning. LRP may be more solid beginning to end. Fables has great high points, but has clunkers. Nothing after LRP interests me at all as an album even though there are great songs mixed in.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 7:56 am to 88Wildcat
While agree with your premise, for me, it's pre-Document and post-Life's Rich Pageant. I had not use for Document then nor now.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 10:18 am to Paul Allen
Dead Letter Office
Voice of Harold or King of the Road...
Voice of Harold or King of the Road...
Posted on 8/2/21 at 1:59 pm to Lonnie Utah
Early REM:
Song: So. Central Rain (saw on MTV, first time I'd heard them)
Album: Murmur
Later REM:
Song: Find the River
Album: Automatic For The People (Opens with Drive, contains Everybody Hurts, and fully enhanced by the great closing trilogy of Man on the Moon/Nightswimming/Find the River)
Song: So. Central Rain (saw on MTV, first time I'd heard them)
Album: Murmur
Later REM:
Song: Find the River
Album: Automatic For The People (Opens with Drive, contains Everybody Hurts, and fully enhanced by the great closing trilogy of Man on the Moon/Nightswimming/Find the River)
Posted on 8/2/21 at 2:33 pm to Paul Allen
Find the River
Try Not to Breathe
Be Mine
Try Not to Breathe
Be Mine
Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:39 am to Finklesteins Kid
Album: Monster
Song: Pop Song 89
Song: Pop Song 89
Posted on 8/3/21 at 7:33 am to AlxTgr
quote:
I had not use for Document then nor now.
I’ve never understood the hate that Document gets. It’s in my top 2, like I said earlier.
Posted on 8/3/21 at 7:49 am to Paul Allen
It changes from time to time, but right now...
Album - Document
Song - You Are the Everything
Album - Document
Song - You Are the Everything
Posted on 8/3/21 at 7:59 am to Paul Allen
Album - Life’s Rich Pageant
Song - So. Central Rain
I was out after Monster
Song - So. Central Rain
I was out after Monster
Posted on 8/3/21 at 9:11 am to Paul Allen
Pretty Persuasion
Life's Rich Pagent
Life's Rich Pagent
Posted on 8/3/21 at 9:19 am to High C
quote:Just as I can't understand how anyone likes it. There's only one good song on it.
I’ve never understood the hate that Document gets
Posted on 8/3/21 at 11:10 am to AlxTgr
side one is great
i never listen to side two (mainly to avoid "the one i love")
i never listen to side two (mainly to avoid "the one i love")
Posted on 8/3/21 at 12:22 pm to AlxTgr
quote:
Just as I can't understand how anyone likes it.
Musically, they've made better albums, but Document holds a lot of sentimental value for me so that's mainly why I listed it as my favorite. I also like most of the songs on it.
Musically, I prefer Out Of Time. I didn't get into REM until the late 80's, so their earlier stuff just doesn't do as much for me. I like their earlier stuff, but for me the Document>Green>Out Of Time>Automatic run of albums is hard to beat. That run was the height of my REM fandom.
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