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enzeen posted:REM sucks I think instead you suck.
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redshirt posted:REM stole their sound, FYI, from The Byrds. And The Feelies. More like the Soft Boys 
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Sep 8, 2014 17:43
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TheReverend posted:I live in the town they're from and where the B-52s were from so the town got this undeserved reputation of being a good town for music but everything has actually sucked poo poo since then. The Elephant Six Collective relocated to Athens in the late 90s and every one of those bands is loving awesome though so ???
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Sep 8, 2014 18:19
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Klyith posted:list of important pop music artists who were not fueled by drugs: actually, yeah, Rush is a pretty good answer to that question. after shows, neil peart would go back to his hotel room and read books probably lovely books, though, since he wrote a whole album based on an ayn rand novel
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Sep 8, 2014 19:01
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Klyith posted:I really like Up but that has a lot to do with what was going on with my life when it came out. It has personal nostalgia (and it's a good album for that since it's full of melancholy nostalgic songs). If I seperate myself from that I don't think it's that good. I love their older stuff but I admit that, because I was in high school in 1991, Out of Time is probably my favorite album of all time. I should probably be embarrassed about that but whatever. I was a white kid from the suburbs; I'm allowed to like R.E.M.
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Sep 8, 2014 19:18
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Out of Time has some incredibly bad songs on it but side 2 is pretty much gold and "Country Feedback" is in their top 10 so it gets a pass also yeah who would have thought that losing the drummer, the one guy who barely ever wrote any parts of their songs (apart from, uh, the drum parts, obviously) would be the thing that broke them remember when peter buch got drunk and punched a guy on an airplane?
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Sep 8, 2014 19:45
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REM has always been one of those artists that I play during Fall, but I guess I'll take your suggestion and try out those albums since I've always been partial to them. Don't let me down OP, I'm launching spotify now. e: holy crap these albums go way back.
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Sep 8, 2014 19:48
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also while a lot of people like Monster and New Adventures now, at the time they were critically panned pretty hard and at one point Monster had the dubious honor of being "the CD most sold to used CD stores". places used to literally give it away.Amazon posted:164 new from $0.01 977 used from $0.01
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Sep 8, 2014 19:51
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Hah, that explains why our local used CD place had so many copies of that for $0.25.
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Sep 8, 2014 19:53
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yeah used cd stores used to carry two REM albums: monster and automatic for the people.
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Sep 8, 2014 19:53
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Avocados posted:REM has always been one of those artists that I play during Fall, but I guess I'll take your suggestion and try out those albums since I've always been partial to them. Don't let me down OP, I'm launching spotify now. Just listen to their first 8 studio albums and the Chronic Town EP, which is digitally available as the last 5 or 6 tracks of the Dead Letter Office comp. Everything else is kinda superfluous, tbh. FYI, I saw the Replacements live yesterday so you haters can all choke on my thick veiny cred.
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Sep 8, 2014 20:01
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Ah, Dead Letter Office. Fun album. Stipe literally reading the phone book.
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Sep 8, 2014 20:05
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redshirt posted:I think instead you suck. forum enemy spotted
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Sep 8, 2014 20:15
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redshirt posted:Ah, Dead Letter Office. Fun album. you mean the alternate "7 Chinese Brothers"? that was liner notes to some gospel album. for the longest time, before the internet, i thought they were honest to god alternate lyrics about some preacher named Harold
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Sep 8, 2014 20:17
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precision posted:also while a lot of people like Monster and New Adventures now, at the time they were critically panned pretty hard and at one point Monster had the dubious honor of being "the CD most sold to used CD stores". places used to literally give it away. Monster and New Adventures were both great albums but they were absolutely nothing like Automatic (and not much like Out of Time) and I think that the people who just wanted more of the same and bought them on release based on "Everybody Hurts" sold them back to the stores in giant batches. It was fun watching people try to make a single out of "E-bow the Letter" though.
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Sep 8, 2014 20:25
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Yeah alright, Dead Letter Office is only good for the Chronic Town tracks and utter garbage otherwise. But Chronic Town's gold and only available on Spotify/iTunes as part of DLO- so he might as well just cut a playlist starting with 'Wolves, Lower' from it and leave it at that. It's Spotify so it's not like he's actually paying anything extra there or whatever. NorgLyle posted:Lots of people, I think, were hooked into R.E.M. with "Everybody Hurts" (largely written, bizarrely enough, by Bill Berry) and, to a lesser extent, the whole Automatic album. That song was everywhere and if there had been youtube in 1993 you would have drowned in the anime music videos and Kurt Cobain tributes set to the song. LOLOLOLOL at people whose only frame of reference for REM is their output post-1990.
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Sep 8, 2014 20:33
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precision posted:you mean the alternate "7 Chinese Brothers"? that was liner notes to some gospel album. Yeah that's it. Fun!
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Sep 8, 2014 20:43
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NorgLyle posted:Monster and New Adventures were both great albums but they were absolutely nothing like Automatic (and not much like Out of Time) and I think that the people who just wanted more of the same and bought them on release based on "Everybody Hurts" sold them back to the stores in giant batches. It was fun watching people try to make a single out of "E-bow the Letter" though. ya, i saw 'em on the Monster tour and it was weird, because a lot of the audience was visibly confused. if i remember correctly they didn't even play "Losing My Religion" and definitely not "Everybody Hurts", they played a lot of new songs (that became NAIHF) and some random old ones. they did close out the night with "It's the End of the World" though, meh. also wtf guys the covers on Dead Letter Office are awesome, Crazy, Pale Blue Eyes, Femme Fatale, motherfucking TOYS IN THE ATTIC, and oh yeah that BBQ jingle i mean it IS a b-sides collection after all
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Sep 8, 2014 20:44
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precision posted:ya, i saw 'em on the Monster tour and it was weird, because a lot of the audience was visibly confused. if i remember correctly they didn't even play "Losing My Religion" and definitely not "Everybody Hurts", they played a lot of new songs (that became NAIHF) and some random old ones. they did close out the night with "It's the End of the World" though, meh. Wasn't it an IRS records cash grab after REM signed with Warner Brothers? REM sold out in 1988.
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Sep 8, 2014 20:46
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Imagine hitting Stipe with a golf club. Just imagine what that would be like. Go ahead, close your eyes and imagine hitting him. I don't care what club it is. Wood, iron, putter, even a hybrid would be fine. You can use steel or graphite shafts, either will work. You could even use an old timey club with a wooden shaft like they used in the 1700s. Just imagine taking a big old swing and hitting him with it.
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Sep 8, 2014 20:46
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redshirt posted:Wasn't it an IRS records cash grab after REM signed with Warner Brothers? no, you're thinking of Eponymous, which was the blatant cash grab that hardly had any new songs and was pretty poo poo Green is a weird loving album to go back to, it's half utter garbage and half utterly awesome, i guess like Out of Time in that way
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Sep 8, 2014 20:49
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precision posted:ya, i saw 'em on the Monster tour and it was weird, because a lot of the audience was visibly confused. if i remember correctly they didn't even play "Losing My Religion" and definitely not "Everybody Hurts", they played a lot of new songs (that became NAIHF) and some random old ones. they did close out the night with "It's the End of the World" though, meh. They apparently played "Everybody Hurts" here as part of the encore but I don't remember that at all. I remember freaking out when they did Pop Song and Fall On Me, though. That was my first R.E.M. show and I was too into it to really pay any attention to the rest of the crowd. Green is probably my least favorite "real" R.E.M. album. But that might just be because "The Wrong Child" feels like the song that somebody who hated Michael Stipe would write, attribute to him and perform as a parody of him at his worst.
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Sep 8, 2014 21:00
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NorgLyle posted:http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/rem/1995/the-gorge-amphitheatre-george-wa-13d69105.html Holy poo poo, somehow I didn't even know this website exists. Now I'm going to get lost looking up hundreds of concerts. Apparently, I saw REM on 9/11, haha: http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/rem/1995/starwood-amphitheatre-antioch-tn-bd691ce.html I don't remember "Everybody Hurts" in the encore at my show either. weird. Radiohead was the opening band and due to traffic we got there in time to only hear the very end of "Creep". in retrospect, i kinda really wish i had seen their set, since i didn't listen to them at all until OK Computer
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Sep 8, 2014 21:05
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I used to like them, the nosedive they took when Bill left p. much proves that he was their best songwriter, they might as well have called it quits by then also was anyone else weirded out when Mike ditched his "I'm the nerdiest person in the universe" look when they released Monster
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Sep 8, 2014 21:27
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according to REM bios, mike mills was the worst alcoholic in the band. yes. worse than PETER BUCK. who once destroyed an airplane. POST-9/11.quote:When captain Tom Payne arrived on the scene, Buck was said to have accused the cabin crew of drinking and assaulting him.
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Sep 8, 2014 21:45
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They were pretty good, yeah. idk about really good though.
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Sep 8, 2014 22:19
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No joke: A chick I liked was into REM and hating on Reagan so I stopped being a member of the Reagan Youth and started listening to REM and getting angry at US interventions in Central America. Not sure if it was the right choice in retrospect.
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Sep 8, 2014 22:21
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Back in the mid 1990s or something when that video for "Everybody Hurts" was floating around, I thought in earnest that Michael Stipe was recovering from cancer or something and told my know-it-all cousin this and he was all "yeah, well, duh" matter-of-factly.
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Sep 8, 2014 22:23
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TheReverend posted:I live in the town they're from and where the B-52s were from so the town got this undeserved reputation of being a good town for music but everything has actually sucked poo poo since then. Harvey Milk. Checkmate.
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Sep 8, 2014 22:28
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Aren't Of Montreal from Athens? Wait. gently caress- I guess that proves your point.
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Sep 8, 2014 22:36
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Electric Bugaloo posted:Aren't Of Montreal from Athens? Wait. gently caress- I guess that proves your point. No, but they were part of the Elephant 6 Collective, which was (still is) located in Athens, and included/includes Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, Elf Power, Beulah, The Essex Green, Circulatory Systems, and probably some others e: actually no, Of Montreal WERE from Athens, it's The Apples In Stereo i was thinking of as being "the elephant six band that wasn't from athens"
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Sep 8, 2014 22:55
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the only good song rem made was stand
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Sep 8, 2014 23:06
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoc8_aJLpes
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Sep 9, 2014 03:28
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i never got the hate for shiny happy people, especially from the band itself. it's got a nice little tune that borders on being irritating without actually crossing the line, and the lyrics are obviously supposed to be ironic. i think it's a funny song.
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Sep 9, 2014 04:38
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fixelbrumpf posted:also was anyone else weirded out when Mike ditched his "I'm the nerdiest person in the universe" look when they released Monster I knew a guy who had this theory that Mills and Stipe secretly agreed to switch places in terms of who was the fuckin' dorkiest looking member of REM
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Sep 9, 2014 04:44
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Benedick Cuckold posted:i never got the hate for shiny happy people, especially from the band itself. it's got a nice little tune that borders on being irritating without actually crossing the line, and the lyrics are obviously supposed to be ironic. i think it's a funny song. where did you hear the band hates that song? i can't recall them every saying that, though i know they talked about hating "get up". it's not really a bad song or anything, it's just kind of... well let's just say it was a weird song to put on what is one of their most downtempo and depressing albums outside of that track and "Near Wild Heaven" "Radio Song" is the real  of the REM backcatalogue
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Sep 9, 2014 05:07
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"Radio Song" isn't even the most thing on Out of Time. Not when this exists. I always liked "Shiny Happy People" and "Me In Honey" just for the Kate Pierson guest appearances. I always liked the way that a woman's voice complimented some of the usual R.E.M. stylings. "Photograph" with Natalie Merchant was also really good.
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Sep 9, 2014 06:13
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i actually really like "Belong".  e: and speaking of non-Stipe vocals, it's a drat crime that they didn't let Mills sing lead more often.
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Sep 9, 2014 07:14
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"Tongue" remains my favorite REM song since being released for being so weird and out of place at the time and the video is pretty good, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd5M17e7Wek
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Egypt was troubled by a horrible asp. gently caress.
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