How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread

Rangi Guy · Post by **Rangi Guy** » Wed June 03, 2020 10:58 pm

stip wrote:wall of death is a great cover from that era (hi-fi I believe).

There are two Arms of Love (automatic era). One is an acoustic song. One is more strings. The strings one is amazing

I don't think I've heard this second version of Arms of Love that you speak of...

Post by **stip** » Thu June 04, 2020 2:40 am

It is actually stipe solo from the until the end of the world soundtrack. I’ll link tomorrow. It is from 1993 when he is at the height of his powers

tattooedeverything · Post by **tattooedeverything** » Thu June 04, 2020 2:49 am

tragabigzanda wrote:Looks great. Is there a good resource (other than wiki) for figuring out which eras these all belong to? Immediately interested in anything Monster through Up.

The stuff that I've put in bold is the only stuff from those years.

DISC 1: ORIGINALS

01 - Fretless
02 - It's A Free World Baby
03 - Chance (Dub)
04 - Photograph
05 - Revolution
06 - The Great Beyond
07 - All The Right Friends
08 - Bad Day
09 - Animal
10 - Fascinating
11 - Permanent Vacation (Live)
12 - On The Fly (Live)
13 - Staring Down The Barrel Of The Middle Distance (Live)
14 - A Month Of Saturdays
15 - We All Go Back To Where We Belong
16 - Hallelujah

DISC 2: COVERS

01 - Ghostrider
02 - Funtime
03 - I Walked With A Zombie
04 - Dark Globe
05 - First We Take Manhattan
06 - Arms Of Love
07 - The Lion Sleeps Tonight
08 - Wall Of Death
09 - Love Is All Around
10 - Sponge
11 - Draggin' The Line
12 - Yellow River
13 - Favorite Writer
14 - Out In The Country
15 - #9 Dream
16 - Red Head Walking
17 - Indian Summer

DISC 3: INSTRUMENTALS

01 - Memphis Train Blues
02 - Rotary Eleven
03 - Forty Second Song
04 - Winged Mammal Theme
05 - Fruity Organ
06 - New Orleans Instrumental #2
07 - Organ Song
08 - Mandolin Strum
09 - Tricycle
10 - Emphysema
11 - Surfing The Ganges
12 - 165 Hillcrest
13 - 2JN
14 - Adagio
15 - Airliner
16 - NOLA-4/26/10

tattooedeverything · Post by **tattooedeverything** » Thu June 04, 2020 2:51 am

stip wrote:It is actually stipe solo from the until the end of the world soundtrack. I’ll link tomorrow. It is from 1993 when he is at the height of his powers

It's actually from this:
https://www.discogs.com/Various-In-Defe ... ter/886439

tragabigzanda · Post by **tragabigzanda** » Thu June 04, 2020 3:05 am

tattooedeverything · Post by **tattooedeverything** » Thu June 04, 2020 3:24 am

tragabigzanda wrote:Wow thank you! I’ll try to make a mini mix. What are some other highlights from this set?

My personal favorites would be "Fretless", "It's A Free World Baby", "Arms Of Love", and "Organ Song".

tragabigzanda · Post by **tragabigzanda** » Thu June 04, 2020 3:33 am

tragabigzanda · Post by **tragabigzanda** » Thu June 04, 2020 3:34 am

tragabigzanda wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb
I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

Post by **stip** » Thu June 04, 2020 11:17 am

This version is just absolutely gorgeous

Post by **stip** » Thu June 04, 2020 11:19 am

For those of you who don't know a lot of these, these are the places to start

01 - Fretless
04 - Photograph (this is with Natalie Merchant, and it's great)
06 - The Great Beyond
07 - All The Right Friends (this is a re-recording of one of their first songs (pre Chronic Town)
08 - Bad Day
15 - We All Go Back To Where We Belong
06 - Arms Of Love (both versions, but the one I just linked is the better of the two)
07 - The Lion Sleeps Tonight
08 - Wall Of Death
10 - Sponge
11 - Draggin' The Line
17 - Indian Summer

I didn't know Indian Summer was a cover, actually.

Rangi Guy · Post by **Rangi Guy** » Thu June 04, 2020 9:31 pm

stip wrote:

This version is just absolutely gorgeous

Thanks for linking this - it's gorgeous!

AndySlash · Post by **AndySlash** » Sat June 06, 2020 5:59 am

i kinda forgot about draggin' the line. that was a good cover.

if i remember right, revolution isn't a favorite of many on here, but i dig that song a lot and it's cool to me that a line from it is used for the title.

thanks for this, a nice surprise find in this thread.

Post by **stip** » Sat June 06, 2020 9:09 pm

the live versions were really good (of Revolution) but I do not like at all the studio version

Chris_H_2 · Post by **Chris_H_2** » Thu June 11, 2020 5:04 pm

oh my god, can they please all just make an entire album together?

Rangi Guy · Post by **Rangi Guy** » Fri June 12, 2020 4:29 am

Chris_H_2 wrote:oh my god, can they please all just make an entire album together?

Yeah - that was cool!

VinylGuy · Post by **VinylGuy** » Sun July 19, 2020 10:07 pm

They are showing a documentary about their show in Stirling Castle in 1999. Its in their youtube channel and i think until tuesday.
About to dive in.

VinylGuy · Post by **VinylGuy** » Wed July 22, 2020 3:43 pm

VinylGuy wrote:They are showing a documentary about their show in Stirling Castle in 1999. Its in their youtube channel and i think until tuesday.
About to dive in.

This was super cool, and i got nostalgic about 1999. REM was so cool man.

VinylGuy · Post by **VinylGuy** » Sat July 25, 2020 8:48 pm

Bridge benefit concert 98 is such a nice little show.

VinylGuy · Post by **VinylGuy** » Tue July 28, 2020 12:53 am

Listening to Up, then Monster then just a few tracks, Leaving NY, We All Go Back.... and The Great Beyond.

What a fucking band.

dimejinky99 · Post by **dimejinky99** » Mon August 03, 2020 9:31 pm

Tune in this Thursday (August 6) on YouTube for the complete BBC broadcast of R.E.M.'s Glastonbury '99 Pyramid Stage performance! Premiering 8pm BST / 3pm EST, and available for 72 hours only: https://found.ee/REM-Glastonbury99

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