REM song tournament: Lament Wins!

Chris_H_2 · Post by **Chris_H_2** » Mon May 05, 2014 1:32 pm

Find the River

Post by **stip** » Mon May 05, 2014 1:33 pm

that's probably my favorite REM song

PryTo · Post by **PryTo** » Mon May 05, 2014 1:38 pm

Chris_H_2 · Post by **Chris_H_2** » Mon May 05, 2014 1:39 pm

stip wrote:that's probably my favorite REM song

Mine too. And it generally gets lost among the rest of the album because those songs are so damn good themselves.

PryTo · Post by **PryTo** » Mon May 05, 2014 1:42 pm

I

Find The River. REM has amazing one-two punches that end some of their albums. Good Advices and Wendell Gee come to mind.

philpritchard · Post by **philpritchard** » Mon May 05, 2014 3:04 pm

Well... I'm rarely around on weekends, so I didn't realize this had started and I'm gonna go ahead and pick a couple off the top of my head:

The Lifting
Me in Honey

Post by **epilogue** » Mon May 05, 2014 4:36 pm

stip wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:End of the world as we know it.
that's still probably a top 3 REM song for me. Certainly top 10

Me too. And it's one of only two songs that I really care about from Document. I wanted to make sure I grabbed it before it they were both gone and I was stuck with picking something I didn't care about from that record.

PryTo · Post by **PryTo** » Mon May 05, 2014 4:41 pm

^^ You might give Document another spin. It's top shelf REM, front-to-back. Easily one of their best efforts. And the production really holds up. In addition to have killer songs and performances, it's a fantastic sounding record.

Post by **epilogue** » Mon May 05, 2014 4:44 pm

I really should give it another go. It's been a few years.

Post by **Alex** » Mon May 05, 2014 5:16 pm

after this, let's have a tournament for varieties of unseasoned, unbuttered, and ungravied pre-packaged mashed potatotes

Kaius · Post by **Kaius** » Mon May 05, 2014 5:39 pm

PryTo wrote:^^ You might give Document another spin. It's top shelf REM, front-to-back. Easily one of their best efforts. And the production really holds up. In addition to have killer songs and performances, it's a fantastic sounding record.

Seconded. It's the first record that stands out from top to bottom. I love the bottom half.

Chris_H_2 · Post by **Chris_H_2** » Mon May 05, 2014 6:02 pm

Kaius wrote:
PryTo wrote:^^ You might give Document another spin. It's top shelf REM, front-to-back. Easily one of their best efforts. And the production really holds up. In addition to have killer songs and performances, it's a fantastic sounding record.
Seconded. It's the first record that stands out from top to bottom. I love the bottom half.

You don't think Reckoning does?

Man, I love that album.

Lament · Post by **Lament** » Mon May 05, 2014 6:06 pm

I've got to drive over to Tampa. If you somehow get to my next picks before I'm back, just tweet at me.

Post by **stip** » Mon May 05, 2014 6:24 pm

Shit, my next three picks were all just taken

Post by **stip** » Mon May 05, 2014 6:32 pm

I'll need a few. student just came in

PryTo · Post by **PryTo** » Mon May 05, 2014 6:38 pm

Ah, the annual May festival of grade grubbers, a spring classic. Enjoy!

Kaius · Post by **Kaius** » Mon May 05, 2014 6:53 pm

Chris_H_2 wrote:
Kaius wrote:
PryTo wrote:^^ You might give Document another spin. It's top shelf REM, front-to-back. Easily one of their best efforts. And the production really holds up. In addition to have killer songs and performances, it's a fantastic sounding record.
Seconded. It's the first record that stands out from top to bottom. I love the bottom half.
You don't think Reckoning does?

Man, I love that album.

Pretty Persuasion and Second Guessing really hold it back for me. I think the rest of it is strong. Hell, I took 7CB already.

Post by **stip** » Mon May 05, 2014 7:04 pm

can't decide between two songs so lets just go someplace completely different.

Post by **Jorge** » Mon May 05, 2014 7:08 pm

Nightswimming
deserves a quiet poop

Post by **stip** » Mon May 05, 2014 7:16 pm

Can't argue with that

Red Mosquito

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