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

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[Mike]

Vs. is a great record.

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[Mike]

I only listened to those albums like once a few years ago and remember nothing about them, so I don't really have an opinion about them.

This is a great track:

[stip]

I totally hear that. They have a nice cover of Academy Fight song.

[Norah]

I think I'm gonna listen to Reckoning on my way into work in a bit.

[Mike]

I just finished listening to Reckoning. I wouldn't argue with someone saying it's their best but I still prefer AFTP. It might be their most consistent record whereas AFTP has higher highs.

[stip]

Guys, I'm thinking we should just have this be the studio records plus any fully finished b-sides on the major GH packages (eponymous, In Time, And I Feel Fine, and Part Lies... ). The rest of the stuff is probably a bit too obscure.


So including everything from Dead Letter Office the list of 'b-sides' would include
Romance
It's a Free World Baby
Fretless
The Great Beyond
Bad Day
Animal
Chance
Revolution
All the Right Friends
A Month of Saturdays
We All Go Back to Where we Belong
Hallelujah

Stuff I arbitrarily think we should include because it's awesome
Arms of Love
First We Take Manhattan
Draggin the Line
Wall of Death
Academy Fight Song
Indian Summer
See No Evil
Sponge
Love is All Around
Photograph
Live for Today
New Orleans Instrumental Number 2

Stuff I wouldn't include:

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Winged Mammal Theme
Organ Song
Mandolin Strum
I Walked with a Zombie
Deck the Halls
Dark Globe
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Tired of Singing Trouble
Ghost Rider
Fun Time
Memphis Train Blues
Rotary Ten
Rotary Eleven
Last Date
Dream (All I Have to Do)
2JN
Theme From Two Steps Onward
Mystery to Me
Moon River
Tighten Up
Tricycle
Emphysema
Surfing the Ganges
The Passenger
Yellow River
165 Hillcrest
Favorite Writer
Out int he Country
Adagio
Airliner
Redhead Walking
Fascinated
Parade of the Wooden Soliders
Good King Wenceslas
Ghost Reindeer in the Sky
Summertime
Baby Baby
Where's Captain Kirt
Toyland
Silver Bells
Christmas Time is Here
Sex Bomb
Christmas in Tunisa
Wicked Game
Java
Only in America
I Will Survive
Hastings and Main
Take Seven
No Matter What
Jesus Christ
Christmas (Baby Please COme Home)
Crazy like a Fox
Santa Baby
Magnetic North

Anything I'm missing people want to add?

[stip]

I'm also going to take Rotary Ten, Walter's Theme, and King of the Road off of Dead Letter Office unless someone wants to keep them in.

All told we're looking at a bit north of 200 songs.

[stip]

We're gonna have some byes, so I'll take nominations at this point

[Norah]

New Orleans Instrumental #2 is a gorgeous song and needs to be included.

[stip]

I'll update the list as people make requests.

[AndySlash]

despite it eliminating several good songs (draggin' the line, see no evil, love is all around, etc.) maybe we should keep any covers out.

[stip]

Total Song List

Arms of Love
First We Take Manhattan
Draggin the Line
Wall of Death
Academy Fight Song
Indian Summer
See No Evil
Sponge
Love is All Around
Photograph
Live for Today
New Orleans Instrumental Number 2
Romance
It's a Free World Baby
Fretless
The Great Beyond
Bad Day
Animal
Chance
Revolution
All the Right Friends
A Month of Saturdays
We All Go Back to Where we Belong
Hallelujah
Radio Free Europe
Pilgrimage
Laughing
Moral Kiosk
Talk about the Passion
Perfect Circle
Catapult
Sitting Still
9-9
Shaking Through
We Walk
West of the Fields
Harborcoat
7 Chines Bros
So. Central Rain
Pretty Persuasion
Time After Time (annelise)
Second Guessing
Letter Never Sent
Camera
(Don't Go Back to) Rockville
Little America
Feeling Gravity's Pull
Maps and Legends
Driver 8
Life and How to Live It
Old Man Kensey
Can't Get There From Here
Green Grow the Rushes
Kohoutek
Auctioneer (Another Engine)
Good Advices
Wendell Gee
Begin the Begin
These Days
Fall on Me
Cuyahoga
Hyena
Underneath the Bunker
The Flowers of Guatemala
I Believe
What If We Give It Away?
Just a Touch
Swan Swan H
Superman
Finest Worksong
Welcome to the Occupation
Exhuming McCarthy
Disturbance at the Heron House
Strange
It's the End of the World as We Know It
The One I Love
Fireplace
Lightin' Hopkins
King of Birds
Oddfellows Local 151
Pop Song 89
Get Up
You Are the Everything
Stand
World Leader Pretend
The Wrong Child
Orange Crush
Turn You Inside Out
Hairshirt
I Remember California
Untitled
Radio Song
Losing My Religion
Low
Near Wild Heaven
Endgame
Shinny Happy People
Belong
Half a World Away
Texarkana
Country Feedback
Me in Honey
Drive
Try Not to Breathe
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
Everybody Hurts
New Orleans Instrumental No. 1
Sweetness Follows
Monty Got a Raw Deal
Ignoreland
Star Me Kitten
Man on the Moon
Nightswimming
Find the River
What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
Crush with Eyeliner
King of Comedy
I Don't Sleep, I Dream
Star 69
Strange Currencies
Tongue
Bang and Blame
I Took Your Name
Let Me In
Circus Envy
You
How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us
The Wake Up Bomb
New Test Leper
Undertow
E-bow the Letter
Leave
Departure
Bittersweet Me
Be Mine
Binky the Doormat
Zither
So Fast, So Numb
Low Desert
Electrolite
Airportman
Lotus
Suspicion
Hope
At My Most Beautiful
The Apologist
Sad Professor
You're in the Air
Walk Unafraid
Why Not Smile
Daysleeper
Diminished
I'm Not Over You
Parakeet
Falls to Climb
The Lifting
I've Been igh
All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)
She Just Wants to Be
Disappear
Saturn Return
Beat a Drum
Imitation of Life
Summer Turns to High
Chorus and the Ring
I'll Take the Rain
Beachball
Leaving New York
Electron Blue
The Outsiders
Make It All Okay
Final Straw
I Wanted to Be Wrong
Wanderlust
Boy in the Well
Aftermath
High Speed Train
The Worst Joke Ever
The Ascent of Man
Around the Sun
Living Well is the Best Revenge
Man-Sized Wreath
Supernatural Superserious
Hollow Man
Houston
Accelerate
Until the Day is Done
Mr. Richards
Sing for the Submarine
Horse to Water
I'm Gonna DJ
Discoverer
All the Best
Uberlin
Oh My Heart
It Happened Today
Every Day Is Yours to Win
Mine Smell Like Honey
Walk It Back
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That Someone Is You
Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando, and I
Blue

[stip]

there are gonna be 53 byes. I'll just use the songs on the hits compilations to start

[Norah]

I wouldn't worry too much about which songs get byes and which ones don't. If a shitty song gets a first round bye it's not going to make it past round two so who cares?

[chewm]

What if we pick the songs that were drafted first in that rem tournament a while ago as byes?

[chewm]

I don't know most of REM non album tracks, I better listen to some now.

[Norah]

That's a good idea. First 53 songs taken are the byes.

[stip]

works for me