1-11: Mine Smell Like Honey vs. Radio Song

[stip]

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[stip]

I really like Mine Smell Like Honey. It captures so much of the standard REM sound and it's playful and funny in a way that always came natural to them


Radio song has some truly wonderful moments (I've everything to show/I've everything to hide...), and the KRS-1 stuff isn't meant to be taken seriously, but it still takes away from the song.

Mine Smell Like Honey

[Kaius]

Radio Song

[chewm]

Mine Smells Like Honey is a pretty wonderful song. It definetely gets my vote. Even if Radio Song is pretty cool too.

[Mike]

Radio Song switches between really good (Intro, I've everything to show/I've everything to hide) and a little bit annoying (the verses). I don't need funky R.E.M. in my life.

Mine Smell Like Honey is wonderful and gets my vote.

[UglyRedHonda]

So tough, and I'm starting to wonder if I might have voted too quickly. "Mine" is pretty good for Collapse Into Now -era R.E.M., but it feels like something they've done better before. What KRS-1 brings to "Radio Song" is appalling, but I still have a real fondness for the song itself (especially the KRS-1-less Unplugged version).

(At one point, I actually tried to put together a KRS-1-less version of the studio track, but he invaded too many parts of the song.)

[stip]

that unplugged version is really good

[digster]

I might go with Mine Smell Like Honey here. It reminds you how, in addition to their many other skills, R.E.M. are just great classicist pop songwriters. There's about two or three different sections of this song that other bands would kill to use as a centerpiece chorus for their single.

[PHATJ]

I really like Mine Smell Like Honey.

[Kevin Davis]

I have never found a single thing wrong with "Radio Song." I love it.

"Mine Smell Like Honey" is fine but like a lot of "Collapse" song it feels a bit like chewed meat to me. Easy vote for "Radio Song."