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

EJ · Post by EJ » Fri March 18, 2016 1:38 pm

stip wrote:And we're live. Please let me know if you can see the forum and if you can post in it.

wow, this is great. thanks, stip!

Post by **stip** » Fri March 18, 2016 1:57 pm

I'm excited for this because I love REM almost as much as pearl jam (sometimes more), but I don't have the same carefully ordered preferences and invested opinions. No dogs in this fight. Just love.

chewm · Post by **chewm** » Fri March 18, 2016 2:42 pm

I feel pretty much the same about this.

washing machine · Post by **washing machine** » Wed March 30, 2016 2:25 pm

It's good to hear this voice doing new things again, if only for a few minutes.

http://pitchfork.com/news/64471-michael ... l_facebook

Norah · Post by **Norah** » Wed March 30, 2016 5:37 pm

washing machine wrote:It's good to hear this voice doing new things again, if only for a few minutes.

http://pitchfork.com/news/64471-michael ... l_facebook

I'm pretty sure that's Charles Darwin.

Post by **Mike** » Wed March 30, 2016 5:47 pm

That was lovely. He sounds great.

Rangi Guy · Post by **Rangi Guy** » Fri September 23, 2016 2:44 am

http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/liste ... song-demo/

matt reeder · Post by **matt reeder** » Fri September 23, 2016 3:06 am

Rangi Guy wrote:http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/liste ... song-demo/

This has been circulating for a long time on bootlegs. It's nice to see it get released.

Self · Post by **Self** » Sun October 02, 2016 9:32 pm

Be Mine is one of my favorite REM songs. Such a great guitar groove.

tragabigzanda · Post by **tragabigzanda** » Mon November 14, 2016 3:49 pm

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

Norah · Post by **Norah** » Mon November 14, 2016 7:36 pm

Self wrote:Be Mine is one of my favorite REM songs. Such a great guitar groove.

Same

tragabigzanda · Post by **tragabigzanda** » Mon November 14, 2016 7:56 pm

PHATJ · Post by **PHATJ** » Tue November 15, 2016 1:45 am

tragabigzanda wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
Self wrote:Be Mine is one of my favorite REM songs. Such a great guitar groove.
Same
Any idea how the band themselves regard NAIHF now? My sense is that it's considered a minor album, but it's definitely one of my faves.

No idea how they feel about it, but I think it might be their best.

Norah · Post by **Norah** » Tue November 15, 2016 1:47 am

New Adventures in Hi-Fi is really fucking good, but definitely a bit overrated around these parts.

chewm · Post by **chewm** » Tue November 15, 2016 2:34 am

I agree.

Kevin Davis · Post by **Kevin Davis** » Tue November 15, 2016 2:42 am

Hey, a favorite's a favorite. And "Hi-Fi" is my favorite.

digster · Post by **digster** » Tue November 15, 2016 5:37 am

Yeah, same.

And I'm pretty sure each member of the band has said Hi-Fi is either up there or their favorite; it's Stipe's favorite record by the band: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/arts/ ... rview.html

We were really stretching ourselves, trying really hard to push what we did. Looking back, it makes sense that the next record would be “Automatic for the People,” that it’d be a radically different step. And the next would be “Monster,” a record that nobody liked. But everyone expected another version of “Automatic” and we weren’t about to give them that. So in a way we shot ourselves in the foot. But it turns out, 20 years later, that’s not a bad record, “Monster.” And then we released my favorite album of our entire canon, which is “New Adventures in Hi-Fi.” It’s a band at our very peak. And then, of course, Bill [Berry, the group’s original drummer] left the band.

surfndestroy · Post by **surfndestroy** » Sun November 20, 2016 8:15 pm

here's a link to some really great write ups about each album. They're very well done and place the albums under the environment they were recorded and of the political era.

http://www.udiscovermusic.com/essentials/r-e-m

Coach · Post by **Coach** » Mon November 21, 2016 3:27 pm

Question: I was going to order the Out of Time 25th anniversary package and want that live album as part of it. But my understanding is that I need to order the CDs, as there's no digital download. Really? iTunes has just the remastered album plus the demos, but not the live show....

Norah · Post by **Norah** » Mon November 21, 2016 7:41 pm

I'm just gonna steal it once waffles goes back up.

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