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

[Norah]

The REM thread can't be on page 3.

[kreng]

I don't think I hate ats as much as everyone else does

[tattooedeverything]

I don't think I hate ats as much as everyone else does

Neither do I. I dislike Reveal far more than ATS.

[southp]

Top-10 REM Songs

Strange Currencies
Begin the Begin
What's the Frequency Kenneth?
Bittersweet Me
Star 69
Fall on Me
Great Beyond
Walk Unafraid
These Days
Living Well Is the Best Revenge

[darth_vedder]

Listening to 'Up' right now.

[AndySlash]

Listening to 'Up' right now.

he moves efficiently

[AndySlash]

Top-10 REM Songs

leave
country feedback
let me in
walk unafraid
new orleans instrumental no. 1 (strong memories associated with this one)
disturbance at the heron house
sweetness follows
swan swan h
time after time (annelise)
diminished

top five are for sure. the rest were off the top of my head and some may very well be different if i did this tomorrow.

[Bee Girl]

Got a fb message this morning with links to a song Michael Stipe recorded with Courtney Love for a Johnny Depp album or something. I can't access FB at work and it's not showing on my phone. Did anyone else see this? I'm kinda scared.

[AndySlash]

http://www.nme.com/news/courtney-love/68691

Courtney Love and REM's Michael Stipe have collaborated on a track for Johnny Depp's forthcoming album of sea shanties – listen to it below.

The track, titled 'Rio Grande', will appear on the pirate-themed album 'Son of Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys', which is set for release on February 18. The album is being put together by Johnny Depp, director Gore Verbinski and producer Hal Willner and follows their similar 2006 effort, 'Rogue's Gallery'.

The 36-track double CD features a host of rock legends, including Tom Waits featuring Keith Richards, Iggy Pop featuring A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Patti Smith and Johnny Depp, Beth Orton, Shane MacGowan, Michael Stipe and Courtney Love, Dr John, Marianne Faithfull and Broken Social Scene.

The 'Son of Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys' tracklisting is:

CD 1
Shane MacGowan – 'Leaving of Liverpool' [ft. Johnny Depp and Gore Verbinski]
Robyn Hitchcock – 'Sam’s Gone Away'
Beth Orton – 'River Come Down'
Sean Lennon – 'Row Bullies Row' [ft. Jack Shit]
Tom Waits – 'Shenandoah' [ft.Keith Richards]
Ivan Neville – 'Mr Stormalong'
Iggy Pop – 'Asshole Rules the Navy' [ft. A Hawk and a Hacksaw]
Macy Gray – 'Off to Sea Once More'
Ed Harcourt – 'The Ol’ OG'
Shilpa Ray – 'Pirate Jenny' [ft. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis]
Patti Smith and Johnny Depp – 'The Mermaid'
Chuck E Weiss – 'Anthem for Old Souls'
Ed Pastorini – 'Orange Claw Hammer'
The Americans – 'Sweet and Low'
Robin Holcomb and Jessica Kenny – 'Ye Mariners All'
Gavin Friday and Shannon McNally – 'Tom’s Gone to Hilo'
Kenny Wollesen and The Himalayas Marching Band – 'Bear Away'

CD 2
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention – 'Handsome Cabin Boy'
Michael Stipe and Courtney Love – 'Rio Grande'
Marc Almond – 'Ship in Distress'
Dr John – 'In Lure of the Tropics'
Todd Rundgren – 'Rolling Down to Old Maui'
Dan Zanes – 'Jack Tar on Shore' [ft. Broken Social Scene]
Sissy Bounce (Katey Red and Big Freedia) – 'Sally Racket' [ft. Akron/Family]
Broken Social Scene – 'Wild Goose'
Marianne Faithfull – 'Flandyke Shore' [ft. Kate and Anna McGarrigle]
Ricky Jay – 'The Chantey of Noah and his Ark (Old School Song)'
Michael Gira – 'Whiskey Johnny'
Petra Haden – 'Sunshine Life for Me' [ft. Lenny Pickett]
Jenni Muldaur – 'Row the Boat Child'
Richard Thompson – 'General Taylor' [ft. Jack Shit]
Tim Robbins – 'Marianne' [ft. Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs]
Kembra Phaler – 'Barnacle Bill the Sailor' [ft. Antony, Joseph Arthur, and Foetus]
Angelica Huston – 'Missus McGraw' [ft. The Weisberg Strings]
Iggy Pop and Elegant Too – 'The Dreadnought'
Mary Margaret O’Hara – 'Then Said the Captain to Me (Two Poems of the Sea)'

[Norah]

Any list of top REM songs that doesn't include Country Feedback is simply wrong.

[epilogue]

I couldn't possibly do a top 10 REM songs list because I can't remember the names to about 90% of REM's songs.

[Norah]

You know that one that's better than every other one? Yeah, that's Country Feedback.

[epilogue]

From which album?

[epilogue]

Wait, is that the one with all the repetition?

[southp]

Any list of top REM songs that doesn't include Country Feedback is simply wrong.

Nothing from Out of Time would come close to my Top-10.
Maybe Texarkana... and I'm not just saying that to be an ass.

[stip]

A top 10, but not in order

Find the River
World Leader Pretend
End of the World as we Know It
Find the River
The Lifting
Living Well is the Best Revenge
E-bow the Letter
Nightswimming
Untitled 11th Song
Begin the Begin

[epilogue]

A top 10, but not in order

Find the River
World Leader Pretend
End of the World as we Know It
Find the River
The Lifting
Living Well is the Best Revenge
E-bow the Letter
Nightswimming
Untitled 11th Song
Begin the Begin

Like it that much, huh?

[Bee Girl]

My top 10 for today, also in no order

Swan Swan H
The Wrong Child
The Great Beyond
The Apologist
So. Central Rain
Country Feedback
I Remember California
Walk Unafraid
Bang and Blame
Belong

[WtOB?]

Mine are in order because I'm actually a hard worker.

1. E-bow The Letter
2. End of the World as we Know It
3. Losing My Religion
4. Drive
5. You Are the Everything
6. World Leader Pretend
7. What's the Frequency Kenneth?
8. Finest Worksong
9. How the West Was Won
10. Strange Currencies

[Norah]

Country Feedback
Ebow The Letter
Hope
You Are The Everything
Untitled 11th Song
Harborcoat
Strange Currencies
Be Mine
Sweetness Follows
Me In Honey

That's a completely off the top of my head, no order list so it could easily change with more thought.