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

Post by **epilogue** » Tue February 05, 2019 10:28 pm

VinylGuy wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:I expected that. I almost wanted to hear it. But enough man, talk about the fucking album. Its almost a lie.
That's LITERALLY the joke, TVG.

Go back and listen to the very first ep of the first (U2) season.
i never listened to them. Or the u2 thing. Thats the joke in every episode?

Man. Thats. Hilarious.

The point was never to actually do a "comprehensive and encyclopedic compendium" of anything. It's a comedy show. And it's wonderful.

verb_to_trust · Post by **verb_to_trust** » Tue February 05, 2019 10:31 pm

Do you honestly want to listen to a Stip like breakdown podcast VG?

Blaine Ryan · Post by **Blaine Ryan** » Tue February 05, 2019 10:33 pm

durdencommatyler wrote:It's a comedy show.

Quoted for emphasis.

VinylGuy · Post by **VinylGuy** » Tue February 05, 2019 10:36 pm

verb_to_trust wrote:Do you honestly want to listen to a Stip like breakdown podcast VG?

i wanna hear a talk about the album.

Chris_H_2 · Post by **Chris_H_2** » Tue February 05, 2019 10:41 pm

VinylGuy wrote:talk about the album

that's my favorite murmur b-side

Post by **epilogue** » Tue February 05, 2019 10:44 pm

Chris_H_2 wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:talk about the album
that's my favorite murmur b-side

Chris_H_2 · Post by **Chris_H_2** » Tue February 05, 2019 11:01 pm

durdencommatyler wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:talk about the album
that's my favorite murmur b-side

AndySlash · Post by **AndySlash** » Wed February 06, 2019 1:20 am

IT FEELS GOOD!

VinylGuy · Post by **VinylGuy** » Fri February 08, 2019 4:47 pm

listening to New Adventures....Fuck i love The Wake Up Bomb.

Post by **epilogue** » Fri February 08, 2019 8:59 pm

It's goddamn great!

VinylGuy · Post by **VinylGuy** » Sat February 09, 2019 12:43 am

Leave is so fucking good. That guitar in loop, Stipe´s emotion in the chorus, the groove....Its so fucking good.

VinylGuy · Post by **VinylGuy** » Sat February 09, 2019 9:54 pm

Just listened to the accelerate ep and it’s way better. At least they discuss the album.
I agree with the idea of being better than it is. Kinda like around the sun being the worst album were it’s actually a good one.

The first 4 songs are impressive though.

Post by **epilogue** » Sun February 10, 2019 12:20 am

Okay... I've redesigned my career retrospective playlist. It's 50 total songs. Here are the first 20:

1. Discoverer
2. Finest Worksong
3. Begin the Begin
4. These Days
5. Stand
6. Orange Crush
7. It's The End of the World...
8. The One I Love
9. Pop Song 89
10. Fall On Me
11. So. Central Rain
12. Losing My Religion
13. What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
14. Bittersweet Me
15. Band and Blame
16. Uberlin
17. Man on the Moon
18. Try Not to Breathe
19. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
20. Strange Currencies

Rangi Guy · Post by **Rangi Guy** » Sun February 10, 2019 2:37 am

durdencommatyler wrote:Okay... I've redesigned my career retrospective playlist. It's 50 total songs. Here are the first 20:

1. Discoverer
2. Finest Worksong
3. Begin the Begin
4. These Days
5. Stand
6. Orange Crush
7. It's The End of the World...
8. The One I Love
9. Pop Song 89
10. Fall On Me
11. So. Central Rain
12. Losing My Religion
13. What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
14. Bittersweet Me
15. Band and Blame
16. Uberlin
17. Man on the Moon
18. Try Not to Breathe
19. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
20. Strange Currencies

*Bang and Blame

BootsToAsses · Post by **BootsToAsses** » Sun February 10, 2019 10:55 am

durdencommatyler wrote:Okay... I've redesigned my career retrospective playlist. It's 50 total songs. Here are the first 20:

1. Discoverer
2. Finest Worksong
3. Begin the Begin
4. These Days
5. Stand
6. Orange Crush
7. It's The End of the World...
8. The One I Love
9. Pop Song 89
10. Fall On Me
11. So. Central Rain
12. Losing My Religion
13. What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
14. Bittersweet Me
15. Band and Blame
16. Uberlin
17. Man on the Moon
18. Try Not to Breathe
19. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
20. Strange Currencies

I can dig this, but the lack of Let Me In troubles me.

liebzz · Post by **liebzz** » Sun February 10, 2019 1:56 pm

VinylGuy wrote:listening to New Adventures....Fuck i love The Wake Up Bomb.

New Adventures in HiFi is my favorite of theirs. Wake Up Bomb is one of the songs that gets to the heart of this album with Bittersweet Me and some others that perfectly balance R.E.M.’s bigger heavier sound while keeping with the hooks of their earlier days. I know people really love their 80s IRS output and I do too, but give me Automatic For the People through Up period where they went through so much change and reacted to their own sound by reaching for the opposite from one album to the next.

Chris_H_2 · Post by **Chris_H_2** » Sun February 10, 2019 8:05 pm

i'm such a sucker for so fast, so numb. it could be damn near perfect.

PHATJ · Post by **PHATJ** » Sun February 10, 2019 9:47 pm

Low Desert is awesome too.

kreng · Post by **kreng** » Sun February 10, 2019 10:01 pm

PHATJ wrote:Low Desert is awesome too.

That’s my favorite of that record. Sometimes my favorite rem song

Rangi Guy · Post by **Rangi Guy** » Mon February 11, 2019 2:03 am

Just had New Adventures playing this afternoon, and I've noticed two things
1) There's no real low points on this album - just parts that shoot REAL high
2) Undertow doesn't seem to get the love it deserves around these parts

Red Mosquito

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