Anyone else listening to this podcast from What is Music? "R.E.M. joying This?" LOVE the Big Mates from UK and their deep dive on Radiohead's discography is also great. Highly recommend.
Next Monday they discuss 'Fables of the Reconstruction'
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Actor and musician Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water, Revolutionary Road) and Jason Narducy (Bob Mould, Superchunk, SDRE) have been covering whole albums live in Chicago for the last 10 years. This July, they covered R.E.M.’s Murmur in tribute to its 40th anniversary at Chicago’s Metro, a show where Mike Mills ended up joining the band. They had so much fun, they decided to turn it into a short tour, playing the whole album and other songs from R.E.M.’s catalog.
so this is on sunday night and i am excited for it. they did an interview with a local critic and sounds like they'll be playing the album AND chronic town, which probably should have occurred to me as a possibility but just made me more excited about it all. i'm not expecting musical perfection by any means, but hopefully they do it some justice, and it will be nice to hear these songs that i'd likely otherwise never hear in a live setting. r.e.m. did play shaking through at the last show of theirs i saw in 2008, which was an unexpected and pleasant surprise.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Mon February 05, 2024 1:27 pm
by AndySlash
man, that was a LOT of fun. if you are in a position to go you really should. band was good and while they stayed true to the songs they added their own bits to some of them like an extended outro to perfect circle. michael shannon is no michael stipe vocally but he very clearly loved getting into and performing these songs. definitely weird seeing zod singing old r.e.m. songs (and true to form he refused to play superman). country feedback was my highlight- wholly unexpected. the last part of the show they were totally winging it- crowd was into it so they just kept playing, ended up being close to 2 1/2 hours. looks like we got a good chunk of reckoning, which i guess they are playing on two-night stands, as a result.
Radio Free Europe
Pilgrimage
Laughing
Talk About the Passion
Moral Kiosk
Perfect Circle
Catapult
Sitting Still
9-9
Shaking Through
We Walk
West of the Fields
There She Goes Again (The Velvet Underground cover)
Wolves, Lower
Gardening at Night
Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)
1,000,000
Stumble
Swan Swan H
Second Guessing
Letter Never Sent
Pretty Persuasion
Crazy (Pylon cover)
Country Feedback
These Days
So. Central Rain
Little America
(Don't Go Back to) Rockville
Nightswimming
Driver 8
Just a Touch
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Sat February 10, 2024 4:52 am
by AndySlash
and now the whole band appeared together on stage for the first time since 2007.
bill, mike, and peter sat in on different songs throughout the night, but michael came out near the end with the rest to say a few words.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Sat February 10, 2024 5:01 am
by tragabigzanda
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Sat February 10, 2024 5:09 am
by Coach
this is all awesome
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Sat February 10, 2024 11:52 am
by VinylGuy
They were all there and they didn’t play anything ??
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Sat February 10, 2024 12:26 pm
by tragabigzanda
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
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Sat February 10, 2024 6:23 pm
by AndySlash
VinylGuy wrote:They were all there and they didn’t play anything ??
no, they seem to purposefully not do that.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 1:34 am
by Rangi Guy
I know it's not rated too highly around these parts, but I'm currently spinning Reveal and I think this is the perfect breezy summer album
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 2:23 am
by stip
It is a great mood record, and better as an album than a collection of songs
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 2:23 am
by stip
Lifting, Saturn Returns, Beachball, and Chorus and the Ring are great
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 2:26 am
by Rangi Guy
stip wrote:Lifting, Saturn Returns, Beachball, and Chorus and the Ring are great
As you mentioned above - not a lot that I'd probably add to a mix, but as far as the album goes - no duds. I'll take the Rain stand out as MVP at the moment
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 2:51 am
by stip
Interesting. I'll Take the Rain always fell flat for me
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 3:02 am
by bodysnatcher
I’m not a big REM fan. Kind of a greatest hits kind of guy. But I listened to Monster today out of complete nowhere.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 3:05 am
by tragabigzanda
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
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 4:24 am
by bodysnatcher
tragabigzanda wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:I’m not a big REM fan. Kind of a greatest hits kind of guy. But I listened to Monster today out of complete nowhere.
What’s your take on the divisive King of Comedy?
Didn’t realize it was divisive. I like it
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 6:13 am
by Anders
AndySlash wrote:and now the whole band appeared together on stage for the first time since 2007.