Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Fri March 18, 2016 1:38 pm
by EJ
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!
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Fri March 18, 2016 1:57 pm
by stip
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.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Fri March 18, 2016 2:42 pm
by chewm
I feel pretty much the same about this.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Wed March 30, 2016 2:25 pm
by washing machine
It's good to hear this voice doing new things again, if only for a few minutes.
This has been circulating for a long time on bootlegs. It's nice to see it get released.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Sun October 02, 2016 9:32 pm
by Self
Be Mine is one of my favorite REM songs. Such a great guitar groove.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Mon November 14, 2016 3:49 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: Mon November 14, 2016 7:36 pm
by Norah
Self wrote:Be Mine is one of my favorite REM songs. Such a great guitar groove.
Same
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Mon November 14, 2016 7:56 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Tue November 15, 2016 1:45 am
by PHATJ
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.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Tue November 15, 2016 1:47 am
by Norah
New Adventures in Hi-Fi is really fucking good, but definitely a bit overrated around these parts.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Tue November 15, 2016 2:34 am
by chewm
I agree.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Tue November 15, 2016 2:42 am
by Kevin Davis
Hey, a favorite's a favorite. And "Hi-Fi" is my favorite.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
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.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Sun November 20, 2016 8:15 pm
by surfndestroy
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.
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Mon November 21, 2016 3:27 pm
by Coach
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....
Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Mon November 21, 2016 7:41 pm
by Norah
I'm just gonna steal it once waffles goes back up.