http://www.abqjournal.com/shock/s_hagar306-19-02.jpg
― da croupier, Friday, 6 July 2007 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link
that said I am all for REM to start playing good songs again, though "Gardening At Night" at the hall of fame show implied that Stipe sadly can't re-learn mumbling.
and Burma's pretty damn enthusiastic live
― da croupier, Friday, 6 July 2007 01:09 (seventeen years ago) link
lol Hagar's pants
― marmotwolof, Friday, 6 July 2007 01:41 (seventeen years ago) link
that's Mike Mills.
― da croupier, Friday, 6 July 2007 02:14 (seventeen years ago) link
rofz
― wanko ergo sum, Friday, 6 July 2007 02:27 (seventeen years ago) link
okay mikey, maybe the nudie suits weren't so bad after all.
― wanko ergo sum, Friday, 6 July 2007 02:30 (seventeen years ago) link
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/gallery/2005/06/16/stipegall3.jpg
― gershy, Friday, 6 July 2007 02:48 (seventeen years ago) link
they really haven't played Harborcoat since '85???
(^^^ ALSO TIM PLZ NOTE CORRECT SPELLING)
― river wolf, Friday, 6 July 2007 04:22 (seventeen years ago) link
That's probably true. It doesn't seem like they were playing it by the time of the Lifes Rich Pageant tour.
― Tim Ellison, Friday, 6 July 2007 04:30 (seventeen years ago) link
I love "Feeling Gravity's Pull", I should like to see them do that live, its a wonderful song.
― Trayce, Friday, 6 July 2007 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm glad it only took them about ten years to realize that the fans who're still with them love that material. [Back in '99 I cringed when people booed 'Cuyahoga.' Somebody needed to sit down with a focus group before the Up tour it seemed.]
― fukasaku tollbooth, Friday, 6 July 2007 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link
ugh, except Cuyahoga sucks and Harborcoat doesn't!
― Mr. Que, Friday, 6 July 2007 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Wait, I really like this Christine McVie idea!
― mitya, Friday, 6 July 2007 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link
people booed them during 'cuyahoga'? jeez. i thought that was pretty much the highlight of the 99 show i saw.
― toby, Friday, 6 July 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link
The Dublin clips i've seen show Stipey mostly turned to one side, reading "Feeling Gravity's Pull" and "1,000,000" off a piece of paper. This tempers my jealousy toward the concertgoers a bit.
― mike a, Friday, 6 July 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
How can we talk about middle-aged rockers kicking up their heels & not mention GBV?
― David R., Friday, 6 July 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link
do GBV have heels? can they kick them?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 6 July 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Converse have heels, yes.
― David R., Friday, 6 July 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link
R.E.M. could have been the college rock Led Zeppelin if they just broke up when the drummer died. Instead they're the college rock Stones, right down to OMG THEY DID PARACHUTE WOMAN.
― da croupier, Friday, 6 July 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link
Tim, Mission Of Burma bring it live, esp. Conley. They all look like they're having tons of fun. I don't think I saw a scissor kick though.
This does seem like a welcome resurgence.
― sleeve, Friday, 6 July 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link
R.E.M. could have been the college rock Led Zeppelin if they just broke up when the drummer died
They could have asked Phil Collins to join too! What's he doing lately?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 6 July 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Mission of Burma could have asked Zak Starkey to join if their drummer had quit.
― Tim Ellison, Friday, 6 July 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Umm dude I believe REM still have time left to "break up when the drummer dies."
― nabisco, Friday, 6 July 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Also: is it just me, or has Stipe's voice progressed kind of backwards? He spent his youth being husky and mumbly, and slowly converted into bleaty projection and clarity -- it's hard to imagine him now getting back at the vocal tone of those early songs.
― nabisco, Friday, 6 July 2007 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link
("Progressed backwards" meaning over his life span, of course -- it seems like aging usually makes people more soft and husky.)
― nabisco, Friday, 6 July 2007 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Gee, you'd think I was making a joke or something.
― da croupier, Friday, 6 July 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Heavens! ;)
― David R., Friday, 6 July 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Sorry! He had that whole brain-aneurysm thing, I thought maybe you thought he died then!
― nabisco, Friday, 6 July 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link
I saw Zombie Bill Berry play on the Monster tour and didn't notice a difference
― marmotwolof, Friday, 6 July 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link
You know what's weird? Really weird? Right now I find myself wishing R.E.M. made another album that sounded exactly like Monster. If you think about, in all this time since 1994 not a single band has made an album that sounded like that (vox amp + digital delay as the main instrument).
― Erroneous Botch, Friday, 6 July 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link
no, there have plenty of shitty albums since 1994 duder
― Mr. Que, Friday, 6 July 2007 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link
we don't need more shitty albums
haven't their past couple tours been pretty tragic affairs, scissors kick notwithstanding? i mean, they did that one where they took all those requests...and they played the liacouras center at temple u. i'd go if they played the tower again tho.
― fukasaku tollbooth, Friday, 6 July 2007 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link
i think i saw the last three u.s. tours and they've all been great!
― Tim Ellison, Friday, 6 July 2007 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link
otm
for some reason it didn't surprise me that they hadn't played harbourcoat since 1985. then i realized that i last saw them in 1985.
― Lawrence the Looter, Sunday, 8 July 2007 02:14 (seventeen years ago) link
http://remhq.com/news_story.php?id=1225
10. 15. 10COLLAPSE INTO NOWThe band's new record, slated for a spring 2011 release, will be titled COLLAPSE INTO NOW. BBC6Music first reported the title following a conversation with Bertis who was in Manchester earlier this week for In The City, a music business conference.
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Y'all, that album title is complete ass. But I'm still cautiously optimistic about the music contained within.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 October 2010 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
http://s3.amazonaws.com/bzzagent-bzzscapes-prod/collapse-into-cool--lrg.png
Since their titles are often thematically relevant to the album, what will "Collapse Into Now" signify? Are they conceding to commercial reality by duetting with Rihanna?
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Their ability to write a tune has dropped off, unfortunately. The last album had all the LRP/Document sound but no tunes. Has anyone ever grilled Stipe on his use of lyric stand...even now? The Dublin shows notwithstanding their setlists recently have been ass given the back catalogue.
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 13:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I liked Accelerate for a number of listens but I only find myself going back to a handful of songs now. The bridges in particular are really rote. God that new title is awful. Cautiously optimistic in spite of everything.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
1. “Discoverer”2. “All The Best”3. “Uberlin”4. “Oh My Heart”5. “It Happened Today” (featuring Eddie Vedder)6. “Every Day Is Yours To Win”7. “Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter” (featuring Peaches and Lenny Kaye)8. “Walk It Back”9. “Mine Smell Like Honey”10. “That Someone Is You”11. “Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I”12. “Blue” (featuring Patti Smith)
That's the tracklist for Collapse Into Now. http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2010/11/24/rem-collapse-into-now-tracklist-new-album/
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 25 November 2010 06:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Track 7 is a joke right?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 November 2010 10:02 (thirteen years ago) link
9. “Mine Smell Like Honey”
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Thursday, 25 November 2010 10:08 (thirteen years ago) link
.. what do yourn smell like?
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 November 2010 10:10 (thirteen years ago) link
'Mine Smell Like Honey' was the one that made me think this might be a joke. This is probably going to terrible but I'm still strangely looking forward to it, especially the Patti Smith collaboration.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 November 2010 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I suspect I'll be wishing Stipe would go back to being a mumbler before this is all over.
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 25 November 2010 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Also people need to stop letting Jacknife Lee produce things.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 November 2010 10:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, I liked his prod/remix of Badly Drawn Boy's "Born Again" more than the original. But they didn't release it beyond promo.
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 November 2010 10:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Thought for a second that said "featuring Danny Kaye" and thought Stipe was getting into some Natalie/Nat King Cole duet-with-a-zombie shit.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Thursday, 25 November 2010 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
well it does say 'featuring peaches' so you're still right
― balls, Thursday, 25 November 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
That half acoustic, half electric thing they were after on Green should/could have been LRP - Guatemala, Swan, Fall on Me, Cuyahoga on one side and Begin the Begin, These Days on the other - problem is they didn't have enough examples of the latter and fleshed it out with light stuff like Superman/Bunker/JAT, which don't fit on the album IMO. Superman I love, but better as a standalone single.
― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
"My picture that I have of us breaking up is that we'd do a couple of really bad records...and then we'd go to a Chinese restaurant and get drinks with umbrellas in them and say 'you know guys it's been a really haul but we just don't have it anymore', you know, and have a good toast and go home"
Peter Buck 1998.
― piscesx, Thursday, 22 September 2011 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
How many bad records had they made at that point?
<- got off the bus with Out of Time
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 22 September 2011 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
4
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 22 September 2011 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I just wanted to see Buck with the Baseball Project but he hurt his back and skipped a month of gigs.
So is Stipe gonna do an album with Patti Smith now that REM are broken up ?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 September 2011 03:31 (thirteen years ago) link
heard some REM news - yay
― let me markers that for you http://tinyurl.com/6jdgf7f (cozen), Thursday, 22 September 2011 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― some dude, Thursday, 22 September 2011 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
wait until you get the Bill Berry ''they've sucked the last decade'' interview now
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 22 September 2011 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
album of the year?
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 23 September 2011 02:56 (thirteen years ago) link
when I heard this my first thought was 'but don't they have an album that is coming out pretty soon?" and then I remembered that it already came out, and I listened to it, and didn't remember anything about it. so I guess that says it all.
― akm, Friday, 23 September 2011 05:58 (thirteen years ago) link
it's good, i find myself whistling the beginning of "it happened today" quite a lot
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 23 September 2011 12:58 (thirteen years ago) link
hearing "blue" now as their "riders on the storm." what a great band
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 23 September 2011 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
do we think they knew it'd be the last album so threw their all into 'Collapse...' to go out with some dignity? i mean you know even the title suggests it.
― piscesx, Friday, 23 September 2011 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://r-e-m-cycle.blogspot.com/
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.uncut.co.uk/rem/rems-peter-buck-working-on-solo-album-news
― timellison, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
Spotify is crazy comprehensive on these guys now; all the recent IRS years 2 disc remasters are there and even UP which was weirdly missing on there for years.
― piscesx, Thursday, 22 March 2012 10:53 (twelve years ago) link
I don't which REM thread to put it on so I am putting a link to this nice live version of "Harborcoat" herehttp://open.spotify.com/track/3xRaBjpIWB444tvpxAeP87
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 May 2012 06:05 (twelve years ago) link
Although this one is good too http://open.spotify.com/track/3HvhvwCvKUbuIlxPNgUXfv
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 May 2012 06:06 (twelve years ago) link
except for the harmonica solo
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 May 2012 06:07 (twelve years ago) link
whoa
http://www.remhq.com/news/r-e-m-at-the-bbc-coming-october-19th-read-press-release/
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 6 September 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
Looks 99% shit, unfortunately. One good show from 85, and the rest is garbage mid 90s / 2000s.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 6 September 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
99% great, you mean.
It'll be great to have an official release of Milton Keynes '95 and that Jools special performance is where I heard the Up tracks for the first time prior to getting the album. It was so good it put all my fears of them continuing without Berry to rest.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 6 September 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
rest is garbage mid 90s / 2000s.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, September 6, 2018 8:35 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
a seven minute "country feedback" from 1998 is not going to suck
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 6 September 2018 17:41 (six years ago) link
they never really stopped being an incredible live band imo. live versions of "walk unafraid" really cook, they're the reason its still one of my favorite r.e.m. songs
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 6 September 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
Clearly it was of interest to a lot of people or it wouldn't have been compiled and released. Unfortunately for me, I don't care to hear anything live from REM after 1991. Country Feedback being the exception, so good shout on that 7min version. I am very happy others are excited. It's good to be excited.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 6 September 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link
I could do without a couple of the Around the Sun tracks, but that's about it. Live versions of the 1998-2004 stuff have generally been better versions.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 6 September 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
Is it the Neil Young one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CERhzm6t7I
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 September 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/05/michael-stipe-new-songs-webster-hall-video-performance/
― timellison, Monday, 10 June 2019 03:42 (five years ago) link
The fact that he's doing something is brilliant news. It'd be a shame if he'd let that great voice of his go to waste.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 10 June 2019 13:16 (five years ago) link
Producer Marc Urselli posted this seven weeks ago on his Instagram account:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwhxx9GHL2U/?hl=en
I love my musical life: yesterday I was in Oslo listening to extreme metal today I’m in New York City recording the mesmerizing #BillFrisell @billfrisellsmusic at @eastsidesoundstudios with the revolutionary producer @willnerh #HalWillner doing to overdubs for #MichaelStipe of #REM
No more info though...
― EvR, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 08:52 (five years ago) link
Up vinyl preorders are presumably coming this week (maybe even Tuesday morning). FINALLY
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 03:10 (one year ago) link