"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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
4
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 22 September 2011 03:11 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― some dude, Thursday, 22 September 2011 22:49 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
album of the year?
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 23 September 2011 02:56 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
hearing "blue" now as their "riders on the storm." what a great band
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 23 September 2011 19:09 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
rest is garbage mid 90s / 2000s.
ā 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 Iām 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 (four years ago) link
Up vinyl preorders are presumably coming this week (maybe even Tuesday morning). FINALLY
― āā” (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 03:10 (eight months ago) link