Obviously Stipe has a one-of-a-kind voice, but Shannon fits this very well
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 31 July 2023 18:26 (nine months ago) link
This dude has a few more clips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd8oP3hoRZo
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 31 July 2023 19:34 (nine months ago) link
Here's one with Mills (this song ruled):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwqu59yntnU
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 31 July 2023 19:36 (nine months ago) link
He also did a Neil Young tribute thing too. I have mixed feelings about all the tributes but I admit at least part of it is the monopoly he holds on such things and the preponderance of men onstage. So my feelings are partially petty but also partially not.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 31 July 2023 19:44 (nine months ago) link
Someone posted most of "Shaking Through," which is a good vantage, especially if you want to see Wurster's sartorial tribute to Berry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn3M3ZBzkJk
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 12:44 (nine months ago) link
For those with access, Tom Breihan just posted his essay on "Orange Crush":
https://www.stereogum.com/2231808/the-alternative-number-ones-r-e-m-s-orange-crush/columns/the-alternative-number-ones/?1690980791
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 12:59 (nine months ago) link
I used to have a great tape of REM's appearance on KCRW's Snap show w/Dierdre Donoghue in 1991, really loose, with lots of chat and impromptu cover versions. Well I lost the tape over time and could only find boots with the chat all cut out but thankfully KCRW have put it up on an online archive, it's a great listen.
https://www.kcrw.com/music/shows/bent-by-nature/rem-out-of-time-acoustic-live-1991
― MaresNest, Saturday, 12 August 2023 22:16 (nine months ago) link
Thought this revive would be about REM tribute act Dead Letter Office, or DLO for short.
― No Zing Compares 2 HOOS (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 August 2023 23:25 (nine months ago) link
good show, MaresNest, thanks for sharing
― Brad C., Sunday, 13 August 2023 14:16 (nine months ago) link
Ha, I think that interview was on the B-Side of the Bingo Hand Job bootleg cassette I bought in Camden Town, nice to hear it again
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 13 August 2023 18:16 (nine months ago) link
I've never heard of this podcast, but the latest ep. = "R.E.M. founding member and bass player Mike Mills waxes nostalgic about his band's iconic 1992 release Automatic for the People": https://ncpodcasts.com/the500podcast
― Stoned Wheat Thing (morrisp), Thursday, 31 August 2023 04:29 (eight months ago) link
https://www.stereogum.com/2236106/micky-dolenz-rem-covers-shiny-happy-people/music/
Dolenz’s covers EP has the Michael Stipe seal of approval, via RS:These songs are absolutely incredible. Micky Dolenz covering R.E.M. Monkees style, I have died and gone to heaven. This is really something. ‘Shiny Happy People’ sounds incredible (never thought you or I would hear me say that!!!). Give it a spin. It’s wild. And produced by Christian Nesmith (son of Michael Nesmith). I am finally complete.
These songs are absolutely incredible. Micky Dolenz covering R.E.M. Monkees style, I have died and gone to heaven. This is really something. ‘Shiny Happy People’ sounds incredible (never thought you or I would hear me say that!!!). Give it a spin. It’s wild. And produced by Christian Nesmith (son of Michael Nesmith). I am finally complete.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 22:36 (eight months ago) link
Never one of my favorite REM tracks, but this does sound like a good idea.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 22:50 (eight months ago) link
seems appropriate ... R.E.M. did "(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone" in a lot of their earliest shows
― Brad C., Wednesday, 13 September 2023 22:59 (eight months ago) link
Dolenz Sings R.E.M. Tracklist:01. Shiny Happy People02. Radio Free Europe03. Man on the Moon04. Leaving New York
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 23:57 (eight months ago) link
Cool
― The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 September 2023 11:01 (eight months ago) link
Daydream BeSleeper
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 14 September 2023 13:44 (eight months ago) link
ok, i have to really tip my cap for getting Wuxtry Records into that cover. next best thing would've been the tree that owns itself.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 15 September 2023 14:18 (eight months ago) link
Some commentary by Mike on various songs and other R.E.M.-related things: https://www.vulture.com/article/mike-mills-rem-michael-stipe-superlatives.html
― my brain goes aahhhh (morrisp), Friday, 15 September 2023 15:30 (eight months ago) link
Kind of fascinating how much they (and others) rep for "Reveal." Like, “All the Way to Reno (You’re Gonna Be a Star)” as the best song after Bill left? Really?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 September 2023 16:57 (eight months ago) link
Maybe it’s an in-joke
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 15 September 2023 19:55 (eight months ago) link
Number six.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 September 2023 20:07 (eight months ago) link
Mike talks extensively about Up and other things: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/r-e-m-mike-mills-up-no-reunion-1234867325/
(Mike's a talker these days!)
― Girl (1956) (morrisp), Thursday, 2 November 2023 21:06 (six months ago) link
daaaaamn -- that's a good long interview.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 November 2023 21:19 (six months ago) link
I will now promptly read the whole thing
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 2 November 2023 21:55 (six months ago) link
Thanks for that!
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 2 November 2023 22:09 (six months ago) link
Reunited! (in their appreciation of Michael Shannon)
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Friday, 9 February 2024 22:31 (three months ago) link
heh, I suspected at least most of them would show up, but this is cool.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 February 2024 22:52 (three months ago) link
My friend Dag (plays guitar in the band, lifer) shared this fun pic of him and Stipe last night.
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Friday, 9 February 2024 22:55 (three months ago) link
That's a great pic! (I'm friends of friends with Dag, he's sort of replacing my guitar teacher.)
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 February 2024 23:19 (three months ago) link
wow!
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 10 February 2024 00:35 (three months ago) link
This is a great show, with a few special guests in the encore... highly recommended, if you ever put concert recordings up on the TV while you putter around:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JulR2TPAUfA
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Monday, 12 February 2024 17:34 (three months ago) link
― paisley got boring (Eazy),
I can't tell them apart!
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 February 2024 17:57 (three months ago) link
nice, I was just watching that REM-in-Jersey show a week or so ago. really kicking myself for not going to the Michael Shannon thing in Chapel Hill (pretty sure it was reading an interview with Shannon that prompted me to watch that old REM show).
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Monday, 12 February 2024 19:11 (three months ago) link