― Scourage (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scourage (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scourage (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link
80's music education: REM/The Smiths
Is that how you see it then?
― Scourage (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Then, along comes three of their best ever albums.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link
There are 16 tracks on Hi-Fi, yes.
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Erroneous Botch (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Scourage (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link
All of this is personal opinion, and I don't mean to say that this should be true for everybody.
― Scourage (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 17 August 2006 02:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 17 August 2006 02:58 (seventeen years ago) link
I loved The Smiths, but they're a hard band to carry on loving in the same way after a certain age.
I pick... Throwing Muses!
― rollin', rollin', rollin', keep them dogies rollin', rawhide! thread (fandango), Thursday, 17 August 2006 03:01 (seventeen years ago) link
REM and the smiths are my two favorite bands; but the smiths are happy music for me now, while REM still invokes emotional responses in me.
and up is in my top three REM albums. took me seven years to get into it, but now it's a must.
― hndinglove (hndinglove), Thursday, 17 August 2006 03:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eisbaer, Thursday, 1 March 2007 10:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 1 March 2007 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sundar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― roger whitaker, Friday, 2 March 2007 00:22 (seventeen years ago) link
I have no stats to back this up. It is entirely a feeling of mine, but it seems to me that when it comes to today's overall cultural relevance, the balance tips so much in favor of The Smiths.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 21:39 (eight years ago) link
erm duhhh
― Laertiades (imago), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 21:46 (eight years ago) link
I think we were talking in another thread about how REM has fallen out of favor, based on the fact that their records can mostly be had for cheap and don't seem to be sought out by younger people.
Kinda hard to compare, though, since REM put out almost four times as many studio albums. Imagine if they'd split up after Lifes Rich Pageant.
― dc, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 21:48 (eight years ago) link
Not good bands
― Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 21:50 (eight years ago) link
True. Theyre great bands
― i;m thinking about thos Beans (Michael B), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 21:56 (eight years ago) link
Love both but I'm going for REM.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 22:05 (eight years ago) link
Surprised darragh doesnt like REM actually
― i;m thinking about thos Beans (Michael B), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 22:07 (eight years ago) link
I like both, but I'll take any '80s R.E.M. album over any Smiths album.
― // 166,000 W A N K E R S // LOVE (Turrican), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 22:33 (eight years ago) link
Idk I feel like the sublime introspection REM was lauded for only surfaces in fleeting glimpses in their actual recorded output
― i;m the worst poster e9er (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 11 March 2016 11:52 (eight years ago) link
Idk I feel like the sublime introspection REM was lauded for only surfaces in fleeting glimpses in their actual recorded output --i;m the worst poster e9er (Drugs A. Money)
― MatthewK, Friday, 11 March 2016 12:40 (eight years ago) link
I don't recall introspection being a particularly prominent critical touchstone for R.E.M. It's probably not the biggest thing someone would look for in Michael Stipe's lyrics.
― timellison, Friday, 11 March 2016 15:20 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I think REM is famous for creating hard-to-articulate feelings and mood, not for sublime introspection!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 11 March 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
^this
― Jesperson, I think we're lost (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 March 2016 16:21 (eight years ago) link
As much as I love Rourke's playing, I think that Berry/Mills were easily the superior rhythm section, and R.E.M. made quite a lot of records which I still enjoy listening to in full. The only Smiths album that I honestly think works from start to finish is The Queen Is Dead, although I've come to appreciate Meat Is Murder a lot more recently.
― // 166,000 W A N K E R S // LOVE (Turrican), Friday, 11 March 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link
REM bores me to tears these days, Smiths still vital, funny, evocative, surprising, detailed.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 March 2016 18:35 (eight years ago) link
I'd guess that REM will, over time, be more influential on a subtle musical level and The Smiths will be more influential on a conceptual level. The latter is what tends to get written about. Personally I prefer Smiths.
― dlp9001, Friday, 11 March 2016 18:46 (eight years ago) link
their actual recorded outputyou know this brings up an interesting point more broadly, which is that I wonder how much of the initial R.E.M. impact is due to what a phenomenal live band they were early in their career? Also makes me wonder about other bands whose live shows exceeded their recording impact.
― campreverb, Friday, 11 March 2016 20:03 (eight years ago) link