― Stevo, Saturday, 26 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DG, Saturday, 26 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
As opposed to apparently every critic around the world, I'm quite disappointed by Reveal. The last thing we need now is another apathetic 'Hey, everything will be alright' album. The tunes are pretty enough but I can't hear anything with the passion of Murmur or Lifes Rich Pageant. Maybe the computers just took it out of them a little.
― John Davey, Monday, 28 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Paul M Lafleur, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― the pinefox, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Records I like in the zero decade include: Lloyd, The Negatives; 6ths, Hyacinths & Thistles; Costello / Mutter, For The Stars; B&S, FYHCYWLAP. Of these, I think Lloyd's is the best. EC does what he does. 6ths and B&S are patchy by their authors' standards. I can't think of many others.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jack Redelfs, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Yeh, anything after 'document' or even 'lifes rich pageant' for that matter is supsect but ya kind of had o be there to understand the significance at the time.....
I but them at this time at of sentimentality
― Michael D, Sunday, 31 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 30 April 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 30 April 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 30 April 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 30 April 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost:tim, i think that post could cut both ways...
― john'n'chicago, Saturday, 30 April 2005 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 30 April 2005 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link
still classic, even if i hardly ever take these discs off the shelf any more. i used to debate the merits of gardening at night with my trig teacher.
― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Saturday, 30 April 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 30 April 2005 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link
I thought The Great Beyond was a lovely single, as was Imitation of Life (even Bad Day fits into this category), but those seem more like lucky accidents than an indication that they could record an entire album as consistent as those 15 years ago.
― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Saturday, 30 April 2005 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link
If "Hi-Fi" had ended with "Be Mine," it'd be classic REM, probably in my top four or five.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 30 April 2005 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 30 April 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― I.M. (I.M.), Saturday, 30 April 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 30 April 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
having missed the monster tour - which would've been awesome as a high schooler - i was equally thrilled to see them on the UP tour as a college senior. they were ecstatic and did their best to include some older stuff...that the crowd booed!
― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Saturday, 30 April 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link
once they moved from dance clubs to theatres
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Middle ground between what and what?
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 30 April 2005 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link
May I say that this is just an utterly DIRE portrait of the people that like their music?
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 30 April 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 30 April 2005 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 30 April 2005 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― elwisty (elwisty), Saturday, 30 April 2005 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 30 April 2005 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 1 May 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link
The Klosterman thing is patronising, but it is true that REM had a certain arty liberal outsider appeal. They were a great band to be into when you're first discovering music. They and Nirvana were the first bands not in my parents' record collections I got into. Both were non-macho, arty rock bands and a great gateway drug into more esoteric pleasures.
So Classic! Despite the undeniable dudness of Reveal and Around the Bum.(That said, Reveal had Beat A Drum, which is terrible on the album, but beautiful in its spare piano demo form).
― stew!, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― dr xo'skeleton, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 28 January 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 28 January 2007 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link
i don't think people were saying the words were inaudible; just indecipherable. stipe didn't really start enunciating until lifes rich pageant, a rumored concession to their label.
― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Monday, 29 January 2007 00:00 (seventeen years 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 (eight months ago) link
good show, MaresNest, thanks for sharing
― Brad C., Sunday, 13 August 2023 14:16 (eight 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 (eight 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven months ago) link
Cool
― The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 September 2023 11:01 (seven months ago) link
Daydream BeSleeper
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 14 September 2023 13:44 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven months ago) link
Maybe it’s an in-joke
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 15 September 2023 19:55 (seven months ago) link
Number six.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 September 2023 20:07 (seven 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 (five months ago) link
daaaaamn -- that's a good long interview.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 November 2023 21:19 (five 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 (five months ago) link
Thanks for that!
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 2 November 2023 22:09 (five months ago) link
Reunited! (in their appreciation of Michael Shannon)
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Friday, 9 February 2024 22:31 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two months ago) link
wow!
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 10 February 2024 00:35 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two months ago) link