REM Post-1990: POX

That's actually a pretty gnarly performance which was apparently intended as a bit of a "Take that" to Don Gehman. I think the story was that Stipe did it and just walked right out of the studio afterwards?

Though it's hard to pick out individual songs from Automatic, that has to be one of the most gorgeous sounding records ever.

mine:
10 Summer Turns To High
9 The Apologist
8 Half A World Away
7 Losing My Religion
6 New Test Leper
5 Man on the Moon
4 Country Feedback
3 Near Wild Heaven
2 Electrolite
1 Find the River

63 individual tracks voted for thus far, the most popular 21 being (in raw unweighted votes):

1. Losing My Religion [11 votes]
2. Find The River [9 votes]
2. Man On The Moon [9 votes]
4. Daysleeper [8 votes]
4. E-Bow The Letter [8 votes]
4. Electrolite [8 votes]
7. What's The Frequency Kenneth? [7 votes]
7. At My Most Beautiful [7 votes]
7. Half a World Away [7 votes]
7. Imitation of Life [7 votes]
7. Drive [7 votes]
7. Sweetness Follows [7 votes]
13. Bad Day [6 votes]
13. The Great Beyond [6 votes]
13. Leave [6 votes]
13. Near Wild Heaven [6 votes]
13. Try Not To Breathe [6 votes]
13. Country Feedback [6 votes]
19. Nightswimming [5 votes]
19. Me in Honey [5 votes]
19. Country Feedback [5 votes]

Interesting to see the "Find the River" love! Who knew?

This may or may not mean that y'all rate the regular studio LPs in this order:

1. Automatic For the People [58 votes]
2. Out of Time [41 votes]
3. New Adventures in Hi-fi [35 votes]
4. Monster [31 votes]
4. Up [26 votes]
5. Reveal [17 votes]
6. Around the Sun [3 votes]

It appears that every track on Monster and Out of Time has 1 or more votes!

Er, hope peeps don't take that as a cue to stop posting now, of course...

1. "Find the River"
2. "Daysleeper"
3. "Imitation of Life"
4. "Man on the Moon"
5. "Losing My Religion"
6. "New Test Leper"
7. "The Great Beyond"
8. "Crush w/Eyeliner"
9. "Photograph" (I'm pretty sure the compilation this was obn was post-'90.)
10. "Final Straw"

(chronological, not ranked)

Me In Honey
Shiny Happy People
Belong
What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
Strange Currencies
Star 69
The Wake-Up Bomb
Departure
Sad Professor
Discoverer

great list. discoverer! an alternate

belong
circus act
leave
me in honey
nightswimming
find the river
texarkana
country feedback
losing my religion
beachball

Country Feedback
Me in Honey
Sweetness Follows
Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
New Test Leper
Leave
Departure
So Fast, So Numb
Electrolite
Sad Professor

be mine
beat a drum
the ascent of man
make it all okay
star me kitten
man-sized wreath
bang & blame
electrolite
living well is the best revenge
the sweetness follows

Sweetness Follows
Country Feedback
Try Not To Breathe
Nightswimming
Me In Honey
Circus Envy
You're In The Air
Electrolite
Beat A Drum (Dalkey demo)
King of Comedy

I don't want to discount the 'big' songs such as Man On The Moon and Losing My Religion, cos they're great, but I've probably overplayed them a bit. Wanted to through King of Comedy in there cos it's so odd.

Actually, swap out Electrolite for Be Mine. Oh shit, and I didn't put Near Wild Heaven in there! Sub that for King of Comedy. Ach, I could easily choose a totally different top ten. There's loads of good stuff there.

Losing My Religion
Try Not To Breathe
Bittersweet Me
Sweetness Follows
Half A World Away
Man On The Moon
I Don't Sleep, I Dream
Daysleeper
Undertow
Texarkana

Speak, memory (i.e., it's been a long time since I've actually taken an album off the shelf):

"Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)"
"Radio Free Europe"
"(Don't Go Back to) Rockville"
"7 Chinese Bros."
"Driver 8"
"Life and How to Live It"
"It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"
"Man on the Moon"
"New Orleans Instrumental No. 1"
"The Great Beyond"

If I took the time to do some re-listening, I'd probably replace "Life and How to Live It" and "End of the World" (overplay) with an album track from Murmur and at least one song from the last 10 years.

this is the post-1990 POX!

As I scanned the lists, I was wondering why nobody seemed to like early R.E.M.

1. Drive

1. Leave
2. Find The River
3. Losing My Religion
4. Try Not to Breathe
5. Electrolite
6. Texarkana
7. I Don't Sleep, I Dream
8. Daysleeper
9. Near Wild Heaven
10. At My Most Beautiful

i think they had as good a 90s as they did an 80s. in fact a better 90s than anyone who was left standing from the late 70s/early 80s (Depeche, Prince, U2, etc)

less said about their 00's the better i guess although a post-2000 POX i'd like to read people's thoughts on.

Yeah, post-2000 Pox is a good call... Although like most, I've not really investigated the albums enough after Reveal to make it fair. So something like this. One of the issues is that two of their best songs of the decade are from the 80s: All The Right Friends and Bad Day. Do I put em in? Ach, I suppose so.

1. Beat A Drum (Dalkey demo, album version ruins it with overproduction)
2. The Lifting
3. I've Been High
4. Bad Day
5. All The Right Friends
6. Beach Ball
7. Living Well Is The Best Revenge
8. All The Way To Reno
9. Oh My Heart
10. Leaving New York

post-2000 pox:

beat a drum
i've been high
the ascent of man
the outsiders
aftermath
man-sized wreath
houston
horse to water
i wanted to be wrong
disappear

pretty good album there

UBerlin
Mine Smell Like Honey
Every Day Is Yours to Win
Living Well Is the Best Revenge
Mr. Richards
Leaving New York
I Wanted to Be Wrong
Aftermath
The Lifting
Imitation of Life

green, oot, autopeeps.... all sounded fine at the time, but never the stuff I go back to..

I was going to suggest a post-2000 POX! But I didn't think enough people would be interested. "All The Right Friends" and "Bad Day" TOTALLY DO NOT COUNT.

Started by Dom Passantino

lmao