― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link
once they moved from dance clubs to theatres
― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Middle ground between what and what?
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 30 April 2005 21:01 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 30 April 2005 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 30 April 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 1 May 2005 00:14 (nineteen 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
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― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link
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― 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
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Monday, 29 January 2007 00:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 29 January 2007 00:43 (seventeen years ago) link
That rant above is kind of ridiculous, though. R.E.M. were a power pop band who liked Gang of Four and Fairport Convention. If other bands were influenced by them in crap ways, it was their own fault.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 29 January 2007 01:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Monday, 29 January 2007 04:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Tell me they don't look more kick-fucking-arse here than at any point since pre BINGO HAND JOB.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRVxOmu87MA
― pisces, Monday, 15 October 2007 02:36 (sixteen years ago) link
staring sideways at a laptop while singing pretty much removes all "kick-fucking-arse" from a performance
― da croupier, Monday, 15 October 2007 03:27 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck is Stipe's problem? You don't see a goddamn music stand in front of Peter or Mike.
― da croupier, Monday, 15 October 2007 03:28 (sixteen years ago) link
It is a good song, though.
― Davey D, Monday, 15 October 2007 03:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I would be 'anticipating' Accelerate in this thread if only I could listen to their watermarked promo on my computer or in my car. I may need to borrow a discman.
― fukasaku tollbooth, Sunday, 24 February 2008 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
L£ak£d.
― pisces, Sunday, 16 March 2008 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
So the weather in the UK has turned at last and out of the blue I have some strange and nostalgic feeling toward the first four or five REM albums. What gives?
― double shyamalan (MaresNest), Sunday, 23 May 2010 10:49 (thirteen years ago) link
You can see yourself at 30?
― Euler, Sunday, 23 May 2010 11:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha, well I'm 38
― double shyamalan (MaresNest), Sunday, 23 May 2010 11:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I still haven't worked up the courage to listen to Accelerate, not to mention the two recent live albums either. Soon! I've been enjoying a lot of 80s-era REM bootlegs recently; "Baby I" is such a hot song.
― Euler, Sunday, 23 May 2010 11:24 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i'd say it's more "you can see youself at 40" for early REM nostalgia.
i get that feeling in early summer, too.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 23 May 2010 11:26 (thirteen years ago) link
you know what sounds especially good as summer really begins to swelter? fables of the reconstruction.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 23 May 2010 11:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Daniel, don't you live in Florida? It's always swelter there!
― Euler, Sunday, 23 May 2010 12:08 (thirteen years ago) link
lol, yeah. we actually had a cool -- sometimes cold -- winter. but the swelter has returned now.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 23 May 2010 12:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i used to have about five rem bootlegs on cassette. they had some of my favorite rem songs. i can't find them, and if i could find them, i couldn't play them (it's all discs and mp3s now, sadly).
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 23 May 2010 12:14 (thirteen years ago) link
and by "favorites," i mean unreleased stuff.
Lots of o/w unreleased material floats around out there, if you're inclined that way. The one I love the most is called So Much Younger Then, from 1981. Evidently there's a fuller version of that set, called Georgia Peaches—Ripe!, but I've never managed to track it down.
― Euler, Sunday, 23 May 2010 12:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i had so much younger then! i can't begin to describe how much i adored that cassette. i wish they would somehow make these bootlegs available.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 23 May 2010 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXdrz1AHXJE
― Euler, Sunday, 23 May 2010 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link
is that the set that so much younger then was taken from? i've heard the entire muti-video set on youtube. i think this is part one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq2kTRR1YJo&feature=related
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 23 May 2010 12:45 (thirteen years 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
My friend Dag (plays guitar in the band, lifer) shared this fun pic of him and Stipe last night.
― 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