― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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
― elwisty (elwisty), Saturday, 30 April 2005 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 30 April 2005 23:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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
― 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
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― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 28 January 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
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― 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
― 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
Your link seems to be from a month later, but there shouldn't be any essential difference otherwise.
― Euler, Sunday, 23 May 2010 12:49 (thirteen years ago) link
here's a bootleg list. i had so much younger then; bodycount; that beat; and maybe more, but all from around 1981.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 23 May 2010 13:00 (thirteen years ago) link
just checked ebay and amazon. sadly, no sign of anyone selling the bootlegs (i realize you're not supposed to, but i took a chance).
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 23 May 2010 13:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll just say that it's trivial to get So Much Younger Then via your search engine of choice, and if you're willing to pay for a boot, this is just as sketchy & has the benefit of not having to pay a possibly shady dealer $20+ for it.
― Euler, Sunday, 23 May 2010 13:26 (thirteen years ago) link