Sorry to hear them go i quite like there new album although i know I will be in the minority when i say my favortie R.E.M album was New Adventures In Hi-Fi
I was at the 2 concerts Ktrain mentioned and that show at Thunderbird is a top 10 Show for me.
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edit: FWIW, i consider this more of a retirement than a break-up
Agreed, that's a much better way to put it.
Great career, some great music. My personal favorites are E-Bow the Letter & Country Feedback.
Funny to read this on a night where Pearl Jam are playing. Not that they have anything to do with each other, but both are probably the first 2 bands I ever really got into.
Makes me reflect and feel like I'm becoming that old adult who listens to music from a past generation.
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Patti Smith on E-bow The Letter with them is musical gold
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Agreed, that's a much better way to put it.
Great career, some great music. My personal favorites are E-Bow the Letter & Country Feedback.
Funny to read this on a night where Pearl Jam are playing. Not that they have anything to do with each other, but both are probably the first 2 bands I ever really got into.
Makes me reflect and feel like I'm becoming that old adult who listens to music from a past generation.
Wow thanks listing those songs. I was never a huge REM fan, just listened to their raido hits. Those are both great songs, I'll have to get into them a bit more now.
I saw them play at Thunderbird Stadium in Vancouver in 2003. It was their greatest hits tour and the concert was awesome. Radiohead played the next night and were watching the show. Thom York came on stage and played E Bow the Letter and It's The End of the World as We Know It with the band.
I saw them again when they came to Calgary in 2004. The concert wasn't as good but but still fun.
I wish I could have gone to that. My schedule didn't allow me to. Wilco was also there!
Admittedly I haven't listened to their last three albums, but they were/are one of my favourites. I think their legacy is summed up best in this song which is partially about REM.
Also, my favourite REM song:
The first four songs on Life's Rich Pageant are amazing. Revolutionary even.
Accellerate is a great album as well, for those of you who missed it.
Kinda takes the sting out of Reveal and Around The Sun.
Havent heard Collapse Into Now yet.
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Admittedly I haven't listened to their last three albums, but they were/are one of my favourites. I think their legacy is summed up best in this song which is partially about REM.
Peter Buck used to hang out with the Replacements, and plays on I Will Dare. He was very much a mentor and supporter of underground music in the 1980s.
R.E.M.'s real secret weapon has always been Mills' voice, a sunny yelp that wraps perfectly around Stipe's plaintive, portentous wail; he's the loyal sidekick who quietly, patiently keeps the guy in the spotlight from getting himself killed.
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It's too bad that they couldn't erase Shiny Happy People before they quit. That song stands out like a pimple on their otherwise terrific run.
The negative impact of that song was neutralized by the presence of Kate Pierson's voice on it. She's fantastic.
Not one of my favorite REM songs, but I can stomach it because of her.
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R.E.M.'s real secret weapon has always been Mills' voice, a sunny yelp that wraps perfectly around Stipe's plaintive, portentous wail; he's the loyal sidekick who quietly, patiently keeps the guy in the spotlight from getting himself killed.
WOW First clip on that link 'Radio Free Europe' on Letterman in 1983 that sums up why I used to really like these guys. I was going to post that link.
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Agreed, that's a much better way to put it.
Great career, some great music. My personal favorites are E-Bow the Letter & Country Feedback.
Funny to read this on a night where Pearl Jam are playing. Not that they have anything to do with each other, but both are probably the first 2 bands I ever really got into.
Makes me reflect and feel like I'm becoming that old adult who listens to music from a past generation.
Funny you say that. The bands are actually pretty good friends.
Eddie Vedder played a song from REM's last album at the Pearl Jam show last night in tribute to them. It was a nice touch.
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WOW First clip on that link 'Radio Free Europe' on Letterman in 1983 that sums up why I used to really like these guys. I was going to post that link.
my first recollection of R.E.M. was seeing them perform (the then I believe untitled) So. central rain on Letterman- may have been the same episode, circa 1983 for sure
my favorite band for sure, despite the fact they have faded for the 2nd half of their career
put out at least 5 great albums IMO (murmur, reckoning, life's rich pageant, document, automatic) and several others that were very good
it's unfortunate that most of their best known (or most grating) singles really don't reflect that much their typical body of work
Yah, after the first 3 or 4 I thought they went off on a tangent that I couldn't follow. I kept all the old stuff and played that a lot.
Don't forget Eponymous (sp?)
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Up is an underrated record. I feel bad when it's listed as work of little interest. The records that immediately followed it, sure, but Up itself was good.
I suppose Automatic for the People is my favorite. Never really counted myself among the band's fans, but I have been listening to them, on and off, since I was 12.
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