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R.E.M. Band • Page 14

Discussion in 'Music Forum' started by DaydreamNation, Mar 31, 2016.

  1. Clive Butler

    Newbie

    Here is my cover of King Of Birds
    Please check out my YouTube channel for many other R.E.M. covers
     
  2. iCarly Rae Jepsen

    run away with me Platinum

     
  3. SuddenUrgeJoey

    queer as fuck. Supporter

  4. Barcara

    Regular

    If I read this correctly, Barry has put three songs from albums he's not on in his ten choices, very cool.

    Also The Bear is insanely good this season, as if it wasn't already a high bar for this show.
     
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  5. Paulms85

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    This band are my no 1 wish I had seen live. Been listening to them for 25 years. Got into them during the press for Up.

    Enjoy all the IRS (pre Green) stuff. Out of Time through to New Adventures in HiFi are all brilliant - yes most albums contain a couple of tracks that are a bit iffy and have an outsized impact on their passing reputation (Shiny Happy People, Everybody Hurts) but there are no bands like them. Even the latter couple of albums are fairly consistent. I actually think they are underappreciated in current times such is the strength and uniqueness of their catalogue

    Michael Stipe is just brilliant. So pleased to see them getting a boost with the Bear.
     
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  6. Craig Manning

    @FurtherFromSky Moderator

    They just pressed Around the Sun and Collapse Into Now on vinyl and I grabbed both of them. Really been enjoying those. Accelerate and Reveal coming this fall.
     
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  7. sam_might_say

    “Damn son, where’d you find this?”

  8. iCarly Rae Jepsen

    run away with me Platinum

     
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    iCarly Rae Jepsen

    run away with me Platinum



     
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  10. phaynes12

    https://expertfrowner.bandcamp.com/ Prestigious

    respectfully, mike being in a room with that group making an album sounds dreadful lol
     
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  11. irthesteve

    formerly irthesteve Prestigious

    Fascinating excerpt
     
  12. sam_might_say

    “Damn son, where’d you find this?”

    They had me at “Antonoff” but lost me at “Healy”
     
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  13. Jim

    Trusted Supporter

    I’ve recently realized I REALLY fucking like Up.
     
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  14. sam_might_say

    “Damn son, where’d you find this?”

    It’s a weird one, for sure. But there are some great tracks on there. At My Most Beautiful is amazing
     
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  15. Craig Manning

    @FurtherFromSky Moderator

    I've just generally come to appreciate how much I like their later material recently. A bunch of underrated albums.
     
  16. abw123

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    every single REM album has some worthwhile songs on it and most of the latter years are underrated

    I like Up the least, but it has a handful of good tunes
     
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  17. abw123

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    New Adventures in Hi Fi is a masterpiece

    Around the Sun and Accelerate are both very solid
     
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  18. sam_might_say

    “Damn son, where’d you find this?”

    New Adventures is a very close second behind Automatic for me for favorite album of theirs. Hell, I consider it one of my all-time favorite albums, period. So many amazing tracks that perfectly capture every era of the band. I’ll never bore of listening to it.

    Although, I don’t usually affiliate that album with their later work. For me it’s Up and everything after
     
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  19. abw123

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    Fair, but I consider Monster the last of their run on top of the world so to me everything after that is latter era. But you’re not wrong
     
  20. Craig Manning

    @FurtherFromSky Moderator

    I know it’s not the popular take, but I go back to their ‘90s and 2000s work so much more than their ‘80s albums. I don’t know if it’s because I lived through that period of the band and therefore have some nostalgic appreciation for all those albums, or if I generally find their sound more interesting as they went along, but I definitely reach for, like, New Adventures a lot more than I reach for Murmur.
     
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  21. Jim

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    theres days New American is my favorite of theirs, I think Lifes Rich Pageant is my favorite overall though.
     
  22. Rowan5215

    An inconsequential shift as the continents drift.

    Up has Daysleeper which is a fucking tidal wave of a song especially as a night shift worker
     
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  23. SuddenUrgeJoey

    queer as fuck. Supporter

    Yep, I think Pageant is #1 and Hi-Fi is #2 for me
     
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  24. Jason Tolpin

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    I had to look up the dates when they toured with 10,000 maniacs (1989) - Natalie Merchant came out to sing a song with REM, and Michael Stipe came out to sing a song with them.

    Lifes Rich Pageant was one of my first cassettes, and the next 2 tapes for Document and Green are the trinity for me, similar to Weezers Blue, Green, and Pinkerton.
     
  25. Matthewconte

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    I love Collapse Into Now
     
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