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 Post subject: Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
PostPosted: Fri March 18, 2016 1:38 pm 
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And we're live. Please let me know if you can see the forum and if you can post in it.

wow, this is great. thanks, stip!


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 Post subject: Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
PostPosted: Fri March 18, 2016 1:57 pm 
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I'm excited for this because I love REM almost as much as pearl jam (sometimes more), but I don't have the same carefully ordered preferences and invested opinions. No dogs in this fight. Just love.

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PostPosted: Fri March 18, 2016 2:42 pm 
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I feel pretty much the same about this.


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 Post subject: Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
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It's good to hear this voice doing new things again, if only for a few minutes.

http://pitchfork.com/news/64471-michael ... l_facebook

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It's good to hear this voice doing new things again, if only for a few minutes.

http://pitchfork.com/news/64471-michael ... l_facebook

I'm pretty sure that's Charles Darwin.


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 Post subject: Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
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That was lovely. He sounds great.


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 Post subject: Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
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 Post subject: Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
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This has been circulating for a long time on bootlegs. It's nice to see it get released.


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 Post subject: Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
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Be Mine is one of my favorite REM songs. Such a great guitar groove.


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 Post subject: Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
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Michael Stipe's interview on Here's the Thing is pretty good. Probably not a lot of new stuff if you're a dedicated fan, but it was interesting for a casual fan like me.

http://www.wnyc.org/story/michael-stipe


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 Post subject: Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
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Be Mine is one of my favorite REM songs. Such a great guitar groove.

Same


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 Post subject: Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
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Be Mine is one of my favorite REM songs. Such a great guitar groove.

Same

Any idea how the band themselves regard NAIHF now? My sense is that it's considered a minor album, but it's definitely one of my faves.


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tragabigzanda wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
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Be Mine is one of my favorite REM songs. Such a great guitar groove.

Same

Any idea how the band themselves regard NAIHF now? My sense is that it's considered a minor album, but it's definitely one of my faves.

No idea how they feel about it, but I think it might be their best.


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New Adventures in Hi-Fi is really fucking good, but definitely a bit overrated around these parts.


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I agree.


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 Post subject: Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
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Hey, a favorite's a favorite. And "Hi-Fi" is my favorite.


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 Post subject: Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
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Yeah, same.

And I'm pretty sure each member of the band has said Hi-Fi is either up there or their favorite; it's Stipe's favorite record by the band: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/arts/ ... rview.html

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We were really stretching ourselves, trying really hard to push what we did. Looking back, it makes sense that the next record would be “Automatic for the People,” that it’d be a radically different step. And the next would be “Monster,” a record that nobody liked. But everyone expected another version of “Automatic” and we weren’t about to give them that. So in a way we shot ourselves in the foot. But it turns out, 20 years later, that’s not a bad record, “Monster.” And then we released my favorite album of our entire canon, which is “New Adventures in Hi-Fi.” It’s a band at our very peak. And then, of course, Bill [Berry, the group’s original drummer] left the band.


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 Post subject: Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
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here's a link to some really great write ups about each album. They're very well done and place the albums under the environment they were recorded and of the political era.

http://www.udiscovermusic.com/essentials/r-e-m

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 Post subject: Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
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Question: I was going to order the Out of Time 25th anniversary package and want that live album as part of it. But my understanding is that I need to order the CDs, as there's no digital download. Really? iTunes has just the remastered album plus the demos, but not the live show....


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I'm just gonna steal it once waffles goes back up.


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