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Anyone else listening to this podcast from What is Music? "R.E.M. joying This?" LOVE the Big Mates from UK and their deep dive on Radiohead's discography is also great. Highly recommend.
Next Monday they discuss 'Fables of the Reconstruction'
Actor and musician Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water, Revolutionary Road) and Jason Narducy (Bob Mould, Superchunk, SDRE) have been covering whole albums live in Chicago for the last 10 years. This July, they covered R.E.M.’s Murmur in tribute to its 40th anniversary at Chicago’s Metro, a show where Mike Mills ended up joining the band. They had so much fun, they decided to turn it into a short tour, playing the whole album and other songs from R.E.M.’s catalog.
so this is on sunday night and i am excited for it. they did an interview with a local critic and sounds like they'll be playing the album AND chronic town, which probably should have occurred to me as a possibility but just made me more excited about it all. i'm not expecting musical perfection by any means, but hopefully they do it some justice, and it will be nice to hear these songs that i'd likely otherwise never hear in a live setting. r.e.m. did play shaking through at the last show of theirs i saw in 2008, which was an unexpected and pleasant surprise.
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Post subject: Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Mon February 05, 2024 1:27 pm
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man, that was a LOT of fun. if you are in a position to go you really should. band was good and while they stayed true to the songs they added their own bits to some of them like an extended outro to perfect circle. michael shannon is no michael stipe vocally but he very clearly loved getting into and performing these songs. definitely weird seeing zod singing old r.e.m. songs (and true to form he refused to play superman). country feedback was my highlight- wholly unexpected. the last part of the show they were totally winging it- crowd was into it so they just kept playing, ended up being close to 2 1/2 hours. looks like we got a good chunk of reckoning, which i guess they are playing on two-night stands, as a result.
Radio Free Europe Pilgrimage Laughing Talk About the Passion Moral Kiosk Perfect Circle Catapult Sitting Still 9-9 Shaking Through We Walk West of the Fields There She Goes Again (The Velvet Underground cover)
Wolves, Lower Gardening at Night Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars) 1,000,000 Stumble Swan Swan H Second Guessing Letter Never Sent Pretty Persuasion Crazy (Pylon cover) Country Feedback These Days
So. Central Rain Little America (Don't Go Back to) Rockville Nightswimming Driver 8 Just a Touch
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Post subject: Re: How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
Posted: Wed February 21, 2024 2:26 am
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stip wrote:
Lifting, Saturn Returns, Beachball, and Chorus and the Ring are great
As you mentioned above - not a lot that I'd probably add to a mix, but as far as the album goes - no duds. I'll take the Rain stand out as MVP at the moment
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