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How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us: An REM Thread
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Author:  EJ [ Fri March 18, 2016 1:38 pm ]
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stip wrote:
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!
Author:  stip [ 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.
Author:  chewm [ Fri March 18, 2016 2:42 pm ]
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I feel pretty much the same about this.
Author:  washing machine [ Wed March 30, 2016 2:25 pm ]
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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
Author:  Norris [ Wed March 30, 2016 5:37 pm ]
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washing machine wrote:
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.
Author:  Mike [ Wed March 30, 2016 5:47 pm ]
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That was lovely. He sounds great.
Author:  Rangi Guy [ Fri September 23, 2016 2:44 am ]
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http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/listen/r-e-m-reveal-radio-song-demo/
Author:  matt reeder [ Fri September 23, 2016 3:06 am ]
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Rangi Guy wrote:
http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/listen/r-e-m-reveal-radio-song-demo/


This has been circulating for a long time on bootlegs. It's nice to see it get released.
Author:  Self [ Sun October 02, 2016 9:32 pm ]
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Be Mine is one of my favorite REM songs. Such a great guitar groove.
Author:  tragabigzanda [ Mon November 14, 2016 3:49 pm ]
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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
Author:  Norris [ Mon November 14, 2016 7:36 pm ]
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Self wrote:
Be Mine is one of my favorite REM songs. Such a great guitar groove.

Same
Author:  tragabigzanda [ Mon November 14, 2016 7:56 pm ]
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cutuphalfdead wrote:
Self wrote:
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.
Author:  PHATJ [ Tue November 15, 2016 1:45 am ]
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tragabigzanda wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
Self wrote:
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.
Author:  Norris [ Tue November 15, 2016 1:47 am ]
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New Adventures in Hi-Fi is really fucking good, but definitely a bit overrated around these parts.
Author:  chewm [ Tue November 15, 2016 2:34 am ]
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I agree.
Author:  Kevin Davis [ Tue November 15, 2016 2:42 am ]
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Hey, a favorite's a favorite. And "Hi-Fi" is my favorite.
Author:  digster [ Tue November 15, 2016 5:37 am ]
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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

Quote:
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.
Author:  surfndestroy [ Sun November 20, 2016 8:15 pm ]
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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
Author:  Coach [ Mon November 21, 2016 3:27 pm ]
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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....
Author:  Norris [ Mon November 21, 2016 7:41 pm ]
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I'm just gonna steal it once waffles goes back up.
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