This is where we talk about our favourite R.E.M. albums (1 Viewer)

[Pantone247]

Ah but Nightswimming and Find the River make for the most beautiful album closing...

*slaps face*

of course! Find the River! God that song is lovely

 

[madouva]

It's GOT to be Murmur, without a shadow of a doubt. By a country mile.

"Shaking Through" is absolutely divine, Stipe mumbling about Geisha dolls and that.
"Catapult" = pop heaven.
"Radio Free Europe" -- best use of a bell, more (slightly more coherent) Stipe mumblings.

 

[silo]

*slaps face*

yours or hers?

 

[LMD64]

the single for Nightswimming is great.

1. Nightswimming
2. Losing my religion (live)
3. World leader pretend (live)
4. Belong (live)
5. Low (live)

 

[Pantone247]

yours or hers?

mine silo, mine

 

[Lolo]

[completely random off-topic factoid]apparently, mr. orridge and his missus have both had/will have plastic surgery so that they'll look more like each other. i've seen photos of the current state of affairs. scary. [/factoid]

There was an exhibition of their photos on the subject in London reacently, but in an arsy gallery that's only open on week days, so I couldn't go. The idea is that they're turning their bodies into works of art, commenting on the couples-growing-to-look-like-each-other syndrome. Genesis has even had breast implants. Nice.

Back on topic, my votes go to Fables, Document and Murmur, although I haven't listened to any of them in ages. [showing my age] Capital Nite Sky has a lot to answer for [/fuck I'm old]

 

[rumpus]

pagent
document
green
hifi


Up is lyrically amazing...

Stipes development as a lyricist is a great education on the artform...he really has written some excellent stuff


'swan swan hummingbird...'


'run a carbon back test on my jaw'


'I want to cross my DNA, cross my DNA with something reptile'


me want to have his his babies

 

[Ex-User (1487)]

aren't most people touched at some stage by rem? i was... i haven't listened to them in years and years but listened to them non-stop for around 6 months at one stage... and still, after all that time, i'll find myself humming night swimming out of the blue, like it's just in there, nothing in particular seems to spark it...

 

[muddymae]

you could say that,
i was moving out of my gaff the other day and i found a collage of micheal stipe that wheels made for me many moons ago,


also the unwashed coffe cup that micheal stipe used once
but the less said about that the better . . .

 

[Jim Daniels]

Back on topic, my votes go to Fables, Document and Murmur, although I haven't listened to any of them in ages. [showing my age] Capital Nite Sky has a lot to answer for [/fuck I'm old]

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Capital Nite Sky RULED..!!
I remember the night they closed, 31 Dec 1988, last song played was A House- I Will Always Be Grateful.

My fave REM song is............ I am Superman
What LP is that on?

 

[ronan yakuza]

I have to say, absolutely everything they did (but especially Chronic Town - Out of Time) up til Bill left has a very very special place in my heart, they were pretty much the band that got me into music in the first place, but after Bill left they were never really the same band, sad but true

 

[LMD64]

superman...

on Life's rich pagent

and that's a cool song aaight.

 

[minka]

My fave REM song is............ I am Superman
What LP is that on?

life's rich pageant.

it's a cover, though i can't for the life of me think of who did the original.

 

[LMD64]

life's rich pageant.

it's a cover, though i can't for the life of me think of who did the original.

The Clique? (M. Bottler/G. Zekley)



I am I am I am Superman and I know what's happening
I am I am I am Superman and I can do anything

You don't really love that guy you make it with now do you
I know you don't love that guy cause I can see right through you

If you go a million miles away I'll track you down girl
Trust me when I say I know the pathway to your heart

 

[LMD64]

Ah, Google, you gift me with the manifestation of wisdom and sagacity. Likened to the fount of all knowledge do I appear to all who meet me, yes. Without you I am nothing, nothing, do you hear?

 

[Super Dexta]

when they played marley park a couple of weeks ago i was able to listen to them from by friends back garden. they souded brillo, i've never actually seen them live tho

i could also hear it perfeckly from my back garden, me an my flatmate danced around reliving our youth (!) was great, beats paying however much it was to go see em...

 

[Pantone247]

they were pretty much the band that got me into music in the first place,

me too!

I bought Green when it came out, and my Da who's a lecturer asked his students who this "REM" crowd his son was listening too were (my Da is one of those lecurers who desperatly has to be down with the kids). One of his students taped pretty much all their albums to that point for him to give to me. I was totally stoked!

Listening to Reckoning and Murmer stll take me back to being a youngster and listening to them on my walkman at night in bed. *sniff*

It's a group hug sorta moment, isn't it?

 

[silo]

me too!

I bought Green when it came out, and my Da who's a lecturer asked his students who this "REM" crowd his son was listening too were (my Da is one of those lecurers who desperatly has to be down with the kids). One of his students taped pretty much all their albums to that point for him to give to me. I was totally stoked!

Listening to Reckoning and Murmer stll take me back to being a youngster and listening to them on my walkman at night in bed. *sniff*

It's a group hug sorta moment, isn't it?

you fucking wet cream bun, you.

 

[Ex-User (1487)]

much love and props out to my main man pants. *HUG*

*schmak*

It's a group hug sorta moment, isn't it?

 

[Barrel OCarols]

you could say that,
i was moving out of my gaff the other day and i found a collage of micheal stipe that wheels made for me many moons ago,


also the unwashed coffe cup that micheal stipe used once
but the less said about that the better . . .

ah I had the biggest crush on Stipey for years... even after I realised he was gay as a gay person