When did REM turn shite (2 Viewers)

[Mitchum]

actually I meant the version on Eponymous not Murmur. It ain't on Murmur.

kinda slower on Eponymous.

Aye. Two versions of 'Radio free Europe' too. I prefer the 'Murmur' version. More mumbled innit.

 

[Lord Damian]

everything post-Green is dead to me. Monster in particular signalled the true end of REM imho.

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

everything post-Green is dead to me. Monster in particular signalled the true end of REM imho.

green was definitly their last great album.
everything after that was kinda patchy.
they've still had some great songs since then, just they seem a bit forced now.

 

[Pantone247]

I liked Monster too, I always thought if it had been any other band it would've been a cracking alt-fuzz-pop (to coin a pigeon hole) album, albeit one that tails off a little towards the end

 

[rampz]

new adventures in hi fi is ok but everything post green is shit really. i was just thinking abvout this earlier fiachra. mad or wha?

 

[Pantone247]

new adventures in hi fi is ok but everything post green is shit really. i was just thinking abvout this earlier fiachra. mad or wha?

it's all I ever think about Rampsy

that and boobies

 

[billygannon]

it's all I ever think about Rampsy

that and boobies

The Boobies Band

 

[rampz]

it's all I ever think about Rampsy

that and boobies

yeah boobies feature quite regularly in my daily thinking also. i do like boobies. i have to say though, green is up there with fables, document and lifes rich peagent as my fave rem album.

 

[Raudi Raus Schinkel]

All 35-year-olds automatically went out and bought an album of theirs once.

 

[crumb]

It all went downhill from Fables, some good moments on Document but from the second side (vinyl) it all went wrong.

Peter Buck seems to be content in playing g, d and e minor these days which is a shame as he was a great guitar player. He needs a good hard kick up the arse. He needs to come round to our house!

Maybe it all went wrong when he gave his Rickenbacker away to Captain America's on Grafton Street.

 

[desertedvillage]

Peter Buck seems to be content in playing g, d and e minor these days which is a shame as he was a great guitar player.

He said in an interview that Em was his favourite chord and he tries to work it into every song.

The rot started to creep in around monster but they get so shit later on. Whichever one was out around 2004 was jaw-droppingly terrible, only listened to it once

 

[nlgbbbblth]

He said in an interview that Em was his favourite chord and he tries to work it into every song.

The rot started to creep in around monster but they get so shit later on. Whichever one was out around 2004 was jaw-droppingly terrible, only listened to it once

yep, last LP, Around The Sun. Absolutely fucking dire. One of the worst records I ever bought.

really they should have quit after Up. Would have been a good way to finish.

That IRS double CD comp that came out a while back is stark reminder of how good they were.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

The Boobies Band

R.E.M. tune 1,000,000

divided by 100

congrats Billy.

 

[hugh]

All the IRS albums are great. Green and Automatic are both great too. Everything after that is weak. Haven't heard the last one. I'm such a cliche, because most of the time, I really do prefer the early stuff.

 

[rampz]

It all went downhill from Fables, some good moments on Document but from the second side (vinyl) it all went wrong.

Peter Buck seems to be content in playing g, d and e minor these days which is a shame as he was a great guitar player. He needs a good hard kick up the arse. He needs to come round to our house!

Maybe it all went wrong when he gave his Rickenbacker away to Captain America's on Grafton Street.

or when he went mad on the plane, trying to open the doors mid-flight and throwing yogurt at the stewardess. "do you know who i am?? i am rem!!!"

 

[Buzzo]

I've been listening to Document recently. Exhuming McCarthy is one of my favourite songs ever. What lots of people said. Consistently amazing as far as Green patchschool afters.

 

[Lord Damian]

green was definitly their last great album.
everything after that was kinda patchy.
they've still had some great songs since then, just they seem a bit forced now.

totally agreed, but it just isn't the same REM.

I liked Monster too, I always thought if it had been any other band it would've been a cracking alt-fuzz-pop (to coin a pigeon hole) album, albeit one that tails off a little towards the end

i didn't dislike Monster, i just see it as just such a 'non-REM' album (that is, a huge departure from their traditional jingle-jangle) that it may as well have been a different band.

in fairness, i haven't listened to the last 2 or 3 albums. something tells me i'm not missing a whole lot.

 

[Bunny]

to say that rem have turned to shite presupposes that they were at some time good. therein lies the problem at the heart of your question.

Agreed

 

[Anthony]

God I couldn't care less about REM.

 

[Mitchum]

God I couldn't care less about REM.

I'm sure Stipe & Co. feel the same about sub-Melvins chancers, Large Mound.
Life's funny like that.