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Post by chvrchbarrel on Sept 4, 2018 10:59:45 GMT -6
In BRBR's absence, and with thebosma beginning his trip through the REM discography, let's talk all things REM in this thread. To kick things off, I admittedly had no idea about Chronic Town until I started the RUTREMRe:M podcast. Hard for me to pick a favorite, they're all kind of neck and neck - but I guess this would be my knee-jerk reaction to picking one. |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Sept 4, 2018 11:05:41 GMT -6
This is also impossible to ignore
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2018 11:05:52 GMT -6
i've had a REM playlist for years that i love but i really oughta go through the whole discography again as well. been far too long and probably lots of A+ tracks that didn't make my playlist.
gonna need something to get through the insane amount of bullshit data that came to my desk over the holiday anyway.
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Post by thebosma on Sept 4, 2018 11:08:07 GMT -6
Yeah, so I only really had processed that I knew "Perfect Circle" before I listened to Murmur but all of these tracks are like, immediately added to my favorite R.E.M. songs list. Big fan of this one. It's gonna be hard to not just exclusively listen to this one over and over again.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Sept 4, 2018 11:09:25 GMT -6
i've had a REM playlist for years that i love but i really oughta go through the whole discography again as well. been far too long and probably lots of A+ tracks that didn't make my playlist. gonna need something to get through the insane amount of bullshit data that came to my desk over the holiday anyway. It's weird, even though I just did it this year, it synced up pretty well with when my last job was at its worst, so I have some unfair negative connotations associated with some of the post-Document stuff. For example, all I can remember about listening to Green is being really anxious and pissed off in the car almost every time it was on. The roller-coaster of that job led Up to be a diamond in the rough of their later albums. It'd all be worth revisiting. |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Sept 4, 2018 11:09:49 GMT -6
Yeah, so I only really had processed that I knew "Perfect Circle" before I listened to Murmur but all of these tracks are like, immediately added to my favorite R.E.M. songs list. Big fan of this one. It's gonna be hard to not just exclusively listen to this one over and over again. Dude, wait til Reckoning I decided to build/keep a running "Favorite REM" playlist while I did this, and for the first few weeks it was just those two albums haha. I didn't care much for Fables (or half of Pageant, tbh) |
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Post by alady on Sept 4, 2018 11:21:57 GMT -6
Green sounds like freshman year of high school to me.
Love that video above with long haired babby Stipey.
Fun fact, R.E.M. played my old coworker's house in C-U in the 80's.
This post is very old.
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Post by thebosma on Sept 4, 2018 11:22:59 GMT -6
Green sounds like my -7th birthday
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Post by thebosma on Sept 4, 2018 11:27:03 GMT -6
Yeah, so I only really had processed that I knew "Perfect Circle" before I listened to Murmur but all of these tracks are like, immediately added to my favorite R.E.M. songs list. Big fan of this one. It's gonna be hard to not just exclusively listen to this one over and over again. Dude, wait til Reckoning Getting this one started now and I already like what I'm hearing a lot. Why the fuck have I not done this before? |
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Post by zircona1 on Sept 4, 2018 14:20:19 GMT -6
'Pilgrimage' is my favorite song on Murmur.
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Post by thebosma on Sept 4, 2018 16:09:18 GMT -6
Loved Reckoning. Another album full of exclusively good tracks. I didn't care for the first track or two on Fables of Reconstruction but it's growing on me the further it goes.
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Post by thebosma on Sept 4, 2018 19:36:41 GMT -6
None of the tracks off of Life's Rich Pageant really gripped me individually but as a whole it was still nice. I've moved onto Document which I enjoy quite a bit halfway through, and I know about half of the remaining tracks and like those. This is a good band and I enjoy them a lot also I'm so sorry that this thread is just me talking to myself about a band you have all been into for years
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Post by thebosma on Sept 4, 2018 22:09:34 GMT -6
Just finished my last album for the night (probably) with Green, which was exceptional and it's wild to me that it's my third favorite of what I've heard so far. Below, all of them ranked.
1. Murmur
2. Reckoning
3. Green
4. Document
5. Fables of the Reconstruction
6. Life's Rich Pageant
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2018 8:14:54 GMT -6
Fables is where it's at for me. It's so different than the rest of their albums. But you really can't go wrong with anything up to like 96.
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Post by thebosma on Sept 5, 2018 8:19:03 GMT -6
I liked Fables a lot, don't get me wrong. I notably enjoyed all of the albums thusfar
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Sept 5, 2018 8:26:32 GMT -6
Holy shit you're tearin' through these
I'm gonna listen to Fables again today. I listened to Pageant a few times since my run-through to try to get more into it, but other than Begin the Begin and Flowers of Guatemala I wasn't a huge fan. I feel like I should love Fall on Me, I just don't.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Sept 5, 2018 14:31:33 GMT -6
R.E.M. At the BBC was recently announced, but check out how expansive it really is - there is a baffling amount of stuff on this. Track list is spoilered below.  Includes performances from... John Peel Session (1998) Drivetime and Mark and Lard (2003) Radio 1 Live Lounge (2008) Nottingham's Rock City (1984) Milton Keynes National Bowl (1995 Monster Tour) Glastonbury (2009) St. James Church (2004 invite-only performance) Disc: 1
1. World Leader Pretend
2. Fretless
3. Half A World Away
4. Radio Song
5. Losing My Religion
6. Love Is All Around
7. Walk Unafraid
8. Daysleeper
9. Lotus
10. At My Most Beautiful
11. Bad Day
12. Orange Crush
13. Man On The Moon
14. Imitation Of Life
15. Supernatural Superserious
16. Munich
Disc: 2
1. Introduction
2. Losing My Religion
3. New Test Leper
4. Lotus
5. Parakeet
6. Electrolite
7. Perfect Circle
8. The Apologist
9. Daysleeper
10. Country Feedback
11. At My Most Beautiful
12. Walk Unafraid
13. Man On The Moon
Disc: 3
1. Second Guessing
2. Hyena
3. Talk About The Passion
4. West Of The Fields
5. (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
6. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
7. So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
8. Old Man Kensey
9. Gardening At Night
10. 9 - 9/Hey Diddle Diddle/Feeling Gravitys Pull
11. Windout
12. Driver 8
13. Pretty Persuasion
14. Radio Free Europe
15. Wendell Gee
16. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
Disc: 4
1. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
2. Crush With Eyeliner
3. Drive
4. Turn You Inside Out
5. Try Not To Breathe
6. I Took Your Name
7. Undertow
8. Bang And Blame
9. I Don't Sleep I Dream
10. Strange Currencies
11. Revolution
12. Tongue
Disc: 5
1. Man On The Moon
2. Country Feedback
3. Half A World Away
4. Losing My Religion
5. Pop Song 89
6. Finest Worksong
7. Get Up
8. Star 69
9. Let Me In
10. Everybody Hurts
11. Fall On Me
12. Departure
13. Its the End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Disc: 6
1. Lotus
2. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
3. So Fast, So Numb
4. The Apologist
5. Fall On Me
6. Daysleeper
7. The Wake - Up Bomb
8. The One I Love
9. Sweetness Follows
10. At My Most Beautiful
Disc: 7
1. Losing My Religion
2. Everybody Hurts
3. Walk Unafraid
4. Star 69
5. Finest Worksong
6. Man On The Moon
7. Why Not Smile
8. Crush With Eyeliner
9. Tongue
10. Cuyahoga
11. Its the End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Disc: 8
1. Intro
2. So Fast, So Numb
3. Boy In The Well
4. I Wanted To Be Wrong
5. E - Bow The Letter (with Thom Yorke)
6. Around The Sun
7. Aftermath
8. Losing My Religion
9. Walk Unafraid
10. Leaving New York
11. Imitation Of Life
12. Man On The Moon
Disc: 9 - DVD
1. Accelerating Backwards
2. Moon River
3. Pretty Persuasion
4. Pop Song 89
5. Orange Crush
6. Losing My Religion
7. Half A World Away
8. Crush With Eyeliner
9. Man On The Moon
10. Daysleeper
11. Imitation Of Life
12. So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
13. All The Way To Reno (You're Gonna Be A Star)
14. Leaving New York
15. Later... with Jools Holland Presents R.E.M.
16. Intro
17. Losing My Religion
18. Lotus
19. New Test Leper
20. Daysleeper
21. Electrolite
22. At My Most Beautiful
23. The Apologist
24. Country Feedback
25. Parakeet
26. So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
27. Walk Unafraid
28. Man On The Moon
29. The Passenger
30. Bonus Videos
31. I've Been High
32. Nightswimming
33. Bad Day
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Post by thebosma on Sept 5, 2018 15:02:15 GMT -6
1. Murmur 2. Automatic for the People 3. Reckoning 4. Green 5. Document 6. Out of Time 7. Fables of the Reconstruction 8. Life's Rich Pageant Out of Time was an album I had listened to a couple times growing up thanks to the fact that my dad was in a CD club in the early 90s. It felt like a bit of a departure from the rest of their albums and overall felt less cohesive. Still, the highs are extremely high. Automatic for the People is.....incredible holy shit. Probably had heard the most tracks off of this one before actually hearing the album, but putting them all together is phenomenal. |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Sept 5, 2018 19:39:00 GMT -6
1. Murmur 2. Automatic for the People 3. Reckoning 4. Green 5. Document 6. Out of Time 7. Fables of the Reconstruction 8. Life's Rich Pageant Out of Time was an album I had listened to a couple times growing up thanks to the fact that my dad was in a CD club in the early 90s. It felt like a bit of a departure from the rest of their albums and overall felt less cohesive. Still, the highs are extremely high. Automatic for the People is.....incredible holy shit. Probably had heard the most tracks off of this one before actually hearing the album, but putting them all together is phenomenal. Their early stuff is my "favorite" R.E.M. but AFTP is next level. The only one I own on vinyl (though I intend to change that soon). I guess I would go.. 1. Automatic For the People 2. Murmur 3. Reckoning 4. Document 5. Life's Rich Pageant 6. Out of Time 7. Green 8. Fables of the Reconstruction just based on what you've heard so far. Monster would be next, which would probably slot in between LRP and Document for me. It's overdone, but there's something about it I love. |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Sept 6, 2018 8:16:26 GMT -6
From what I've heard so far...
1.) Reckoning - a perfect album, no wasted seconds and my "favorite song" from it has probably changed a half dozen times over time.
2.) Automatic for the People - maybe my most listened to record from 9th to 10th grade? Still holds up as a beautiful listen. "Find the River" is their most moving track, period.
3.) Murmur - One of the best debuts ever. My gf and I go back and forth a lot over Murmur v. Reckoning - we both agree "Talk About The Passion" is killer tho.
4.) Life's Rich Paegant - This one has been growing on me recently. "I Believe" is a top ten R.E.M. for sure, love the banjo takeout at the beginning.
5.) Document - Some strong tracks (Strange, The One I Love) but it doesn't grab me all the way through like the ones above do.
6.) Fables of the Reconstruction - Only R.E.M. record I've been nonplussed about. Given it 3-4 tries and it doesn't catch for me. Maybe I'll try again today, idk.
Chronic Town is also stellar, and I've yet to hear Green, Monster, etc. This band rules tho, really wish they were still together. Probably my #1 reunion left on the table.
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Post by nanatod on Sept 6, 2018 8:23:10 GMT -6
Probably my #1 reunion left on the table. I'm half hearted about whether I'd see them if they reunited.
I saw them on the tour for reckoning,* because my graduate school roommate and his gf wanted to see them; saw them in 2005, because the better half wanted to see them. not a single song that was on the first setlist was on the second setlist.
*former lolla board member Atomic saw the tour for Reckoning on the east coast, while I saw the tour for Reckoning in StL w/ the dB's opening.
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Post by wanny on Sept 6, 2018 8:45:55 GMT -6
I only enjoy their top three albums, the rest don't do much for me. Would love to see them live tho
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2018 9:43:35 GMT -6
1. Fables
2. Reckoning
3. Document
4. Murmur
5. Out of Time
6. Automatic
7. Green
8. LRP
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Sept 6, 2018 11:30:22 GMT -6
The tracklist for the vinyl 2LP edition of Live at the BBC is pretty great
Disc 1 - Sessions
A1. World Leader Pretend 4:36
A2. Radio Song 4:05
A3. Losing My Religion 4:42 Recorded for Nicky Campbell Session Into The Night on BBC Radio 1 First broadcast on 13 March 1991
A4. Lotus 4:13
A5. At My Most Beautiful 3:16 Recorded for John Peel Session on BBC Radio 1 First broadcast 25 October 1998
B1. Bad Day 4:03
B2. Orange Crush 3:55 Recorded for Mark and Lard on BBC Radio 1 First broadcast on 15 October 2003
B3. Man On The Moon 4:59
B4. Imitation Of Life 3:41 Recorded for Drivetime on BBC Radio 2 First broadcast 15 October 2003
B5. Supernatural Superserious 3:23 Recorded for Radio 1 Live Lounge on BBC Radio 1 First broadcast 26 March 2008
Disc 2 - Broadcasts
C1. Driver 8 3:25
C2. Radio Free Europe 3:49 First broadcast on 21 November 1984 from Rock City, Nottingham
C3. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth? 3:54
C4. Drive 3:51
C5. Half A World Away 4:04
C6. Pop Song 89 3:27 First broadcast on 30 July 1995 from Milton Keynes
D1. Everybody Hurts 6:47
D2. Its the End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) 6:58. First broadcast on 25 June 1999 from Pyramid Stage Glastonbury Festival
D3. Losing My Religion 4:47
D4. Man On The Moon 5:34. First broadcast on 15 September 2004 from St. James’s Church, London
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Post by sthubbins on Sept 17, 2018 14:56:52 GMT -6
before R U Talkin REM Re: Me, I had only spent any time with the first three albums. I've enjoyed getting to know more of their stuff and have come to really regret missing that tour with the National and Modest Mouse. At the time I didn't care to plunk money down for it since I was bigger fan of the openers and had recently seen both of them multiple times.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Oct 5, 2018 12:43:39 GMT -6
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Post by cosmo on Oct 5, 2018 17:01:05 GMT -6
Is that recent? Michael Stipe looks about 20 years younger.
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Post by thebosma on Oct 6, 2018 9:34:02 GMT -6
So does Thom. Looks like one of the Tibetan freedom concerts
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Oct 8, 2018 7:41:47 GMT -6
Is that recent? Michael Stipe looks about 20 years younger. Yep, sorry for not providing context, I just found it in a YouTube rabbit hole and had never seen it. thebosma is right - its the 1998 Tibetan Freedom Concert. |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Sept 6, 2019 7:57:19 GMT -6
I was considering picking up the deluxe reissue of Monster for the Litt remix LP until I just heard how much he neutered WTF Kenneth
Nice to have the vocals up front but feels empty
I guess this is why you don't drastically remix albums people have known for 25 years!
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