music *ping*
REM is an interesting band. Every album they made is better than one before, if you go backwards in time.
Chronic Town was awesome.
Michael Stipe is an annoying person but I love his distinctive singing voice.
One of the few R.E.M songs that both the words and music were written by Mike Mills.
Just about everything else, the music was written by Mills and Buck abs words by Stype.
Back when REM was still good.
You'll wind up in some factory that's full-time full of nowhere left to go...
Always loved this band (as well as, coincidentally, a couple of others also from Athens, GA)
Sad that they broke up but I admit that I don’t have their latest efforts. Any recommendations?
Seen them live at Boston Garden and Great Woods/Mansfield MA, years ago.
Once they were on an MTV awards ceremony and Stipe was wearing about 6 T shirts on top of each other, each with lefty slogans, and he took em off one by one.
My favorite radio stunt involved one of their songs.You’ll
remember Harold Camping who falsely predicted the end of the world—more than once. One time, there were supposed to be rolling earthquakes in each time zone.
After the failed prediction, his Family Radio sold off its Philly station to Merlin Broadcasting who changed it to
conservative talk. Their format change stunt was running It’s The End of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)...over and over.
And...the first line of the song? “That’s great, it starts with an earthquake...”
REM was excellent when their lyrics were indecipherable. Not that there was necessarily anything wrong with those lyrics, but the music itself was better. They lost something in transition along the way.