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R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World



1 posted on 09/03/2025 7:11:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Next they tell me is Sting isn’t really a pool hall ace.


2 posted on 09/03/2025 7:13:22 PM PDT by JZelle
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Kurt Cobain


3 posted on 09/03/2025 7:15:39 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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R.E.M. used to rehearse in a building across the street from my nephew's frat house at UGA.

I've seen them twice, once in Athens, once in Statesboro.

Some friends in a band at UNC (Northern Colorado, NOT North Carolina) did a good cover of this song.

4 posted on 09/03/2025 7:23:21 PM PDT by real saxophonist (Michael Bennet claps on 1 and 3.)
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Before Stipe came up with the lyrics to ITEOTWAWKI in under an hour, Buck picked up a mandolin and came up with the riff in five minutes.


5 posted on 09/03/2025 7:23:53 PM PDT by Round Earther
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The year prior (1986) Europe’s song; The Final Countdown, got reduced to a commercial featuring a frozen burrito being cooked in an office microwave.

Have no idea of the product of the commercial.

6 posted on 09/03/2025 7:35:35 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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It sure is a very catchy no sensinsicle song.


7 posted on 09/03/2025 7:39:31 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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REM had lyrics? Who knew?

I liked the line "exhuming my car keys"

8 posted on 09/03/2025 7:43:47 PM PDT by dmcnash (Back off! I'm a Scientist.)
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Cocteau Twins lyrics are the true mystery.

That no one really cares about probably.

Freegards


9 posted on 09/03/2025 7:49:00 PM PDT by Ransomed
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“LEONARD BERNSTEIN!”

CC


10 posted on 09/03/2025 8:10:58 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (*This is a test of the emergency tagline system. This is only a test*)
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In the meme, Homer Simpson claims he can sing all the lyrics to "It's the End of the World as We Know It," only to be told, "No you can't, Mr. Simpson. No one can."

Stipe shared the image with a two-word reply: " I can."

No one can sing the lyrics to Pearl Jam's Yellow Ledbetter.

16 posted on 09/03/2025 8:43:22 PM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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Mostly these days, I remember the song from the beginning of Independence Day movie.


18 posted on 09/03/2025 9:00:30 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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I’m not a big R.E.M. fan...but I never had a problem hearing or understanding the lyrics.


23 posted on 09/04/2025 5:44:29 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection...you may achieve excellence.)
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Well, that's just silly.

Signed,...


26 posted on 09/04/2025 6:09:14 AM PDT by Hatteras
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In contrast to End of the World song by Miley Cyrus.

For the leftwing dingbats (like Cyrus) it’s the end of the world because Donald Trump has been elected POTUS.

And I FEEL FINE!


27 posted on 09/04/2025 7:11:14 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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For years I misunderstood the chorus to “The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite”, from my car radio, anyway.

I thought Stipe was singing “Calling Jamaica......calling Jamaica.....” When in fact, it is “Call me when you try to wake her up.....”


29 posted on 09/04/2025 7:58:42 AM PDT by ALASKA (There has to be a line we do not cross.)
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I liked REM a lot more when I didn’t understand the lyrics.

Love “Driver 8”.


30 posted on 09/04/2025 7:59:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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