R.E.M. what do you rate as their best album?

lolobugg

JOEJOEJOE said:

lolobugg said:

JH6056 said:

I saw night 1 of that Radio City pair, but the band was drunk as heck and just not on their game. Night 2 they came in with a seriousness and awesomeness; I was front row center section and in the ZONE: I sang and danced my butt off and felt the music in an insane way. This was that show:

7 October 1987 - Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY
support: 10,000 Maniacs
10,000 Maniacs set included: A Campfire Song
R.E.M.: Finest Worksong / These Days / Pilgrimage / Disturbance At The Heron House / Exhuming McCarthy / Orange Crush / Feeling Gravitys Pull / The Flowers Of Guatemala / Fireplace / Tired Of Singing Trouble / I Believe / Maps And Legends / Driver 8 / Superman / Pretty Persuasion / Oddfellows Local 151 / It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) / Begin The Begin
encore 1: Strange / Title / Fall On Me / We Walk / 1,000,000 / See No Evil
encore 2: Harpers / Crazy / The One I Love
notes: Natalie Merchant guests on 'We Walk', Michael guests on 'A Campire Song' with the 10,000 Maniacs. After 'The Flowers Of Guatemala', Michael again quotes from David Bowie's 'Diamond Dogs' - "This ain't rock and roll, this is genocide"

Now that is a setlist!!!!
2008 was the Accelerate tour. sadly their last one ever.

Difficult to believe its been 7 years since they toured........I was lucky enough to see them on almost every tour from 1983 on, and IMHO, they had a more diverse body of work than PJ, so it was always exciting to see what they'd pull out of the hat in terms of set lists choices.

Yeah, i saw Stipe on TV the other day and he looked like he aged about 20 years since 2008
BUT
damn, i am so jealous. i would trade places with you in a sec.
like john cusack said in high fidelity... dream job???
mine would be an indie mag reporter/college radio dj from 1980 to 1993...
get to see PIL, REM, Minutemen, Fugazi, Husker Du, Butthole Surfers, Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Dinosaur Jr, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Sonic Youth, Big Black, Gang of Four, the Replacements, and so many more that i am forgetting right now... in their infancy.....
HOLY SHIT!!!

JOEJOEJOE

lolobugg said:

JOEJOEJOE said:

lolobugg said:

JH6056 said:

I saw night 1 of that Radio City pair, but the band was drunk as heck and just not on their game. Night 2 they came in with a seriousness and awesomeness; I was front row center section and in the ZONE: I sang and danced my butt off and felt the music in an insane way. This was that show:

7 October 1987 - Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY
support: 10,000 Maniacs
10,000 Maniacs set included: A Campfire Song
R.E.M.: Finest Worksong / These Days / Pilgrimage / Disturbance At The Heron House / Exhuming McCarthy / Orange Crush / Feeling Gravitys Pull / The Flowers Of Guatemala / Fireplace / Tired Of Singing Trouble / I Believe / Maps And Legends / Driver 8 / Superman / Pretty Persuasion / Oddfellows Local 151 / It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) / Begin The Begin
encore 1: Strange / Title / Fall On Me / We Walk / 1,000,000 / See No Evil
encore 2: Harpers / Crazy / The One I Love
notes: Natalie Merchant guests on 'We Walk', Michael guests on 'A Campire Song' with the 10,000 Maniacs. After 'The Flowers Of Guatemala', Michael again quotes from David Bowie's 'Diamond Dogs' - "This ain't rock and roll, this is genocide"

Now that is a setlist!!!!
2008 was the Accelerate tour. sadly their last one ever.

Difficult to believe its been 7 years since they toured........I was lucky enough to see them on almost every tour from 1983 on, and IMHO, they had a more diverse body of work than PJ, so it was always exciting to see what they'd pull out of the hat in terms of set lists choices.

Yeah, i saw Stipe on TV the other day and he looked like he aged about 20 years since 2008
BUT
damn, i am so jealous. i would trade places with you in a sec.
like john cusack said in high fidelity... dream job???
mine would be an indie mag reporter/college radio dj from 1980 to 1993...
get to see PIL, REM, Minutemen, Fugazi, Husker Du, Butthole Surfers, Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Dinosaur Jr, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Sonic Youth, Big Black, Gang of Four, the Replacements, and so many more that i am forgetting right now... in their infancy.....
HOLY SHIT!!!

I got to see a bunch of cool 80s-90s bands in their infancy, but it means that I am old!

A big trade-off!

Wobbie

to the OP, I dunno exactly but I was listening to eponymous on the way home from a few drinks and am now watching perfect square. what a great band. a band that totally stands the test of time.

deadendp

Fables hasn't been feeling the love. I spin the heck out of that album.

InHiding80

Murmur is the best debut album by ANYONE.

brianlux

InHiding80 said:

Murmur is the best debut album by ANYONE.

May very well be! It was ground breaking, for sure.

hmmm, but then there was "Are You Experienced"!

dankind

1. Lifes Rich Pageant
2. Document
3. Murmur
4. Green
5. Automatic for the People
6. New Adventures in Hi-Fi
7. Reckoning
8. Up
9. Fables of the Reconstruction
10. Out of Time
11. Accelerate
12. Collapse Into Now
13. Reveal
14. Around the Sun
15. Monster

PJStatTracker

brianlux said:

InHiding80 said:

Murmur is the best debut album by ANYONE.

May very well be! It was ground breaking, for sure.

hmmm, but then there was "Are You Experienced"!

And then there was The Funeral and Pretty Hate Machine.

Ten wasn't too shabby, either!

PJStatTracker

I'm partial to Green and Hi-Fi.