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  • CarryTheZero
    CarryTheZero Posts: 3,463
    edited October 2022
    JH6056 said:
    CarryTheZero said:
    Thanks for sharing!  You never know, maybe they show up!

    I attended the Georgia theater fundraiser at the Fox right before the pandemic. 3/4 of R.E.M. reunited, playing 3 tunes and a smattering of older Athens band stuff (like Pylon). Mills sang Texarkana!
    You are so incredibly lucky to have been there for that! Love Texarcana, was just listening to that album very recently...

    Do you remember what REM songs they played other than Texarcana?


    Kevin Kinney (Drivin’ N Cryin’) sang for them on One I Love and Fall on Me.

    Texarkana: https://youtu.be/nUCaxfV6pg4
  • JH6056
    JH6056 Posts: 2,437
    ^^ So cool!


  • CarryTheZero
    CarryTheZero Posts: 3,463
    Bill Berry is in a new Athens band! The Bad Ends! Need to check that out.
  • JH6056
    JH6056 Posts: 2,437
    CarryTheZero said:
    Bill Berry is in a new Athens band! The Bad Ends! Need to check that out.
    Really?? That's so cool! In a lot of ways he was my favorite member of REM. I'd love to see him behind the drumkit again!
  • joe159
    joe159 Decatur, IL. Posts: 329
    UP reissue is available 
  • CarryTheZero
    CarryTheZero Posts: 3,463
    Nice. Be preordering that one.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,655
    I've been listening to a fair amount of R.E.M. lately.  Sometimes I'll go several months without listening to them because that's just a thing that happen when you've been following a band for 40 years, but I always go back to them and sometimes those long breaks bring a fresh perspective to my ears.  As much as I love Murmur and recognize it's timelessness and it's impact on music, I think in the long run I'd have to list Life's Rich Pageant as my favorite.  To my ears, it's simply a most amazing record!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,321
    brianlux said:
    I've been listening to a fair amount of R.E.M. lately.  Sometimes I'll go several months without listening to them because that's just a thing that happen when you've been following a band for 40 years, but I always go back to them and sometimes those long breaks bring a fresh perspective to my ears.  As much as I love Murmur and recognize it's timelessness and it's impact on music, I think in the long run I'd have to list Life's Rich Pageant as my favorite.  To my ears, it's simply a most amazing record!
    I am right with you there on Life's Rich Pageant, it is my go to album from R.E.M. 
  • CarryTheZero
    CarryTheZero Posts: 3,463
    Same here! My favorite album. First four tracks are killer.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,655
    JeBurkhardt said:
    brianlux said:
    I've been listening to a fair amount of R.E.M. lately.  Sometimes I'll go several months without listening to them because that's just a thing that happen when you've been following a band for 40 years, but I always go back to them and sometimes those long breaks bring a fresh perspective to my ears.  As much as I love Murmur and recognize it's timelessness and it's impact on music, I think in the long run I'd have to list Life's Rich Pageant as my favorite.  To my ears, it's simply a most amazing record!
    I am right with you there on Life's Rich Pageant, it is my go to album from R.E.M. 
    Sweet!
    CarryTheZero said:
    Same here! My favorite album. First four tracks are killer.

    And sweet again!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











  • primussucks
    primussucks Posts: 2,365
    New Adventures In Hi-Fi!
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,655
    primussucks said:
    New Adventures In Hi-Fi!

    I have a weird love/ not love (no hate at all for R.E.M.!) feeling about New Adventures in Hi-Fi.  Pretty much either love some the songs or don't care at all for for the rest.  No bad songs,of course, just some that don't resonate for me.  
    That's the last R.E.M. LP I kept.  I have everything up to that point but after that, I let the rest go (except the Baseball Project albums which are 1/2 of R.E.M.- 3/5 if you include Scott McCaughey- and I love that those).  I keep hoping the later R.E.M. stuff will click for me someday! 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











  • CarryTheZero
    CarryTheZero Posts: 3,463
    Not a popular opinion, but I love Accelerate and I enjoy Collapse Into Now.
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,787
    CarryTheZero said:
    Not a popular opinion, but I love Accelerate and I enjoy Collapse Into Now.
    I still think Collapse Into Now is one of their best albums.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,655
    CarryTheZero said:
    Not a popular opinion, but I love Accelerate and I enjoy Collapse Into Now.

    goldrush said:
    CarryTheZero said:
    Not a popular opinion, but I love Accelerate and I enjoy Collapse Into Now.
    I still think Collapse Into Now is one of their best albums.

    Sounds like I need to give another listen!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











  • pledgeagrievance
    pledgeagrievance Posts: 2,874
    goldrush said:
    CarryTheZero said:
    Not a popular opinion, but I love Accelerate and I enjoy Collapse Into Now.
    I still think Collapse Into Now is one of their best albums.
    Not a popular opinion but I love Up 
  • Of The Aggie
    Of The Aggie The ATX Posts: 1,550
    Accelerate and Collapse Into Now are good late-career albums. Up, Reveal, and Around the Sun have a couple of good songs on each but are mostly forgettable and the only albums I don't own on vinyl. 
  • CarryTheZero
    CarryTheZero Posts: 3,463
    Around the Sun is really the only album I can’t get behind. Oddly though, the some of the songs from that album were quite good live. Makes me wonder what the studio atmosphere was like, because that album felt a bit lifeless to me.
  • pdalowsky
    pdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,211
    great new interview with Michael came out at the back end of last year, it was a pretty long but really interesting read

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/magazine/michael-stipe-solo-album.html
  • DC29940
    DC29940 Tucson, AZ Posts: 706
    pledgeagrievance said:
    goldrush said:
    CarryTheZero said:
    Not a popular opinion, but I love Accelerate and I enjoy Collapse Into Now.
    I still think Collapse Into Now is one of their best albums.
    Not a popular opinion but I love Up 
    I’m right there with you. Up is actually my favorite REM album. Accelerate is up there too. 
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