R.E.M. or U2?

Rob89
Rob89 Posts: 22
edited June 2006 in Other Music
Who do you prefer?
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  • pearljam0000
    pearljam0000 Posts: 450
    i prefer REM, i saw them in concert and they are very good....i also saw U2 and they are also very good but for some reason i enjoy REM more
  • moemoe6434
    moemoe6434 Posts: 468
    rem by a landslide over u2
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    REM.
    and i prefer early U2 to U2 now.
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  • dan_vedder
    dan_vedder Posts: 213
    Bono is a prick but i prefer U2, seeing them live in Novmeber!!
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    U2... i love them.
  • karma defect
    karma defect Posts: 5,483
    I like U2, but I don't have one single album, so I guess I'll say R.E.M.
    « One man's glory is another man's hell.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    karma defect wrote:
    I like U2, but I don't have one single album, so I guess I'll say R.E.M.

    then you best start at the beginning.
    i recently listened to boy,war and october after 17 years(bit difficult playing LPs on a disc player) and was relieved that the esteem i had for these albums was still justified. at least in my eyes...er...ears
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  • bucket1988
    bucket1988 Posts: 212
    R.E.M.... no contest
    The words you say never seem to live up to the ones inside your head...
  • Clifwith1f
    Clifwith1f Posts: 143
    U2 by a mile
  • Echoes
    Echoes Posts: 1,279
    Pavement..
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  • soaks the pages
    soaks the pages Posts: 91
    what if i can't decide? do i get to pick both?
    that's faarkokte.
  • Arabesque
    Arabesque Posts: 34
    R.E.M...just think about it. Every album from MurMur to Up was great or amazing. It's only on their last two albums they've gone a notch down. But can you blame them? They made GREAT albums for twenty years.

    Murmur - A
    Reckoning - B
    Fables of the Reconstruction - B+
    Lifes Rich Pageant - A-
    Document - A+
    Green - A-
    Out of Time - A
    Automatic for the People - A+
    Monster - A
    New Adventures in Hi-Fi - A-
    Up - B+
    Reveal - B-
    Around the Sun - C+

    And to me, I've never liked U2. I've always thought they were too polished. Their early stuff was good, I'll admit that. But after that it was all downhill. I can't even bear their new stuff. It's putrid.

    I respect Bono for his worldy contributions but I can do without his music.
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  • Xiang
    Xiang Posts: 73
    R.E.M. since they continue to reinvent themselves while U2 have become a band that is trying to recapture something they have already done...
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  • brain of c
    brain of c Posts: 5,213
    r.e.m.......
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • soapyrows
    soapyrows Posts: 235
    u2 by a mile
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  • Shawn Smith Collective
    Shawn Smith Collective Posts: 986
    Love U2...not an REM fan
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  • comfortably numb
    comfortably numb Posts: 188
    REM

    and i think "Reveal" is extremely underrated... who agrees?
    saw things so much clearer
  • applenut
    applenut Posts: 67
    U2 is far and away the better band

    U2 has remained relevent for 20+ years while R.E.M. seems to still be in a never ending cycle of trying to rediscover themselves since the mid 90s.

    Quit sad really. R.E.M. had the potential to be one of the biggest rock bands in the world and they have pretty much just gone off a boring deep end.
  • Rob89
    Rob89 Posts: 22
    comfortably numb wrote:
    REM

    and i think "Reveal" is extremely underrated... who agrees?

    Totally agree. 'She just wants to be', 'Ive been High', 'Beat a drum', 'Ill take the rain'. Some great songs on that album. Totally under-rated....like Up.

    Diminished off Up is one of the most beautiful songs they've ever written but because it's stuck at the end of Up(an album which has been wrongly slated), it doesn't get any recognition. A shame.
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  • jb13letters
    jb13letters Posts: 220
    R.E.M. by a wide margin.
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