R.E.M. "Green" "Document" & "Life's Rich Pageant", or how Michael Stipe has become a fucking dickhead |
 Jun 21 2008, 01:46 AM
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i have been spinning these three records all week in my car and it just makes me realize that it was all downhill from here... Michael Stipe is an asshole and half the man he used to be. Peter buck has become a drunk and Mike Mills wears funny clothes now. i love the BIG DRUM REM records.
all this "return to form" talk lately makes me sick. you can't even come close to these records these days...   
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Jun 21 2008, 01:54 AM
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I wanna be first to post in this thread....
OTM ps... No 'fables'? id put it in with your 3 mentioned. -------------------- "opinions were like kittens I was giving them away"
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Jun 21 2008, 01:56 AM
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Jun 21 2008, 02:00 AM
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MURMUR 10.0
RECKONING 8.5 FABLES 9.5 LIFES 9.0 DOCUMENT 7.9999999999 GREEN 7.0 AUTOMATIC 8.5 OUT OF TIME 7.5 MONSTER UHHHHHH 6.5 NEW ADVENTURES 7.5 UP WHO CARES REVEAL WHO CARES AROUND THE SUN IS THIS STILL A BAND ACCELERATE -------------------- QUOTE Well im baked. and heres my stoner thought. The only reason we die, is because we accept it as an inevitability.... |
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Jun 21 2008, 02:01 AM
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as soon as Stipe decided it was okay to lip-synch in videos and sing about "love" my heart sank a bit... don't get me wrong, i love certain moments of "Out Of Time" "Automatic" and "New Adventures" but this band has become total shit.
early REM is a whole different beast. i may actually love "Reckoning" and "Murmur" more than anything they have done, but these mid-period REM records gave me something to believe in. maybe good could conquer evil, maybe my community could be a better place, or maybe i wasn't such a weirdo after all. fuck you, Mr. Stipe. 
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Jun 21 2008, 02:01 AM
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Murmur to Automatic For The People is a fucking amazing run. After that, it's one big freefall.
The Who, the Clash, R.E.M....they all should've stopped as soon as Keith, Topper and Bill left the band. -------------------- |
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Jun 21 2008, 02:03 AM
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QUOTE (Sister Hell @ Jun 21 2008, 02:00 AM)  UP WHO CARES REVEAL WHO CARES AROUND THE SUN IS THIS STILL A BAND ACCELERATE  
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Jun 21 2008, 02:04 AM
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QUOTE (Slackmo @ Jun 21 2008, 02:03 AM) QUOTE (Sister Hell @ Jun 21 2008, 02:00 AM) UP WHO CARES REVEAL WHO CARES AROUND THE SUN IS THIS STILL A BAND ACCELERATE honestly... do people actually ever listen to this garbage? |
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Jun 21 2008, 02:05 AM
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QUOTE (simakos @ Jun 21 2008, 02:04 AM) QUOTE (Slackmo @ Jun 21 2008, 02:03 AM) QUOTE (Sister Hell @ Jun 21 2008, 02:00 AM) UP WHO CARES REVEAL WHO CARES AROUND THE SUN IS THIS STILL A BAND ACCELERATE honestly... do people actually ever listen to this garbage? I was laughing with him, not at him. -------------------- Someone Still Loves You Pants McJickson
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Jun 21 2008, 02:06 AM
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no, i know and i totally agree... but i am not laughing... i am spitting at my keyboard.
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Jun 21 2008, 02:07 AM
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i mean, i dunno, i sorta agree w/ this thread. there's no denying that this band's peak was nearly 25 years ago (although i for one think AFTP is their best record), but i'm also really glad they're still around.
sister hell also forgot to mention that chronic town is a 10.7 -------------------- QUOTE (Montana @ Nov 19 2009, 01:18 PM) It's very possible that the reduction in live rock quality could be directly tied to female hormones being flushed into our water system, and then young males drinking that water. my last.fm |
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Jun 21 2008, 02:11 AM
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QUOTE (Hans Christian Anderson @ Jun 21 2008, 02:07 AM) sister hell also forgot to mention that chronic town is a 10.7 Chronic Town is my shit. so pure... Automatic For the People? yes, it has some amazing moments through out the record... but it is still so soft. they lost something after that director Tarsem or whatever got a hold of them. fuck "Sidewinder Sleeps" and shit like that... give me "Just A Touch" or "Exhuming McCarthy" any day over that gay ass coffee commercial bull-dick. |
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Jun 21 2008, 02:11 AM
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As soon as a band starts trying to "reclaim a former glory", they're pretty much finished. REM will never be the band they once were.
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Jun 21 2008, 02:13 AM
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QUOTE (simakos @ Jun 21 2008, 02:04 AM) QUOTE (Slackmo @ Jun 21 2008, 02:03 AM) QUOTE (Sister Hell @ Jun 21 2008, 02:00 AM) UP WHO CARES REVEAL WHO CARES AROUND THE SUN IS THIS STILL A BAND ACCELERATE honestly... do people actually ever listen to this garbage? if you were talking about the albums then unfortunately yes : ( QUOTE sister hell also forgot to mention that chronic town is a 10.7 remember how you used to win arguments in elementary school by being all "INFINITY PLUS ONE" that's Chronic Town -------------------- QUOTE Well im baked. and heres my stoner thought. The only reason we die, is because we accept it as an inevitability.... |
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Jun 21 2008, 02:16 AM
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i just wish they were still weird, vague, abstract and arty...
something about this band is VERY American sounding to me on the three records i posted in the first post. they were part of my idea of what the American "fabric" could be... they gave me hope. |
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Jun 21 2008, 02:16 AM
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granted, i probably perfer and listen to CT->LRP more than i do AFTP, but start to finish and as a cohesive unit, i think it's their best. however pretty much all those other records in that stretch come damn close. amazing band.
-------------------- QUOTE (Montana @ Nov 19 2009, 01:18 PM) It's very possible that the reduction in live rock quality could be directly tied to female hormones being flushed into our water system, and then young males drinking that water. my last.fm |
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Jun 21 2008, 02:18 AM
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i know the AMERICAN sound that you're hearing in their later records, but i also think it was totally present in the first 4 releases while they were being weird, vague, abstract and arty...
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Jun 21 2008, 02:21 AM
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       QUOTE (Hans Christian Anderson @ Jun 21 2008, 02:18 AM) i know the AMERICAN sound that you're hearing in their later records, but i also think it was totally present in the first 4 releases while they were being weird, vague, abstract and arty... oh totally... it's in there for sure. especially "Reckoning" |
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Jun 21 2008, 02:34 AM
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