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rem is those dweebs who use teh report button so much they become woke mods who meltdown over the first actually funny joke they see thats actually just their monitor turned off
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Life's Rich Pageant Green Document There OP. HTH.
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Dec 27, 2023 10:37
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I once heard somebody call rem "jangly art rock" and it really nails it
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Dec 27, 2023 10:47
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Monster is the only one I know so that gets my vote. What's the frequency Kenneth is so good. Also, Dave Matthews Band does indeed suck.
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Dec 27, 2023 11:14
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Lotta people in here not talking about how Nightswimming is one of the best songs ever Edit: Life’s Rich Pageant Automatic for the People Murmur SgtScruffy fucked around with this message at 13:28 on Dec 27, 2023 |
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Dec 27, 2023 13:17
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Michael Stipe had the same reaction Billy Corgan did to losing his hair and starting making bad music around the same time
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Dec 27, 2023 13:43
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really just out of time and automatic for the people; those were the most recent albums when i was born so my dad listened to them a fair bit. never listened to REM much outside of that context but they’re pretty all right.
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Dec 27, 2023 14:32
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Michael Stipe had the same reaction Billy Corgan did to losing his hair and starting making bad music around the same time 
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Dec 27, 2023 14:36
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Chinatown posted:when u listening to dave mathews band but u want something edgier thats rem nice obelisk idiot fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Dec 27, 2023 |
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Dec 27, 2023 15:41
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I was raised in a strict military family so was a little Reagan Youth, then I hit college and studied history, focusing on Central and South American history, and Shaka! My eyes opened! And I started dating this hip awesome girl who loved R.E.M. so I quickly came to love R.E.M., singing about all the bad poo poo the US does in Central and South America. And I became WOKE and a LIB. That's my R.E.M. origin story, thanks for reading.
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Dec 27, 2023 16:02
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Life's Rich Pageant, Murmur and New Adventures in HiFi. Chronic Town in there somewhere if you include EPs.
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Chinatown posted:rem is those dweebs who use teh report button so much they become woke mods who meltdown over the first actually funny joke they see thats actually just their monitor turned off turn on your monitor 
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Dec 27, 2023 16:52
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I spent a lot of time in Athens GA during the late 80s and hung out with the REM guys through mutual friends. I didn't care much for their music at the time but since then it grew on me. It was cool being around when they would just jam together though. I didn't like Stipe too much, but the other guys were cool. Bill Berry made the best hummus I've ever had. Their manager Jefferson Holt was a pretentious prick. The thing I remember most about Stipe is the dude loved porn-art. Their house had some of it on the walls, but he also had a couple of storage units filled with it. I'm talkin' vintage porn, post-modern avant-garde poo poo- just tons of stuff. But really the only reason I liked being around them was that sometimes Natalie Merchant would be there, and she was cool as gently caress. I'm native American and she wanted to interview my parents to get an idea of what life was like for them and my ancestors, to use in her songwriting. She was bummed when I told her I was adopted by white folks and my birth family was dead. The kid in the video for "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" was rumored to have had a relationship with Stipe while he was underage. I didn't believe it. I did see that kid get the poo poo beat out of him (while in middle school) because he said he was a ninja and could kick anyone's rear end. It ended badly when Stacy Brown, local karate badass, took him up on the challenge. isaboo fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Dec 27, 2023 |
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SgtScruffy posted:Lotta people in here not talking about how Nightswimming is one of the best songs ever Hell yes Nightswimming rules Automatic for the People Document Monster
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I like their downer stuff, because I have always been depressed as gently caress.
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isaboo posted:I spent a lot of time in Athens GA during the late 80s and hung out with the REM guys through mutual friends. I didn't care much for their music at the time but since then it grew on me. It was cool being around when they would just jam together though. I didn't like Stipe too much, but the other two guys were cool. Bill Berry made the best hummus I've ever had. Their manager Jefferson Holt was a pretentious prick. Awesome! Please share any more REM stories. I was a college DJ for a couple of years, and was in perpetual jealousy of this other show because that DJ got Stipe and Buck to do a quick promo for his show. I think he was from Athens too. Was that you???
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Adam Scott (of Severence/Parks and Rec) had a story about how he learned REM were recording Monster in LA, so he put on a green apron, bought some coffee, and went to the studio and said “coffees here for REM”. It somehow worked and he got to be in the studio for like thirty seconds while they tracked Kenneth.
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Lennie Bruce is not afraid
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my dark souls boss subtitle is "late-period r.e.m. apologist" my favorite album is probably accelerate lol
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I will beat the poo poo out of Moby and his lovely rear end band
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Dec 27, 2023 18:18
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Automatic for the People Monster Fables of the Reconstruction Live at the Olympia was another album I had on repeat for the better part of a year, great live cuts if you like early/Accelerate period R.E.M.
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Toxic Mental posted:I will beat the poo poo out of Moby and his lovely rear end band
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Dec 27, 2023 18:19
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reckoning, document, and green are all p good
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President in Residence posted:Automatic for the people, although I skip Everybody Hurts every time. I think I agree. I always listened to their whole discography on shuffle though so the albums don't mean much to me
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redshirt posted:Awesome! Please share any more REM stories. Nah, wasn't me. The only DJ'ing I did was a short stint at a roller skating rink in Athens. Mike Mills rented it out one time for someone's birthday party and a whole bunch of people brought booze and got absolutely wasted. I turned off the lights and played one of the fastest songs we had - "Danger Zone" by Kenny Loggins. I heard people smashing into each other and when I turned the lights back on, half of them were laid out on the floor. Mike was with me at the DJ booth, laughing his rear end off. The funniest REM-related story I can remember is late one night we all went to an old cemetery outside of Athens to smoke and drink and generally gently caress around. This was in early 1988, so I think their Document album was being worked on or had been released. It was me, Stipe, Peter Buck, Jefferson, my buddy Liam and his girlfriend Jessica, a guy named Devon, and his friend Diego. Devon worked at (or owned?) a local comic/record shop. If The Simpsons' Comic Book Guy was inspired by anyone in real life, it could have been Devon. The cemetery we went to was at a church that was supposedly haunted. The church was re-built in the late 1880s (I dont remember the date of the original structure) and there were some really old graves that predated it. The building wasn't used for much any more, but it was always unlocked for anyone who wanted to go in and worship. I don't remember why we went, or whose idea it was. It was rumored that inside, at the pulpit, was an old bible that was cursed. The story was that if you tried to remove the bible, it would grow heavier and heavier as you got closer to the exit. It would eventually weigh so much that you wouldn't be able to hold it any longer, and would only get lighter if you turned around to walk back and replace it. I've heard the same or similar story told by people from other parts of the country, so I guess it's a fairly common one. Everyone in the area thought it was bullshit, but some townies I knew from Athens swore to me they tried to remove it but couldn't. Anyway, we rolled up to the church and broke out the booze and weed. Peter brought his guitar and some candles, set them on a stone slab table and lit them up, and started playing. Devon and Diego had already started smoking and were wandering around the old graves with a flashlight. Jefferson didn't want to go and sat in the car most of the time, bitching and moaning about being tired and cold. Liam, his girlfriend, Michael, and I went inside to look for the bible. We found A bible, but it wasn't the huge old bible that was said to be cursed. Disappointed, we took a seat in the pews and lit up a joint to pass around. Although they were close friends with Jefferson, Peter and Michael would often get annoyed with him. I don't remember who said it, but someone suggested that we gently caress with Jefferson a bit. We decided we'd send Liam's girlfriend running back to the car, screaming that Michael had disappeared. Michael was game, and found a small storage space in the back of the church to hide in, behind a stack of some old chairs. Liam's girlfriend ran outside, yelling to Peter and Jefferson that we couldn't find Michael. Devon and Diego were off in the woods doing whatever, so they didn't have a clue what was going on. They heard the commotion and came running to where Peter and Jefferson were - Diego slipped and smashed his face on a tombstone, bloodying his mouth. That sent Jefferson into a tizzy, seeing Diego emerge from the darkness with a bloodied face, while being told that Michael had straight up vanished from the church. Peter didn't know what the gently caress was going on, and went to help Devon with Diego. Jefferson asked what she meant by 'vanished' and she said that Michael was at the front of the church looking for the bible while the rest of us were looking for it among the pews. There was no way he could have left the church without us hearing or seeing him leave. They came inside to ask Liam and I what the hosed happened and we told them the same thing - Michael was there one minute, he found the bible and said "found it!", and when we turned around again, he was gone. Jefferson and Peter looked around for any sign of Michael. Finding nothing, they ran outside and called his name - still nothing. Jefferson was getting really freaked out at this point. I'm pretty sure Peter knew we were just loving around. Devon and Diego didn't give a poo poo. Anyway, we searched around the cemetery for a while before going back inside. I didn't know it until this point, but Michael had taken his watch and scarf off and placed them on one of the pews. Seeing that, Jefferson flipped the gently caress out and started crying. Jessica started to feel bad, so she led us all over to the little storage compartment and said "I don't think we looked in there." We moved the chairs away and Jefferson opened the door, revealing Michael slumped over as if he were dead. Jefferson gasped, Michael yelled "BOO!" and lunged at Jefferson, who stumbled backward and tripped over the chairs. Jefferson continued to sob a bit more before calling us all assholes and going to sulk in the car. The rest of us laughed, went outside, and listened to Peter and Michael sing for a while before we left. I remember Michael saying he'd use the night's events for a song, but I don't know if he ever did. Anyway that's my best REM story. isaboo fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Dec 27, 2023 |
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P good story.
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Document is the only one I listened to front to back. I should get around to their older stuff.
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thank you for sharing, isaboo. I enjoyed the story
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Amazing story, thank you! Keep em coming if you got more. The whole time I was hearing the lyric "Jefferson I think we're lost"
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Yeah thanks for sharing. I kinda felt bad for Jefferson, despite there being obvious reasons as to why people wanted to mess with him, but then I googled him and saw the rumors about why REM ended things with him, and felt less bad.
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I have a ton of crazy 80s Athens stories, but only a few involve REM. Bill Berry got stuck in the UGA main library's elevator between floors one time, lol. My friend who worked there had to call maintenance to get him out.
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i prefer REM's opening act, radiohead, but then again i'm a bonafide sludgesicle man
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isaboo posted:I have a ton of crazy 80s Athens stories, but only a few involve REM. Any visits to the Love Shack?
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Grey Cat posted:Why listen to rem when I could listen to
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redshirt posted:Any visits to the Love Shack? Ha, no I never went there. If you ask any native Athenian where it was, they'll probably tell you it's one of 2 or 3 places, but none are correct. It was a cabin somewhere outside Athens but I never found exactly where. I think it burned down in the early 2000s. Weaver D's of "Automatic For The People" fame is still around, and the food is still good. The "R.E.M. Steeple" is still intact, and underwent reconstruction by the very fine people at Nuci's Space, a fantastic resource for musicians and anyone struggling with mental or emotional difficulties. The people there are beloved around town. Are you familiar with Pylon? They were a fairly well known Athens new wave / post-punk band. I think it was Bill Berry who said Pylon was the best rock band in America, after hearing that Rolling Stone magazine had given that title to REM in the mid 80s. Personally, I didn't like Pylon but I had mutual friends with Vanessa Briscoe, Pylon's singer, and got to know the Indigo Girls through her (and Stipe). I loves me some Indigo Girls - they are wonderful people. isaboo fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Dec 27, 2023 |
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Grey Cat posted:Why listen to rem when I could listen to radiohead? I've found it, the whitest post
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isaboo posted:Ha, no I never went there. If you ask any native Athenian where it was, they'll probably tell you it's one of 2 or 3 places, but none are correct. It was a cabin somewhere outside Athens but I never found exactly where. I think it burned down in the early 2000s. So cool. What a wonderful place to be young. Really enjoying your tales. Are you still in touch with any of the folks from those long ago days? I played Pylon on my show, but never listened to them personally. I'm not sure why.
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the whitest post u read
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kntfkr posted:the whitest post u read Hey. Can't find nuthin' on the radio.....
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