Wednesday, September 21st 2011
R.I.P. To R.E.M.
It seems like it was just yesterday that I was putting an Out of Time stamp on a Columbia House order form and now R.E.M has announced they are breaking up completely. The band blew out this statement together on their official site:
"To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening." R.E.M.
They went on to write: "We have no plans to get back together unless somebody waves a suitcase full of millions of dollars at us for a reunion tour, a Greatest Hits CD, a mentor spot on American Idol and a Pepsi commercial. In other words, see you in 5 years!"
I'm okay with the fact that every damn news station will play "Everybody Hurts" when covering this shit, because it could've been worse. It could've been The B-52s!
And in the end, DAN RATHER ALWAYS WINS!
John Paul Jones of Led Zep produced a lot of the songs from Automatic for the People. Perhaps it was overwrought; I loved his string work. Depressing, but cool.
I didn't care for Michael Stipe's whiny voice.
Submitted by crazyinjapan on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 9:27pm.
"Talk About the Passion" is my favorite REM song.
Not everyone
Can carry the weight of the world
Call me in, call me in to talk
Talk about the passion
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No. It's not "call me in to talk", it's "combien de temps" ("how much time?). From the liner notes of that album.
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"Somebody needs to glamour A CLUE into that trick." - Sociologist Michael K
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
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"Somebody needs to glamour A CLUE into that trick." - Sociologist Michael K
Nightswimming
Find the River
Belong
Near Wild Heaven
A friend in junior high was obsessed with R.E.M. and she'd write lyrics out all over my binder.
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Try to be original, like the Colonel Sanders (may he rest in peace with his secret spices and shit). - urmomma
Submitted by crazyinjapan on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 9:27pm.
"Talk About the Passion" is my favorite REM song.
Not everyone
Can carry the weight of the world
Call me in, call me in to talk
Talk about the passion
That is a great song. I have a hard time picking a fave, but I always really liked Driver 8 and Fall On Me.
Losing my Religion- best R.E.M song.
....yeah...so?
REM was great--in the 80s and 90s. Now they're all over 50. Rock 'n' roll is for young'uns. I don't want to see a bloated, white-haired, liver-spotted, liver-ravaged David Crosby.
You know those disco revivals they show on PBS? Fuckin' depressin', everyone singing along to KC.
Submitted by Sarah Smile on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 4:41pm.
"Fave REM song is Strange Currencies :)"
Easily my favorite song from that album. So beautiful.
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LOVE that song. Monster deserves more credit among REM albums...it really is a gem.
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"LiLo is talking like she has swam out of the Jack Daniels bottle, hiked past the coke mountains, dove off of a crack spoon and is now ready to be someone's sponsor or something." -MK
"Talk About the Passion" is my favorite REM song.
Not everyone
Can carry the weight of the world
Call me in, call me in to talk
Talk about the passion
there's some bands i like to name check, and one of them is r.e.m.
i was sad when i heard. i prefer the early years but my favorite r.e.m. song is still "crush with eyeliner". thank you r.e.m.!
It's only taken them 10 years to notice the "use by" date on their arses.
I liked a few of their songs but mostly loathed this whiny pretenious band
I really could care less...but if Bow Wow Wow ever breaks up I'll probably kill myself.
Submitted by ba-buttons on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 1:43pm.
Great U2 story. My uncle is a minor celebrity over in Ireland and brought my cousin to an event that U2 was attending.
My cousin was at the after party just quietly star gazing when Bono walked right up to him and started chatting away.
At first, my cousin was thrilled but after a few minutes Bono started to talk about the personal chats he had with God - dialogue, not praying - and how God told him he was an - get this - archangel sent to help save mankind.
And he was serious. My cousin actually started to get a bit scared and did the bathroom excuse. Bono followed him into the can and would not leave him alone for the rest of the party. Finally, one of the other guys in the band saw what was up and finally dragged Bono away shooting my cousin the apologetic eyeroll indicating this was par for the course for archangel Bono.
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Ha! I just heard this joke the other day.
What's the difference between God and Bono? God doesn't think he's Bono.
I liked REM back when, and always dug the wavy arm dance Stipe did.
I'm sad to see them go, I was hoping they'd put out a few more albums before they threw in the towel. Cheers to the boys from Athens, Georgia.
fwiw, the best R.E.M. song is "Nightswimming" from Automatic For the People. Simply gorgeous. A close second would have to be "What's the Frequency Kenneth" for me.
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"LiLo is talking like she has swam out of the Jack Daniels bottle, hiked past the coke mountains, dove off of a crack spoon and is now ready to be someone's sponsor or something." -MK
They had a good run.
Favorite R.E.M. song - Orange Crush.
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"...We don't exist for the beautiful people of the world...We're there for the oddball, the rebel, the outcast, the geek!"
Damn, this sucks. :(
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"Two whores don't make a right"-- M.K.
"Any guy who values stick thin and young over smarts and personality isn't worth it and has NOTHING interesting to say anyway."-- Mrs. Kravitz
"Fave REM song is Strange Currencies :)"
Easily my favorite song from that album. So beautiful.
Sarah Smile
Seriously thogu, does Michael have aids? Why/how did his face go from that to what it is otherwise? Terrible cheek lipo?
Submitted by agirl on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 12:59pm.
Also, I think MK's entire posting should have been about THE BROWS and not about whatever R.E.M. is doing or not doing right now.
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...Absolutely...
...the unibrow's the only thing worth discussing here (including that disturbing p*** pic)...
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...'we want money' - Doug and Courtney Hutchison's hacker...
REM was a magnificent moment in time, and they have made an indelible mark in music, but I think they're doing the right thing, considering nobody even realized they were still together.
However, props to them for admitting that everyone has a price and that their reunion will probably be bought sooner or later.
Fave REM song is Strange Currencies :)
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"I have a very poor way of concealing my dislike of people and/or things." -- Evil_Cupcake's Mom
I thought they broke up years ago.
Submitted by Momus the Sarcastic on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 2:06pm.
I know, right?
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Oh God ,why don't you go sit under a rainbow and write a poem, Kyle.
spankypants~that story made me laugh!
I missed a R.E.M show once when they where still good early 90's then 10 years later early 2002 I was volunteered at my job to run a booth at a benefit concert they put on they let us watch the show after and the booth was more exciting than the show Michael slowed all the rocking tunes down times ten it was basically R.E.M playing their hits in elevator music mode....
Submitted by ba-buttons on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 1:43pm.
Great U2 story. My uncle is a minor celebrity over in Ireland and brought my cousin to an event that U2 was attending.
My cousin was at the after party just quietly star gazing when Bono walked right up to him and started chatting away.
At first, my cousin was thrilled but after a few minutes Bono started to talk about the personal chats he had with God - dialogue, not praying - and how God told him he was an - get this - archangel sent to help save mankind.
And he was serious. My cousin actually started to get a bit scared and did the bathroom excuse. Bono followed him into the can and would not leave him alone for the rest of the party. Finally, one of the other guys in the band saw what was up and finally dragged Bono away shooting my cousin the apologetic eyeroll indicating this was par for the course for archangel Bono.
That is hilarious. I can't see Bono without picturing him on South Park going, "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!", but now I'm going to picture him yammering on about being an archangel.
This is so bizarre. I was just listening to Monster today and I have not listened to that album in years and years. I mean, it's probably been at least eight years since I've listened to it. And now there are TWO pieces of REM news on the Dlisted front page (this and Stipe's artistic wang; yes, I would, btw). How funny!
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Devil's advocate.
A friend of mine had a friend whose uncle knew the singer from REO Speedwagon. The uncle had the singer listen to some early REM, back before REM broke big. The singer told the uncle - and I'm paraphrasing - "I can hear their talent, but it's not floating my speedboat..."
i thought they broke up years ago. PEARL JAM ROCKS ans has for 20 years!!!! i will always be somewhat in love with eddie vedder.
My all time favorite R.E.M. song is So. Central Rain.
They came to my college freshman year (1985). My roommate I decided not to go because they only had one song, Radio Free Europe. We smugly stayed home and drank booze milkshakes. We became massive R.E.M. fans and we don't speak of this incident.
Submitted by agirl on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 12:59pm.
Also, I think MK's entire posting should have been about THE BROWS and not about whatever R.E.M. is doing or not doing right now.
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Yes. This.
Those brows. I can't.
Submitted by christine the hoff on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 1:37pm.
GOT DAMMIT THE HOFF LOVES THEM.
"If you believe , we put a man on the moon..
MAN ON THE MOOOONNNNN
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And, you have every right to love them.
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“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.” J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Looks like someone is a little jealous of all the Pearl Jam 20 hooplah...
*sideyes Stipe*
Not to worry. The Decemberists are doing a bang-up job with their karaoke R.E.M. act, right down to the mandolin part from "Talk About The Passion". R.E.M. prolly heard 'em on the radio and realized the frontman has a better voice. "Fuck!! Let's retire before someone notices."
"At first, my cousin was thrilled but after a few minutes Bono started to talk about the personal chats he had with God - dialogue, not praying - and how God told him he was an - get this - archangel sent to help save mankind."
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Amazing. I love U2 and have enormous respect for them, but there is no doubt Bono is in love with Bono.
Sarah Smile
This is going to sound patronizing and it's not intended as such: it bums me out to think that the songs quoted by the posters, all perfectly competent songs, are what REM will be remembered for. Their earlier albums - Fables of the Reconstruction, Eponymous, Document, etc. - are so excellent.
I'm not trying to be that almost-40 douchebag, but I think calling them pretentious, wailing "Man on the Moon" or "Shiny Happy People", and leaving it at that is really robbing the group of their due.
Sarah Smile
Submitted by BrownHankyWithW... on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 1:15pm.
I hope U2 follows suit.
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Great U2 story. My uncle is a minor celebrity over in Ireland and brought my cousin to an event that U2 was attending.
My cousin was at the after party just quietly star gazing when Bono walked right up to him and started chatting away.
At first, my cousin was thrilled but after a few minutes Bono started to talk about the personal chats he had with God - dialogue, not praying - and how God told him he was an - get this - archangel sent to help save mankind.
And he was serious. My cousin actually started to get a bit scared and did the bathroom excuse. Bono followed him into the can and would not leave him alone for the rest of the party. Finally, one of the other guys in the band saw what was up and finally dragged Bono away shooting my cousin the apologetic eyeroll indicating this was par for the course for archangel Bono.
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"...Foster may have cracked under the pressures of being the world's leading Gordon Ramsay-lookalike-sex-dwarf..."
GOT DAMMIT THE HOFF LOVES THEM.
"If you believe , we put a man on the moon..
MAN ON THE MOOOONNNNN
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Oh God ,why don't you go sit under a rainbow and write a poem, Kyle.
Submitted by BrownHankyWithW... on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 1:15pm.
I hope U2 follows suit.
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That will never happen so long as Bono can use U@ as a platform for his faux-philanthropy.
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“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.” J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Submitted by Sweetas on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 12:53pm.
lol!!! DAMNED STR8 LOVE SHACK 4EVAAAAA!! ♥
*spills jack's beer, doesn't care and keeps dancing inappropriately close to him*
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hahahahahahahahahaaa!!! GOOD TIMES!!
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"I have no snacks for you, only death." ~ annobanano, 08/03/2011
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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"I'm so over Sookie and her precious fairy vagina and her unbelievably stupid name! Fuck Sookie!" - Vampire Badass Pamela Swynford De Beaufort.
Submitted by Whamo on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 12:41pm.
That too bad becasue REM are an excellent band that not only wrote fantastic music but also weren't a bunch of pretentious pricks with their lyrics.
It's a sad day and just one more nail in the coffin of real music. Soon all our favorites will be gone and kids will be lining up to see a band that they only know the one downloded tune they have.
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Well said, Whamo. I enjoyed a lot of their earlier albums, but "Automatic for the People" is my favorite album of theirs. I saw them live around 20 years ago, and they put on a great show. I congratulate them on their longevity, and never turning into a "greatest hits" band.
"JUST SMILE LIKE A NORMAL FUCKED UP PERSON."
Charles Manson
I hope U2 follows suit.
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"Oh you little bitch troll from hell!" -- Patsy Stone
UGH, I always loathed this band - now I'll have to listen to people whine annoyingly about the breakup of this bland, uninteresting group.
Actually, they very recently released an album. I don't know if there was a tour in support of it.
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I'm bored with babies and engagements and happiness and joy and shit. - ImpertinentVixen
I can't get over Eyebrows McGee in the background.
It's the tree falling in the woods all over again.
Is it really a breakup if no one gives a fuck that you're still together?
Submitted by El Bastardo on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 12:56pm.
Submitted by Momus the Sarcastic on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 12:52pm.
Submitted by El Bastardo on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 12:47pm.
Look at dopey, beret-wearing, unibrow dude! Dang, this band shoulda been R.I.P 10secs after they founded.
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Is he related to the Jonas Brothers? He very much looks like Kevin Jonas.
Word girlfriend! AND lookit speccy, bowl haircut with his long walking stick! Did R.E.M partake to a long ramble thru a forest?
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Word boyfriend! Yes, a forest of magical vegetation whence came bizarreness.
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“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.” J.R.R. Tolkien.
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aww, sads. end of an era.