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    Posted: August 01 2006 at 11:00
Any fans of this band around here?  I was really into them in college, but haven't listened in a few years now...might be time to dust off some of the classics and give them a spin.  Everything up through "Document" was really class, and there's plenty of decent stuff on some of the later albums as well.
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Points: 24391 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2006 at 11:13
I only have two albums by REM, probably their most successful - "Out of Time" and "Automatic for the People". I haven't played them for some time, but I must admit to quite liking them. Not very familiar with their later output, though.
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Points: 31165 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2006 at 11:24
Originally posted by Ghost Rider Ghost Rider wrote:

I only have two albums by REM, probably their most successful - "Out of Time" and "Automatic for the People". I haven't played them for some time, but I must admit to quite liking them. Not very familiar with their later output, though.


Haha..."Out of Time" is probably my least favorite album by them.  Their best work was in the 80s, especially the three consecutive albums "Fables of the Reconstruction", "Life's Rich Pageant", and "Document".  If you ever get a chance to pick up one of these cheap, I highly recommend it (IMO "Document" is their best record), just to sample this band at what I think is their best.

As if you have a real short wish list for music, right?  Wink
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I've got all of their albums, so I guess I'm a fan. I also think Document is their best album.
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I think "Life's Rich Pageant" is their best album of the 80s, as is "Automatic For The People" for the 90s... Hell, probably it is THE best record of its decade!
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Points: 2537 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2006 at 16:06
They do have some great songs, "E Bow the letter"(with Patti Smith) and "Leave" off Adventures in Hi Fi, "Bittersweet me" and "New test leper" I think they are all off the same album!!
"How the west was one" is also good.
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Excellent band, "Document" is the best album is think.
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I bought their Chronic Town EP way back when, loved it!  Also Murmur was great.  That's about it for me.
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I was huge into them back in the mid to late 80's, kinda lost track of them after "Automatic for the people". I still think they're a great band, My favorites being the early stuff. Now I feel I have to dust off my old cd's and reintroduce myself to them. Around that time I was into REM I was playing in a cover band that did only Beatles, REM, Squeeze and Joe Jackson..Cool
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Points: 1475 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 02 2006 at 02:55
I prefer their nineties' albums over their eighties' actually. Great band, although they fizzle out on their most recent album.
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Points: 1509 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 02 2006 at 03:50
For me they are a band I buy a "best of" CD, reserved for that occasion that calls for a little Rapid Eye Movement. Tongue
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One of the best bands ever.
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Points: 19618 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2006 at 02:58
While I never really paid that much azttention to them while they were in their prime (early 90's) , retrospectively , I must say they had some classic songs (amongst which my fave is Losing My Religion).
 
Probably will look for a compilation someday
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They might have been - at best - okay if they'd had a singer rather than a whiner. The odd thing is that Stipe has a pretty deep and mellifluous voice when speaking.

But, in the end the songs just really aren't that exciting on any level, except maybe lyrcially once in a while.
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Points: 1320 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2006 at 05:02
Fables, Pageant and Document are masterpeices, but I also like first two Murmor and Reckoning. After Green, only occasional songs I like, not the entire opus!
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Originally posted by Teaflax Teaflax wrote:

They might have been - at best - okay if they'd had a singer rather than a whiner. The odd thing is that Stipe has a pretty deep and mellifluous voice when speaking.

Actually, Stipe was more of a mumbler than a whiner pre-Life's Rich Pageant - his "hallmark", if you will, was that you couldn't understand what the hell he was saying!  When he was singing, I didn't think it was that bad.  I've certainly heard worse.

But, in the end the songs just really aren't that exciting on any level, except maybe lyrcially once in a while.

Well, they certainly had an impact on me ten years ago, and I'm sure I could still enjoy them now.  They didn't write the most complicated songs, but I always enjoyed Peter Buck's arpeggiated style of guitar.  Sadly they haven't done anything of merit in many years.
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Points: 31165 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2006 at 09:20
Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

While I never really paid that much azttention to them while they were in their prime (early 90's) , retrospectively , I must say they had some classic songs (amongst which my fave is Losing My Religion).
 
Probably will look for a compilation someday


Try "Eponymous" to get a small taste of their 80s output.
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Points: 1079 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2006 at 15:04
I coppied (a horrible thing, i knowTongue)  "Automatic For The People"  from my brother in law last month and I must say I like it alot Smile

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Points: 216 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2006 at 16:34

I have a Greatest Hits album from them and it's pretty good Thumbs Up, I haven't heard them for a long time though.


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Points: 940 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2006 at 17:27
I have all their albums. My favorite ones are Document, Out Of Time and Automatic For The People. The last two or three albums are OK but the magic has gone, they're not surprising anymore.
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