REM

REM

Splitting up.

About time really, but i must confess, i am a fan

Some really good tunes, some brilliant (early albums), and they did spawn the college rock movement, or at least presented the global face of it.

Favourite REM songs people? There have been about three best of albums but, predicatably and probably rightly, they are the radio friendly unit shifters. My favourites are a combo of these and the bristlier units- [i stopped listening after Monster]

• Perfect Circle
• Cuyahoga
• Kohoutek
• Wendell Gee
• Fall on Me
  
• Maps and Legends
• We Walk
• Pilgrimage
• So.Central Rain
• Good Advices
• You are the Everything
• Hairshirt
  
• Losing my Religion [have to have it really]
• Half a World Away
• Country Feedback
• Sweetness Follows
• Bang and Blame
• Circus Envy
• New Test Leper
• E-Bow the Letter
  

Edit- am listening to GREEN & Hairshirt just came on; so i have to add that
Edit 2: Had to add Fall on Me
Edit 3: Bevan reminded me i had left of New Adventures
Salmon072011-09-25 11:48:15

Off the top of my head I have to add.

Orange crush
Bad day
The great beyond

Will have to get back to this thread.

agree: Orange Crush-
that was the 1st REM song i ever heard (1990 i think), followed by Stand

the others.. a little bit of meh for me-
but please get back Stefan, get back to where you once belong

Driver 8.
So.Central Rain
Don't go back to Rockville
It's the end of the world...

all gd choices, and feature on the first 'best of'.
i chose So. Central Rain. would re-consider Driver 8. for my definitive list

I recently purchased a Lester Bangs anthology based solely on the fact that Stipe name checks Bangs in "End of the World"

...Cheesecake...Jellybeans...boom......

If interest persists ill aggregate the YF choices to divine a definitive YF Fans Greatest hits list

or ill just go and do something else...

I doubt I've listened to my REM for 10 years so i reserve the right to chance the early albums.

& a few years back on a Golden bay Roadie i made the missus detour form Collingwood to Rockville, an innocuous 1 horse shack marked on the map, just so i can now say ill never go back to Rockville.

30 minutes of her life she'll never get back
#REMFANSTORIES

hardly worth it for the later years. although the last outing got some good press

I saw them at western springs with Grant Lee Buffalo and Crowded House in about 1963.  Was a great concert.

yes, yes and furthermore yes.

Was a great night- circa Monster

When the undercard is Crowded House and Grant Lee B. you know you are onto a winner

Wellington Town Hall, Feb 3 1989

Setlist

Must have played for at least 2 and a half hours, including 3 encores. Great gig. One of my favourites at Welly Town Hall ever.

I am such a big REM fan and I was Gutted to see them split up. They have had their time as they are 50+ years old. I am really disappointed I will never be able an opportunity to have seen them live as I am only 18. I have all of their albums and listened to them many times over.

These are my favourite songs from their albums:

Murmur: I could put almost every song but Radio Free Europe, Sitting Still, Shaking Through and Talk Aout the Passion, We Walk

Reckoning: Harbourcoat, Letter Never Sent, 7 Chinese Brothers

Fables of the Reconstruction: Life and How to Live It, Driver 8

Lifes Rich Paegent: Fall on Me, I Believe, The Flowers of Guatemala, Cuyahoga

Document: The One I love, Its the End of the World As We Know It

Green: World Leader Pretend, Orange Crush, Untitled, Get Up, Pop Song 89

Out of Time: Losing My Religion, Near Wild Heaven, Half a World Away

Automatic for the People: Man on the Moon, Try Not To Breathe, Everybody Hurts, Nightswimming, Find the River

Monster: What's the Frequency Kenneth?, Crush With Eyeliner, Bang and Blame

New Adventures in Hifi: Bittersweet Me, Wake up Bomb, So Fast So Numb, Binky the Doormat, Electrolite

Reveal: Imitation of Life, Beat a Drum

Up: At My Most Beautiful, Falls to Climb

In Time Best Of: The Great Beyond

Around the Sun: Leaving New York, Electron Blue, Wanderlust

Accerlerate: Living Well is the Best Revenge, Supernatural Superserious

Collapse into Now: Mine Smell Like Honey, Everyday is Yours to Win, UBerlin, That Someone is You
Everton Blues2011-09-24 23:18:41

New Adventures In Hi-Fi is a great album for a road trip.

That 89 concert looks good.

I saw them play at Hammersmith Odeon in London maybe 10 years ago; was pretty good.

Mainly dirty hippies out there anyway

I can't believe i left that album of my list-poor

I'd add E-Bow the Letter & New Test Leper to my greatest hits & have now edited accordion-gly
Salmon072011-09-25 11:49:46

I saw them on that tour too, only shortly after having left NZ. Was in Sydney & The Go Betweens supported, can you remember who supported in Welly?

Traitor2011-09-25 23:12:51

Go Betweens.  McLennan - 

That weblink is great-here is the set list;
28 January 1995 - Western Springs, Auckland, New Zealand
support: Crowded House, Grant Lee Buffalo

set: What's The Frequency, Kenneth? / Circus Envy / Crush With Eyeliner / Turn You Inside-Out / Try Not To Breathe / Me In Honey / You / Orange Crush / Revolution / Tongue / Near Wild Heaven / I Don't Sleep, I Dream / Country Feedback / Man On The Moon / Losing My Religion / I Took Your Name / Pop Song 89 / Finest Worksong / Get Up / Star 69
encore: Let Me In / Everybody Hurts / Bang And Blame / Drive / It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine). Good memories traveling around Europe.

REM's music depressed/bored me to tears.

Everybody hurts, take comfort in your friends

Shiny Happy People :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCQ0vDAbF7s&ob=av3e
It makes you cringe a bit...

These are the songs for their final compilation CD PART LIES, PART HEART, PART TRUTH, PART GARBAGE, 1982 - 2011 with a few new songs

Disc 1:
Gardening At Night
Radio Free Europe
Talk About The Passion
Sitting Still
So. Central Rain
(Don�t Go Back To) Rockville
Driver 8
Life And How To Live It
Begin The Begin
Fall On Me
Finest Worksong
It�s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
The One I Love
Stand
Pop Song 89
Get Up
Orange Crush
Losing My Religion
Country Feedback
Shiny Happy People

Disc 2:
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
Everybody Hurts
Man On The Moon
Nightswimming
What�s The Frequency, Kenneth?
New Test Leper
Electrolite
At My Most Beautiful
The Great Beyond
Imitation Of Life
Bad Day
Leaving New York
Living Well Is The Best Revenge
Supernatural Superserious
�Berlin
Oh My Heart
Alligator_Aviator_Autopilot_Antimatter
A Month of Saturdays
We All Go Back To Where We Belong
Hallelujah