Biannual "Any R.E.M. fans here?" Thread

[Chip Z'Hoy]

Fellow rockers, I just got tickets to see Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy's R.E.M. tribute band and I am pumped. I never got to see the real thing but I'm a huge fan of Shannon as an actor and person so this should be a blast.

Absent fellow rocker S. Buttnoid disliked R.E.M. considerably so in his honor I will make the first "bi anal" joke.

[veritas]

I'm a fan, mostly of the 1987-1997 era. Automatic for the People remains a top 10 album for me.

Interestingly, other than that one, I don't dive too often back into their catalogue? Wonder why.

With the minor exception of disproving my idiot friends contention that REM sang "don't go back to Knoxville" when I told him I was driving down to the smoky mountains via Knoxville.

[Chip Z'Hoy]

With the minor exception of disproving my idiot friends contention that REM sang "don't go back to Knoxville" when I told him I was driving down to the smoky mountains via Knoxville.

DON'T GO BACK TO KNOXVILLE
and waste another beer

[veritas]

With the minor exception of disproving my idiot friends contention that REM sang "don't go back to Knoxville" when I told him I was driving down to the smoky mountains via Knoxville.

DON'T GO BACK TO KNOXVILLE
and waste another beer

Sheesh, the company I keep is .... unsophisticated...

[dmbrocker]

I'm not the world's biggest fan of theirs, but I do enjoy a lot of their classic stuff from '82/'83 up until '97. "Radio Free Europe", "Orange Crush", "Losing My Religion", "Shiny Happy People", and "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight" are probably in my top five.

[Wild Obsession]

Not a "fan", but they have had some great songs over the years, but also some total shit (Stand), and I find "It's the End of the World", "nails on chalkboard" annoying.

[NineteenEightyFour]

I'll always love their brand of "jangle rock" before Automatic For the People and a few tunes from each album afterward.

[Bono Nettencourt]

No, and why would there be?

[GoodJudge]

Everything up to and including Automatic - great.
Everything afterwards - navel-gazing muso jerk-off so they could piss off the "pop fans" who only knew them for Shiny Happy People, and that song and album gave them (at the time) the near-FU-money to do so.

Their cover of Richard + Linda Thompson's Wall Of Death on the b-side of E-Bow The Letter is one of their best songs though. And the Bad Day single, which usd one of their archived 80s riffs, is excellent too.

[Ozzy Stradlin]

The songs from them that I like, I like a lot.

The ones that I don’t, I despise, but their numbers are less.

[Fat_Elvis]

I sure as shit don't like R.E.M. enough to watch an actor perform their songs.

[CrankerBait]

Great band. Finally got to see them on the Monster tour and they were excellent.