R.E.M.?

ciazaera · 15 Oct 2013, 15:10

I'm with Hom, right up to Green they were great. Once they signed to a major label they lost it, and everything else was dire.

They have been ruined, though, by the use of Everybody Hurts as a mass sobathon soundtrack after the death of Princess Diana. No band could recover from that.

psichonaut · 16 Oct 2013, 18:28

Green is my fav album (don't ban me now

) but also like some of the earlier stuff, not really a fan myself but the weren't such a bad band before Stype made the jump into worldpopBand thing
they loose the sound they had back but still a good live band IMO

XidiouX · 10 Nov 2013, 04:20

'Slacker Rock', James? Perhaps a sensitive term on a Sisters forum. I can't think of any criterion according to which The Sisters could be viewed as having been more productive than R.E.M....unless we were to, say, come up with one based on the number of songs with the word 'Corrosion' in the title or something like that.

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eastmidswhizzkid · 10 Nov 2013, 04:31

XidiouX wrote:'Slacker Rock', James? Perhaps a sensitive term on a Sisters forum. I can't think of any criterion according to which The Sisters could be viewed as having been more productive than R.E.M....unless we were to, say, measure the number of songs with the word 'Corrosion' in the title or something like that.

XidiouX

no, not more productive...better.

XidiouX · 10 Nov 2013, 04:38

In that case, if I was really stupid, I'd ask a question like "So, how many R.E.M. songs are worth one Sisters song?"

But I'm not really stupid, so I'm not asking that question, so there!

(case in point, loads of Sisters songs are better than loads of R.E.M. songs, but anyone who thinks Phantom is better than Sweetness Follows needs their head examined.)

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eastmidswhizzkid · 10 Nov 2013, 04:45

XidiouX wrote:In that case, if I was really stupid, I'd ask a question like "So, how many R.E.M. songs are worth one Sisters song?"

But I'm not really stupid, so I'm not asking that question, so there!

XidiouX

glad to hear it! i doubt you would have got an unsarcastic reply.

XidiouX · 10 Nov 2013, 04:59

Go on then, watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQN7A6Vl1H4

I don't wish to prove some point here. I don't wish to defeat you, or anyone else here, in some argument. I just simply want to share something that I like. If you don't like it, fair enough. If you do, I'll have done my good deed for the day, and then I can go and trip up a pensioner.

XidiouX

10 Nov 2013, 05:02

XidiouX wrote: and then I can go and trip up a pensioner.

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eastmidswhizzkid · 10 Nov 2013, 05:39

XidiouX wrote:Go on then, watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQN7A6Vl1H4

no need, i remeber it well.i have already expressed my appreciation of R.E.M. in this thread, vis:

eastmidswhizzkid wrote:regardless of who else likes it, "losing my religion" is one of my favourite songs ever.
i wouldn't say i was a big fan of theirs -apart from the afore mentioned single i own no product- but they've had their moments: "it's the end of the world as we know it", "the one i love" and "shiny happy people" (not just because kate pierson of b52's is on it) are all ok IMHO.

XidiouX wrote:I don't wish to prove some point here. I don't wish to defeat you, or anyone else here, in some argument. I just simply want to share something that I like. If you don't like it, fair enough. If you do, I'll have done my good deed for the day, and then I can go and trip up a pensioner.

XidiouX

no argument intended or entered into.

as for pensioners, my gran's dead so you're safe from me, but there are people on here who almost qualify for buspasses so be careful!

always,
Lee

XidiouX · 10 Nov 2013, 06:15

Pensioners wearing certain T-Shirts will be spared.

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XidiouX · 12 Nov 2013, 20:11

markfiend,

I can't imagine two more dissimilar albums than Automatic for the People and Monster. These albums were consecutive.

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13 Nov 2013, 11:37

I'll say it again.

markfiend wrote:REM were the band that all the oh-so-serious pseuds (who took the p!ss out of me for listening to The Sisters) listened to back in the late 80s. I don't even believe that any of them genuinely liked REM, they just listened to it because that was what they were supposed to like. Pretentiousness at its very worse.

I know that I'm judging the band by the people that listened to them, and I suppose that's not exactly fair of me, but hey.

Planet Dave · 13 Nov 2013, 13:39

R.E.M. kick(ed) arse.

The Sisters kick(ed) arse.

What more needs be said? Other than, clean yer ears out Fiend.

Love most of their albums, always loved them live (1995 at Huddersfield both nights (albeit the second night was watching freemans from the woods at the side of the stadium) and several festivals thereafter), 60-odd thousand at Glasto in 99 loving it, 30-odd thousand at Old Trafford Cricket Ground in 2003 where they were out of this world. They always missed a trick by not inviting Von & Co to support them but hey.

13 Nov 2013, 13:51

Planet Dave wrote:clean yer ears out Fiend.

XidiouX · 15 Dec 2013, 05:18

The song after Losing My Religion on the album Out of Time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJlxcFw9mzs

This is not a g**h song, because R.E.M were not a goth band. R.E.M were a rock band, which makes this a rock song. Enjoy!

Likewise...and tastes like chocolate never tasted before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CYitiDJPTE

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XidiouX · 21 Dec 2013, 01:16

There's something very Harry Dean Stanton about Michael Stipe that I love. It's hard to describe. They both seem to embody a vague archetype: the Southern, rugged, American slim gentleman - the road, the dust, the eyes, the cheekbones, the accent, the sincerity, kindness and the soft, velvet voice. It's very difficult to put this strange intuition into words.

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