Everyone must admit that the guitarist is good.
What about the lead singer?
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Everyone must admit that the guitarist is good.
What about the lead singer?
by Anonymous | reply 135 | February 19, 2022 10:06 PM |
I don't like any of them, now that Micheal Stipe is almost dead.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 12, 2021 3:24 AM |
They do seem to be of their own time and place.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 12, 2021 3:27 AM |
Every fool has a reason to feeling sorry for himself.
And dragging his heart around like a stone.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 12, 2021 3:30 AM |
What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
Orange Crush
Stand
by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 12, 2021 3:30 AM |
I read this as REO
by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 12, 2021 3:32 AM |
"Crush with Eyeliner" is good. Courtney Love, who is (weirdly enough) friends with Stipe, has claimed he wrote it about her. I'm not sure if that's true or not, but I do wonder.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 12, 2021 3:32 AM |
The end of the world as we know it
by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 12, 2021 3:33 AM |
Another vote for "Fall on Me," followed by "Can't Get There From Here."
by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 12, 2021 3:34 AM |
They are one of my favorite bands - love pretty much all their albums.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 12, 2021 3:35 AM |
E-Bow the Letter, Leave, What' s the Frequency, Kenneth
by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 12, 2021 3:35 AM |
Losing My Religion - duh!
by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 12, 2021 3:35 AM |
It's late and probably too mainstream for some, but "The Great Beyond" puts me in a good mood when I hear it while grocery shopping.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 12, 2021 3:36 AM |
Don’t Go Back to Rockville.
Losing My Religion.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 12, 2021 3:37 AM |
Man on the Moon. Probably my favorite video of theirs
by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 12, 2021 4:47 AM |
E-bow The Letter and Country Feedback are probably my favorites, but Me In Honey and Near Wild Heaven are poppier songs of theirs I enjoy.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | August 12, 2021 4:50 AM |
Pretty much everything on Lifes Rich Pageant. Begin the Begin is one of my all time faves. I also like Finest Worksong, Texarkana, Me in Honey, World Leader Pretend, and Turn You Inside Out.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 12, 2021 4:51 AM |
They have so many, many good songs. I finally checked in as a teen when Out of Time came out. It was popular and I remember the critics being disappointed, but it was my gateway to all of their earlier works.
Orange Crush was an all-timer for me back in the day. One That I Love as well. Radio Free Europe, Rockville, Texarkana, and Man on the Moon are great. I have a huge soft spot for Get Up. I even love Radio Song, Superman, Binky the Doormat, and End of the World. Sue me!
But at the top of my list is Begin the Begin. Always. There is just something about that song. It's epic.
Life's Rich Pageant and Automatic were my fave albums. I think New Adventures in Hi-Fi was the last album of theirs I bought (I'm not sure if I ever gave Up a chance). I don't listen to them much these days. :(
by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 12, 2021 5:01 AM |
R7 “crush with eyeliner” always makes me think Of the Lauren Bacall song in “the big sleep” where she sings the line “she’s a real sad tomato, she’s a busted Valentine”
by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 12, 2021 5:07 AM |
“Monty got a raw deal” about Montgomery clift’s accident.
“Drive”, “find the river”, I liked the cover of John Lennon’s “dream”
by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 12, 2021 5:13 AM |
Driver 8, Don't Go Back to Rockville, Shiny Happy People, The Outsiders, Aftermath, Leaving New York.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | August 12, 2021 5:16 AM |
Nightswimming! Love REM but that has been my favorite since I first heard it. Second would probably be Walk Unafraid but that one is more tied up in the nostalgia of where I was in life when it was a part of my regular soundtrack.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | August 12, 2021 5:22 AM |
Huge REM fan.
Songs I Love:
Driver Eight
Nightswimming
World Leader Pretend
Electrolite
by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 12, 2021 5:26 AM |
Has anyone mentioned "Feeling Gravity's Pull" or "Maps and Legends"?
I was there from their first EP and love everything from the first years. Then I moved on to other kinds of music and they got huge.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | August 12, 2021 5:59 AM |
Everybody Hurts.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | August 12, 2021 6:41 AM |
Shit, I forgot about King of Birds. I loved King of Birds. How could I?
And I mixed up Texarkana with Me In Honey. I've always done that. Not sure why.
Here's my list of faves with "(x)'s" being tops for me.
Murmur: Radio Free Europe (x), Pilgrimage (x), Talk About the Passion
Reckoning: Rockville (x), So. Central Rain (x), 7 Chinese Brothers, Camera, Time After Time, Pretty Persuasion, Harbourcoat
Fables: Life and How To Live It, Can't Get There From Here
Life's Rich Pageant: Begin the Begin (x), Superman (x), Cuyahoga, These Days, I Believe, What If We Give It Away?
Document: King of Birds (x), The One I Love (x), End of the World, Strange, Disturbance At The Heron House, Finest Worksong, Oddfellows Local 151 (What a disturbing song!)
Green: Orange, Get Up (x), Turn You Inside-Out, Untitled
Out of Time: Losing My Religion (x), Me in Honey (x), Radio Song
Automatic: Man on the Moon (x), Monty Got a Raw Deal (x), Drive, Try Not to Breathe, New Orleans Instrumental No. 1, Sweetness Follows, The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite, Find the River, Nightswimming
Monster: Crush With Eyeliner, Strange Currencies, I Don't Sleep I Dream
Adventures in Hi-Fi: Binky the Doormat (x), New Test Leper, E-Bow The Letter, Wake-Up Bomb (mild ripoff of Cherry Bomb but whatever)
My Top 10:
1. Begin the Begin
2. Losing My Religion
3. Man on the Moon
4. Monty Got a Raw Deal
5. Orange Crush
6. Get Up
7. King of Birds
8. Me In Honey
9. The One I Love
10. Rockville
by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 12, 2021 6:56 AM |
I forgot about King of Birds, too R29. That's a fantastic song.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 12, 2021 7:13 AM |
Stand
by Anonymous | reply 31 | August 12, 2021 7:25 AM |
Orange Crush
Losing my Religion
What's the frequency Kenneth
by Anonymous | reply 32 | August 12, 2021 7:33 AM |
From the mid-80s to the mid-90s, it seemed that R.E.M. could do no wrong. Fans loved them, music critics loved them, MTV loved them, college hipsters loved them. And then suddenly everyone stopped listening to them, talking about them. or caring about them. I know that every band runs it course, and R.E.M. had a longer run than most, but these days, when people talk about 80s and 90s music, R.E.M. don't seem to get as much credit as they deserve.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | August 12, 2021 8:12 AM |
You are all stupid fools for loving these people
by Anonymous | reply 34 | August 12, 2021 8:14 AM |
R11 what's the frequejncy, Kennocks?
by Anonymous | reply 35 | August 12, 2021 8:15 AM |
All of them.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | August 12, 2021 8:22 AM |
This one goes out to the one I hate.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | August 12, 2021 8:25 AM |
My Top 10:
Me In Honey
Monty Got A Raw Deal
Ignoreland
Time After Time
How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us
These Days
Find The River
Feeling Gravity's Pull
Circus Envy
Moral Kiosk
by Anonymous | reply 38 | August 12, 2021 8:40 AM |
Damn, a few of you need to get a room!
by Anonymous | reply 39 | August 12, 2021 8:48 AM |
Most of the time I am late to the party on popular music. If I become aware of some music that's already big stadium and huge music festival big, I tend not to pay attention. I knew them vaguely, it was the music that would play in the background at some late night place and straight college guys, too drunk, would hit on gay guys and the say they weren't, but five minutes later say they were.
Somehow I only listened properly at the tail end of the 1980s. They weren't my thing, really, but they were kind of perfect: Stipe's voice and the lush instrumentals.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | August 12, 2021 8:49 AM |
All this stuff is 30 years old.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | August 12, 2021 8:50 AM |
Don’t forget, DL icon Davida R starred in the Losing My Religon video!
by Anonymous | reply 42 | August 12, 2021 8:56 AM |
End of the World and Losing My Religion.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | August 12, 2021 9:32 AM |
My Top 10
Nightswimming
Imitation of Life
Half a World Away
You Are the Everything
Superman
The Finest Worksong
Don’t Go Back to Rockville
Aftermath
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
E-Bow the Letter
by Anonymous | reply 45 | August 12, 2021 10:07 AM |
Thanks, R41, for pointing that out, since no one else on Earth can read a calendar but you.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | August 12, 2021 10:23 AM |
[quote]. no one else on Earth can read a calendar but you.
You read the calendar incorrectly. It's 42 years old,
by Anonymous | reply 47 | August 12, 2021 11:29 AM |
IMO, the greatest REM song ever is "Wolves, Lower." I also love "Feeling Gravity's Pull," "Life and How to Live It" and "Can't Get There From Here," the true highlights of their 80s Outsider Art period. I can still put those songs on and feel totally transported.
They offered such an intriguing and cool alternative image of what it meant to be curious and creative people from the American South. I think that's been lost in recent years
As a band, I think REM peaked with "The One I Love." I was still in early high school when "Out of Time" came out and suddenly people's parents started getting into their songs. Everything after that, starting with "Automatic For the People," was a slide into sameness and commercial schlock.
I had thought the band might get edgier and more daring when Stipe finally came out, but almost the opposite happened.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | August 12, 2021 12:29 PM |
someone give a short version of what they've been doing the last ten years.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | August 12, 2021 1:42 PM |
Michael Stipe has done a couple of solo 'singles', I think he's working on an album.
Peter Buck made an album with the unsung genius Luke Haines a few years ago.
I don't really know about Mike Mills or Bill Berry.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | August 12, 2021 1:45 PM |
You’re beautiful, more beautiful than me
You’re honorable, more honorable than me
Loyal to the Bank of America
by Anonymous | reply 53 | August 12, 2021 1:56 PM |
Never could get into them.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | August 12, 2021 1:58 PM |
Adventures in Hi-Fi was actually a decent album.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | August 13, 2021 9:15 AM |
Holy shit that was off of Reveal. I was so off. But, it does sound similar in sound.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | August 13, 2021 9:17 AM |
No love for Shiny Happy People ?
by Anonymous | reply 63 | August 13, 2021 9:57 AM |
R24 mentioned it, and it's actually a delightful cut off Out of Time.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | August 13, 2021 9:58 AM |
R23 Shiny Happy People and Leaving New York are the two worst songs they ever did.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | August 13, 2021 10:00 AM |
Shiny Happy People is a whimsical, simple song that is comforting to sing along with. It has an unassuming nature with a positivity that isn't too cloying. It also carries a nostalgia that doesn't feel burdensome. Kate Pierson's backing vocals are so pleasant. I even don't mind the music video.
I don't mind Leaving New York either.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | August 13, 2021 10:14 AM |
Shiny Happy People is a brilliant pop song, and one of those cases where the artists are embarrassed to have created something that the masses enjoy.
I mean no one is going to sing along to E-Bow The Letter are they?
by Anonymous | reply 67 | August 13, 2021 10:22 AM |
R67 I sing along to E-Bow The Letter every time I hear it.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | August 13, 2021 10:41 AM |
I always liked "Shiny, Happy People" because I saw it as an attempt by R.E.M. to lighten up and show they weren't always so damn deadly serious and pretentious. So I was disappointed when I learned that the band hated the song.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | August 13, 2021 10:46 AM |
South Central Rain The One I Love Losing My Religion Everybody Hurts Shiny Happy People Imitation of Life Fall on Me Don’t Go Back to Rockville Talk About The Passion Superman
by Anonymous | reply 70 | August 13, 2021 11:08 AM |
Is that a medley R70?
by Anonymous | reply 71 | August 13, 2021 11:38 AM |
Thank you R51. Night Swimming is one of my absolute favorites too. It is rare that a song can evoke a complex emotional mood in me, but that song always does it. It's like a beautiful Yeats poem set over of simple piano riff.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | August 13, 2021 12:20 PM |
I love so many of their songs! Now, if I could actually understand what they're saying, that would be awesome.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | August 13, 2021 12:34 PM |
R73, Stipe could have used a professor Higgins, that's for sure.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | August 13, 2021 2:32 PM |
There are so many stories about Stipe being an absolute horror show as a human being. It's really annoying I like his band so much.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | August 13, 2021 3:13 PM |
Shiney Happy People just seemed like a leftover B52’s song they picked up and put out and then included the former singers on.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | August 13, 2021 4:04 PM |
[quote] Everybody Hurts Shiny Happy People
So true..
by Anonymous | reply 77 | August 13, 2021 4:09 PM |
This video for "Swan Swan H" (linked here) came from a music promo documentary called "Athens, Georgia Inside Out" that came out in the 80s, and showcased REM along with other local bands like Kilkenny Cats, Flat Duo Jets and Pylon (serious throwback names) that never achieved anywhere near the same notoriety.
I think of this as the apex of Stipe's pretentiousness--I mean, he was SO silly and full of himself, but basically harmless. And Peter Buck was smokin' hot. I definitely would've with him right up until '94 (but not a day later).
by Anonymous | reply 78 | August 13, 2021 5:08 PM |
...It's also amazing to me to watch Michael Stipe footage from that era and think, "Oh, that's right, you're dating NATALIE MERCHANT FROM 10,000 MANIACS."
by Anonymous | reply 79 | August 13, 2021 5:10 PM |
Green Grow The Rushes
by Anonymous | reply 80 | August 13, 2021 5:14 PM |
I loved them at the time, but I've never really listened to them since. On the other hand, I still listen to The Cure, The Smiths, and The Jesus and Mary Chain. I'm not sure why but they didn't stick with me like some of the other music from that era.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | August 13, 2021 5:16 PM |
Did anybody mention Rockville?
by Anonymous | reply 83 | August 14, 2021 1:26 AM |
So, this is weird. There is this lyric in "Ignoreland" from "Automatic For the People".
The lyric is "They forced their way into the capital."
Does anybody else find that strange?
by Anonymous | reply 84 | August 14, 2021 1:35 AM |
Does anybody else think Michael Stipe wears fake eyelashes?
And if so why? Do you suppose he plucked them out as a young queer boy with problems?
by Anonymous | reply 86 | August 14, 2021 1:39 AM |
R85, that was fucking amazing. What album is that off of?
by Anonymous | reply 87 | August 14, 2021 1:40 AM |
R87 Reveal
by Anonymous | reply 88 | August 14, 2021 1:45 AM |
“I thought that I heard you laughing, I thought that heard you scream!”
by Anonymous | reply 89 | August 14, 2021 1:54 AM |
“All the Way to Reno” from Reveal. I was living in Reno at the time that album came out, so it’s evocative of that time and place in my life. Though the lyric about someone going to Reno to become a “star” is pretty amusing.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | August 14, 2021 2:11 AM |
I was a huge REM fan in the 80’s. Followed them around, trying to see as many shows as possible. Michael Stipe was beautiful then, and I found his uneasiness with fame to be an attractive trait. We all knew he was gay, and he knew that we knew. But once he embraced the fame, shaved his head and became a millionaire, my admiration for him disappeared. Still love all their earlier music to this day.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | August 14, 2021 2:13 AM |
Fascinating, a song that was cut from Reveal because it was simply too slow for an already slow album.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | August 14, 2021 5:33 AM |
R82 why do you always feel compelled to ruin things?
by Anonymous | reply 93 | August 14, 2021 6:46 AM |
R91 Isn't he bi?
by Anonymous | reply 94 | August 14, 2021 7:55 AM |
No, Micheal STipe is not bi. He is a confused gay man.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | August 14, 2021 7:58 AM |
He dated women and said he was queer.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | August 14, 2021 8:02 AM |
Was he serious in his woman dating?
by Anonymous | reply 97 | August 14, 2021 8:16 AM |
R97 How would we know?
by Anonymous | reply 98 | August 14, 2021 8:18 AM |
Near Wild Heaven is a personal favorite.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | August 14, 2021 8:20 AM |
Everybody Hurts
by Anonymous | reply 100 | August 14, 2021 8:22 AM |
REM was excellent up until Monster and they stared pumping out muzak made for stadiums. In the 80s they could do no wrong.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | August 14, 2021 8:24 AM |
R100 everybody hurt when Michael Stipe tries to stuff his limp dick up their butt!
by Anonymous | reply 102 | August 14, 2021 8:26 AM |
So. Central Rain, Electrolite
by Anonymous | reply 103 | August 14, 2021 8:26 AM |
R102 damn I was hoping he was a bottom.
I'd still fuck him now.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | August 14, 2021 11:28 AM |
R96 I also “dated” women, but I sure as shit never fucked them. He only uses the word queer to describe himself because the gay community wanted him to come out of the closet when he was on the covers of magazines. He still holds a grudge. R104 You’re in luck-word on the street is that Stipe is vers
by Anonymous | reply 105 | August 14, 2021 12:31 PM |
I can’t believe no one mentioned this song, if only because the video stars big dicked DL fave, Aaron Taylor Johnson.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | August 14, 2021 1:13 PM |
R105 What the hell did you did with them then, if you didn't fuck? Go girl shopping together? And you really think he and Natalie Merchant never fucked? Yeah, sure. Quite a few REM songs are romantic songs about women.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | August 14, 2021 1:26 PM |
My Top 5:
Orange Crush
At My Most Beautiful
Imitation of Life
Everybody Hurts
Electrolite
by Anonymous | reply 108 | August 14, 2021 1:43 PM |
R107 Obviously never got the memo that fraus are not welcome here. Now shoo!
by Anonymous | reply 109 | August 14, 2021 2:09 PM |
And pussy
by Anonymous | reply 110 | August 14, 2021 2:40 PM |
As a guitar-driven indie band that had a rabid tour following, flirted with mainstream success, and was fronted by a sensitive-sexually ambiguous lead singer, 80's-era R.E.M. was frequently compared to The Smiths.
But unlike Morrissey (with whom Stipe is rumored to have "messed around" ca '91, although I have no idea if that's actually true), who came from a conservative working class/Irish Catholic/postwar background in the U.K. with so much baked-in homophobia in it that seemed to "explain" (not excuse) his eternal closetedness, I could never figure out what it was that kept Michael Stipe from coming out.
During those years, especially, Stipe was SO sanctimonious, a cultural and moral arbiter of everything "authentically" politically correct. And yet...so invested in maintaining a pathetic fiction around his sexual identity. Why? It doesn't really make sense to me. What exactly would it have cost him, of all people, to come out? Especially when he seemed to be all about callouts of hypocrisy, political corporatism, etc. I think it's weaselly.
And here's a final question from this elderly DL'er: Stipe was supposedly very close friends with both River Phoenix and Kurt Cobain around the time of their untimely deaths, but did he ever say a damned thing to them about their destructive drug habits? (or did he just enable them right to the end, because he was and is primarily a starfucker?)
by Anonymous | reply 111 | August 14, 2021 2:41 PM |
He did try and help Kurt Cobain. But Kurt refused all help. Stipe has said he sent a driver to Cobain house to pick him up and take him to rehab. The driver sat outside all day, but Kurt never left the house. As for River, clearly Stipe was in love, but River got caught up in the Hollywood drug scene. Junkies are known for refusing help from people who care about them.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | August 14, 2021 2:57 PM |
R110 has clearly never listened to Fuck Me Kitten
by Anonymous | reply 113 | August 14, 2021 3:36 PM |
The lead singer? He's like CCR's John Fogerty in that I can take him in small doses. I can stand him on shuffle but never play an entire REM album from start to finish. The voice just gets to be too much after a song or two.
My favorite is "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" (which is rather appropriate in these Corona Covid mask/no mask vaccine/ no vaccine days in which health care became a convenient and rather bizarre political issue.
Honestly, is there nothing in America that won't be politicized and divisiveness inducing?
by Anonymous | reply 114 | August 14, 2021 4:06 PM |
R111 Most of REM's fans were straight guys. Some of whom were either homophobic or uncomfortable with homosexuality. He would have alienated those fans if he had came out as gay.
When Billy Squier released his "Rock Me Tonite" video, it alienated his main fanbase who were straight guys because the video was deemed to be too gay.
It's not personal. It's business.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | August 14, 2021 5:07 PM |
R111 He wasn't close friend with Kurt Cobain. He was only in the spotlight for like two and a half years, and half of that time he was touring, the other half, just being smacked out of his mind. They maybe hang out two-three times. That's not enough to make people close friends.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | August 14, 2021 5:14 PM |
[quote] Most of REM's fans were straight guys. Some of whom were either homophobic or uncomfortable with homosexuality.
[quote] When Billy Squier released his "Rock Me Tonite" video, it alienated his main fanbase who were straight guys because the video was deemed to be too gay.
Most of REM's audience were politically liberal, and REM didn't shy away from being political. They appealed more to the artsy, sensitive guys than to the toxic masculinity crowd of drunken football fans and frat bros. Yes, homophobia was very strong in the 80s and 90s, and yes, it might have hurt the band commercially if Stipe had come out earlier, but REM's audience wasn't exactly the same as Billy Squier's audience. And most REM fans suspected Stipe was gay long before he ever came out.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | August 14, 2021 6:00 PM |
[quote] When Billy Squier released his "Rock Me Tonite" video, it alienated his main fanbase who were straight guys because the video was deemed to be too gay.
Not to derail a thread about REM, but this is one of those things people always say, even though it's not quite true.
First of all, "Rock Me Tonite" went to #15 on the Billboard charts, charting higher than any of Squier's previous singles. (His only other Top 20 was "The Stroke," which peaked at #17).
Second, Squier was already 34 when "Rock Me Tonite" came out. He was already past his prime.
And it wasn't just that the video was "too gay" (though that was certainly part of it). It was that Squier was trying to fit into the culture of the mid-80s by dancing and prancing, which just wasn't his style. "Gay" or not, it was just awkward and embarrassing.
I'm sure Squier would like to think he would have been topping the charts for years to come if he hadn't done the "Rock Me Tonite" video, but that's unlikely. He's like all the '80s artists who complain that Nirvana ruined their careers when their careers were on the decline long before Nirvana ever came along.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | August 14, 2021 6:11 PM |
I'm glad that DL has informative, knowledgeable discussion about a band with a gay frontman. The diva shit is really wearying sometimes. Anyway, Fables of Reconstruction is amazing. It strikes a sweet point between tender and aggressive post punk. Their first 4 albums are impeccable.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | August 14, 2021 8:51 PM |
R118 I'm not saying that REM and Billy Squier had the same fanbase. REM's fans were mainly Gen X whereas Squier's fans were older Boomers. My point is that straight men are attracted to rock music or music with a hard edge. REM's fans liked alternative rock and were not necessary politically liberal. I remember seeing a backlash from the homophobic comments about Michael Stipe wearing a skirt in the following YouTube video about 10 years ago. This reminded me of the negative reaction from Squier's "Rock Me Tonite" video.
Some of the comments include the following:
"why is michael wearing a dress?"
"What is up with the SKIRT? Sounds and looks like Bob Dylan with a skirt on. Whats up with that?"
"is he wearing women clothes?"
"oghgod.. sorrow sorrow sorrow. sorrow i had to look at that annoying outfit."
"you're right about the skirt, it's better if you listen without watching..anyway, this cannot cancel the history of the band.."
"I really didn't need to see that Stipe midriff!"
"wardrobe malfunction... boxers or briefs... creepy"
"erm he wears a skirt haha. now theres daring "fashion". not cool"
"Fricken dress......"
"@cynthiailly what a gay outfit tho, amirite?"
by Anonymous | reply 121 | August 15, 2021 12:53 AM |
R121 Those the the comments that DL-ers would leave on that video. Actually, DL comments would be a lot harsher and more insulting.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | August 15, 2021 9:34 AM |
Three boy
by Anonymous | reply 123 | August 17, 2021 5:59 AM |
Obey your betters, boy.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | August 17, 2021 6:00 AM |
It's Time for Me To Fly
by Anonymous | reply 125 | August 17, 2021 7:27 AM |
Pretty Boys are too easy.
i would prefer smart boys.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | August 17, 2021 7:29 AM |
R62, I've never heard that song! And I am a huge REM fan.
What a gorgeous song.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | August 17, 2021 7:54 AM |
2 UNIMPEACHABLE EFFORTS: Drew Barrymoore's "Grey Gardens" & Stipe's lyrics to "End of the World as we...."
by Anonymous | reply 128 | August 17, 2021 11:29 AM |
R18 I like how Stipe hitches a ride with that hot trucker.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | August 17, 2021 3:34 PM |
Untitled
Losing My Religion
Nightswimming
Everybody Hurts
Monty Got a Raw Deal
You Are the Everything
Stand
by Anonymous | reply 131 | August 17, 2021 5:57 PM |
R129 That “hot trucker” was drummer Bill Berry.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | August 18, 2021 12:43 AM |
There are some songs I have a love/hate relationship with.
"Everybody Hurts" can be quite cloying, but I can't deny its intentions and high production values. Even if the lyrics are too on-the-nose, there is an honesty to them.
I feel similarly to "Stand." It's sound sometimes annoys me, but there's a lyrical truth that is undeniable as well. There's also an irony to to the song in today's social media. Twitter is antithetical to the song in some ways.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | August 18, 2021 1:17 AM |
R23 I have to say "Drive" has become my "new" favorite. Great song!
by Anonymous | reply 134 | February 19, 2022 5:43 PM |
Drive
Man on the Moon
Losing My Religion
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