R.E.M.

[Coma Black]

YouTube - R.E.M. - Supernatural Superserious

As you may or may not know, R.E.M.'s follow-up to 2004's Around the Sun is coming out April 1st and I was wondering just what splash it makes with you--or lack thereof.

As of now, just bcause I'm a fanboy, I'm Gonna DJ and Supernatural Superserious (the only songs I've heard of CD quality) have the spur of other REM CD's as opposed to mid-tempo bore-fests like The Ascent of Man and Leaving New York.

Just a thread for the new CD and REM and general...oh and, they offer you the chance to remake the video...which sucks btw

SUPERNATURALSUPERSERIOUS.COM

[Galedeep]

I haven't listened to any new R.E.M. material since Automatic for the People, which came out in 1992. I love the band, but for some reason I'm scared to listen to new stuff because of the tendency for great bands to release subpar material in their newer days. I mean, how do you really top Out of Time?

So I'm scared to even listen to songs off of this new album.

[Margar]

I actually just added the first single, Supernatural Superserious to our playlist at my station today. didn't care for it... but mayhaps it'll grow on me. we'll see.
I thought stipe's voice sounded a bit weird... I can't put my finger on it.
I'll get back 2 u in a few weeks after the song has had time to sink in.

[Coma Black]

Originally Posted by Margar

I actually just added the first single, Supernatural Superserious to our playlist at my station today. didn't care for it... but mayhaps it'll grow on me. we'll see.
I thought stipe's voice sounded a bit weird... I can't put my finger on it.
I'll get back 2 u in a few weeks after the song has had time to sink in.

His voice has droped .4 octaves because, he's like, fifty. It does sink in, though, it just isn't classic material, however.

[Coma Black]

Go crazy, this an R.E.M. discussion thread.

I'll post more later, but I'm absorbing Accelerate as of now.

BUY IT, dear sirs and sods.

It is rock, not that electronica fodder that scared you away, it even insults 2004's around the sun (no caps for a reason kiddies) on Sing For the Submarine with a jab at Electron Blue !

[For the record, I love Electron Blue, and it one of the only songs I like from AtS]


It's just too darn short!!! That is why I leave you, to continue spinning this sucker (I've had it for 2 hours and it's been played 4 times, ALL THE WAY THROUGH).

It isn't revelountnary, nor near as good as anything prior to Reveal and Around the Sun, but easily is a lovely return to form.

Download everything but Until the Day is Done (which is a drag )

[Galedeep]

I went ahead and merged this with the R.E.M. thread that isn't quite old enough to justify a new one yet. Carry on.

[master K]

I like R.E.M.

Not their hugest fan, but I've got one of their Best Of albums (Can't remember what it's called right now. "In Time" or something), and there's some very good songs on there.

Haven't bothered to listen to any of their newer material, I'll have to add it to my ever growing list of music I need to listen to.

[Galedeep]

In Time covers a very specific period of their career. There's stuff that came before and stuff that has come after. It's an excellent place to start, and is actually what got me into them all those years ago.

[Coma Black]

33.) E-Bow the Letter
32.) Find the River
31.) Fall on Me
30.) Low
29.) Shiny Happy People
28.) Daysleeper
27.) Supernatural Superserious
26.) Lotus
25.) Radio Song
24.) Animal
23.) The One I Love
22.) Band and Blame
21.) Stand
20.) Cuayhoga
19.) Accelerate
18.) I'm Gonna DJ
17.) Begin the Begin
16.) Ignoreland
15.) New Test Leper
14.) Orange Crush
13.) Walk Unafraid
12.) Bad Day
11.) The Great Beyond
10.) Everybody Hurts
9.) Finest Worksong
8.) Radio Free Europe [the Hib-Tone Version]
7.) Nightswimming
6.) Drive
5.) What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
4.) Imitation of Life
3.) Man on the Moon
2.) Losing my Religion
1.) Country Feedback

These have to be the top R.E.M. songs. I couldn't do thirty flat...I just kept taking out and putting in stuff, and they have over 500 official tracks floating around (that I know of).

Accelerate feels like a soundtrack to humnanity. Driving down the road to pay the electric bill with the windows up, there was a song for each passerby; it was zen like.

To everyone who overlooks R.E.M. [for any reason] should pick them up.

I always say that if you don't like R.E.M., you just haven't found the song that fits you.

Originally Posted by master K

Haven't bothered to listen to any of their newer material, I'll have to add it to my ever growing list of music I need to listen to.

I'd say push it to the top, I just discovered them this past month and they knocked NIN off my band obsession's top.

If I had to put their albums in any paticular order, it'd be:

1.) Automatic For the People
2.) Out of Time
3.) New Adventures in Hi-Fi
4.) Document
5.) Accelerate
6.) Monster
7.) Up
8.) Green
9.) Life's Rich Pageant
10.) Murmur
11.) Fables of Reconstuction
12.) Reckoning
13.) Reveal
14.) Around the Sun

[Galedeep]

Good list of songs. "Country Feedback" wouldn't be my number one, but it'd be in the top five for sure. Great great tune.

I have to agree with you, R.E.M. is pretty versatile that there should be at least a couple songs that pretty much everybody should be able to enjoy.

[Coma Black]

I think it's fairly humorous how one of the best REM tunes comes off what I consider their second worst album.

[Galedeep]

Which one are you referring to?

[Coma Black]

Originally Posted by Galedeep

Which one are you referring to?

Reveal. Up was experimental, but noteworthy as far as I'm concerned.

Reveal, ugh. That has to be the most boring record I've ever heard in my life. I literally think I feel asleep listening to All the Way to Reno.



But Imitation of Life is just an outstanding song, I dunno, it just doesn't fit the rest of the record. Anything they did after Hi-Fi was either really good or gut wrenching.

[Galedeep]

I actually really like "All the Way to Reno." I'm a sucker for the bass line and the cycling vocals at the end. "Imitation of Life" is a great song, but I'm really not a fan of the bridge.

[Lly]

I'm okay on them, but I know very little of them other than what's in their singles.

It's kind of funny how at parties, when "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" comes on, everyone pretends to know all the words by heart; but really, other than the chorus, the only line anyone knows is "LEONARD BERNSTEIN!" and everyone feels the need to shout it out as loud as possible.

[Galedeep]

I know most of the lyrics and can keep up with Michael Stipe in "End of the World." Mostly because I learned them off of the Great Big Sea version, which is actually faster than the original. Go me!

[Coma Black]

Originally Posted by Galedeep

I know most of the lyrics and can keep up with Michael Stipe in "End of the World." Mostly because I learned them off of the Great Big Sea version, which is actually faster than the original. Go me!

*In Wii Sports Banter Voice*

GOOD FOR YOU!!! [seriously]

Here, not only do you get a cookie, you get an OREO!!!

Originally Posted by Lly

It's kind of funny how at parties, when "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" comes on, everyone pretends to know all the words by heart; but really, other than the chorus, the only line anyone knows is "LEONARD BERNSTEIN!" and everyone feels the need to shout it out as loud as possible.

I have just about all the words down, and if I don't know a part, I can usually improv some just above totally absurd.

The only problem is that tempo...*shudder* even he loses time occasionally (or should I say, did, because they don't play that anymore, it's too depressing lol).

Accelerate has sold 73,354 copies in Europe as of today!!!

What do I know off the top of my head from that song:

That's great, it starts with an earthquake
Birds, snakes, an aeroplane
Lenny Bruce is not afraid
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
World serves its own needs
Dummy serve your own needs
Speed it up a notch
Speed, the ladder starts to clatter
With the fearfight, outright
Wire in a fire
Representative government for hire in a combat site
-------hurry, with the furries breathing down your kneck
Team of teen reporters ....look at that low plane..err
Flying
Uh-oh, overflow population something
But it'll do
Save yourself
Word serves it's own needs
Listen to your heartbeat
Dummy with the rapture it's relevant, right, right
You patriotic, patriotic, slam bam bright light
Feeling pretty siked

Whew...uh...what next

6 o clock TV hour
Don't get caught in (ford tower?)
slash-and-burn-return, listen to yourself churn
uniform...bookburning...
egh




uhoh, this means no fear, cavalere...damnit. I don't know it...

A torunament, a torunament, a tournament of lies
Offer me solutions offer me alternatives and I decline

LEONARD BURNSIDE!!!!

*commits suicide, lives, blames Judas Priest*

[AMP1317]

I like REM...
I have 3 of their songs lol... ;

[Coma Black]

Originally Posted by AMP1317

I like REM...
I have 3 of their songs lol... ;

Jesus says: what songs? ha

[kfred]

I like orange crush

[Coma Black]

Originally Posted by kfred

I like orange crush

It's one of my favorites, but I don't play it as often as others because of its lack of diversity. Sames goes for The One I Love.

YouTube - REM, It's The End Of The World As We Know It

Proof that he slows down just to be each word correct.

[AMP1317]

End of the World
Man on The Moon
Bad Day

[master K]

Originally Posted by Galedeep

I actually really like "All the Way to Reno." I'm a sucker for the bass line and the cycling vocals at the end.

Yeah me too. Not one of the best I've heard by them, but it's still good.

The Great Beyond is probably my favourite R.E.M. song.


Still haven't managed to listen to any more of their material (I've got a list of fifty or so bands I want to listen to...) but I heard an acoustic version of their latest single, and was sufficiently impressed. I'll listen to some more as soon as possible.