To follow on from the Beatles/Stones/Who threads....I've been listening to REM for the first time in years and I'm blown away by how good some of their stuff still sounds. But to pick one song is almost impossible - for me you could pick 4 songs each of Document, Green and Automatic For The People and there would be little to choose from. Plus there's some excellent stuff in their early albums.
I'll narrow it down to 3 and they're fairly predictable:
Man On The Moon
Orange Crush
The One I Love
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Thread: Greatest REM song
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15-06-2020 06:42 PM #1
Greatest REM song
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15-06-2020 06:59 PM #2
For me it is the early stuff and nothing, nothing, will exceed “Fall On Me”, just the harmonies, and Mike Mills backing vocals’ to Michael Stipe.
Second up, from the same album IIRC is “I Believe”. It is just pure energy, rambunctionus and has a constant drive.
Third is ‘Carnival of Sorts (Boxcar) from their first album. If you only ever listen to one REM song, that tells you all you need to know about them. Not as pretty as ‘Fall On Me’ though.
The stuff from ‘Green’ is excellent and I would be hard put to diminish the tracks on that. It was how I first heard REM and fell in love with their music but ‘Life’s Rich Pageant’ quickly became my favourite.There's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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15-06-2020 07:05 PM #3
Good question. A truly great band; they probably wouldn’t be in my ten favourite acts but they probably should be, they’ve been making great music for a long time.
I needed Spotify to help me a bit, very close run thing but
Strange Currencies (off Monster)
Near Wild Heaven (Out of Time)
Finest Worksong (Document)
Nightswimming and Everybody Hurts (from Automatic for the People) miss out by a baw hair.
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15-06-2020 07:10 PM #4This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThere's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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If I can choose a non-single, Oddfellows Local 101 from Document is a particular fave.
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15-06-2020 07:30 PM #7This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Documemt is a great collection of songs.
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15-06-2020 08:28 PM #10
Saw them live in 2005 at loch Lomond. Epic.
Shiny happy people
Everybody hurts.
I know they're cliche but who cares. I love the video to everybody hurts too.
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15-06-2020 08:43 PM #11
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For me it's probably:
Night swimming or half a world away.
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15-06-2020 08:54 PM #12
I think Document and especially New Adventures in Hi-Fi are hugely underrated. I love Finest Worksong from the former and Undertow, Leave and Be Mine from the latter. Be Mine probably my favourite.
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15-06-2020 08:58 PM #13
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Shiny Happy People. The original Friends theme choice from the unaired pilot.
https://youtu.be/Tl5751mttoE
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15-06-2020 09:45 PM #14
I gave my vinyl record colletcion, or at least whar she wanted of it, to my little sister, a few years back. One of them was the 12" of 'Orange Crush' (I think). On the B-side (should pause here to explain what 12"s and B-sides were to younger listeners, while trying not to be patronising ), Stipe had recorded a very heartfelt version of Syd Barrett's "Dark Globe". It is exquisite though I wouldn't swap it for the top three I mentioned
They also did a commendable version of "Love is All Around", on anither single, again as a B-side I think, and again, Mike Mills was on point with the backing vocals.There's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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15-06-2020 11:01 PM #17
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Back in the early 90s I had a night out in Michael Stipe’s company in Atlanta. For what it’s worth his favourite REM song at the time was Country Feedback.
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16-06-2020 05:01 AM #18
Have every REM album - a great band
Would be hard to pick 3 best albums let alone songs -
You are the Everything
Don't go back to Rockville
Strange Currencies
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16-06-2020 05:26 AM #19
A great band with some brilliant songs. I am a fan but would be more of one except I really don't like Michael Stipes' voice. He has a timbre that starts grating on me after 3-4 songs.
He has a very similar voice to the lead singers from the B52s & They Might be Giants. Both groups I like too.
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Being an up-my-own-arse music snob I'm very much a fan of their first couple of records, which, fittingly, remind me of a summer working in Leith years ago, more than anything. Pretty Persuasion, Talk About the Passion, Shaking Through and Harborcoat would be up there with my favourites, although you could pick anything off Reckoning and I'd be happy. Diminishing returns for me after that, but still plenty of gems until the mid-90s. They would probably have been best calling it a day about 15 years before they did.
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I also liked Reveal as well though - kind of a summer album feel to it
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Oh and Around The Sun is still pish
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Yeah their worst album in my eyes - liked Electron Blue and that's about it.......
They went downhill after Bill Berry left. They were never the same band again
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Id never even heard of some of the early 2000s stuff, There’s one called Up! ? that Passed me by completely.
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16-06-2020 04:29 PM #28
Don’t think it’s been mentioned but I liked Bad Day, even if not in the same class as most of the others mentioned.
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16-06-2020 05:19 PM #29
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