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[welliwonder]

thursday said:

Athens is like Hollywood. The closer you get to the celebrities, either personally or geographically, the weirder things become.

Celebrities???:eek   the only wierd thing here is your post.

[stipeeyes]

There is no such thing as Celebrities in Athens, GA.  I bet its far more cleaner and safer than Hollywood too.

[MurmursAdministrator]

stipeeyes said:

There is no such thing as Celebrities in Athens, GA.  I bet its far more cleaner and safer than Hollywood too.

ya'll have an over media idealized view of Hollywood.

I see more celebs in New York :)

[Ophelia]

ethank said:

ya'll have an over media idealized view of Hollywood.

I see more celebs in New York :)

The man speaketh the truth.
Been to Hollywood.

[Aardwolves Lower]

MAK said:

I would bet anyone this was meant to happen...

15th album in 30th anniversary as a band,   they have to do it, and I'm pretty sure they'll make the best album since new adventures,  the end of accelerate era leave a gap of wonder of what was expecting for the future musically.

a year and a half ago (aprox) I read here a comparison someone made about the sequence on REM albums and it looked really reasonable to me:
1. MURMURS: experimental, new musical direction
2. RECKONING: same idea, more commercial
3. FABLES: same concept, downbeat, more deep or political
4. LIFES RICH: upbeat, faster rocker songs, closer to desired sound
5. DOCUMENT: perfection achieved on musical idea
6. GREEN: experimental, new musical direction
7. OUT OF TIME: same idea, more commercial
8. AUTOMATIC: same concept, down beat, more deep or political
9 MONSTER: upbeat, faster rocker songs, closer to desired sound
10. NEW ADVENTURES: perfection achieved on musical idea
11. UP: experimental, new musical direction
12. REVEAL: same idea, more commercial
13. AROUND THE SUN: same concept, downbeat, more deep or political
14. ACCELERATE: upbeat, faster rocker songs, closer to desired sound
15. (A.K.A. FUTURE TENSE): perfection achieved on musical idea???

will the tendency continue?

P.S.  my guess is they are in portland or seattle

this is nicely summed up. is it your own theory or have you adapted it from something you read?
either way, it's very interesting indeed, even though it's vulnerable to debate.
I hope you're right...New Adventures is probably my favorite record but only by a nose in a photo-finish...

I think Seattle too...

[Aardwolves Lower]

mozzh said:

This is great news. I for one hope they do a whole album of American Civil War folk songs. Perhaps the whole R.E.M team could go on a camping trip into the mountains with only a harmonica and a banjo . This would surely produce the album of our age.

oh HELL no! that's sounds way to retro to me! I'm an electricity lover...so

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stipeeyes said:

There is no such thing as Celebrities in Athens, GA.  I bet its far more cleaner and safer than Hollywood too.

Athens is a university town so you have a lot of experimentation going on in fashion, music, art and theater...it's not so much a factory of boot licking conformists as Hollywood tends to be...[generally speaking]

[luc]

mgeldere said:

new orleans

mmmh... yes, I think you're right!! ;)



http://www.musicshed.net/

[CrutchFloor]

Hmmm... That picture on the wall sort of creeps me out. If that thing is up when they're coming up with tunes, it could lead to some very strange, eerie REM tunes :eek:

[luc]

LOL! yes, pretty scary!! :p

[TheMiddleDistance]

I guess I'd like to see them do something moody again, a la Fables or Up.

[stipeeyes]

ethank said:

ya'll have an over media idealized view of Hollywood.

I see more celebs in New York :)

True.  Michael and Kevin Spacey were at shows I went to at the Garden.  

Celebs are scattered around more than people realize.:)

[surprisepig!]

Murmurs got a namecheck and a link in this small article on TwentyFourBit (which is a great music site btw):

http://www.twentyfou...s-dave-rawlings
R.E.M. are apparently back in the studio, as a recent photo of Michael Stipe with Accelerate producer Jacknife Lee was sent to fansite Murmurs by R.E.M.’s tour manager, Bob Whittaker. Murmurs says the photo depicts Stipe and company starting “work on the new R.E.M. record.”

[Pflanze]

ethank said:

No word on release date, tone, where they are or indeed, what is being recorded. But judging from the length of the board tapes on the wall, not a lot of instruments per track.

maybe they are "only" working on the x-mas fanclub single(s)?? :confused::confused::confused: or is it too late for this?

Edited by tom9thomas9, 10 November 2009 - 06:38 AM.

[Sweden]

tom9thomas9 said:

maybe they are "only" working on the x-mas fanclub single(s)?? :confused::confused::confused: or is it too late for this?

Presumably too late. And Mike said in an interview a while back that he'd just been in a studio in Athens and "finished this years fan club single".

[Pflanze]

Sweden said:

Presumably too late. And Mike said in an interview a while back that he'd just been in a studio in Athens and "finished this years fan club single".

oh, missed (??) that or cannot rembember! :rolleyes: thanks...

[C.A.]

CrutchFloor said:

Hmmm... That picture on the wall sort of creeps me out. If that thing is up when they're coming up with tunes, it could lead to some very strange, eerie REM tunes :eek:

Looks like Jim Carey in "The Grinch" to me. :)

Okay, so the Grinch was green - so what !

[surprisepig!]

http://www.spinner.c...g-new-material/

R.E.M. Recording New Material
Posted on Nov 11th 2009  

R.E.M. is at work in a Portland, Ore. studio on the follow-up to its 2008 comeback album, 'Accelerate.' Word of the studio activity came cryptically this week when guitarist Peter Buck posted this photo of singer Michael Stipe standing in the company of producer Jacknife Lee, producer/engineer Tom McFall and sound engineer Sam Bell.

If Buck's photo wasn't enough of a hint, R.E.M.'s website points to a recent Online Athens interview with Lee, in which the producer confirms he's been in the studio with the band working on a new disc. In the article, Lee suggests that the project will have a similar live-in-the-studio process like 'Accelerate.'

Speaking of the praise hurled at that album, Lee suggests it wasn't a matter of the band reaching back to the edginess of its youth, as some critics suggested. "It was five people in a room playing -- not looking back, that wasn't the intent," says the producer. "It was counting to four and playing a song. And in that, there's a fierceness ... They're a great band."

While there's no official statement from the band about what the disc will be called or when it might actually surface, the news does offer encouragement to fans who were stoked by both 'Accelerate' and the group's acclaimed new release, 'Live at the Olympia,' which features 39 songs from the group's 2007 five-night stint in Dublin.

[Simon]

mozzh said:

This is great news. I for one hope they do a whole album of American Civil War folk songs. Perhaps the whole R.E.M team could go on a camping trip into the mountains with only a harmonica and a banjo . This would surely produce the album of our age.

this is the most fucked up thing i have heard on here!

i was hoping that they did an album of australian beer songs

[Aardwolves Lower]

Simon said:

[B said:

[/B]mozzh;2055726]I for one hope they do a whole album of American Civil War folk songs.

this is the most fucked up thing i have heard on here!

i was hoping that they did an album of australian beer songs

okay then, if we're being completely open, what about an album that pays homage to beer by combining Oktoberfest polka classics with T.V. theme songs like the "Cheers" tune and the "Lavern and Shirley" theme?
The accordion's time in the sun is overdue.