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[Joni Smeke]

I'll go first:

I can't watch the video of "At My Most Beautiful". I think it's horrible, in an epic way.

[Limnophilia]

I used to pray for Michael Stipe's soul because he is gay and I thought he'd go to hell. (Naturally, I'm free of that conception now, haha!)

[Joni Smeke]

Limnophilia, on 13 October 2011 - 09:26 PM, said:

I used to pray for Michael Stipe's soul because he is gay and I thought he'd go to hell. (Naturally, I'm free of that conception now, haha!)

heh, well, yours was worse than mine I guess

[Limnophilia]

I'll lose that honor once the Bill Berry unibrow masturbation fetish people join the thread...

[Eidnes]

I think you will keep the honor after that, too.

[bluemookie]

I was at the 1991 MTV Unplugged show in New York, and the band left the stage after their first set. I was seated in the bleachers at the back and I had my copy of Bodycount, the LP bootleg from Tyrones in 1981, I think.  I saw Mike standing there, within arms reach, waiting to go back on for an encore, and I asked him if I could have an autograph and he laughed and said "I'm workin' man!".  Boy, did I feel sheepish.  I did get Peter and Bill to sign it though.

[frotus]

I used to work in a music store.   There were so many copies of Monster in the used bin for 1.99, I bought most of them so people wouldn't think it was a bad album.

[ashurt100]

I think "Can't Get There From Here" and "Radio Song" are horrible songs. CGFH sounds like a lame genre exercise and RS reminds me of a Glen Frey solo song called, I think, "Smugglers Blues."

[MurmursAdministrator]

I really, really don't like Around the Sun and detest parts of Up and Reveal. Up and Reveal together with better production would have made a great record.

Also I was almost paralyzed with fear in the studio in Vancouver when I first heard the demos for Accelerate because I didn't know what to say if they were crap and the guys were sitting next to me.

Whew.

On the whole, I love Accelerate and Collapse though and I'm glad they not only redeemed but surpassed erasure of some missteps.

[Kimo]

I never liked Losing my Religion.

I think Peter Buck would make a terrific Stephen King character... the likes of Roland Deschain or Larry Underwood. He's got the charisma.

I always skip Sweetness Follows because it fills me with sad nostalgia.

I think Make it all okay is the very definition of cheesiness.

Apart from Endgame, I find R.E.M.'s instrumental tracks quite lousy.

Reveal is my favorite summer album.

I think Suspicion and Be Mine are great songs to make love to ^^

[REMCHICAGOBOY]

I always denied R.E.M. were simply a better band with Bill Berry, but now I can fully admit it's just a fact. As much as I love most post- Berry material, there's simply no denying the strength of the gang of four from 1980 - 1997.

I literally never, ever listen to Everybody Hurts, Strange Currencies or Wanderlust because they are simply terrible to my ears. I always skip over them. (Actually, I never listen to Around the Sun long enough to even have to listen to Wanderlust)

I've never listened to World Leader Pretend without crying.

I loved life when I worked in a record store in 1994, Monster was released, and literally every single person who came into the store bought it.

I hated life when I worked in record store in 1996, NAIHF was released, and it gathered dust after two weeks out,

[TheMiddleDistance]

I dislike World Leader Pretend. I just don't get what people like about it.
I hate that I wasn't alive until after Berry's departure.

I also have yet to find a R.E.M. music video that I would watch more than once.

[Joni Smeke]

heh, I remembered now that when I listened to Monster for the 1st time (my third R.E.M. album after Out of Time and Automatic) I thought "Who are you guys and what have you done to my favorite band?!?"

I actually thought the cd was defective or something because of that "horrible" background noise in "Let Me In".

Oh, and I thought my NAIHF album was fake because it had no artwork on the cd surface.

[haggis]

I don't like Nightswimming or Everybody Hurts.

[GabrielTripaldi]

I shaved my head every time a new cd came out. I did it for the first time with Monster (I was 15), I did it with Collapse into Now (fuckin' 32 ) .

[king.of.comedy]

My first R.E.M.'s album was Around The Sun... I listened to it many many times every day... I loved it but when I discoverd the rest of discography, I left it apart... I don't love it so much now...

My mp3 version of Up doesn't had Airpotman... I skipped it when I put it on my mp3 player, I dislike this song... In my opinion the worst song of R.E.M...

Binky The Doormat is annoying...

I always thought  Oddfellows Local 151 could be perfect for a musical...  

[Remixomatosys]

I love all the songs on Around the sun.
The second time the word "believe" is pronounced in the song "Around the sun", towards the end, it sends shivers down my spine

[haggis]

Elvis would have done a great version of Star Me Kitten

[haggis]

MurmursAdministrator, on 14 October 2011 - 01:58 PM, said:

I really, really don't like Around the Sun and detest parts of Up and Reveal. Up and Reveal together with better production would have made a great record.

What bits don't you like of those two, Ethan?  I can't stand Saturn Return - it makes me sick...just think it's an awful song.  Beachball is terrible too.  Don't really love Up or Reveal but apart from those two there isn't anything else I detest.

[GabrielTripaldi]

Why do everybody here like Chorus and The ring? I find it quite boring (and I don t undertand anything that Michael is singing on this one)