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[Mary Alice]

I like Make it All Okay a lot, too, charky!  Seriously, it is touching to me.  And I also think "you're in the air" is beautiful and sexy, I have said so in Matthew Perpetua's pop songs entry on the song!

I don't like...World Leader Pretend.  Or the Wrong Child, but I guess that one's got some support!  I like Walk Unafraid so much and I think Walk Unafraid just knocks WLP out to me like a boxing match, game over.  Not just as a song, but as a way to live life.  I know many people who have been deeply touched by WLP, and I guess, though I can't understand and relate to that journey, for someone who can it's a good thing.  Like if WLP was where he was at mentally at the time, and he had to go through that to get to who he later became, then I guess it's cool he was honest about what he was going through and that could help someone else dealing with the same.  Eh, I still don't like it!  just trying to intellectualize why someone else might, but so much of liking music is in the gut!

[Whiskers]

Everytime I listen to Automatic for the People I'm afraid I won't like it as much as the last time I heard it.

I honestly don't get why Drive is so popular, not only by fans but by the mainstream. I adore it to bits but it'll always be the opener to Automatic for me. I can't see myself listening to it otherwise.

I don't think Green goes anywhere as an album. It doesn't end or really begin, but I still love all the songs on it.

I find Wanderlust a pretty grueling experience ; when Michael sings "traces" it sounds like he can barely hit the note. The way he says "Milky Way" always makes me smile though, so it's worth it.

I'm surprised people don't openely dislike High Speed Train, compared to Saturns Return or Airportman.
I think it's by far their worst song.

And finally; I'm regretful that I hadn't discovered R.E.M. earlier, and I'll never get to see them live...
Part of me loved the fact that they were still going, even in their fifties, for thirty years. It shows real commitment and friendship.
I was just lucky I was still around to hear Collapse Into Now whilst it was still fresh.

[Southern Gothic NC]

Happy that R.E.M. chose  'Supernatural Superserious' to put on the latest retrospective album! I just can't get enough of this song. It was killer live, too! Glad they were happy with it and especially Michael and the way he put it into words. I hope if they gain new fans from this that they will enjoy it, too.

I miss the whole Accelerate vibe....promo, live acoustic videos (Take Away shows), tours, interviews, tv, etc.

'On the Fly' has become one of my favorites and the video is so nice.

I LOVE Reveal more than Up

I like Around the Sun

I have always played 'Shiny Happy People' in my classroom, for many years as part of Music & Movement & Rhythm & Dance

I miss older R.E.M. (80's) and will never forget that era and when I first heard them in 1986/'87 and saw them live for the first time in 1989

I wish I still had the pics of Michael (and my old scrapbook) when we met and talked to him after the Greensboro concert

I absolutely love, 'Hallelujah'!!! Wow!

....to be continued

[Pilgrimager]

Mary Alice, on 17 October 2011 - 11:07 AM, said:

I like Make it All Okay a lot, too, charky!  Seriously, it is touching to me.  And I also think "you're in the air" is beautiful and sexy, I have said so in Matthew Perpetua's pop songs entry on the song!

I don't like...World Leader Pretend.  Or the Wrong Child, but I guess that one's got some support!  I like Walk Unafraid so much and I think Walk Unafraid just knocks WLP out to me like a boxing match, game over.  Not just as a song, but as a way to live life.  I know many people who have been deeply touched by WLP, and I guess, though I can't understand and relate to that journey, for someone who can it's a good thing.  Like if WLP was where he was at mentally at the time, and he had to go through that to get to who he later became, then I guess it's cool he was honest about what he was going through and that could help someone else dealing with the same.  Eh, I still don't like it!  just trying to intellectualize why someone else might, but so much of liking music is in the gut!

I distinctly remember hearing a version of that on a Radio acc. set at the time of Out of time when Michael said it wasn't about him in the intro. Dunno if he's revised that now though. That was the last i heard...yep. Back in 1990!

[Pilgrimager]

Driver Eight, on 16 October 2011 - 08:45 AM, said:

Up I have on cassette, not on my iPod, which is a stranded little beastie since its mother computer died. My library is transferred to another computer, but I don't want to lose lists and playcounts - dealing with it is on the backburner right now. So I haven't relistened Up since 9/21.

9/21!

[lowerwolf]

Even though it is in my Top 5 now, I hated Fables when I first heard it.

The Wrong Child depresses me in a good way, if that makes sense. It gets me thinking about how fortunate I am to be healthy and not be disabled.

Shiny Happy People is one of my favorite R.E.M. songs, and in middle school I listened to it everyday.

I hated Automatic when I first heard it because I thought it was slow and boring. Now it is my favorite R.E.M. album.

Monster is my guilty pleasure album when I'm in a trashy rock mood but not enough to where I listen to Van Halen.

Even though I know the verses are just a poppy rehash of Driver 8, I still like Imitation of Life a lot.

When a friend made me listen to Supernatural Superserious for the first time, I honestly thought it was a rerecorded outtake from Lifes Rich Pageant.

I cried when one of my friends broke the news to me that R.E.M. broke up.

[xfile94]

I had this weird Bill Berry obsession that lasted for years!!! From '91- 97 when he quit he was the reason for my continual checking up on them. Am I weird?

[Mottje t.H.]

TheMiddleDistance, on 14 October 2011 - 04:42 PM, said:

I hate that I wasn't alive until after Berry's departure.

#) I had to read this three times to get it :-o !!! It's kind of a real shock for me!

##) I was growing up longing for each next R.E.M.-album to get through the next phase of my life.
So, how will I get through life until retirement????

###) I only had a tape-copy of Out of time since 1991. I bought it finally in 2008!

####) I was fed up with L.M.R., I used to stand petrified and to wait 'til Peter's instrumental part to start dancing. I began to hate and skip the song or change the radio station ... until I had Michael in my arms during L.M.R. at a gig in 2008 - my sweetest R.E.M.embrance... I'm happy whenever I get to hear this song now :-D !!

[Mottje t.H.]

GabrielTripaldi, on 15 October 2011 - 01:28 AM, said:

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 ) .

##### I was always watching around at R.E.M.'s gigs for the guys who had shaped their heads ;-)

And I still hate using PAST TENSE while talking about R.E.M.!!!


###### Since Michael had that beard growing, I notice myself looking at bearded guys for the first time, thinking whether they might look good underneath that hairy stuff ;-) ....

[Mottje t.H.]

REMCHICAGOBOY, on 15 October 2011 - 02:05 PM, said:

I love The LIfting a ton, think I've Been High is one of their best songs in their post - Berry catalog, adore Beat a Drum,  and find She Just Wants To Be sooooo cool. And apparently I'm the only person on the planet who likes Beachball.

###### I only remember 2 melodies out of these 5 songs spontaneously :-o !  So, Reveal seems to be the less impressing album for me.

REMCHICAGOBOY, on 15 October 2011 - 02:05 PM, said:

And I have another confession: I hope We All Go Back to Where We Belong is a top 5 American hit for them, not only to end it all with a huge hit single, but to get the letters "R.E.M." back into the general population, just one last time.

Well, how long do we have to wait for that?  
####### Whenever in a record store I spread the latest R.E.M.-CDs to the other shelves around. ;-)
REMissionaryME!

[Mottje t.H.]

I have to convince myself to stop posting here now and to go on with that another time... there's lots coming into my mind... See y'a!

[wagtail]

When I've been viewing REM content on the internet, I navigate to a news or weather site before going to the website of anyone that might know me because I don't want their Google analytics revealing I'm an REM fan.  'cause, you know, REM fans are kinda weird.

[space banjo]

I think that Country Feedback and Nightswimming are 2 of the bands weakest tracks

[stipeeyes]

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View PostGabrielTripaldi, on 15 October 2011 - 04:28 AM, said:
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 ) .

It's ok, Michael has that affect on people.  

e-botti, on 16 October 2011 - 05:52 AM, said:

I'm in love with Michael...i mean i love him...really...I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE HIM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ditto

[remfan477]

Confession: I cried when I first heard You Are The Everything..........

[Raw_Deal]

I really hated Leave when I first heard it. Now it's one of my two favorite songs ever, along with Find the River.

[remfan477]

When I first heard Try Not to Breathe, I thought it was off of NAIHF

[snoorkelekroons]

Sometime in the mid 90s Michael said in an interview that he didn't like The Beatles. That's fine, but it turned me off the way he was quoted in the article. And that might have been a twisting of his words, you never know.

Not long after Up came out and when I heard it I had a crisis of faith in my favorite band.

It took a while before I got back into them again. But around 2001 I was at an outdoor restaurant and heard a mixtape playing that had some new songs on it that I didn't know but instantly loved. That was the moment I got back into them (I never stopped listening to the 80's albums, though. Never will).

[Driver Nate]

snoorkelekroons, on 22 January 2013 - 05:11 AM, said:

Sometime in the mid 90s Michael said in an interview that he didn't like The Beatles. That's fine, but it turned me off the way he was quoted in the article. And that might have been a twisting of his words, you never know.

Stipe sets the record straight in this interview that aired on ABC's Nightline in March of 2011. By the way, he never said he "hated" the Beatles, he said he thought of them as "elevator music".

[snoorkelekroons]

Thanks for setting me straight and thanks for the interview, Nate, that was cool. Like I said, I figured he was misquoted and you proved that, cool.