I remember when Automatic leaked people were complaining that it sounded like elevator music. nothing changes. if anything enjoy the song for its beautiful chorus.
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"We All Go Back To Where We Belong" - Rolling Stone Review
Started by lorabeth, Oct 15 2011 10:20 AM
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Posted 17 October 2011 - 01:26 PM
MAK, on 16 October 2011 - 08:58 PM, said:
Is a good song. Could have fitted in Reveal or Automatic. It doesn't sound very similar to another previous REM song I think that's great.
It will definitely will not have any AirPlay (radio or tv) in my opinion (unless stations played it as a last tribute)
I hope "A Month of Saturdays" will be a rocker and that "Hallelujah" is an instrumental (with vocal melodies like Endgame. I don't think I'll like Michael singing out loud that word
It will definitely will not have any AirPlay (radio or tv) in my opinion (unless stations played it as a last tribute)
I hope "A Month of Saturdays" will be a rocker and that "Hallelujah" is an instrumental (with vocal melodies like Endgame. I don't think I'll like Michael singing out loud that word
"A Month Of Saturdays" is not really a rocker, I am afraid. And it's quite short, so you might be disappointed. I do like "Hallelujah", though. It's certainly not what you seem to expect, it's quite sombre.
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Posted 17 October 2011 - 03:03 PM
Hoffi_65, on 17 October 2011 - 01:26 PM, said:
"A Month Of Saturdays" is not really a rocker, I am afraid. And it's quite short, so you might be disappointed. I do like "Hallelujah", though. It's certainly not what you seem to expect, it's quite sombre.
Sombre? R.E.M.?
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Posted 17 October 2011 - 03:36 PM
mem_ory, on 17 October 2011 - 01:23 PM, said:
I remember when Automatic leaked people were complaining that it sounded like elevator music. nothing changes. if anything enjoy the song for its beautiful chorus.
It's funny you say that about AFTP. I worked in a record store when it was just released, and I actually remember fellow co-workers complaining to me each time I would play it in-store as , "We hate that record, it's way too slow..." or "We're so sick of it..." and one actually went so far as to say, "I tried to listen to it all the way through, and I fell asleep... " I even played it in my car once when I picked up a friend, and he instantly said to me, "I hate this record, their old stuff is so much better..." Now, of course, it's looked upon as a classic and nothing they have done since has been so great.
I'm personally lovin' "We All Go Back to Where We Belong". The more listens, the better.
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Posted 17 October 2011 - 05:02 PM
Good song: 7 out of 10. Not a classic, but it will be remembered more favorably in 10 years than after a few listens. The instrumentation is delicious, if too quiet, with Mike Mills' obvious influence the highlight.
God, I'm going to miss this band.
God, I'm going to miss this band.
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Posted 18 October 2011 - 12:42 AM
FVDE, on 16 October 2011 - 03:21 PM, said:
I agree the lyrics aren't fantastic, but they're okay. Here's what I make of it:
WE ALL GO BACK TO WHERE WE BELONG
I tripped what you were offering
Imagine lying next to me
Your shirt and your reputation tossed
I will write our story in my mind
Write about our dreams and triumphs
This might be my innocence… lost
I can taste the ocean on your skin
But that is where it all begins
I dreamt that we were elephants
With water, sun, clouds of dust
I woke up thinking we were free
I can taste the ocean on your skin
But that is where it all begins
We all go back to where we belong
We all go back to where we belong
Now, is this really what you are?
Now, is this really what you are?
WE ALL GO BACK TO WHERE WE BELONG
I tripped what you were offering
Imagine lying next to me
Your shirt and your reputation tossed
I will write our story in my mind
Write about our dreams and triumphs
This might be my innocence… lost
I can taste the ocean on your skin
But that is where it all begins
I dreamt that we were elephants
With water, sun, clouds of dust
I woke up thinking we were free
I can taste the ocean on your skin
But that is where it all begins
We all go back to where we belong
We all go back to where we belong
Now, is this really what you are?
Now, is this really what you are?
I agree for the most part... tossed/talks not sure on tough.
I dreamt what you were offering
Imagine lying next to me
Your shirt and your reputation talks
I will write our story in my mind
And write about our dreams and triumphs
This might be my innocence lost
I can taste the ocean on your skin
That is where it all begins
I dreamt that we were elephants
with water, sun, clouds of dust
I woke up thinking we were free
I can taste the ocean on your skin
That is where it all begins
We all go back to where we belong
We all go back to where we belong
Is this really what you want?
Is this really what you want?
I can taste the ocean on your skin
That is where it all begins
We all go back to where we belong
We all go back to where we belong
Is this really what you want?
Is this really what you want?
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Posted 18 October 2011 - 01:10 AM
7 chineSe robs., on 17 October 2011 - 05:02 PM, said:
God, I'm going to miss this band.
Me too. The thought of all the beautiful songs that never get written make me sad.
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Posted 18 October 2011 - 07:49 AM
Really dislike it. To be fair, maybe I've hoped for more because of the fact its the last single (afaik) but they sound bored as hell. I say they, but it kind of sounds like synthetic elevator music Stipe has sung over. I'll have to listen again to be convinced Buck is on it.
Stipe has struggled for the last four albums or so lyrically, imvho, but they still had something, even with CIN.
Stipe has struggled for the last four albums or so lyrically, imvho, but they still had something, even with CIN.
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Posted 18 October 2011 - 12:15 PM
Rather disappointing. Fits almost exactly in-between Reveal and Around the Sun. Not the greatest of swan (swan h) songs.
On another site, someone said it was Bacharach producing A4TP. He/she has the Bacharach part right (and I love me some Bacharach). But this is a bit of a snooze.
I know they would never do this (and maybe shouldn't), but it might have been fascinating and appropriate if Bill had come back in and they'd done some sort of slowed-down, acoustic, re-imagined version of "Radio Free Europe." Oh well.
On another site, someone said it was Bacharach producing A4TP. He/she has the Bacharach part right (and I love me some Bacharach). But this is a bit of a snooze.
I know they would never do this (and maybe shouldn't), but it might have been fascinating and appropriate if Bill had come back in and they'd done some sort of slowed-down, acoustic, re-imagined version of "Radio Free Europe." Oh well.
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Posted 18 October 2011 - 12:25 PM
molotov, on 18 October 2011 - 12:15 PM, said:
I know they would never do this (and maybe shouldn't), but it might have been fascinating and appropriate if Bill had come back in and they'd done some sort of slowed-down, acoustic, re-imagined version of "Radio Free Europe." Oh well.
I'm glad that they didn't and that this new song doesn't harken back to the I.R.S./Berry days. Even though it has a strong 60s vibe, at least it's somewhat forward looking (despite the song title) in that it's a change of pace for R.E.M.
"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
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Posted 19 October 2011 - 03:51 AM
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Posted 19 October 2011 - 04:12 AM
I really like the song. What made me smile even more is an Israeli friend I met here on murmurs e-mailed me today excited saying how the song coincides with Israeli soilder Gilad Shalit's and Palestinian prisoners returning home. I know, purely co-incidental, but still meant a lot for my friend Nadav, good one R.E.M!
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Posted 19 October 2011 - 05:40 AM
Lori, on 19 October 2011 - 04:12 AM, said:
I really like the song. What made me smile even more is an Israeli friend I met here on murmurs e-mailed me today excited saying how the song coincides with Israeli soilder Gilad Shalit's and Palestinian prisoners returning home. I know, purely co-incidental, but still meant a lot for my friend Nadav, good one R.E.M!
Yeah, I was thinking about that too. Quite a coincidence. If someone made a video with the news footage, I bet the single would sell quite nicely in Israel...
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Posted 19 October 2011 - 02:36 PM
Magnificent song. Truly beautiful, and a fitting farewell to and from the greatest band I've ever known. Frankly astounded that this has aggravated some people... maybe they have quit at the right time, because right now it seems like they're damned if they do, and damned if they don't.
So this is the bit where I post something witty that not only makes you laugh, but illuminates a little bit of my character? OK. Hang on, it's coming to me. Erm. Erm. Erm... come back next week, I should have something up then.
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Posted 19 October 2011 - 03:29 PM
Chris H, on 19 October 2011 - 02:36 PM, said:
Magnificent song. Truly beautiful, and a fitting farewell to and from the greatest band I've ever known. Frankly astounded that this has aggravated some people... maybe they have quit at the right time, because right now it seems like they're damned if they do, and damned if they don't.
They quit at the perfect time (although some may say they should have ended it when Berry left). They could have released just about anything as their "farewell" single, and it would have gotten lambasted by fans.
Is WAGBTWWB their best song ever? Not at all, but it's still a really cool little song, IMO.
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Posted 19 October 2011 - 04:23 PM
I really can appreciate the way this song could been the first single off the next album in R.E.M.'s five-album-cycle. The "dim, mumbling, experimental, sonic-reinventing" albums like "Murmur", "Green" or "Up". The happy, uplifting first single that doesn't represent the album as a whole like "Daysleeper".
But it didn't happen. There is no course-correction again. There is no new, sound changin' 16th album.
But here is probably a glimpse of what could have been.
(Even as a CiN outtake, which could have been taken out in the first place, because this is the direction their next move would have been. Probably recorded very late)
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Hell yes! Next one would be a Stereolab-like-orchestrated, sombre, experimental mood piece!
I don't believe any word about quittin because of being "out of ideas" now!
But it didn't happen. There is no course-correction again. There is no new, sound changin' 16th album.
But here is probably a glimpse of what could have been.
(Even as a CiN outtake, which could have been taken out in the first place, because this is the direction their next move would have been. Probably recorded very late)
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Hell yes! Next one would be a Stereolab-like-orchestrated, sombre, experimental mood piece!
I don't believe any word about quittin because of being "out of ideas" now!
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Posted 20 October 2011 - 11:54 AM
Chris H, on 19 October 2011 - 02:36 PM, said:
Right now it seems like they're damned if they do, and damned if they don't.
What Chris said.
What were the rest of you expecting? "Leave"?
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Posted 20 October 2011 - 12:12 PM
What if the real "goodbye" song is being reserved for the last holiday single, what will folks make of "Blue" and "We All Go Back To Where We Belong" then?
"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
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