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[chiarem]

a lot of time... when I knew I couldn't go and see Milan concert, when I was in Rome and saw them for the first time, the first time I listened to try not to breathe (wow!), and everytime I feel alone and everybody hurts sets me free!:D

[skodt depram]

I cried when Bill left and they kept the name.

[norwayrem]

skodt depram said:

I cried when Bill left and they kept the name.

You think they should have changed name?

That would never worked out. They made a promise tho Bill when he left, and that promise was to keep the band going. That's a great deal, even if I really miss Bill. He had some great influence on songs and way to make music. That is why the area from 1981-1997 is better than the rest, even if the band have grown on stage.

[skodt depram]

If it weren't for Bill, that band would have folded before "Radio Free Europe." Of course he wants them to keep going, but at least Joy Division became New Order.

[sousa]

skodt depram said:

If it weren't for Bill, that band would have folded before "Radio Free Europe." Of course he wants them to keep going, but at least Joy Division became New Order.

As they says a 3 legs dog is still a dog...
Well, I really cried when they came to stage the second time I went to an R.E.M. concert... Really glad they kept their name just like Bill wanted them to!

[guitarguy]

I never cry when listening to R.E.M. (or in many other situations), but several songs on Reveal make me feel generally emotional.  None has come closer than the ITTR video, though, which always moves me.

-Guitarguy

[Silvy]

I'm crying now and it was a lot of time i didn't cry for the guys... one year ago I was (we were...) leaving for rome... the best gig of my life.
These days, driver 8, electrolite and NIGHTSWIMMING.
One of the best setlist of the tour.
And now I'm crying watching the pix... remembering that night... how much time we have to wait again for a night like that?:(

[Mollusk]

Before R.E.M, I never cried to music. There's just something so darm emotional about thier songs...they've got me breaking down in tears every other day now :rolleyes:
Erm...it was about 1AM and I was watching the Leaving New York video on repeat...that made me cry.
And once again in the early hours, I was reading an article entitled 'Losing his recognition?' on Shiny Happy Forum about Michael chain smoking...and it said alot of evil things that were mean and untrue...and I burst into tears =3

[Lissy24]

Yes, I cried for R.E.M. As I felt in love with R.E.M. some years ago and I heard „Nightswimming“ the first time tears run over my face.
And last year after the three concerts in Berlin, Magdeburg and Dresden, because I was sad that all was over.
And now, when I remember all these wonderful nights.
For some days I received the Dresden-CD. I cried when I heard these CD the first time.

But I´m so happy that I found R.E.M. for myself.

[chiarem]

Silvy said:

I'm crying now ... remembering that night... how much time we have to wait again for a night like that?:(

now i'm crying too:(

[Miss Stipe]

I cried when they played everybody hurts at live 8! What an amazing performance! So emotional!
Also I feel that Michael's beautiful voice is very emotional and the lyrics make me want to cry. I think At my most beautiful is a real tear jerker.:(

[LoAndBeholden]

Yeah. When they played "Gardening at Night" 3 years ago in Kansas City. I was so damn happy I bawled like a baby.:D

[Miss Stipe]

Aww Sweet!

[collyblom]

I cried when they played So.Central Rain in Cape Town, their first South African concert and my first and only concert.  I hadn't heard the song before and I didn't hear or understand the lyrics at the time, but it was so sad and the emotion came through clearly.  Luckily I got the setlist off one of workers, and figured out which song it was and got hold of it :)

Michael was looking at me during Great Beyond, and sang "why don't we pantomime, just close our eyes and sleep sweet dreams, me and you with wings on our feet" to me.  I cry when I listen to the song now, because it was such a great moment and I'm so happy that it happened, and I could attend a lifetime's worth of REM concerts and never have a moment like that again.

I'm really scared that I won't ever be able to see them perform live again.  Most bands who come to South Africa never come back - the Stones, U2 etc.  I've cried about it once or twice - especially when they left the country and I knew I'd probably never see them again.

When my cousin (who I'm very close to) was diagnosed with leukemia, I put Everybody Hurts, Sweetness Follows, Find The River and Nightswimming on repeat.  I listened to them every night for a week for hours and cried.  I needed to cry and feel those emotions, and having the songs there comforted me, particularly as they are beautiful and are about love and family and pain.  Having REM with me in that moment made it bearable, because I knew I was hurting, and that I had hurt before and listened to REM and cried and come out the other side okay, and it would happen again this time.

[genera seven]

I cried when they released Around the Sun, because it was horrible. Does that count?:confused:

[AgainstAllOdds]

I cry whenever i hear everybody hurts.

[norwayrem]

The last days You Are The Everything has been close to. Well, it made it when I saw it on Tourfilm. Brings back emotions and memories from probably the greatest person I've ever known.

[afte4hou4s]

i cried when i first heard about bill's aneurysm.
i cried when they won all those awards in '91.
i cried when i cancelled my n.y. vacation and found out later that they performed on the letterman show that week.

[afte4hou4s]

Catapult321 said:

I live in this macho bs society here,where men aren't supposed to show that kind of emotion...I haven't actually cried,but my eyes have teared up

Lee

errr...that's what i meant...:rolleyes: