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Goodbye, REM. : (

 
 
msolga
 
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Reply Thu 22 Sep, 2011 02:05 am
@msolga,
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msolga
 
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Reply Thu 22 Sep, 2011 02:24 am
All things REM, from Rolling Stone:
Interviews, past articles, photo gallery, discography, readers' comments, etc.
The works:


Quote:
R.E.M. Breaks Up After Three Decades
'We've made this decision together, amicably... The time just feels right,' says bassist Mike Mills

Comment 87

By Matthew Perpetua
September 21, 2011 1:25 PM ET/Rolling Stone

http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/story/r-e-m-break-up-after-three-decades-20110921/1000x306/main.jpg
Michael Stipe of REM performs during the Voodoo Experience Festival in New Orleans.
Sean Gardner/Getty Images


R.E.M. announced today that they have broken up after 31 years together. "As lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band," the band said in a statement on their official website. "We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished."

In just over three decades as a band, R.E.M. released 15 albums including landmark works such as Murmur, Reckoning, Document, Out of Time and Automatic For the People. The band's final album, Collapse Into Now, was released in March of this year. The band have plans to release a career-spanning greatest hits collection later this year, which will include a handful of new songs finished after the band completed Collapse Into Now.

Photos: R.E.M. Through the Years

"During our last tour, and while making Collapse Into Now and putting together this greatest hits retrospective, we started asking ourselves, 'what next'?," bassist Mike Mills wrote on the R.E.M. site. "Working through our music and memories from over three decades was a hell of a journey. We realized that these songs seemed to draw a natural line under the last 31 years of our working together."

Mills insists that the band have ended their working relationship on very good terms. "We feel kind of like pioneers in this," he says. "There's no disharmony here, no falling-outs, no lawyers squaring-off. We've made this decision together, amicably and with each other's best interests at heart. The time just feels right."

Interview: R.E.M. Roars Back With 'Collapse Into Now'

"I hope our fans realize this wasn't an easy decision; but all things must end, and we wanted to do it right, to do it our way," says frontman Michael Stipe.

Ethan Kaplan, owner of the R.E.M. fan community Murmurs and former Senior Vice President of Emerging Technology at Warner Bros. Records, says that the band's decision was influenced in part by label politics. "I suspected this was coming last fall," Kaplan tells Rolling Stone. "If you remember, they weathered a lot of storms in this business, and have always operated on their own terms. [Warner Bros.] changed starting last September, and I think the demands on a band now to get a record out were more than they might have wanted to commit. I can understand that after how hard they worked for how long, the thought of going back to 'paying dues' with new label staff, in a very weird industry, was too much."

In a 2007 Rolling Stone interview, Stipe summed it up nicely. "We didn't set out for this to be a career. We just knew it was something we wanted to do, and we would stop when we didn't want to do it anymore."


http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/r-e-m-break-up-after-three-decades-20110921
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Region Philbis
 
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Reply Thu 22 Sep, 2011 03:59 am



Quote:
June 9, 1984
The Capital Theater
Passaic, New Jersey

i think i was at this concert...
msolga
 
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Reply Thu 22 Sep, 2011 05:31 am
@Region Philbis,
Surprised
Wow.
I recognized Michael (eventually! Smile ), but are the others the REM members we know now?
Everyone looks so young it's hard to tell.
Love the music, too. First time I've heard these.


Tell us about the concert!
Boy, were you an early fan! Smile
msolga
 
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Reply Thu 22 Sep, 2011 06:19 am
@msolga,
Here'a an interview from the year before that. 1983.
The quality is pretty poor, but worth a look because it's the earliest one I could find on Youtube. Peter Buck does most of the talking.

If you tire of the quality, there are a whole lot more on the same youtube page, from different times over the past 30+ years. Quite a variety to choose from.

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Josh858
 
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Reply Thu 22 Sep, 2011 06:56 am
@msolga,
Very sad news...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNBKM5so8tQ
msolga
 
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Reply Thu 22 Sep, 2011 07:05 am
@Josh858,
Yes, isn't it sad?

Hello, Josh.
A pleasure to meet you & welcome!
I see that this is your second A2K post.
Terrific video you posted.
Was that an ecstatic audience, or what? Smile
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msolga
 
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Reply Thu 22 Sep, 2011 07:22 am
Back to earlier REM.
Their first national TV appearance in 1983, on the David Letterman's show.
Radio Free Europe.:

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djjd62
 
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Reply Thu 22 Sep, 2011 09:04 am
i must admit to being a huge fan of a certain era of REM, i loved everything up to Green, after that they became pretty much a singles band for me (and i really don't know much after the Adventures in Hi Fi album (or whatever it was called))

Tourfilm, the film documenting the Green tour is one of my favourite concert films of all time

my favourite song from Out of Time
Linkat
 
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Reply Thu 22 Sep, 2011 11:41 am
So, who saw Michael Stripe's farewell pictures of his penis?

In perhaps related R.E.M. news, word came out today that Michael Stipe posted photos of his penis, among other pictures in a collage, on his now-NSFW Tumblr blog

Any way I liked the song they did with Elmo - "Furry Happy Monsters"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXVvvRBBUn8
msolga
 
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Reply Thu 22 Sep, 2011 07:23 pm
@Linkat,
Michael Stipe's penis?
I know nothing about this, Linkat.
Thank you for informing us of this new development! Razz

And thank you very much for posting that REM & Muppets version of
"Furry Happy Monsters".
Ha ha.
I just love it!
I do hope that boomerang sees it!
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msolga
 
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Reply Thu 22 Sep, 2011 07:40 pm
@djjd62,
Yeah, I know what you mean, dj.
REM's musical output has certainly had it's "patchy" moments ... & like you, I prefer the music of some some periods over others.
It took a while for say, Monster to grow on me, but once it did, I really liked it.

I like your choice from Out of Time.
Actually, you inspired me to check out the lyrics of Country Feedback.
I've often felt that Michael Stipe's lyrics have been neglected a bit, in our enthusiasm for the terrific music.
He's a pretty good writer I think.:


Country Feedback

This flower is scorched
This film is on
On a maddening loop.
These clothes,
These clothes don't fit us right
I'm to blame
It's all the same
It's all the same

You come to me with a bone in your hand
You come to me with your hair curled tight
You come to me with positions
You come to me with excuses
Ducked out in a row
You wear me out
You wear me out

We've been through fake-a-breakdown
Self hurt
Plastics, collections
Self help, self pain,
EST, psychics, **** all
I was central
I had control
I lost my head
I need this
I need this

A paper weight, junk garage
Winter rain, a honey pot
Crazy, all the lovers have been tagged.
A hotline, a wanted ad
It's crazy what you could've had
It's crazy what you could've had
It's crazy what you could've had
I need this
I need this
~
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aidan
 
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Reply Fri 23 Sep, 2011 04:02 am
Two of my REM favorites - I have a lot of favorite REM songs - I just counted and I have three LP's and 9 cd's of theirs and I've seen them twice.
These two videos pretty much express why I love them so much- I love Michael Stipe's voice. I find it very pure.
And I also love the way he can interpret a ballad and in the next breath belt out a rocker. Very versatile band, but they haven't been the same since they lost their drummer.



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aidan
 
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Reply Fri 23 Sep, 2011 04:17 am
Two more favorites:



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Pamela Rosa
 
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Reply Fri 23 Sep, 2011 04:45 am


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msolga
 
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Reply Fri 23 Sep, 2011 09:18 pm
A REM "love song".
My favourite.
Awww Smile



At My Most Beautiful:

I’ve found a way a way to make you
I’ve found a way
a way to make you smile

I read bad poetry
into your machine.
I save your messages
just to hear your voice.
You always listen carefully
to awkward rhymes.
You always say your name,
like I wouldn’t know it’s you,
at your most beautiful.


I’ve found a way a way to make you smile
I’ve found a way
a way to make you smile

At my most beautiful
I count your eyelashes, secretly.
With everyone whisper I love you.
I let you sleep.
I know your closed eye watching me,
listening.
I thought I saw a smile.

I’ve found a way a way to make you smile
I’ve found a way
a way to make you smile

~
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Region Philbis
 
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msolga
 
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Reply Sat 24 Sep, 2011 10:12 pm
msolga
 
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Reply Sat 24 Sep, 2011 10:14 pm
@msolga,
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msolga
 
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