R.E.M.

[RJN]

They are very hard to search for, so there might already be a thread...

I went through a phase with them about 10 years ago, and I've been listening a lot this week.

Find The River is one I keep going back to

 

[RJN]

Top 5

1. At My Most Beautiful
2. The Great Beyond
3. Imitation of Life
4. Losing My Religion
5. Man On The Moon or Nightswimming or Find the River (but I only heard this one for the first time this week)

 

[RJN]

Another great album track I heard this week



Edit: to put in the song I meant to...

 

[Ellie]

One I’ve always gone back to for some reason. Even though lots of people hate the album it’s always been one of my favs

 

[straightorbroken]

Loved this at the time:

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[FetchFugly]

Doesn't Stipe have some solo stuff in the works?

This was from the album everyone thought was really boring but it is such a good song:



I love the vocal layers on the chorus.

 

[Marina Salty]

Love.

 

[VoR]

Love them. I think this is my favourite non-single.

 

[Christian]

"Find The River" is a thing of absolute beauty. Wistful, melancholy, yet hopeful.

 

[Marilyn]

1. Nightswimming
2. Man On The Moon
3. Imitation Of Life
4. The Great Beyond
5. Crush With Eyeliner
6. Losing My Religion
7. Stand
8. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
9. E-Bow The Letter
10. Find The River

The top 4 are some of the most perfect songs I’ve ever heard, Nightswimming is almost beyond description.

Also shout out to Bad Day which was one of the first songs I heard by them and caught my attention, but it’s not top 10 material these days

 

[straightorbroken]

Sigh.

 

[Christian]

Tops across the albums:

Find The River
Discoverer
Turn You Inside-Out
Fall On Me
Strange Currencies
Electrolite
Half A World Away
Falls To Climb
Can't Get There From Here
The Great Beyond
So Central Rain

 

[FetchFugly]

Strange Currencies and Electrolite are both beautiful. I am drawn to a R.E.M. slowie.

 

[Christian]

Strange Currencies and Electrolite are both beautiful. I am drawn to a R.E.M. slowie.

New Adventures is patchy at best, but Electrolite is such a gem and a perfect album closer.

We must be getting the 25th anniversary release of Up later this year . It's one of my favourites, but understandably not all that popular in general.

 

[FetchFugly]

I liked New Adventures at the time, but I haven't gone back to it as a whole for a long while. They kind of retconned New Test Leper as a single for that last GH, which I can understand I guess. Bittersweet Me is quite underrated I think.

 

[Christian]

I think I was disappointed when it came out and it still sounds half baked to me. How The West Was Won, E-Bow and Electrolite are very good though.

 

[Christian]

Monster was such a rude FUCK YOU to everyone who had come on board with Green / Out Of Time / Automatic For The People

That definitely included me at the time, but I love what it is now.

 

[K.C.]

Imitation of a Life (and its bogus video) is iconic.

 

[RJN]

Strange Currencies and Electrolite are both beautiful. I am drawn to a R.E.M. slowie.

Yeah I think this is where I am. Electrolite is on now and its beautiful