when did REM get so shit?

[markie]

Its been a bad day is on the radio right now.... Its like a bad cover version of one of their own songs. Does anyone have any sympathy for super rich mega celebrities anyway?

[ggw]

It was all downhill after Green

[mankie]

Right at the same time as they released Chronic Town in August 1982.

[markie]

But isnt out of time their masterpiece?

[Celeste]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  It was all downhill after Green

agreed.

[ggw]

Originally posted by Bubba:
  But isnt out of time their masterpiece?

Blech...
 
 I find myself somewhat in agreeance with **gasp** mankie.
 
 Chronic Town was the best.  Reckoning and Murmur were similarly outstanding.  The next ones through Green were still very solid.  After that, the great songs just seemed outnumbered by the utterly forgettable.  The stuff from recent years is just flat out dull in my opinion.

[MiloGTC]

Originally posted by Bubba:
  Its been a bad day is on the radio right now.... Its like a bad cover version of one of their own songs. Does anyone have any sympathy for super rich mega celebrities anyway?

As a matter of fact, it is "a bad cover version of one of their own songs" - sorta. The song's been around since the mid-'80s; it pops up on bootlegs as an outtake from the "Life's Rich Pageant" sessions, and supposedly it was used as a template for "It's the End of the World As We Know It..." (the lyrics for that song originally went with the music for this one).

[Bags]

Aw Mank, come on.  I think all of the first eight R.E.M. albums are wonderful.  Up through Automatic for the People.  And I like Monster, but you could do without it.
 
 But to leave it at Chronic town?  Sheeesh.  It's my favorite, with Murmur second and the rest descending in counter-chronological order.
 
 
 

Originally posted by mankie:
  Right at the same time as they released Chronic Town in August 1982.

[mankie]

Originally posted by bags:
  Aw Mank, come on.  I think all of the first eight R.E.M. albums are wonderful.  Up through Automatic for the People.  And I like Monster, but you could do without it.
 
 But to leave it at Chronic town?  Sheeesh.  It's my favorite, with Murmur second and the rest descending in counter-chronological order.
 
 
   

Originally posted by mankie:
  Right at the same time as they released Chronic Town in August 1982.

[/b]

Sorry bags, I've never liked REM. ....that's why I said "the same time" as they released Chronic Town. For some reason, their music has the same impact on me as someone scraping their nails down a blackboard.....Celeste...can I say blackboard without being a racist?

[Jaguär]

I've never liked REM either, so no bother with me about their new album that sounds like their first one.

[Bags]

I love REM; I got into them when Murmur was released and I stayed in that whole southeastern jangle pop vein for years.  
 
 But, I got no problems if you don't like 'em.  There's a bunch of stuff I don't like that is pretty roundly admired.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Wow Jag, we agree on something musically. I was never into REM either.
 
 

Originally posted by Jaguär:
  I've never liked REM either, so no bother with me about their new album that sounds like their first one.

[mankie]

Originally posted by bags:
  I love REM; I got into them when Murmur was released and I stayed in that whole southeastern jangle pop vein for years.  
 
 But, I got no problems if you don't like 'em.  There's a bunch of stuff I don't like that is pretty roundly admired.

Smiley Happy People
 Stand
 End Of The World
 
 Come onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!

[Bags]

Yup, sorry Mank, I like all of it.  And I'm not embarrassed at all!    :p

[mankie]

Originally posted by bags:
  Yup, sorry Mank, I like all of it.  And I'm not embarrassed at all!