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Hidden Driveways wrote:REM was always one of those bands that I felt like I should like better... like there was something wrong with me, and I wasn't getting it. But then I'd try listening again, and I still wouldn't like them any more than I -sort of- did.

Ditto. Just seemed like a college band that got more credit than most. My Step-bro and dad really like REM and apparently the lyrics are supposed to be profound but I just found it bland. I liked some stuff, but Shiny Happy People & Everybody Hurts? W T F kill me now

Oh everybody hurts reminds me of funerals

eddiex wrote:

aisling wrote:

simpleton wrote:When is U2 breaking up? And Mick Jagger is in a new band and is dissing the Stones 50th anniversary.

for shits and giggles I gave that single a listen.....it is was horrific.

on the topic of breakups, metallica could also do us all a favor.

have you heard the snippet of the metallica/lou reed project....its....................god..........................awful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi15nyO3v6s

still better than Load and ReLoad

I am also not feeling janes addiction 2.0.0 (or something).....And I was a massive fan in the late 80's early 90's
Chili peppers.....washed up as well.

the jury is still out on new janes for me.....new chili peppers is really generic without john frusciante.....although i saw a live performance of theirs recently, they are playing better than they have in a long time....and the kid they got to replace j.f., josh klingoffer is a really really good replacement.....his guitar sound is pretty crucial, i think anyhow.

eddiex wrote:the jury is still out on new janes for me.....new chili peppers is really generic without john frusciante.....although i saw a live performance of theirs recently, they are playing better than they have in a long time....and the kid they got to replace j.f., josh klingoffer is a really really good replacement.....his guitar sound is pretty crucial, i think anyhow.

Yeah but he is on a leash, they don't let him play.....

aisling wrote:

eddiex wrote:the jury is still out on new janes for me.....new chili peppers is really generic without john frusciante.....although i saw a live performance of theirs recently, they are playing better than they have in a long time....and the kid they got to replace j.f., josh klingoffer is a really really good replacement.....his guitar sound is pretty crucial, i think anyhow.

Yeah but he is on a leash, they don't let him play.....

so true....you heard any of his other stuff?

R.E.M. changed my life....

In the spring of 1982 I was hanging with a friend spinning some records and he put on this E.P. from a band that was gathering some buzz in college radio...

That was the first time I heard REM...Chronic Town EP...

As a young singer songwriter, guitarist I was writing tunes and playing in a band and after I heard REM I was floored that this simple clean sound was possible and for me launched a 30 year love of writing and playing indie rock music. They inspired me...

Granted I never had but a tiny amount of success but I did have fun and met gobs of great people...

REM has been on my personal playlists for many years.

Congratulations REM on a great run and making music that was the soundtrack to many of the great moments of my life.

I'd prefer Wild Planet

When i think of r.e.m i think of "everybody hurts" that song is the most depressing song ever. If it was not for that horribly depressing song i think i might actually like the band. I do like their earlier stuff from the 80's but when listening to the early music its hard not to think about everybody hurts.

Shiny Happy People holding hams...

I always associate that song with the b52's , I forget that R.e.m made that.. what the hell were they thinking in the 90's?

Prozac was becoming mainstream.

eddiex wrote:

aisling wrote:

eddiex wrote:the jury is still out on new janes for me.....new chili peppers is really generic without john frusciante.....although i saw a live performance of theirs recently, they are playing better than they have in a long time....and the kid they got to replace j.f., josh klingoffer is a really really good replacement.....his guitar sound is pretty crucial, i think anyhow.

Yeah but he is on a leash, they don't let him play.....

so true....you heard any of his other stuff?

Yes I have heard some of of his other collabs, not his fronted bands though.

no man, REM was good as long as you don't own anything other than Life's Rich Pageant.