achn2b
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Post by achn2b on Jan 30, 2006 21:10:53 GMT -5
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JACkory
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Post by JACkory on Jan 31, 2006 9:30:05 GMT -5
Great links. Thanks!
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Post by melon1 on Jan 31, 2006 15:44:12 GMT -5
I too think that "Drive" is one of the best songs R.E.M. ever wrote.
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Post by frag on Feb 1, 2006 12:47:28 GMT -5
"Drive" is good. I don't know, but I may be the only one who didn't really like "Everybody Hurts," though.
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Post by Kensterberg on Feb 1, 2006 12:53:29 GMT -5
"Drive" is good. I don't know, but I may be the only one who didn't really like "Everybody Hurts," though. Everybody Hurts is probably my least favorite track on AFTP. It's not a bad song, but it's one that I only listen to when I listen to the LP straight through. I've never put it in a compilition, and I never put on AFTP just to hear it. Drive is a fine song, and better on the record than it was as a single. But for me, the sleeper track on the album is Try Not to Breath -- I absolutely adore this track, and it never seems to get any mention at all. For me, this is a truer and more interesting track than Everybody Hurts. I've always loved The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight, Ignoreland is a great rocker that wouldn't have sounded totally out of place on Murmer (and is one of Stipe's most effective and evocative mumbles since, well, 9-9 or one of the other murkier tracks from that debut), and the closing trio of tunes is simply incredible. That's the core of ATFP for me. Star Me Kitten, etc., are fine numbers, but it's these tracks that make ATFP a masterpiece, IMO. |
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Post by melon1 on Feb 1, 2006 14:01:02 GMT -5
I, for one, can't stand "Everybody Hurts".
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Post by bowiglou on Feb 1, 2006 14:15:14 GMT -5
Sidewinder is indeed a wonderful song, but AFTP just didn't overwhlem me like many....I still default to songs such So Central Rain, Catapult, Talknig about the Passion, Dont' go back to Rockville, Driver 8, Begin the Begin, etc as my faves.................................but I do have to side with Ken that Reveal of the latter works is a definite keeper.......
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Post by kool on Feb 1, 2006 16:39:58 GMT -5
The best thing about "Everybody Hurts" was the video. Probably the best one they ever did, and they did some pretty good ones.
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Post by rockysigman on Feb 1, 2006 16:43:24 GMT -5
I used to have a mix tape with "Everybody Hurts" on it in my car, and it was never listened to, except for one instance in which some friends and I were stuck in a pretty bad traffic jam. Threw it on for about a minute, we all had a good laugh, and that was that.
I think the song isn't bad, but definately overly sappy, and extremely dated.
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Post by kool on Feb 1, 2006 16:48:32 GMT -5
It is a bit of a downer of a song... (who am I kidding? probably one of the most depressing songs ever recorded, and not just by REM but in general) which is why I rarely listen to it. Probably one of the few songs where its title more or less says it all.
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Post by kool on Feb 1, 2006 16:59:20 GMT -5
I have to say though, in "Everybody Hurts'" defense, I still find "Losing My Religion" a much more annoying song. It just bugs me. I did like it at first though, for about a month, before the rest of the world's population caught on and it was overplayed to a point where you just wanted to scream "holy fuck, not again!!" every time it came on the radio.
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Post by melon1 on Feb 1, 2006 17:13:10 GMT -5
I like "Losing My Religion" about as much as I like "Everybody Hurts". Not at all.
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Post by Kensterberg on Feb 1, 2006 17:34:51 GMT -5
Kool and Melon: You are both nuts! Losing My Religion isn't just one of R.E.M.'s best songs, it's one of the best singles of the nineties! Hell, even OF ALL TIME! Yeah ... yeah, that's the ticket ... just wait'll I get my full top fifty posted, it's gonna be all about Losing My Religion ... and Wooly Bully ...  |
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Post by frag on Feb 1, 2006 23:02:53 GMT -5
Kool and Melon: You are both nuts! Losing My Religion isn't just one of R.E.M.'s best songs, it's one of the best singles of the nineties! Hell, even OF ALL TIME! Yeah ... yeah, that's the ticket ... just wait'll I get my full top fifty posted, it's gonna be all about Losing My Religion ... and Wooly Bully ... As always it seems, Ken, I am in total agreement with you there. "Losing My Religion" is tops. Pretty much the ONLY saving grace for Out of Time...which sucks because I really tried to like Out of Time for that track alone. Perhaps it's "Shiny Happy People" that kills it. I don't know. And I think Rocky nailed my main problem with "Everybody Hurts." It's sappy. And particularly whiny. Even for Stipe in the latter stage. Aside from "Wooly Bully" being a slightly novel-cutesy-though-rockin' song, Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs is one of the coolest band names ever. Too bad the rest of their catalogue couldn't match up. I did hear a pretty damn good live version of "Li'l Red Riding Hood" a while back though. |
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Post by tuneschick on Feb 2, 2006 11:17:44 GMT -5
I was a huge R.E.M. fan, but in the past couple of years I've really fallen off the bandwagon. I went from buying every single and bootleg I could find... to not even buying their list album (which I listened to at HMV and found excessively boring.) That being said - as of this moment, I'm going to have to go with NAIHF as my favourite of theirs, since i've been listening to it quite a bit lately. That was the last thing they did I was really enamoured with... E-Bow the Letter, Be Mine, How the West was Won, Bittersweet Me, Zither... there isn't a song on it that I skip. I like Automatic for the People, but I don't love it. If anything, it's a nostalgic album for me (it came out when I was in my second or third year of high school), but one that feels a little dated when I listen to it now. Not to mention that I can't stand freakin' Drive OR Everybody Hurts. Try Not to Breathe is a great tune, though, and Nightswimming and Find the River are one of the best one-two punches ever. I still really like Out of Time, though it's never been my absolute favourite. And honestly, I still love love love Losing My Religion - despite being horribly overplayed, that song has never lost its lustre for me. This is the first album of theirs that I owned, a gift from my brother, and I went back into their catalogue from there. Shiny Happy People stinks (though I have their Furry Happy Monsters on my ipod!), but Losing My Religion, Near Wild Heaven, Half a World Away and Country Feedback make this album completely worthwhile for me. I hate to admit it, but I always get Document, Murmur, Fables, Life's Rich Pageant and Reckoning mixed up. I can never remember which songs are on which album, so I always have to check. So embarrassing.  |
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