Accelerate - REM album - March 31 2008

[blueeyedgirl]

Yep they definitely toured in April 2005, it was a great concert and they also celebrated their 25th anniversary in Adelaide (and of course they go drinking in my local when I'm not there ).

Peter Buck was also here in October 2006 touring with Robyn Hitchcock's band, the Venus 3. Peter Buck in a small club, we got very close....

 

[u2popmofo]

REM are on Austin City Limits this Saturday. According to the site for the show, this is the setlist (not sure if they mean this is what they'll play on TV, or this is just what they played for the performance):

* Living Well's the Best Revenge
* Mansize Wreath
* Drive
* Accelerate
* Hollow Man
* Electrolite
* Houston
* Supernatural Superserious
* Bad Day
* Losing My Religion
* I'm Gonna DJ
* Horse to Water
* Until the Day is Done
* Man on the Moon

http://www.pbs.org/klru/austin/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=195&Itemid=664

Should be a good show.

 

[No spoken words]

Holy crap I see REM twice this tour....out at Berkeley and here in Chicago....cannot wait.

 

[lazarus]

REM are on Austin City Limits this Saturday. According to the site for the show, this is the setlist (not sure if they mean this is what they'll play on TV, or this is just what they played for the performance):

* Man on the Moon

COO-WELLLLLLLL!


:cori:

 

[U2inUtah]

REM are on Austin City Limits this Saturday. According to the site for the show, this is the setlist (not sure if they mean this is what they'll play on TV, or this is just what they played for the performance):

Thanks for the heads up mofo

 

[corianderstem]

COO-WELLLLLLLL!

So I'm listening today from a 2004 Springsteen bootleg from the Vote For Change tour, and Stipe joins Bruce for Born to Run.

What comes out of Stipe's mouth?

"... I wanna know if love is REEEEE-ALLLLLLLL!"

Me = stabbity stabbity stabbity

(that might not have been the exact line, but he did the yell thing at the end of some big line he sang)

Anyway. I'll have to check my PBS listings - I know when Arcade Fire was on, my PBS was a week behind. Grrr.

 

[lazarus]

Bruce + Stipe =

You now have me singing every R.E.M. song in my head with J.M.S. inappropriately belting out the last word of the chorus.

"I think I thought that I saw you try. TRYYYYYYYYYY!"

 

[Comfis]

the album is good, it is punky-er than the previous albums. but i really liked only like
Sing for the submarine.. should listen at it more carefully

 

[U2inUtah]

I liked hearing the new songs last night on Austin City Limits, but its disappointing to see an entire R.E.M. setlist not contain one song from their first six albums.

 

[u2popmofo]

CRAP, I totally forgot.

 

[Salome]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2034/2518794644_e0c3f8a45a.jpg

+ they played Country Feedback on Buck's request

if this isn't gonna be incredible then I just don't know anymore

 

[joyfulgirl]

CRAP, I totally forgot.

Me, too. And there I was watching a movie so bad I couldn't finish it.

but here's a video of Supernatural Superserious:
Austin City Limits - Home

Stipe hasn't been in good voice anytime I've seen them promoting this record. Is this a permanent change?

The band sounds great, though.

It reruns tonight on my PBS station so I've set the DVR.

 

[Stories for Boys]

i'm flying out to red rocks to see 'em...and of course chicago. i love me some rem. see you guys there

 

[U2inUtah]

Stipe hasn't been in good voice anytime I've seen them promoting this record. Is this a permanent change?

It reruns tonight on my PBS station so I've set the DVR.

Those were my thoughts watching the entire ACL as well, Stipes voice is really not what it used to be.

 

[No spoken words]

Tomorrow. United Center. REM. I shall be there.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

You got an extra ticket for me?

 

[onebloodonelife]

Saw them tonight in St. Paul (full review and pictures to follow later), and I'm traveling to Chicago for tomorrow night's show.

 

[Zoots]

Tomorrow. United Center. REM. I shall be there.

I cannot wait for mine in a couple of weeks!!!

 

[IWasBored]

i still don't think i've listened to the entire album, and i bought it a week or two after it came out.

 

[Zoots]

i still don't think i've listened to the entire album, and i bought it a week or two after it came out.

You don't like it then?? It kicks so much ass!

 

[IWasBored]

You don't like it then?? It kicks so much ass!

oh, i like the beginning of it. i just haven't made it to the end yet.

 

[Zoots]

i just haven't made it to the end yet.

...which is why I assumed you don't like it. If I'm really into an album, I don't stop the CD till it's done!

 

[IWasBored]

...which is why I assumed you don't like it. If I'm really into an album, I don't stop the CD till it's done!

only time i have time to listen to music anymore is when i'm driving (or in a vehicle, which is most of the time--for example, i'm in the truck at work right now, computer wedged between the steering wheel and my gut as i type this, but listening to pearl jam), and i'd really like to hear the album start to finish. unfortnatly, i get a call at work or my partner changes the tunes, or in my own car i arrive at home before the album is done. i've got a couple other things i've bought recently that i haven't heard in their entirety, either.

 

[Zoots]

Ah okay. That sucks! But can't you listen at home after work?

 

[IWasBored]

i'm working on it. i'm hardly ever home.

all your sad and lost apostles... i know that song and supernatural superserious pretty damn well.


it would probably help if i put the album on my ipod...

 

[u2popmofo]

Isn't the album under 30 mins? How haven't you heard it yet? This seems like a possible lie, it's good to know IWB has not changed.

 

[Zoots]

Yeah, the album is really short! It's hard not to listen to it fully!

 

[corianderstem]

At this point, I don't love it or hate it. I think it's good, and a vast improvement in mood/style over the last album, but I still stand by my opinion that's it's lacking something ... that vital something that makes REM's great albums great.

It lacks some heart, some weight ... I don't know. It lacks a big something for me.

 

[lazarus]

As vague as that sounds, you're right on the nose.

 

[IWasBored]

Isn't the album under 30 mins? How haven't you heard it yet? This seems like a possible lie, it's good to know IWB has not changed.

i have some change in my pocket, but that's about it.


is it really under 30 minutes? hmm. i drive pretty fast...