Life After R.E.M.: Discussion Thread

[u2popmofo]

I actually really like that original version of Radiohead's Reckoner / Feeling pulled apart by horses, despite the ridiculous "papapa" chorus.

Do you think the title was an ode to REM? Do you???????!!!!!

 

[Danny Boy]

I reckon not.

 

[U2inUtah]

Goddamn your confusion.

Reckoning turns 30 in a couple weeks.

 

[u2popmofo]

Tell me when that week arrives, so I can have an excuse to listen to it and the concert that came with the deluxe edition.

 

[U2inUtah]

It was released April 9, 1984. I will have to do that too.

 

[U2inUtah]

The last couple minutes of "It Happened Today" are really great. One of my favorite post-Berry moments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mV1H8e2CgM

 

[Danny Boy]

The R.E.M. Unplugged album is one of those entertaining situations on Amazon where you can buy the MP3 album for $18.99 or order the CD album for $13.88 and get an instant download of the MP3s at no additional charge.

What to do? WHAT TO DO?

 

[Danny Boy]

Acoustic Fall on Me.

 

[LemonMelon]

The R.E.M. Unplugged album is one of those entertaining situations on Amazon where you can buy the MP3 album for $18.99 or order the CD album for $13.88 and get an instant download of the MP3s at no additional charge.

What to do? WHAT TO DO?

No HD DVDA WOW option?

 

[Danny Boy]

Actually there is a 24-bit version on HDtracks, but it's $41 and I've spent way too much this week/month/year already.

 

[u2popmofo]

The R.E.M. Unplugged album is one of those entertaining situations on Amazon where you can buy the MP3 album for $18.99 or order the CD album for $13.88 and get an instant download of the MP3s at no additional charge.

What to do? WHAT TO DO?

You know what to do. It's been sitting on my porch since yesterday morning, along with Pains of Being Pure at Heart which has been there for a week. Hopefully they weren't stolen or rained on.

 

[u2popmofo]

Anyone buy the new rarities collection?

 

[Danny Boy]

No, my credit card is asking for mercy this week.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

OMG l LUV MECRY!!!!!1

 

[u2popmofo]

OMG l LUV MECRY!!!!!1

Y dey add bad lyrucz 2 liv bersun?/

 

[iron yuppie]

Anyone buy the new rarities collection?

So by "rarities," they seem to mean "complete b-sides." Still very cool of them to release all of it, though.

 

[corianderstem]

I'm pretty sure I have at least 80% of them in some format or another. I would probably buy it if it were on CD, but digital bonus tracks to albums I already own? Nope.

Or maybe I misunderstood the article I read. But I still don't know that I'd buy them digitally. I'll have to peruse the tracklist.

 

[corianderstem]

Okay, perusing it, it might be something I would buy.

But not for 80 fucking dollars! Sheesh.

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Warn...qid=1400702798&sr=8-2&keywords=r+e+m+rarities

And that's just the 1988-2011 version. The earlier tracks is $30 (and of course, contains far fewer tracks).

 

[patternshirt170]

The WB rarities compilation is really just all the UK/Euro CD single B Sides from 1988-2011 on iTunes in one place for the first time.

And as ever with these things, it's not really that complete... and is missing quite a few songs; 40 Second Song, After Hours, most of the Live In Greensboro tracks, though those are on the Green Remaster so that might be why, a great LMR acoustic recording from Mountain Stage, some of the AFTP Instrumentals, Perfect Circle [Live], At My Most Beautiful [Live] plus Drive [Athens Greenpeace] and The Lifting [demo/original] are repeated....

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

More like R.€.M.

M i rite????

 

[Hewson]

Heard the end of Radio Song on the radio in the car earlier and it put me in the mood for an REM kick when I got home, listened to a bunch of stuff....

couldn't believe how long its been since I heard this:

R.E.M. - I Remember California - YouTube

So great.

 

[prbiker15]

Heard the end of Radio Song on the radio in the car earlier and it put me in the mood for an REM kick when I got home, listened to a bunch of stuff....

couldn't believe how long its been since I heard this:

So great.

Had forgotten how good this song was.

 

[bobsaget77]

3 best rem songs:
Country Feedback, Life and How To Live It, Perfect Circle.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

The other two are up there for sure, but Life And How To Live It probably wouldn't crack my top 100 R.E.M. songs. It's good, but I guess that's just a testament to how fucking great this band was.

 

[corianderstem]

Life and How To Live It is definitely in my top 10.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

I remember that you liked that song.

 

[Hewson]

R.E.M. w/ Eddie Vedder - Begin the Begin - YouTube

 

[corianderstem]

And that one's in my top 5!

 

[bobsaget77]

I've always loved Up and I don't really know why. I guess its just the album's vibe. Really easy listen.

 

[Kieran McConville]

Cuyahoga