New Music & Stuff I Recently Acquired

[Oleg]

REM's "Murmur" just got re-released. The sound on it is pretty clean. If you like REM (I don't), I'd recommend it.

Just turn on XRT, you'll hear REM about every hour.
For the last twenty-five fucking years.

What's the frequency?

He just told you, about every hour.

Sheesh.

He was asking Kenneth.

If you don't like REM's IRS years, then I have no idea why you listen to music at all.

[Fork]

REM's "Murmur" just got re-released. The sound on it is pretty clean. If you like REM (I don't), I'd recommend it.

Just turn on XRT, you'll hear REM about every hour.
For the last twenty-five fucking years.

What's the frequency?

He just told you, about every hour.

Sheesh.

He was asking Kenneth.

If you don't like REM's IRS years, then I have no idea why you listen to music at all.

I need something to blast out of my chopper while I'm dropping napalm.

[Oleg]

REM's "Murmur" just got re-released. The sound on it is pretty clean. If you like REM (I don't), I'd recommend it.

Just turn on XRT, you'll hear REM about every hour.
For the last twenty-five fucking years.

What's the frequency?

He just told you, about every hour.

Sheesh.

He was asking Kenneth.

If you don't like REM's IRS years, then I have no idea why you listen to music at all.

I need something to blast out of my chopper while I'm dropping napalm.

I love the smell of nepalm in the morning.  Smells like...victory.

[flannj]

REM's "Murmur" just got re-released. The sound on it is pretty clean. If you like REM (I don't), I'd recommend it.

Just turn on XRT, you'll hear REM about every hour.
For the last twenty-five fucking years.

What's the frequency?

He just told you, about every hour.

Sheesh.

He was asking Kenneth.

If you don't like REM's IRS years, then I have no idea why you listen to music at all.

No he was asking Dan.

Yes their best music was on the IRS albums, but enough is enough already.

[Oleg]

REM's "Murmur" just got re-released. The sound on it is pretty clean. If you like REM (I don't), I'd recommend it.

Just turn on XRT, you'll hear REM about every hour.
For the last twenty-five fucking years.

What's the frequency?

He just told you, about every hour.

Sheesh.

He was asking Kenneth.

If you don't like REM's IRS years, then I have no idea why you listen to music at all.

No he was asking Dan.

Yes their best music was on the IRS albums, but enough is enough already.

One of those is literal, one wasn't.  I don't know which is which.

Those IRS albums are some of the best music ever put on tape in a recording studio.  I'd put it up against just about any band's peak years, except for maybe the Stones.  It also makes much of their 90s and aughts output so much more disappointing.

[flannj]

REM's "Murmur" just got re-released. The sound on it is pretty clean. If you like REM (I don't), I'd recommend it.

Just turn on XRT, you'll hear REM about every hour.
For the last twenty-five fucking years.

What's the frequency?

He just told you, about every hour.

Sheesh.

He was asking Kenneth.

If you don't like REM's IRS years, then I have no idea why you listen to music at all.

No he was asking Dan.

Yes their best music was on the IRS albums, but enough is enough already.

One of those is literal, one wasn't.  I don't know which is which.

Those IRS albums are some of the best music ever put on tape in a recording studio.  I'd put it up against just about any band's peak years, except for maybe the Stones.  It also makes much of their 90s and aughts output so much more disappointing.

What? You don't like the "Man on the Moon" soundtrack?
It's so sensitive.

[Eli]

If you don't like REM's IRS years, then I have no idea why you listen to music at all.

This.

[Fork]

REM's "Murmur" just got re-released. The sound on it is pretty clean. If you like REM (I don't), I'd recommend it.

Just turn on XRT, you'll hear REM about every hour.
For the last twenty-five fucking years.

What's the frequency?

He just told you, about every hour.

Sheesh.

He was asking Kenneth.

If you don't like REM's IRS years, then I have no idea why you listen to music at all.

No he was asking Dan.

Yes their best music was on the IRS albums, but enough is enough already.

One of those is literal, one wasn't.  I don't know which is which.

Those IRS albums are some of the best music ever put on tape in a recording studio.  I'd put it up against just about any band's peak years, except for maybe the Stones.  It also makes much of their 90s and aughts output so much more disappointing.

It doesn't even stand up to "Headquarters" and "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd."

[5laky]

If you don't like REM's IRS years, then I have no idea why you listen to music at all.

This.

I guess I hate music. Ugh, what is this noise coming out of my speakers. It's so irritating!

[Eli]

If you don't like REM's IRS years, then I have no idea why you listen to music at all.

This.

I guess I hate music. Ugh, what is this noise coming out of my speakers. It's so irritating!

Vampire Weekend, it sounds like.

[Jon]

REM's "Murmur" just got re-released. The sound on it is pretty clean. If you like REM (I don't), I'd recommend it.

Just turn on XRT, you'll hear REM about every hour.
For the last twenty-five fucking years.

What's the frequency?

He just told you, about every hour.

Sheesh.

He was asking Kenneth.

If you don't like REM's IRS years, then I have no idea why you listen to music at all.

No he was asking Dan.

Yes their best music was on the IRS albums, but enough is enough already.

One of those is literal, one wasn't.  I don't know which is which.

Those IRS albums are some of the best music ever put on tape in a recording studio.  I'd put it up against just about any band's peak years, except for maybe the Stones.  It also makes much of their 90s and aughts output so much more disappointing.

Even as a jaded aging hipster, I can agree with this post.

[5laky]

If you don't like REM's IRS years, then I have no idea why you listen to music at all.

This.

I guess I hate music. Ugh, what is this noise coming out of my speakers. It's so irritating!

Vampire Weekend, it sounds like.

You know me so well. Worst band ever.

It's not like I hate REM. I know Radio Free Europe, but I never got into any of their older stuff at all. As in, never listened to it.

There's a huge difference in hating a band and just not being familiar with or indifferent to their catalog. I can say, without a doubt, that I have absolutely no interest in listening to any REM from the 90s and beyond.

[Fork]

If you don't like REM's IRS years, then I have no idea why you listen to music at all.

This.

I guess I hate music. Ugh, what is this noise coming out of my speakers. It's so irritating!

Vampire Weekend, it sounds like.

You know me so well. Worst band ever.

It's not like I hate REM. I know Radio Free Europe, but I never got into any of their older stuff at all. As in, never listened to it.

There's a huge difference in hating a band and just not being familiar with or indifferent to their catalog. I can say, without a doubt, that I have absolutely no interest in listening to any REM from the 90s and beyond.

I always found their stuff to be kind of dull, repetitive and self-important. Almost like if Sting were from Georgia.

As for any great run REM had, best runs by artists that far exceed REM start with: Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan to Blonde on Blonde), Beatles (A Hard Day's Night to Sgt. Pepper), Beach Boys (Everything up to the "Good Vibrations" single), The Jam (All Mod Cons through Sound Affects), and Stevie Wonder (Fulfillingness' First Finale through Songs In The Key Of Life).

There are others, but I don't have all day.

[Tank]

Some bands I like to name check
And one of them is R.E.M.
Classic songs with a long history
Southern boys, just like you and me: R.E.M.

Flashback, 1983
"Chronic Town" was their first EP
Later on came "Reckoning"
Finster's art, and titles to match

"South Central Rain"
"(Don't Go Back To) Rockville", "Harborcoat"
"Pretty Persuasion", "(You Were Born To Be A) Camera"

"Time After Time" was my least favorite song
"Time After Time" was my least favorite song

The singer, he had long hair
And the drummer, he knew restraint
And the bassman, he had all the right moves
And the guitar player was no saint

So lets go way back
To the ancient times
When there were no 50 states
And on a hill there stands Sherman
Sherman and his mates

They're marchin' through Georgia
Marchin' through Georgia
They're marchin' through Georgia
G-G-G-G-Georgia
They're marchin' through Georgia
We're marchin' through Georgia
Marchin' through Georgia
G-G-G-G-Georgia

And there stands R.E.M.

(Actually... I'm with Slak on this one. Maybe it's a generational thing. Oleg is so old.)

[bocaj]

If you don't like REM's IRS years, then I have no idea why you listen to music at all.

This.

I guess I hate music. Ugh, what is this noise coming out of my speakers. It's so irritating!

Vampire Weekend, it sounds like.

You know me so well. Worst band ever.

It's not like I hate REM. I know Radio Free Europe, but I never got into any of their older stuff at all. As in, never listened to it.

There's a huge difference in hating a band and just not being familiar with or indifferent to their catalog. I can say, without a doubt, that I have absolutely no interest in listening to any REM from the 90s and beyond.

They're seriously your least favorite band?