So long REM

…and cheers for some great music.

Tbh, I think their best work is well behind them at this stage. But they left some great stuff in their wake. They’re calling it a day.

I’m gutted. It’s like the end of the world as we know it.

my fav.

For Jamie:

Ahhh… I’m a little sad. I kinda grew up with Automatic for the People and I consider it their best work “like eva”.
They produced some amazing stuff all throughout the bands career, some random stuff too, but in the main there were some peachy songs on some dodgy “albums”

Did Kenneth ever find out “what the frequency” was?

Not before time if you ask me.
They should have stuck to their word and split up when one of them left the band in 96.

U2 still refusing to take the hint[/url]

So nobody’s going to have to suffer their music anymore? I imagine it’s made one or two people happy to hear this news.

They should have stuck to their word and split up when one of them left the band in 96.

As it wasn’t one of the famous ones, why should they have split up then?

As it wasn’t one of the famous ones, why should they have split up then?

Because their later music sucked?

Saw them in the horizontal rain at Stirling Castle once. They were very good.

Good band and also wise to call it a day. Left a good legacy.

*Why* won’t U2 take the hint? 😐

Automatic for the people on Spotify right now 🙂 will follow it up with a bit of Monster which i quite like.

Still my favourite REM Song.. I Believe

http://youtu.be/gWUW1KCOm_8

EDIT: Actually all of their Green album is brilliant.

Been intending to buy Adventures in Hifi which i think is one of the best things they did.

If the ideas start drying up then it’s good sense, it also means you can have a massive come back in say 10 years.

my mate once described them as the worlds best buskers and i kinda agree with him
Will make a superb greatest hits album.
They are very goood but not great

Haven’t listened to them in ages, but this is one of my favourite songs

I was a big fan back in the day, but thought they lost a bit of credibility when after 16-odd years of saying that if one member left they would all walk away, they did just the opposite. They were never quite as good without Bill Berry, but they still did make some sublime records after he left (Reveal, Around the Sun). The last 2 though, have been really not very good. Glad they had the dignity to realise that and call it a day. Unlike U2

Liked them early on, saw them at Hammersmith Odeon supported by 10,ooo maniacs in the 1990’s think it was the week before Reckoning came out, one of the best gigs ever, after the lights went on and half the crowd had left they came back out to play some acoustic numbers.
Also saw them at the Barrowlands in Glasgow on the Green tour, never seen the Barras so busy, terrific atmosphere, albiet a bit scary as the floor was heaving up and down, thought it might collapse at one point, it was dangerously over crowded that night.

I thought Reveal and Around the Sun were pretty poor… Listening back to them now they are ‘good in parts’ at best.. The last two albums were MUCH better, and Collapse Into Now is probably a fitting return to form on which to end it all. Still think AFTP, Monster and New Adventures was their high point in terms of popularity, my favourite album of theirs is still Lifes Rich Pageant though.

And yes, U2 really should take the hint!!

Ahhh… I’m a little sad. I kinda grew up with Automatic for the People and I consider it their best work

Now I feel old it was Murmur for me .. though I had the benefit of older brothers record collection.

Saw them several times, never short of excellent – Green tour particularly.

Sad to see them go, but it’s about time.

Reckoning was my favourite though, jingle pop at its finest

I’ve always loved New Adventures In Hi-Fi – one of my favourite albums ever – but it’s never been much respected by the cogniscenti.

Leave, E-Bow The Letter and So Fast, So Numb are all on my ‘Long Drives’ playlist, which has around 100 tracks; I’m pretty ruthless with this, adding stuff on a one-in, one out basis. So far, they’ve always made the cut…

The last few albums have been curate’s eggs of albums – the good bits have been very good, but there’s been too much meh stuff.

U2? Still got all the original members, still knocking out good stuff though, like REM, the high points are fewer than they used to be. That said, has anyone gone back and listened to the first three albums? Honestly, they weren’t that good. I saw them several times in the early 80s and thought they were OK, but nothing more than that. Achtung Baby was the one that made me turn my head, and it’s been the high point of their career as far as I’m concerned.

Shame but not before time if that makes sense. Loved their earlier stuff, not so keen on later. Saw them at Glastonbury and their set was one of the most perfect experiences of that sort. they played just as it was getting dark, so the lights and strobes came into effect later on, but even then as the sun went down and a low mist started to settle on the Pyramid stage, they played Everybody Hurts which had a resonance to my wife and i at that time. Could not have been better.

(that mist may have been herbal smoke, which added to the experience too……)

Out of time was the soundtrack of me and Mrs Duck’s Uni career. Leaving New York was a high point in a slow decline. Fall on me is still one of the most beautiful songs of the last 20ish years. And they were great live.

What were they thinking when they did Shiny Happy People, though? What a load of guff!

What’s an REM?

as a piece of work that you can listen to from start to finish, aftp stands up as one of the great albums imho. great songs, original sound, full of feel, highly creative.

i like the rest of their stuff too but aftp is the only album that i still listen to from time to time.

they played Everybody Hurts which had a resonance to my wife and i at that time

🙂 “The One I Love’ has a special meaning to me and my wife. 😀

Agree with tm – Automatic For The People – is a stand out album of modern times.

There are many “credible” artists I’m not keen on – Bowie, The Who, and lots of others – but I accept it’s just something that I’m not getting when it comes to them. REM undeniably opened the door for a whole wave of American alternative music that followed in their wake.

Yes, in later times, the highs have been few, but early on they were amazing. Embarrassingly, I remember some of the cool kids in school with “REM” tippexed onto their canvas rucksacks. I’m pretty sure I said, when a girl asked me once what music I liked, “rem” as a word. 😳

I think they were a big influence in JLS’s career to date, which can’t be a bad thing 🙂

They were ok. Liked em around the time of Orange Crush. I’ve got a vinyl album, it says “They Airbrushed My Face” on the back, which was quite humorous.
Certainly won’t miss them though.

tippexed onto their canvas rucksacks

Those were the days, but our bags had the likes of Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden marker-penned onto them.

“The One I Love’ has a special meaning to me and my wife.

What, the one that goes- “A simple prop to occupy my time” ?

😆

What, the one that goes- “A simple prop to occupy my time” ?

8)

I fainted in the curry shop when I heard the news.

Thats me in the korma.*

I’ll get me coat.

*Shamelessly nicked from Radcliffe and Maconie.

don simon – Member

They should have stuck to their word and split up when one of them left the band in 96.

As it wasn’t one of the famous ones, why should they have split up then?

Because they once stated that if any of them were to leave the group, they would split up.
BLOODY LIARS!!!!!

I blame Thatcher.

Oh wait, that was the ERM…taxi!