Yes, that’s a doctor.
#scaryseason
#HalloweenIII
Yes, that’s a doctor.
#scaryseason
#HalloweenIII
So. Central Rain - Reckoning
I’d read more about REM and not heard a note until American Bandstand of all places played this video on an early June Saturday afternoon. 45 minutes later the album was in my hands and I spent the rest of the day listening.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=msWi...
So. Central Rain - Reckoning
I’d read more about REM and not heard a note until American Bandstand of all places played this video on an early June Saturday afternoon. 45 minutes later the album was in my hands and I spent the rest of the day listening.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=msWi...
Sweetness Follows-Automatic for the People
The most direct, heartfelt, deep, sorrowful and beautiful song they’ve recorded. The reverb and feedback on the guitar, the cello cutting through and Stipe’s voice delivers every emotion. Joy and wonder indeed.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=p7aH...
Sweetness Follows-Automatic for the People
The most direct, heartfelt, deep, sorrowful and beautiful song they’ve recorded. The reverb and feedback on the guitar, the cello cutting through and Stipe’s voice delivers every emotion. Joy and wonder indeed.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=p7aH...
Drive - Automatic for the People
Automatic IMO is start to finish their best album as it just sounds so of one piece and the opener conveys the confidence the band brings to the album and the strings working with the guitar is just perfection.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=-UE7...
Drive - Automatic for the People
Automatic IMO is start to finish their best album as it just sounds so of one piece and the opener conveys the confidence the band brings to the album and the strings working with the guitar is just perfection.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=-UE7...
Find the River - Automatic for the People
Whatever journey their albums take, they seem to try to end on a positive note and this song nails that.
“We’re closer now than light years to go” may be my favourite line ever.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KIJG...
Find the River - Automatic for the People
Whatever journey their albums take, they seem to try to end on a positive note and this song nails that.
“We’re closer now than light years to go” may be my favourite line ever.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KIJG...
Nightswimming -Automatic for the People
There’s nothing on this album that doesn’t work perfectly in and out of context. But for my ears the next four songs go places that most music doesn’t approach and captures a feeling or a mood in both lyric and music.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ahJ6...
Nightswimming -Automatic for the People
There’s nothing on this album that doesn’t work perfectly in and out of context. But for my ears the next four songs go places that most music doesn’t approach and captures a feeling or a mood in both lyric and music.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ahJ6...
Pretty Persuasion-Reckoning
My last few choices come from the two albums I consider their best and my favourite. Reckoning is so murky and atmospheric but then this cuts through and shows off their punk and rock cred too.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=T6mD...
Pretty Persuasion-Reckoning
My last few choices come from the two albums I consider their best and my favourite. Reckoning is so murky and atmospheric but then this cuts through and shows off their punk and rock cred too.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=T6mD...
Radio Free Europe - Murmur
The song that brought them to everyone’s attention (although not mine as I only saw the name in print with no outlet to hear something this new). Grown to really like the Jacknife Lee mix. Video with bonus history lesson.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=f_rs...
Radio Free Europe - Murmur
The song that brought them to everyone’s attention (although not mine as I only saw the name in print with no outlet to hear something this new). Grown to really like the Jacknife Lee mix. Video with bonus history lesson.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=f_rs...
Could almost envision the state funeral on the 9th hole of the course where he won so many club championships and The Death of Stalin antics that would have followed.
Could almost envision the state funeral on the 9th hole of the course where he won so many club championships and The Death of Stalin antics that would have followed.
#TheRapture
#TheRapture
Time After Time (Annelise) - Reckoning
I love how this song sounds like it could break apart at any moment with its chugging rhythm and tentative nature - a fragile song that gradually becomes cohesive and confident over 4 minutes.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd3a...
Time After Time (Annelise) - Reckoning
I love how this song sounds like it could break apart at any moment with its chugging rhythm and tentative nature - a fragile song that gradually becomes cohesive and confident over 4 minutes.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd3a...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ6C...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ6C...
Orange Crush - Green
In the fall of 88 I was starting college and had been on board with the band since 84. I distinctly remember listens to the rock station teasing the new REM and was halfway through the song before it hit me it was them.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_mSm...
Orange Crush - Green
In the fall of 88 I was starting college and had been on board with the band since 84. I distinctly remember listens to the rock station teasing the new REM and was halfway through the song before it hit me it was them.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_mSm...
Hairshirt-Green
It feels like one of their most delicate and heartfelt songs - Buck on the mandolin is one of their secret weapons that can just carry a song and easily one of Stipe’s most direct and impactful vocals.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=BNkr...
Hairshirt-Green
It feels like one of their most delicate and heartfelt songs - Buck on the mandolin is one of their secret weapons that can just carry a song and easily one of Stipe’s most direct and impactful vocals.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=BNkr...
Country Feedback - Out of Time
I was in college when this album came out and went though a painful breakup with a smart, beautiful, funny, quirky person and this song helped deal with the pain, hurt, frustration and longing that I was experiencing.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=6EHB...
Country Feedback - Out of Time
I was in college when this album came out and went though a painful breakup with a smart, beautiful, funny, quirky person and this song helped deal with the pain, hurt, frustration and longing that I was experiencing.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=6EHB...
Hope - Up
I love that the band took the opportunity for change and ran with it incorporating different sounds and arrangements while maintaining their identity. Sad to admit it was almost a decade after release I clued in on the Cohen angle.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ym80...
Hope - Up
I love that the band took the opportunity for change and ran with it incorporating different sounds and arrangements while maintaining their identity. Sad to admit it was almost a decade after release I clued in on the Cohen angle.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ym80...
#Peacemaker
#Peacemaker
Every Day is Yours to Win - Collapse Into Now
Again the last album is like an alternate universe greatest hits with this song echoing some of the songs, lyrics, and sentiment of Automatic for the People and offering the best kind of encouragement.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fKJo...
Every Day is Yours to Win - Collapse Into Now
Again the last album is like an alternate universe greatest hits with this song echoing some of the songs, lyrics, and sentiment of Automatic for the People and offering the best kind of encouragement.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fKJo...
(Don’t Go Back to) Rockville-Reckoning
“Looking at your watch a third time
Waiting in the station for a bus”
This one could easily slide into my top 5 any given day- opening lines are like the first sentence of your favourite short story.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=jk13...
(Don’t Go Back to) Rockville-Reckoning
“Looking at your watch a third time
Waiting in the station for a bus”
This one could easily slide into my top 5 any given day- opening lines are like the first sentence of your favourite short story.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=jk13...
Superman - Life’s Rich Pageant
It’s no surprise that 1980s REM were well steeped in psychedelic golden nuggets of the late 60s and early 70s. Mike Mills again proves that if REM were a baseball team he’d be batting cleanup. Bonus appearance from Godzilla.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Wz...
Superman - Life’s Rich Pageant
It’s no surprise that 1980s REM were well steeped in psychedelic golden nuggets of the late 60s and early 70s. Mike Mills again proves that if REM were a baseball team he’d be batting cleanup. Bonus appearance from Godzilla.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Wz...