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November 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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The Blue Jays were the true winners this season. Their heart and team spirit are unmatched in baseball and any other sport. Minor league players became stars. Stars became superstars. Thank you for the memories, the fun and the great season of incredible baseball! #BlueJays
November 2, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Fuck the Dodgers
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
October 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I genuinely love Tom Atkins performance as the most inappropriate doctor of all time in Halloween III which has become a “I can’t turn this off” movie for me.

Yes, that’s a doctor.

#scaryseason
#HalloweenIII
October 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
#REMtop30

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.

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R.E.M. - So. Central Rain (Official Music Video)
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September 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
#REMtop30

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.

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Sweetness Follows
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September 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
If Alejandro Kirk isn’t one of your favourite players you’re doing baseball wrong ⚾️

#Bluejays
September 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
#REMtop30

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.

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R.E.M. - Drive (Official HD Music Video)
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September 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
#REMtop30

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.

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R.E.M. - Find The River (Official Music Video) [Parallel Video Version]
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September 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
#REMtop30

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.

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R.E.M. - Nightswimming (Official Music Video) [British Version]
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September 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
#REMtop30

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.

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REM - Pretty Persuasion
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September 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
#REMtop30

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.

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R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe 2025 (Jacknife Lee Remix) RFE/RL Dispatch
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September 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Remembering the three days we thought he was dead with great nostalgia and longing.

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.
September 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The pay phone down the hall must have been raptured earlier today and is helping Jesus make some calls as long as he has exact change.

#TheRapture
September 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
#REMtop30

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.

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Time After Time (Annelise)
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September 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Making an old school mix tape for a friend’s birthday and starting it off with a Dwight Twilley track that I know she’ll dig 🎶

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September 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
#REMtop30

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.

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R.E.M. - Orange Crush (Official Music Video)
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September 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
#REMtop30

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.

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Hairshirt (Remastered)
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September 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
#REMtop30

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.

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R.E.M. - Country Feedback (Official Music Video) [This Film Is On Video Version]
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September 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
#REMtop30

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.

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R.E.M. - Hope (Official Visualizer from "UP" 25th Anniversary Edition)
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September 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
After a pretty shitty week for a lot of folks, grateful to @jamesgunn.bsky.social and the cast and crew of Peacemaker for abso- fucking-lutely bringing it every god damn episode. This weeks MVP goes to Adrian 🏆

#Peacemaker
September 19, 2025 at 2:27 AM
#REMtop30

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.

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R.E.M. - Every Day Is Yours To Win (Official Music Video)
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September 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
#REMtop30

(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.

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[Don't Go Back To] Rockville (Remastered 2006)
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September 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
#REMtop30

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.

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Superman (2011 Remaster)
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September 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM