REM Appreciation Thread

[The New Fiona Apple]

About once every 2 year I get on a major REM kick. Right now I'm in the middle of playing out Monster.

Here are my favorite REM songs. Then you should tell me what yours are! It will be fun especially considering the style clash between some GNR fans and REM fans.

1) Strange Currencies (easily the most underated song of theirs ever)?
2) Losing My Religion
3) Bang and Blame
4) Driver 8
5) Exhuming McCarthy
6) Radio Free Europe
7) Imitation of life
8 Crush With Eyeliner
9) Stand
10) At My Most Beautiful

[Neemo]

My fav REM tunes are

"Man on the Moon"
"Everybody Hurts"
"Drive"

[nesquick]

Great band.

[Jonathan]

I'm a very big fan of R.E.M.

I saw them last year in January here in Sweden, it was a really great show, one of my favourite concerts ever.

My favourite tunes are:

Boy In The Well
Everybody Hurts
Bad Day
Orange Crush
What's the frequency Kenneth
All The Right Friends

[Walk]

I'm from the same town they're from. They really are from humble beginnings, but of course most bands are.  They're a lot like U2. They were an interesting indie band that became profoundly worthless as the 90's wore on. Like most great indie bands, they were the best when no one cared about them. I still listen to Monster occasionally.

[Timothy]

Not really a big fan ot them .


But I do like "Man on the Moon"

[Gordi]

I saw them last year, absolutely brilliant live, I also got to meet Peter Buck  , nice guy!

My favourite REM songs (at the moment) are:

- What's The Frequency Kenneth?
- Cuyahoga
- Bad Day
- Leaving New York
- Losing My Religion

(in no particular order)

[GeorgeSteele]

Some of their songs are just unlistenable to me but I love these:

 - World Leader Pretend
 - Flowers of Guatemala
 - Superman
 - Disturbance at the Heron House
 - Radio Free Europe
 - What's the Frequency Kenneth
 - Romance
 - You are the Everything
 - Strange Currencies
 - Texarkana
 - So. Central Rain

[Neemo]

BTW, Shiny Happy People is prolly in my top 10 all time worst songs

I fucking hate it....

"Shiny, happy people holding hands....."
"hey, hey, hey, hey. Pull that fucking bus over to the side of the pretentiousness turn-pike"
"I want the Shiny people over here and the happy people over here"
"I represent angry, gun toting, meat eating fucking people"

lol...classic

[DMJ]

REM is a good band, theyre old stuff is really good and the new is nice

i actually seen them live on the monster tour, they kinda rocked

radiohead was opening for them but they were boring

[the dirt]

Many critics and fans hated Monster. I'm not a big REM connesseur or fan, but I loved it and still do.

[Eric]

BTW, Shiny Happy People is prolly in my top 10 all time worst songs

I fucking hate it....

"Shiny, happy people holding hands....."
"hey, hey, hey, hey. Pull that fucking bus over to the side of the pretentiousness turn-pike"
"I want the Shiny people over here and the happy people over here"
"I represent angry, gun toting, meat eating fucking people"

lol...classic

The band hates this song, and most people seem to hate it, I always thought is was fun-anyway, love REM-Around the Sun really took a beating last year from critics, and did not sell well-it took me a while, but I liked it-the need to get back to making a guitar album again-more Peter Buck

[Lithium]

A truly awesome band.

My favourite songs are:

- Shiney Happy People
- Man On the Moon
- What's the Frequency Kenneth
- Leaving New York
- Bad Day
- Everybody Hurts
- The One I Love
- Losing My Religion

[Eric]

Automatic for the People is possibly the greatest album I've ever heard-I'll never forget the 1-2 punch of out of time and AFTP-I always felt REM represented the beauty in music to me while GNR brought out the aggresive, more powerful side of music I like

[pasnow]

'World Leader Pretend' &  'You are the Everything' off Green:

&

'Perfect Circle' off Murmur:

Overall, I'd say Perfect Circle is probably the most underrated, as most people have never heard it.

[Booker Floyd]

Huge R.E.M. fan...

Out Of Time is my favorite album of theirs. 

Ten favorites in no order:

1. Half A World Away
2. Losing My Religion
3. Ignoreland
4. Near Wild Heaven
5. Radio Free Europe
6. Country Feedback
7. Everybody Hurts
8. Stand
9. Its The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
10. Radio Song

[Eric]

Drive is a great song-I seen them on the greatist hits tour a few years back-the finally did the Album version-if you remember, the kept doing this rock version of Drive on tour, which I never understood-it was moving to hear it in person

[everwake]

Never forget to mention "Drive"...I once got around listening to it for a week or so...continuously repeated in my playlist "hey kids, shake a leg, maybe you're crazy in the head". REM are definitely a good band...and one must look beyond the "classic" songs such as "everybody hurts", "man on the moon" or whatever song everyone just happens to know...

---take it from a newbie---

[jameslofton29]

My faves...

Orange Crush
Ignoreland
Bang and Blame
The One I love
Drive
Bittersweet Me

[Eric]

I forgot about Binky the Doormat-I wish they would make a rocking album again