Yesterday, after 31 years making music, R.E.M. announced that they would be "calling it a day."
It's impossible to overstate the impact that Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry had on the indie and alt music landscape and on good pop music in general, so I'm not going to even bother trying. Suffice it to say that the band I played in back in the late 80s basically worshiped the ground these guys walked on -- with good reason. And I'm sure a lot of other college musicians felt the same way at the time.
For the record, my favorite R.E.M. album is Automatic for the People, with Sweetness Follows being my favorite song. But in high school, this was the track from the band that I truly loved -- and maybe it's best to go all the way back to the beginning anyway.
Here's Perfect Circle
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Listening Post: Thanks for the Memories Edition
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It's hard to pick but I think Losing My Religion is still my favorite.
I'm glad they made it this far.
Gardening at Night is my vote.
Drive is one of my favourites.
Too many to pick, but Talk About the Passion is a favorite.
Favorite album, due to the time and place in my life when I first heard it: Automatic For The People
Favorite song, which still moves me like few others to this day: You Are The Everything
Perhaps their most ideal song: Fall On Me
Got Kohoutek up at my neck of the virtual woods, which pretty much helped sustain me after the middle-of my-high-school-years move my parents made from a metropolis to a small town. Everything up to Out Of Time helped sustain me, actually.
Everything on Chronic Town ep, Reckoning, and Murmur...meh to all that followed.
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