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I think the best things they've done were the first Hibtone single (Radio Free Europe/Sitting Still--far superior to the Murmur versions) and Chronic Town. I saw them on Thanksgiving in 81 at the 7th Street Entry (Zom, were you there?), and there were very few people there because there was a snowstorm. They killed.

I saw them about a year later, opening for the fantastic Raybeats, and they seemed so nervous being on a big stage (First Avenue Mainroom). But they were good.

I have had no inclination to see them since. I think I got the best of them.

"Pop song 89" is a fine song.

My girlfriend and I went out of town for the weekend and listened to an R.E.M. compilation in the car. I love this R.E.M. song "Bad Day" an awful lot. I'd made a mental note that I particularly liked this song, but forgot how it sounded.

"Bad Day" by R.E.M. is a spectacular song.

way not crap. my favorite band.

rocker654 wrote: I saw them on Thanksgiving in 81 at the 7th Street Entry (Zom, were you there?), and there were very few people there because there was a snowstorm. They killed.

"Wolves, Lower" from that very show:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rmuiIGYcqd4

Crap. I listened to the album with Shiny Happy People and Loosing My Religion on it when I was in junior high. And I think I owned a couple of older albums too. I liked them then, and I still think their music is better than Limp Bizkit or Creed, but after 8th grade my appraisal of their blandness rose up a steep slope to plateau when I was around sixteen.

CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Father saw them open for GANG OF FOUR on the "Songs Of the Free" tour (oh, Sara Lee). And has and will repeatedly state that they are the worst Live band he's ever seen.


Gave the world Pavement.

CRAPX50

The most overrated bass player in popular music history, (even more than Geddy Lee)

Pretty bland, but easy on the ears for the most part. Murmur, Fables, and Life's Rich Pageant are pretty good.

R.E.M. is not totally CRAP for me...
but it's true they are sellers..in the last 18/20 years this is what they has done
i respect them but i will not shake their hands.....that's for sure
btw they has been very originals.....unfortunatelly the muisc is become a clichè too soon
what a shame....Gargoyle was pretty cool to me....

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I love this R.E.M. song "Bad Day" an awful lot. I'd made a mental note that I particularly liked this song, but forgot how it sounded.

It sounds like "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)".

"Bad Day" by R.E.M. is a spectacular song.

It is spectacular in the sense that it has an accompanying video which provides the spectacle of seeing the band as newsreaders, presumably bringing Bad News.

I just can't believe that they are otherwise reasonable people who think that REM=evil. There are tons and tons of great music in REM. Just not after 1998.