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1. The Man On The Moon
2. I've Been High
3. Fall On Me
4. The Great Beyond
5. (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
6. Drive
7. Radio Free Europe
8. Find The River
9. Losing My Religion
|0.Summer Turns To High

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 6 April 2003 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

1 kahoutek
2 radio fre europe
3 exhuming mccarthy
4 9-9
5 feeling gravity's pull
6 pop song 89
7 these days
8 flowers of guatamala
9 untitled song on green
10 live and how to live it

― keith (keithmcl), Sunday, 6 April 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

(will ...not ...be ...tempted ...will ...not ...take ...the ...bait ...will ...not ...be ...tempted ...will ...not ...will ...not)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 6 April 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)
So. Central Rain
These Days
Cuyahoga
The One I Love
Turn You Inside Out
Strange Currencies
Sad Professor
Daysleeper
Dream (All I Have To Do) - From Athens, Ga. Inside Out

― paul cox (paul cox), Sunday, 6 April 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Wolves, Lower
Radio Free Europe (either version)
Carnival of Sorts
9-9
Driver 8
The One I Love
Superman
7 Chinese Bros.
Perfect Circle
Shaking Through (especially the groovy instrumental at the end)

― Evan (Evan), Sunday, 6 April 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Shaking Through
Radio Free Europe
Perfect Circle
Green Grow the Rushes Grow
So. Central Rain
I Believe
Pop Song 89/ or Get UP
Don't Go Back to Rockville
Wolves Lower
...some song post Green.

I tried to spread out my picks over albums otherwise they were all going to be from Murmur, Reckoning etc. But those were the albums and songs that meant the most to me. Actually, going over the later albums I realized that I never gave these albums much of a chance due to the post release dissapointment but that they seem to have aged pretty well and I should go back and give them a listen.

― Carey (Carey), Sunday, 6 April 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

(ooh... will... not... resist... the... urge... to... listen... to... sevral... rem.records... later... on... :-) will... not... resist... will... not... resist)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 6 April 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

South Central Rain
Let Me In
Radio Free Europe
These Days
Swan Swan
Sweetness Follows
Begin the Begin
At My Most Beautiful
Fall on Me
Get Up

― MerkinMuffley (MerkinMuffley), Sunday, 6 April 2003 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

ooooooooooooooooh this is tough.

Wolves, Lower
Voice of Harold
These Days
Perfect Circle
Auctioneer
Life and How to Live It
You
Begin the Begin
Disturbance at the Heron House
At My Most Beautiful

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 April 2003 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Could change on a regular basis.....

Wendall Gee
Perfect Circle
Country Feedback
Find the River
Daysleeper
Try Not To Breathe
Hairshirt
New Test Leper
Nightswimming
Half A World Away

― Peter Dee, Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

These Days
Drive
Feeling Gravity's Pull
Losing My Religion
Country Feedback
9-9
Harborcoat
Camera
King of Birds
Suspicion

― gazuga (gazuga), Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Putting "Voice Of Harold" as no. 2 is probably the biggest dis you could ever give Stipe's lyrical skills, Jody. Not that that's not an entirely valid thing to do. I think certain tracks on people's POX here baffle me more than those on any other POX (Except "Emotional Rescue," which is a big sign the person just fuckin' hates the Stones). "Burning Hell" just allllmost made my POX. It was number 12, right behind "Driver 8."

Near Wild Heaven
Pretty Persuasion
Sitting Still
Imitation Of Life
Harborcoat
Radio Free Europe
Wolves, Lower
Perfect Circle
Begin The Begin
Half A World Away

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Putting "Voice Of Harold" as no. 2

1) They're not in order.
2) You know as well as I do what an awful lyricist Stipe was capable of being even in his "heyday."
3) But he's a great singer!
4) "Emotional Rescue" was on my Stones POX and I'm sure I own more Stones than you, you little pipsqueak.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

1)they should be! mine are!
2)I said it was valid!
3)Most of the time. Unless he's dreaming of Maria Calas, whoever she is, or feigning an accent.
4)Though I'm definitely taller than you, being called a pipsqueak is sorta cute. I suppose a Rod Stewart fan could find my including of "Crazy About Her" on my 10 of his equally despicable, but I think "Crazy About Her" has more enthusiasm than most of his material around that time (he even dances and humps a chair in the video. He's INTO it). I can't see a similar non-ironic saving grace in "Emotional Rescue."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"I will be youah knight een shineeng ahhhmouahhh..."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Peter Cetera in the how-se!

― Carey (Carey), Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

(...man ...is ...weak ...man ...is ...weak ...weak ...very ...o fk!)

1. Perfect Circle
2.
3.
4. Shaking Through
5. Leave
6.
7.

(this.is.pure.torture)
phleeez, may i do cover versions and instrumentals first!?!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Thinking back I shoud've done IRS top 10 and then Warner Bro. top 10.

― Carey (Carey), Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)
2. Harborcoat
3. Sitting Still
4. Ages of You
5. Seven Chinese Brothers
6. Driver 8
7. Pilgrimage
8. There She Goes Again
9. Radio Free Europe
10. Electrolite

Honorable Mention: Catapult, 9-9, Pretty Persuation, Shaking Through.

― Burr (Burr), Sunday, 6 April 2003 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

sitting still
perfect circle
so' central rain
orange crush
country feedback
driver 8
gardening at night
shaking through
radio free europe
the one i love

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 6 April 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

chronologically:

gardening at night
laughing
harborcoat
maps and legends
kahoutek
good advices
fall on me
the one i love
losing my religion
untitled from Green

later notables:
near wild heaven
country feedback
tongue

― Aaron A., Sunday, 6 April 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

kohoutek
good advices
9-9
maps and legends
these days
superman
time after time
king of birds
the wrong child
nightswimming

― angelo (angelo), Monday, 7 April 2003 05:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Voice of Harold; Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars); Laughing; Perfect Circle; Country Feedback; Hyena; Romance; You; Little America; 1,000,000. And the Electrolite video.

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 7 April 2003 05:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Superman
Radio Free Europe
Fretless (from the Until the End of the World soundtrack)
I Believe
Welcome to the Occupation
Exhuming McCarthy
World Leader Pretend
Near Wild Heaven
Country Feedback
Toys in the Attic. I drove my mother insane rewinding the cassette over and over again to play this on a roadtrip to God knows where (she liked their version of "King of the Road," though).

11) "Slip Inside This House," the song they SHOULD have covered for Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye but didn't, and therefore doesn't exist as far as I know, goddammit.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 7 April 2003 06:01 (twenty-two years ago)

fealing gravity pull
wolves, lower
life and how to live it
stumble
kahoutek
harborcoat
9-9
Begin the Begin
king of birds
driver 8

― rex jr., Monday, 7 April 2003 06:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Geir, I can't believe you didn't pick he melodic-as-hell "Nightswimming."

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Monday, 7 April 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Carnival Of Sorts
Radio Free Europe
Talk About the Passion
West Of the Fields
So. Central Rain
Pretty Persuasion
Feeling Gravity's Pull
Green Grow the Rushes
King Of Birds
Losing My Religion

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 7 April 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone's got to stand up for the Warner Bros years here. Not up to the task myself.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 7 April 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Geir, I can't believe you didn't pick he melodic-as-hell "Nightswimming."

The annoyingly repetitive, monotone and "underproduced on the verge of unfinished" "Nightswimming", you mean?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 7 April 2003 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

King Of Birds
Shaking Through
Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)
Pretty Persuasion
The One I Love (acoustic version)
Disturbance at the Heron House, into, Red Rain (accoustic version)
Dream (All I Have To Do) -- good call, Paul.
Swan Swan H -- also from the Athens, GA OMPS
Life and How to Live It
Wendell Gee / tie / Camera

― christoff (christoff), Monday, 7 April 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a little baffled by all the love for "Perfect Circle," which always struck me as the worst of their early songs. To me it sounds like the Doors.

― Burr (Burr), Monday, 7 April 2003 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The Doors? My sister compared it to Sophie B Hawkins, which made more sense to me.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 7 April 2003 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

It reminds me of the Doors in its kinda drecky use of a minor key (like, say, "The End") and Stipe's hollow, overly somber singing (very unlike most of his singing from this time, which I like a lot).

― Burr (Burr), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

1 Sitting Still
2 Catapult
3 So. Central rain
4 Harborcoat
5 Driver 8
6 Green Grow The Rushes
7 Fall On Me
8 Superman
9 Flowers of Guatemala
10 The Wrong Child

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Thursday, 24 February 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

1. Superman
2. Wolves, Lower
3. Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)
4. The One I Love
5. Radio Free Europe (Hib-Tone single version)
6. Laughing
7. 9-9
8. Second Guessing
9. So. Central Rain
10. Seven Chinese Brothers

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 24 February 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

1. Begin the Begin
2. These Days
3. Life and How to Live It
4. Circus Envy
5. Fall on Me
6. Exhuming McCarthy
7. Hairshirt
8. Wolves, Lower
9. Shaking Through
10. Little America

― incrementally telephone lines came down for traitor nooses, Thursday, 24 February 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

1. Laughing
2. E-Bow The Letter
3. Catapult
4. Flowers of Guatamala
5. Exhuming McCarthy
6. Pretty Persuasion
7. Moral Kiosk
8. Country Feedback
9. I Believe
10. Superman

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 24 February 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

So. Central Rain
Binky The Doormat
Tongue
Find The River
Electrolite
Life and How To Live It
Feeling Gravity's Pull
You Are The Everything
You
Finest Worksong

This is really hard for me.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 24 February 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

1. Nightswimming
2. the one that starts with the typewriter

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 24 February 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

sweetness follows
perfect circle
fall on me
old man kensey
disturbance at the heron house
wolves, lower
turn you inside out
country feedback
crazy
camera

― Greig (treefell), Thursday, 24 February 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

Try Not To Sleep
These Days
I Believe
Maps And Legends
Disturbance At The Heron House
Leave
So Fast So Numb
Wendell Gee
Pilgrimage
Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcar)

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 24 February 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

1. 9-9
2. Me in Honey
3. Leave
4. Good Advices
5. I Believe
6. untitled final song on Green
7. Fall on Me
8. Nightswimming
9. Perfect Circle
10. Wendell Gee

― baxter, Thursday, 24 February 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I forgot "Sweetness Follows"! That one is very good.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 24 February 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

irs years (no order):
1. letter never sent
2. gardening at night
3. superman
4. green grow the rushes
5. so. central rain
6. Talk About the Passion
7. good advices
8. flowers of guatemala
9. king of birds
10. exhuming mccarthy

warner years (new adventures songs first, cuz that album fucking rules):
1. new test leper
2. electrolite
3. leave
4. country feedback
5. sweetness follows
6. the sidewinder sleeps tonite
7. me in honey
8. turn you inside-out
9. sad professor
10. world leader pretend

― john'n'chicago, Thursday, 24 February 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Sad Professor! I love that bit about half way through where those solemn piano notes drift in. Also an excellent chorus.

Untitled Final Song On Green - I'd completely forgotten about that one. I have to say that I haven't played Green in 5 years or more - is that the song where they swop instruments? I have no idea how it goes, except for a vague recollection of a clumsy drum intro (Buck?)

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 24 February 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

i'd have to add "binky the doormat" and "so fast so numb" to the warner years 10, but nothing to remove.

― john'n'chicago, Thursday, 24 February 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Fall on Me
Country Feedback
So. Central Rain
I Believe
King of Birds
Life and How to Live It
Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)
Nightswimming
Find the River
Leave

― mr. drew (mr. drew), Thursday, 24 February 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

You
Gardening At Night
Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)
Ages of You
Life and How to Live It
The One I Love
Pilgrimage
So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
Harborcoat
Nightswimming

though Nightswimming has kind of ruined the actual act of night swimming.

― dan. (dan.), Thursday, 24 February 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

1) Fall On Me
2) Welcome To The Occupation
3) Perfect Circle
4) Feeling Gravitys Pull
5) The One I Love
6) We Walk
7) ITEOTWAWKI (AIFF)
8) Bittersweet Me
9) Chorus And The Ring
10) Lotus

clumsy drum intro (Buck?)
Yup.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 24 February 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Ah, the IRS/Warners division would be a good way for me to do it:

IRS

Pilgrimage
So. Central Rain
Harbourcoat
Feeling Gravity's Pull
Life and How To Live It
Begin The Begin
Just A Touch
Finest Worksong
Disturbance at the Heron House
Exhuming McCarthy

Warners

You Are The Everything
Untitled
Find The River
Sweetness Follows
You
Tongue
Circus Envy
Crush With Eyeliner
Binky The Doormat
Electrolite

post-Berry

Hope
Sad Professor
Walk Unafraid
The Great Beyond
I've Been High
The Lifting
Animal
Electron Blue
I Wanted To Be Wrong
Around The Sun

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 24 February 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

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Not in order, but this is what i've decided on today (and I feel fine about it).

Driver 8
Cuyahoga
Carnival of Sorts
I Believe
You Are The Everything
Country Feedback
Haborcoat
Don't Go Back to Rockville
Texarkana
Untitled (from Green)

― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:06 (five years ago)

sitting still
world leader pretend
cuyahoga
life and how to live it
e-bow the letter
gardening at night
swan swan h
me in honey
fall on me
drive

― at home in the alternate future, (Karl Malone), Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:53 (five years ago)

what's great is that i love all of the other lists...these are all good songs.

r.e.m. POXXV?

― at home in the alternate future, (Karl Malone), Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:58 (five years ago)

i feel like an old man in a nursing home, with the game rigged in my favor by a polite staff so that whatever choice i make is correct, in some way

― at home in the alternate future, (Karl Malone), Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:59 (five years ago)

Is "This World Is Big" what people are calling the untitled song on Green?

― nate woolls, Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:29 (five years ago)

Yeah sorry that’s what I call it

― L'assie (Euler), Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:35 (five years ago)

so. central rain
the one i love
gardening at night
talk about the passion
finest work song
7 chinese brothers
near wild heaven
the sidewinder sleeps tonight (feel like this is not a partic popular choice, but as a kid - i was 8 when automatic was released - this was the first REM song i remember really liking a lot)
nightswimming
what's the frequency kenneth

― ت (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 7 November 2019 19:31 (five years ago)

the sidewinder sleeps tonite (i hear you jim in vancouver; this song is pure joy)
shaking through
cuyahoga
e-bow the letter
bang and blame
near wild heaven
wendell gee
world leader pretend
time after time (annelise)
it's the end of the world as we know it (and i feel fine)

― J. Sam, Thursday, 7 November 2019 20:45 (five years ago)

i feel like a jerk for not putting losing my religion in there. it's not honest without that. losing my religion may be the song that i still like the most that i've listened to the most times, if you know what i mean

― at home in the alternate future, (Karl Malone), Thursday, 7 November 2019 20:48 (five years ago)

Gardening at Night
Sitting Still
Don't Go Back to Rockville
Driver 8
Fall On Me
Country Feedback
Nightswimming
Find the River
Strange Currencies
E-Bow the Letter

Since my picks are pretty basic, here's 10 deeper cuts I also love:

9-9
Catapult
Kohoutek
Swan Swan H
King of Birds
You Are the Everything
Hairshirt
Belong
New Test Leper
Airportman

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 7 November 2019 21:01 (five years ago)

this is pretty much the same list I would have had at age 19. sadboi REM will always be my favorite REM

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 7 November 2019 21:03 (five years ago)

The Wrong Child
Fireplace
I Remember California
Nightswimming
Near Wild Heaven
Hope
Gardening At Night
Radio Free Europe
Leave
Crush With Eyeliner

― nate woolls, Thursday, 7 November 2019 21:28 (five years ago)

good list

― L'assie (Euler), Thursday, 7 November 2019 22:18 (five years ago)

Oh fiddlestix I need 7 chinese brothers on there. Gah.

― tempted by the fruit of your mother (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 7 November 2019 22:37 (five years ago)

Kohoutek
Gardening at Night
Harborcoat
Driver 8
World Leader Pretend
Country Feedback
I Believe
Laughing
Find the River
Daysleeper

Lots of overlap with evol j. I too probably would have chosen very similarly perhaps, um, two-thirds of a lifetime ago.

― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 7 November 2019 23:11 (five years ago)

Try Not To Breathe
Sitting Still
E Bow The Letter
Harborcoat
I Believe
Nightswimming
Find The River
Electrolite
Sweetness Follows
Wolves Lower

― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Friday, 8 November 2019 17:27 (five years ago)

^^^oooooh yeah

― at home in the alternate future, (Karl Malone), Friday, 8 November 2019 17:50 (five years ago)

Wolves, Lower
Gardening At Night
Sitting Still
So. Central Rain
Driver 8
Fall On Me
I Believe
Near Wild Heaven
Nightswimming
Find The River

― SA, Friday, 8 November 2019 18:32 (five years ago)

I should have found room for Electrolite.

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:10 (five years ago)

Me too but I have no idea what I would dislodge to make room for it.

― tempted by the fruit of your mother (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:11 (five years ago)

sitting still
the wrong child
belong
fall on me
shaking through
kohoutek
circus envy
wolves, lower
wendell gee
little america

― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:11 (five years ago)

there are too many positive feelings on this thread. so let me say it: i think electrolite (which i like!), is possibly the most overrated REM song.

― at home in the alternate future, (Karl Malone), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:54 (five years ago)

damn son

to me it’s like nightswimming except it’s good

― brimstead, Friday, 8 November 2019 20:35 (five years ago)

sorry for the ‘lops

― brimstead, Friday, 8 November 2019 20:35 (five years ago)

I have a mental thing where I think up additional lyrics: I'm Steve McQueen, I'm Jimmy Dean, I'm Martin Sheen, I'm Aqua Teen, I'm Vaseline, I'm Paula Deen, I'm Mister Bean, I'm Billie Jean, I'm David Lean, I'm margarine, etc.

― tempted by the fruit of your mother (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 8 November 2019 21:54 (five years ago)

Nightswimming>>>>>Electrolyte

― quinn morgendorffer stan account (morrisp), Friday, 8 November 2019 22:07 (five years ago)

nuh uh

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 8 November 2019 22:26 (five years ago)

YMP, i do the same with "catapult": "can of pork!, cat afloat!, gallow's pole!" lyrical madlibs was one of the minor joys of early mumbly michael singalongs. "electrolite" is maybe a final callback to those early days, on their last great (bill involved) album

― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 8 November 2019 22:30 (five years ago)

eleven months pass...

Ranking their openers.

― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 11 October 2020 02:38 (four years ago)

I don’t love “Radio Song,” but I think it works well as an opener for that particular album.

― Guitar Dick (morrisp), Sunday, 11 October 2020 03:47 (four years ago)

aw c'mon "How the West was Won" is one of the all-time great openers, REM or other

― assert (MatthewK), Sunday, 11 October 2020 08:47 (four years ago)

two years pass...

Find The River
Time After Time (Annelise)
7 Chinese Brothers
Disturbance At The Heron House
Life & How To Live It
Sweetness Follows
I Believe
Perfect Circle
DaySleeper
Pilgrimage

― MaresNest, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 15:22 (one year ago)

Great choices, more ballad-y than mine would be I think.

― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 21:21 (one year ago)

wolves
carnival
pilgrimage
laughing
harborcoat
diminished
be mine
the one i love
losing my religion
sidewinder

― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 00:11 (one year ago)

Hmmm how about

Near Wild Heaven
Find the River
Let Me In
Nightswimming
Sweetness Follows
I Remember California
Why Not Smile
The Wrong Child
Leave
Fireplace

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 01:55 (one year ago)

nice lists. don't think I've attempted one since college.

Green Grow the Rushes
Near Wild Heaven
Sweetness Follows
Hope
Harborcoat
World Leader Pretend
Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
Rockville
Electrolite
Aftermath

― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 01:59 (one year ago)

Near Wild Heaven
Catapult
Sweetness Follows
New Test Leper
Disturbance at the Heron House
Feeling Gravitys Pull
Nightswimming
Moral Kiosk
Low
Try Not to Breathe

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 02:07 (one year ago)

glad Sweetness Follows gets so much love, might be my favorite song of theirs.

― all this time I thought you were British (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 02:14 (one year ago)

pilgrimage
moral kiosk
so. central rain
green grow the rushes
maps and legends
i believe
low
sweetness follows
find the river
electrolite

― z_tbd, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 02:27 (one year ago)

hi!

― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 02:28 (one year ago)

wolves, lower
laughing
sitting still
(don't go back to) rockville
life and how to live it
driver 8
nightswimming
sweetness follows
strange currencies
electrolite

― Clay, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 02:32 (one year ago)

my high school had coffeehouse nights, and my two best friends and i were the organizers our senior year. our last week of school, the three of us holed up in a room for two hours and arranged a string bass/cello/acoustic guitar version of “Sweetness Follows” that i sang. brought down the house, deeply happy memory for me.

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 11:11 (one year ago)

It really is a staggeringly beautiful song. Must have felt so powerful to sing it.

― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 13:21 (one year ago)

crush with eyeliner
world leader pretend
pilgrimage
e-bow the letter
kohoutek
country feedback
beat a drum
suspicion
exhuming mccarthy
harborcoat

― ivy., Wednesday, 26 July 2023 13:30 (one year ago)

Thought the thread revive was related to the band members' own POX:

MICHAEL STIPE
World Leader Pretend
Country Feedback
Strange Currencies (Remix/The Bear Edit)
The Lifting
Electron Blue
Supernatural Superserious
Oh My Heart
We All Go Back To Where We Belong, Kirsten,…
The Flowers of Guatemala
Half A World Away
PETER BUCK
Feeling Gravity’s Pull
So. Central Rain
Walk Unafraid
You’re In The Air
Discoverer
All The Way To Reno (You’re Gonna Be A Star)
Try Not To Breathe
Undertow
Electrolite
Finest Worksong
MIKE MILLS
Wolves, Lower
Pilgrimage
I Believe
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
You Are The Everything
Orange Crush
What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us
Living Well Is The Best Revenge
Every Day Is Yours To Win
BILL BERRY
Beachball
Daysleeper
Leaving New York
These Days
We Walk
I Remember California
I Don’t Sleep, I Dream
Rotary Ten
Voice Of Harold
Find The River

― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 13:36 (one year ago)

Glad to see ilxors love near wild heaven. Best song on that album easy

― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 27 July 2023 03:16 (one year ago)

…their worst video, though (MTV Classic plays it a lot)

― Empty Tushy Fills (morrisp), Thursday, 27 July 2023 03:45 (one year ago)

Eazy, it probably was indirectly but the discussion of the band's top 40 has been on the other thread:

REM: Classic or dud?

― Alba, Thursday, 27 July 2023 06:51 (one year ago)

two weeks pass...

I think the best I can do is narrow their catalog down to a core 20 songs… beyond this, it’d just be throwing darts to prune it further (which isn’t really fun for me):

Wolves, Lower
Gardening at Night
Laughing
Perfect Circle
Catapult
Sitting Still
Shaking Through
Harborcoat
7 Chinese Brothers
Camera
Good Advices
Life and How to Live It
Pop Song 89
Get Up
You Are The Everything
Hairshirt
Drive
What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
Crush With Eyeliner
E-Bow the Letter

― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Sunday, 13 August 2023 20:34 (one year ago)

…oh shit, I forgot “Letter Never Sent” (listening to Reckoning now). POXXI(?)

― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Sunday, 13 August 2023 20:59 (one year ago)

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