As we know it and I feel fine

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Have weed. Will chill.

I still remember the parody - It's the end of the year as we know it, it's '95

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

Do you even know another REM song ?

No I don’t think I do. I know some Fleetwood Mack songs

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

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There wasn't another band I hated more than REM back in their heyday.

Unfortunately, their heyday was my heyday.

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You know me like that.

You know "Everybody Hurts," "Man on the Moon," "The One I Love," and maybe "Orange Crush"

EDIT: I forgot "Losing My Religion," I'm a dumbass

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Pretty hard to avoid Stand and the abysmal Shiny Happy People but much like Doc, I lived through prime REM during my prime music listening years so there are about 30 songs I can’t imagine not being familiar with. Unlike doc, I don’t hate them.

REM is a strange band story. Athens alternative college legends break big flash hot then gone. More bands should stay for a while and go.

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Elections have consequences.

I read somewhere that they avoided the pitfalls of jealousy most bands face by dividing the pie up 25% for each member as far as royalties and publishing goes no matter who contributed what to each song . Smart way to do it .

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Living in Atlanta in their heyday, I loved them.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

If you're the lazy son of a beeyotch who contributed the least.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Life's Rich Pageant has always been my favorite.

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LT. General Honore is apparently back on the job to bail out yet another shit for brains nitwit president.

And Cuomo just sounded presidential.

It's over!

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Cuomo is calm, cool and collected

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I always confuse REM with Barenaked Ladies and vice versa.

Quite the contrast between his Press conf and those of Trump.
He is much more informed for one and he seems to have vision as. to how he wants to steer his state out of it.

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Amazing what competence and simple honesty can do for a nation.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

The democratic way per Bernie.

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Elections have consequences.

As the board’s dumbest musical guy, I can at least recall a story I heard about the origins of What’s the Frequency Kenneth. Heard a similar story about the origins of Leonard Skinner....aka Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

I think I have you beat on the low level of musical appreciation

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

That is absolutely not what happened. They hung around making one subpar album after another following Automatic for the People in '92 and only broke up for good about four or five years ago. They should have done what you said, all we would have lost would have been, I dunno, "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"


Radiohead does an even five-way split even though it's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood who handle most if not all songwriting duties. Ed O'Brien is one of rock history's great passengers; sometimes I think his real job in the band is to handle media relations because Thom Yorke is such a tedious pain in the ass.

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It occurs to me that what pittmike is actually describing is the trajectory of the other big jangle-band-with-a-sexually-ambiguous-singer of the '80s, the Smiths, who exploded onto the scene in '84, made an all-time classic with The Queen Is Dead in '86, and broke up acrimoniously by '87. And why? Largely because the bassist and drummer found out the royalties were split 40-40-10-10 with Morrissey and Johnny Marr getting the bigger shares. Also because Morrissey was in love with a man who couldn't love him back, but the money split kind of ties the whole conversation back together.

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Well I guess I just stopped paying attention to them after What’s the Frequency.

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Elections have consequences.

You didn't miss a thing.

I was never a huge R.E.M. fan. I like a bunch of their songs and love a few, but as a band they're of no sentimental value to me, not like the Smiths or the Mountain Goats.

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I got into Green...but after that lost interest.

Right around that time I saw them at the Cap Center in DC. Their music didnt work for me in such a large venue.

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Shouldn’t a band that makes a song like Shiny Happy People be automatically relegated to the trash bin of music history?

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Hawaii (fuck) You

If you have a gay you get a pass.

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Elections have consequences.

Not when that album has "Losing My Religion" and "Texarkana" on it, and besides, "Shiny Happy People" isn't a bad song, people just like to put on a show of hating it. It's the Barney of alternative music.


I agree that's that's not the place for them. Wasn't the old Cap Center a notorious shithole, too? I've never heard anyone speak nostalgically of it.

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