It was kinda like going to the Rosemizon.

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Yeah, I can see that: ocean of parking out in the burbs. Wonder if it suffered from the same low-ceiling problems that the Horizon does, it kind of looks like a less impressive Saddledome.

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I don't know if there is a song I hate more than Losing My Religion.

It's like that joke from Wayne's World that everyone in the world was issued the Peter Frampton album.

I feel like if drones existed at that time that one would have followed me at all times playing that song and gushing about how amazing I need to understand that it is simultaneously.

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See, that's the perfect example of an R.E.M. song I can objectively appreciate as very good, but it's never meant anything to me, never spoken directly to me. But I love a good mandolin and some minor chords.

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Yep Life's Rich Pageant is still great.

From https://youtu.be/rePNg6MmdEQ

To https://youtu.be/IxQS6lfn0yU

Great album.

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I agree the song itself is pretty good. Pretty good.

But, damn MTV, give it a rest!! They aren't Mozart.

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I'm bored. Three best R.E.M. songs off each golden age album:

Murmur: Catapult, Radio Free Europe, Talk About the Passion
Reckoning: Don't Go Back to Rockville, So. Central Rain, 7 Chinese Bros.
Fables...: Driver 8, n/a, n/a; nothing else from the rest of this album has ever left an impression on me
...Pageant: Fall on Me, Superman, Cuyahoga
Document: The One I Love, It's the End of the World As We Know It, Exhuming McCarthy
Green: Stand, Turn You Inside Out, Orange Crush
Out of Time: Texarkana, Losing My Religion, Country Feedback
AFTP: Man on the Moon, Nightswimming, Find the River

Unintentional point of this exercise: R.E.M. is a band where you can go four to six songs deep on most every album without a wire-to-wire classic. XTC is similar but for Skylarking, and I like XTC way way way way more.

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I read someone on twitter yesterday that said in honor of all this down time MTV needs to go to all music videos from the 80s and 90s again.

I like it, lets make that happen

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Only if I can go to the basement and make out with old boyfriends when watching it.

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All of them at once?

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Elections have consequences.

No.

I didn't have cable growing up. I had to go to other people's houses or wait for Friday Night Videos.

that was some good times back then. different world

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

That was same growing up. Only choices were antenna or satellite and satellite wasn’t happening.

Stipe is so limited as a vocalist that it's amazing he was able to put across as many pop songs as he did. They really knew how to write around what he was capable of doing.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

4pm. Power 50.

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WPWR TV.

I think that was the channel I caught Voyagers on. I might look around for that tonight.

I remember the same problem growing up in Chicago. No cable in the city and then I would go to my friends in the burbs where HS was and be wtf is this! I do recall though vividly for some reason Friday night videos and the summer of 1983 White Sox.

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It was available by me but it wasn't in the budget. We didn't have central air either.

For years I begged for cable. I think they got it my sophomore year of college.

There was, at some point in the late 80’s or early 90’s, the jukebox network in one of the channels. About all I remember about it is that every time I turned it on their was a 2 live crew song on thst was both audio muted and black boxed occasionally.

Voyagers! with the hunky but apparently not too bright Jon-Eric Hexum was on NBC Sunday nights at 6pm right after Dan Fouts and AFC football.

Maybe they did reruns but I don't remember that.

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Thanks SHARK

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2018
#ExtendLafleur
10 More Wins

Looks like I spelled his name wrong.

Not up to SHARK standards. BITE!

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They did. That's how I caught it and I'm glad I did. It was the perfect kind of nerdy show with a really hot guy. If they could have some how incorporated cooking my head would have exploded. I've now fallen down the rabbithole of actors I liked in the 80s. Ted McGinley was another one.

Really solid analysis of REM in this thread.

In terms of reasonable bands that were relevant in my youth that I regret never seeing....R.E.M is pretty high on the list.

GREEN came out my Jr year of high school. They were one of the very few non-metal bands that I really liked. I think they played Alpine Valley that summer. I really wish I went.

Out of Time is a great album. Losing my religion is a nice song. It lyrically does nothing for me, but yeah....MTV ruined it. Shiny Happy People is fine....again...they made an incredibly burrito video for it, but the song is great and I think Stipe + Kate Pearson was a great blend.

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I went to a REM show at world. I think it was Monster tour. My future wife got tickets for it and my main memory is freezing my ass off as it was a fall show. Saw two concerts at World and once it was freezing and the other time it was a torrential down pour which also matched my poplar creek experience.

Yep . An hour worth of videos after I got home from school . Was awesome . “Party Train “ being a noted favorite .

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

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

Yes! That's the one I always remember too. They played the hell out of that.

Loved that song.

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Memorable video, but "You Dropped the Bomb on Me" is a superior song.

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