Mike Mills and his broken heart,
My favourite REM lyric
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My missus just said there that they sound ācountryā.
I scuffed and said itās southern states folk.
Theres definitely a country song just under the surface,
Gram Parsons like
Mike famously wore his suit back around the time of Monster.
Some output of stuff from those guys around that time.
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Is that the only R.E.M. song that Stipe did not write the lyrics to? I was surprised to learn Mills wrote the lyrics (which are excellent).
Mills sang āNear wild heavenā and also composed the lyrics (I think)
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I believe formula they used for writing was music would be written first by Mills, Buck or Berry. Once that had been complete Stipe would write melody/lyrics over it. Only exception is E Bow The Letter. Lyrics for E Bow were wirtten before the music. The synergy between them all and in the creative process is what made them great. They all added value.
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I just canāt get into REM ā¦ Every time the thread is bumped the enthusiasm from Farmer or Cauliflower sends me off to try again butā¦ nothing.
I like their early stuff.
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Belong is a wonderful piece of music
That aināt bad bud. Not bad at all.
Been reading up on the making of New Adventures in Hi-Fi on last months Record Collector. The band did well to continue on after the blow of Bill Berryās departure. It certainly didnāt stifle their creative genius.
I was born in ā84, REM are pretty much the soundtrack to my life, I can listen to any of their albums and picture where I was and what I was doing at the time. Thereās not a bad album in their back catalogue. AFTHP, Monster and Up are my personal favourites but Iāll listen to stuff like Around The Sun and Accelerate now and again. They all have gems in them. I cannot think of another band that produced such a high volume of quality from the 80s to the late 00s. Even U2 canāt match them.
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I think they were flawless up to Automatic. Thatās about nine albums. The quality dipped slightly album wise after that for me albeit but some of their best sings followed. I think Around the Sun was their only real stinker of an album.
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A gem off the Green album,
The Wrong Child.
Apparently written upon the disabled Irish author Christopher Nolan.
I stopped at Reveal.
I recently went back listening to Automatic, Iād say for the first time in nearly two decades.
Some great tunes on side B. Ignoreland and Find The River.
@Thomas_Brady if you listen to this compilation and canāt get into them, Iād tap out now. If we all had the same taste, it would be a boring forum and a boring world.
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Iām repeating myself but an album a year from 83-88 was some run. A two year ābreakā (touring the fuck out of it all) and then Out of Time in 91 and Automatic in 92. Some fucking motoring lads.
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I saw them in the Simmonscourt Pavilion in 1989.
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Setlist
An album a year was the norm back then.
The Smiths had four albums in four years plus a heap of other songs too.
Mad by todayās comparisons.
Yes.
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