Is shiny happy people better than how soon is now? The REM thread

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Morrissey is such a wanker.

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How were the Clash?

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I don’t care. I love him.

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Great, 2nd of 2 nights we went, think there were a few “issues” on the 1st night so we got lucky. '83 I reckon

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Class. My favourite band. Top of my list of if you could see anyone.

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Same here, just lucky enough to catch them that 1 time. Joe sported a Mohawk, opened with London Calling. Beam me up Scotty…

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FYI @farmerinthecity

‘They taught me how to dress’: Michael Stipe on Limbo District, the greatest band you’ve never heard of | Michael Stipe | The Guardian

id never heard of them before, will have to look them up now

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Same as that. I saw them in Bingley Hall in Birmingham on that tour. Absolutely brilliant.

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Played 2 nights there in March 84, saw them on the second night too. Jones and Headon had left by then but played all the songs I could have wished for. Great night!

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Same month they played Slane with Oasis as back up.

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Stipe hated the Gallagher brothers.

The song The Wake Up Bomb makes reference to it.

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I was up at the very front that day and Liam wasn’t in the friendliest form.

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He was a cock. Spearhead were savage though. And Sharon Shannon.

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I remember Stipe calling them all out and thanking them a few times. Luka Bloom and Sarrin Shannon he pronounced it

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I like this version.

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Apparently that’s a myth.

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The wake up bomb is a dig at oasis and their carry on in slane. Went down a YouTube rabbit hole on foot of this thread and found this. Very interesting footage. I had forgotten how good the oasis gig was. And how big a deal it was too.

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Supersionic?

What a joke!

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He had certainly heard Cast no Shadow when he wrote this