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Does Anyone Really Like REM?
- beetlebum71
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Does Anyone Really Like REM?
Or do you like them because people tell you that you should? I think they're a terrible band. Zero good songs. No bangers.
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
You're a fucking idiot...
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
Not a thing. I was merely making an observation...beetlebum71 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 11:06 amYeah, but what's that got to do with REM being an awful musical act?
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
Mike Mills is a fuckin' Stud.
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
Got it. I appreciate the clarification.
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FACT.
Peter Buck is an underrated guitarist. His chording and chord progressions were very innovative at the time...
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
Who told you to dislike them?beetlebum71 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 11:04 am Or do you like them because people tell you that you should? I think they're a terrible band. Zero good songs. No bangers.
- Bunker Inspector
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
R.E.M. slaps
I can't imagine what it would be like to listen to records like Reckoning or Document or Automatic for the People and not hear greatness in just about every song.
Edit: also, likely permaban coming your way for discussing music on the main board. There is no greater crime on FC.
I can't imagine what it would be like to listen to records like Reckoning or Document or Automatic for the People and not hear greatness in just about every song.
Edit: also, likely permaban coming your way for discussing music on the main board. There is no greater crime on FC.
You get so emotional baby
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
Wannabe U2.
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
Only one good song ever.
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
What about being completely indifferent about them?
- Bunker Inspector
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
So I suppose this is where someone is supposed to ask which song you think is their only good song?
Well, I'm not going to ask, and hopefully nobody else does either
You get so emotional baby
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- Leon
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
I think "Automatic for the People" is a very good album - i wouldn't pay to see them in concert - i like some of there stuff, but they are not a "favorite"
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
Spot-on take...
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
Lol soooo wrong
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
My ears and my musical savvy.Je9 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 11:13 amWho told you to dislike them?beetlebum71 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 11:04 am Or do you like them because people tell you that you should? I think they're a terrible band. Zero good songs. No bangers.
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
No.
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
No, I don't Vaguebook like that. The song itself is irrelevant.Bunker Inspector wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 11:30 amSo I suppose this is where someone is supposed to ask which song you think is their only good song?
Well, I'm not going to ask, and hopefully nobody else does either
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
I don't believe it. No way you have an opinion of your own.beetlebum71 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 11:35 amMy ears and my musical savvy.Je9 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 11:13 amWho told you to dislike them?beetlebum71 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 11:04 am Or do you like them because people tell you that you should? I think they're a terrible band. Zero good songs. No bangers.
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
I am listening to REM right now just to spite you
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- Eroder
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
You don't know shit about fuck, so shut the fuck up...
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
To me REM was a great band that put out a string of proper albums from Murmer through New Adventures in Hi-Fi, although I realize some fans put their peak at Automatic which I won't argue hard with.
They arguably helped put alternative music on the map, were once called the best band on the planet by Rolling Stone, sold between 900,000 and 6.2m albums in the U.S. alone during a run of 10 albums, and globally between 1.1m and 16.0m across 14 straight albums with only their 15th and last album coming in at under 1 million.
To claim they have no bangers is wrong. I mean you may not like them but their catalog isn't dominated by soft material.
People can like what they like though I won't belabor it more.
They arguably helped put alternative music on the map, were once called the best band on the planet by Rolling Stone, sold between 900,000 and 6.2m albums in the U.S. alone during a run of 10 albums, and globally between 1.1m and 16.0m across 14 straight albums with only their 15th and last album coming in at under 1 million.
To claim they have no bangers is wrong. I mean you may not like them but their catalog isn't dominated by soft material.
People can like what they like though I won't belabor it more.
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
Millennials shitting on their best band. Classic Froob Chat.
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
it's "Imitation of Life"Bunker Inspector wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 11:30 amSo I suppose this is where someone is supposed to ask which song you think is their only good song?
Well, I'm not going to ask, and hopefully nobody else does either
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
I used to be able to recite, "It's the end of the" 99% word for word but those days are long gone. Document released the year I graduated h.s. and was heard at parties for moths.
I still remember hearing Radio Free Europe for the first time as a new release on KQ of all places.
Also the first time hearing Document, and I was on a beach in Florida in November when Green came out.
A few songs from New Adventures were a highlight in bars when I was living in Bahrain.
Good times.
I still remember hearing Radio Free Europe for the first time as a new release on KQ of all places.
Also the first time hearing Document, and I was on a beach in Florida in November when Green came out.
A few songs from New Adventures were a highlight in bars when I was living in Bahrain.
Good times.
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Re: Does Anyone Really Like REM?
I listened to bunch of R.E.M. today just for this reason
You get so emotional baby
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