RIP R.E.M.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:14 pm

And rack the fuck out of Mike Stipe:

"I've always referred to the Beatles as elevator music, because that's exactly what they were."

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan · Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:40 am

I forget who said it, but I'll rack them anyway:

"Elevator music? If it weren't for the Beatles, Michael Stipe would still be taking the stairs."

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:56 pm

Sudden Sam wrote:
Screw_Michigan wrote:And rack the fuck out of Mike Stipe:

"I've always referred to the Beatles as elevator music, because that's exactly what they were."
Thus confirming the ignorance of one Michael Stipe.

And of one Screw_Michigan.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:58 pm

Fuck the Beatles. And fuck all of you.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 2:19 pm

Enough of these harsh words. Come visit my Facebook page.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=71352499595

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 2:57 pm

I call bullshit. An old fart like you isn't on facebook.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:08 pm

I work in IT. I'm very computer savvy.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:09 pm

Goober McTuber wrote:
Sudden Sam wrote:
Screw_Michigan wrote:And rack the fuck out of Mike Stipe:

"I've always referred to the Beatles as elevator music, because that's exactly what they were."
Thus confirming the ignorance of one Michael Stipe.
And of one Screw_Michigan.

Don't need proof of this. It's a premise.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:21 pm

Goober McTuber wrote:I work in IT. I'm very computer savvy.

So you dress like shit and play Quake all day until someone needs help with something. Got it.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:34 pm

Screw_Michigan wrote:
Goober McTuber wrote:I work in IT. I'm very computer savvy.
So you dress like shit and play Quake all day until someone needs help with something. Got it.

How the fuck would I have time to play Quake and post here?

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:38 pm

I don't know. All I know is that when I worked at the paper in Indiana, anytime I had to go downstairs to ask the IT guys for help, they were busy playing Quake on three different monitors on their desks and eating Cheeze-its and drinking Mt Dew.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:26 pm

Screw_Michigan wrote:...eating Cheeze-its and drinking Mt Dew.

RACK!

Sincerely, B_Smack

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 9:23 pm

not sure i can agree with Stipe about the Beatles. Everybody's got something to hide.....and for a band that used to talk about selling their LP's through the mail instead of Target...that's pretty big TALK. he's got Bono from the 90's disease where he's somehow got the need to talk shite about the Beatles. put out 8 album sides in 2 years like the B's do in 68 and then let's talk.

that said, loved the IRS years. after, minus maybe What the Frequnecy Kenneth....not so much. but, they were mighty in the day.

while i used to think they were comparable.....Reckoning is a superior LP to Murmur. Chronic Town, sublime. fables has 6-7 great tunes and a couple fillers but wins with the Joe Boyd production and weird feel. never felt comfortable with Life's Rich (though i did see them on this tour at the Grand Old Opryhouse in Nashville, which was pretty cool)...all the way. Document was the last money i spent on them. getting older now, i see they were still doing interesting stuff but not for me. i liked "what's the frequnecy kenneth?" of the later "hits", though.

wanna hear REM"s main early influence, they copped them pretty hard early, check out Athens, GA's Method Actors. you'll never hear Mike Mills bass playing or half of murmur and radio free the same way. my point is to praise the MA, not bash REM.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 9:45 pm

also, re: the announcements i've seen in various on-line sources.....be nice to maybe mix in a pic of REM with Bill Berry instead of just Stipe, Buck, Mills.

jus sayin.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:05 pm

You've essentially stated my thoughts on the matter...quite well, I'll add. REM died for real when Berry became a farmer, if not way before.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:39 pm

i always thought they died when Buck started playing mandolin instead of the Rick. can't overthink it.

just me.

lots of respect for those guys in the long haul in a world and decade full of shit popular music and MTV nostalgia, but i never bought anything after Document.

if i could be a camera....

c'mon c'mon you got it, uggh...in the mood.....

i always loved that.

looking at your watch a third time, waiting at the station for the bus.....

dig?

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan · Sat Sep 24, 2011 1:32 am

Michael Stipe is a pompous douche whose best contribution to music was the backup vocals he provided on Spacehog's "Almond Kisses." REM was boring "college" rock at its blandest and most pretentious. They won't be missed.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 2:56 am

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:Michael Stipe is a pompous douche whose best contribution to music was the backup vocals he provided on Spacehog's "Almond Kisses." REM was boring "college" rock at its blandest and most pretentious. They won't be missed.

RAAAAAAAACK!

Fucking awful.

As if they weren't bad enough, they got the Bono/Sting Syndrome -- a few equally pretentious critics racked them, at which point thewy immediately retired from music altogether, yet still put out albums.

"Three-strums-and-a-whine music."

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 10:38 pm

Dinsdale wrote: "Three-strums-and-a-whine music."

says the guy who pimps the Decembrists....

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:30 am

Huh?

I've always been on record with the Decemberists being "OK-to-pretty good."

Latest album is much better in terms of the whiney thing.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:32 am

Nothing can top the first three Decemberists albums. Like all the fucks who clamor for Ten, I clamor for Castaways and Cutouts.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 5:04 pm

Woohoo -- an entire album full of gimmick songs by a gimmick band.

The new one is essentially their first real album.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 7:05 pm

Dinsdale wrote:Woohoo -- an entire album full of gimmick songs by a gimmick band.

The new one is essentially their first real album.

Oh, OK. If you say so.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 7:25 pm

Screw_Michigan wrote:
Oh, OK. If you say so.

Puh-leez.

Really?

They made their fucking name by making albums that mimic old pirate shanties.

Sorry, bud -- that's not because I "say so," it's the definition of the word "gimmick." Whether you like it, don't like it, or don't care, it doesn't change the definition of "gimmick."

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Mon Sep 26, 2011 9:00 pm

Screw_Michigan wrote: Oh, OK. If you say so.

Seriously, shut the fuck up on this one...

...my most warmly regarded, dear old chum.

T1B

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