Seriously, REM has one song that I still like and that's Radio Free Europe.
I love that song!
I have three R.E.M. CDs that I've pulled from thrift stores over the past year or two- Green, Out of Time and Eponymous. Of the three, I listen to Eponymous the most cuz that's the one with "Radio Free Europe" on it. I think they're pretty much all the R.E.M. I'll ever need.
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Seriously, REM has one song that I still like and that's Radio Free Europe.
I love that song!
I have three R.E.M. CDs that I've pulled from thrift stores over the past year or two- Green, Out of Time and Eponymous. Of the three, I listen to Eponymous the most cuz that's the one with "Radio Free Europe" on it. I think they're pretty much all the R.E.M. I'll ever need.
Dude, if you enjoy any R.E.M., Automatic for the People should be in your collection.
Seriously, REM has one song that I still like and that's Radio Free Europe.
I love that song!
I have three R.E.M. CDs that I've pulled from thrift stores over the past year or two- Green, Out of Time and Eponymous. Of the three, I listen to Eponymous the most cuz that's the one with "Radio Free Europe" on it. I think they're pretty much all the R.E.M. I'll ever need.
On a side note, I think that's the only reason I like The Primitons. The Vanderbilt radio station used to play Radio Free Europe all the time and would always follow it up with a Primitons song. It was real obvious that The Primitons were trying to capitalize on that same REM sound but unfortunately for them it didn't work.
But I still like The Primitons; they were sort of mining the same territory as early REM:
And that second one is the album cover for their only vinyl release (as far as I know - and naturally I have it). I was pleasantly surprised when I found and bought that CD comp of the Primitons that's pictured in the first video.
80s alternative music was really iffy for me; I could post a whole thread about bands I love from that period but I could also post a whole thread of bands I hate from the same time period.
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I love R.E.M., but like Nirvana, sometime during the 90's I got sick of both bands due to excessive radio and MTV play, but since I have not listened to radio for eons, those songs and albums sound very fresh to me.
Blatant Disarray - Everyone Dies Alone (w/Bonus Tracks) Canvas Solaris - Sublimation (Reissue) Colossus - Drunk On Blood (EP) Jonin - The Secret Vanisher - The History Of Saints (2CD Reissue)
I love R.E.M., but like Nirvana, sometime during the 90's I got sick of both bands due to excessive radio and MTV play, but since I have not listened to radio for eons, those songs and albums sound very fresh to me.
I'm the same way except bands like that are the main reason I haven't listened to radio in eons.
But now you have me curious; might I feel differently if I listened to either band now? With REM I'm pretty sure I'd come to the same conclusion of "No, Stipe's voice is as annoying as his lyrics" but I wonder if I'd feel differently about Nirvana.
_________________ "The cat is the most ruthless, most terrifying of animals." - Spock in the "Catspaw" episode of ToS Season 2.
I love R.E.M., but like Nirvana, sometime during the 90's I got sick of both bands due to excessive radio and MTV play, but since I have not listened to radio for eons, those songs and albums sound very fresh to me.
I'm the same way except bands like that are the main reason I haven't listened to radio in eons.
But now you have me curious; might I feel differently if I listened to either band now? With REM I'm pretty sure I'd come to the same conclusion of "No, Stipe's voice is as annoying as his lyrics" but I wonder if I'd feel differently about Nirvana.
That's hard tell with both bands, because so many bands that followed them, attempted to copy them. I love Nirvana, but that quiet/loud/quiet style was pioneered by the Pixies, but the Pixies were just a bit to quirky for the mainstream.
By the time R.E.M. hit the big time with 'Orange Crush', that indie sound you loved on 'Radio Free Euphoria' had already been abandoned and co-oped by a 1000 indie/college bands.
Hard to say because we have heard everything that followed it, but I think you would feel the same way, simply because you were there during the birth of the whole alternative rock scene.
I love R.E.M., but like Nirvana, sometime during the 90's I got sick of both bands due to excessive radio and MTV play, but since I have not listened to radio for eons, those songs and albums sound very fresh to me.
I'm the same way except bands like that are the main reason I haven't listened to radio in eons.
But now you have me curious; might I feel differently if I listened to either band now? With REM I'm pretty sure I'd come to the same conclusion of "No, Stipe's voice is as annoying as his lyrics" but I wonder if I'd feel differently about Nirvana.
Possibly, if you start with Bleach and Incesticide first.
I love R.E.M., but like Nirvana, sometime during the 90's I got sick of both bands due to excessive radio and MTV play, but since I have not listened to radio for eons, those songs and albums sound very fresh to me.
I'm the same way except bands like that are the main reason I haven't listened to radio in eons.
But now you have me curious; might I feel differently if I listened to either band now? With REM I'm pretty sure I'd come to the same conclusion of "No, Stipe's voice is as annoying as his lyrics" but I wonder if I'd feel differently about Nirvana.
Possibly, if you start with Bleach and Incesticide first.
I'll have to give it a shot. I never really "hated" Nirvana like I grew to hate REM but radio sure as hell made me sick to death of them.
_________________ "The cat is the most ruthless, most terrifying of animals." - Spock in the "Catspaw" episode of ToS Season 2.
I love R.E.M., but like Nirvana, sometime during the 90's I got sick of both bands due to excessive radio and MTV play, but since I have not listened to radio for eons, those songs and albums sound very fresh to me.
I'm the same way except bands like that are the main reason I haven't listened to radio in eons.
But now you have me curious; might I feel differently if I listened to either band now? With REM I'm pretty sure I'd come to the same conclusion of "No, Stipe's voice is as annoying as his lyrics" but I wonder if I'd feel differently about Nirvana.
Possibly, if you start with Bleach and Incesticide first.
I'll have to give it a shot. I never really "hated" Nirvana like I grew to hate REM but radio sure as hell made me sick to death of them.
I hear you. I haven't listened to Nevermind in ages for the same reason, though it's pretty much a perfect album from start to finish.
All this talk about REM has got me thinking about all the "alternative" bands from the 80s and 90s that I still love. And it's a looooong list. I'd start a thread about it in the "Music Talking" thread but I fear it would die a horrible, withering death.
But I still listen to so many bands from that era.
_________________ "The cat is the most ruthless, most terrifying of animals." - Spock in the "Catspaw" episode of ToS Season 2.
All this talk about REM has got me thinking about all the "alternative" bands from the 80s and 90s that I still love. And it's a looooong list. I'd start a thread about it in the "Music Talking" thread but I fear it would die a horrible, withering death.
But I still listen to so many bands from that era.
Same here. Despite my love of 80s rock/metal, the 90s is my favorite decade of music.
The Del Lords Guadalcanal Diary Julian Cope Del Fuegos Hoodoo Gurus The Long Ryders Jason and the Scorchers Swimming Pool Qs Drivin' 'n' Cryin' Webb Wilder Primitons Bill Lloyd The Questionnaires The Replacements Lords Of The New Church Flesh For Lulu Gene Loves Jezebel Soup Dragons Rank N File
and that's just off the top of my head. There are probably a dozen more I'm forgetting.
_________________ "The cat is the most ruthless, most terrifying of animals." - Spock in the "Catspaw" episode of ToS Season 2.
All this talk about REM has got me thinking about all the "alternative" bands from the 80s and 90s that I still love. And it's a looooong list. I'd start a thread about it in the "Music Talking" thread but I fear it would die a horrible, withering death.
But I still listen to so many bands from that era.
Same here. Despite my love of 80s rock/metal, the 90s is my favorite decade of music.
Start the thread. =)
Do It!!
REM are f*cking great as are Nirvana and the 90s were awesome although not so much for metal.
Subject: Re: MUSIC HAUL 2018 Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:51 am
tohostudios wrote:
So here's a partial list:
The Del Lords Guadalcanal Diary Julian Cope Del Fuegos Hoodoo Gurus The Long Ryders Jason and the Scorchers Swimming Pool Qs Drivin' 'n' Cryin' Webb Wilder Primitons Bill Lloyd The Questionnaires The Replacements Lords Of The New Church Flesh For Lulu Gene Loves Jezebel Soup Dragons Rank N File
and that's just off the top of my head. There are probably a dozen more I'm forgetting.
That's a very different list from what I'd have. Mine would look more like this:
Nudeswirl Pushmonkey Green Apple Quick Step Scruffy the Cat Lucy's Fur Coat Therapy? Mutha's Day Out Luscious Jackson Kerbdog Flowerhead Belly Earth Eighteen Letters to Cleo Big Head Todd and the Monsters L7 Jimmie's Chicken Shack Sugartooth Ednaswap Ween Salt I Mother Earth Greta
I could probably add five dozen more. Haha.
And it looks like our idea of alternative is a bit different from each other.
I have about half of the albums on your list. I think my list is more 80s oriented; yours is more 90s.
I have at least one album by:
Pushmonkey Lucy's Fur Coat Mutha's Day Out Kerbdog Jimmie's Chicken Shack Sugartooth I Mother Earth Greta
Most of those I bought since I lived in Missouri so I know they're from the 90s.
Most of the stuff I posted were bands I heard while listening to the Vanderbilt radio station while I was doing data entry on the graveyard shift from around 1984 - 1987. You know, when you were about 10.
_________________ "The cat is the most ruthless, most terrifying of animals." - Spock in the "Catspaw" episode of ToS Season 2.
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Subject: Re: MUSIC HAUL 2018 Wed Apr 18, 2018 5:02 am
tohostudios wrote:
I have about half of the albums on your list. I think my list is more 80s oriented; yours is more 90s.
I have at least one album by:
Pushmonkey Lucy's Fur Coat Mutha's Day Out Kerbdog Jimmie's Chicken Shack Sugartooth I Mother Earth Greta
Most of those I bought since I lived in Missouri so I know they're from the 90s.
Most of the stuff I posted were bands I heard while listening to the Vanderbilt radio station while I was doing data entry on the graveyard shift from around 1984 - 1987. You know, when you were about 10.
Yeah, they're definitely 90s stuff. Actually, Scruffy the Cat was 80s. You ever hear them? Based on your list, you might like them.
Subject: Re: MUSIC HAUL 2018 
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