{"id":800,"date":"2011-11-07T22:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T03:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimhaku.com\/blog\/?p=800"},"modified":"2011-11-14T18:04:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T23:04:58","slug":"r-e-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimhaku.com\/blog\/r-e-m\/","title":{"rendered":"R.E.M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent breakup of R.E.M. didn&#8217;t get me too upset. I was going to say their last couple albums weren&#8217;t great but checking their <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/R.E.M._discography\">wiki<\/a> it turns out they did a whole 6 albums out after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000002MU3\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=r053e-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369&#038;creativeASIN=B000002MU3\">Monster<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=r053e-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B000002MU3&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>. Wow. Right now I&#8217;m listening to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/11\/06\/141792537\/first-listen-r-e-m-part-lies-part-heart-part-truth-part-garbage-1982-2011\">new best-of on NPR<\/a>. No regrets, I think. I thought Monster was good. It managed to be right on the edge of weird rock I was getting into. Post-Nirvana, a lot of people I knew got more into Pearl Jam and the Foo Fighters was a big deal to them. That&#8217;s stuff&#8217;s ok but didn&#8217;t really do it for me. Post-Monster, R.E.M. wasn&#8217;t very weird or very rock at all anymore. They could have broken up in 95 as far as I&#8217;m concerned.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ycvJHQUqU1M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n(Now this is just getting weird. I forgot all about this video.)<\/p>\n<p>I remember a point when I stopped listening to them on purpose. Same thing with Nine Inch Nails, weirdly. I might still have a copy of Monster somewhere and I have a couple of the early ones on vinyl. But <em>Automatic For the People<\/em> was pretty heavy for a while there. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000002MG1\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=r053e-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369&#038;creativeASIN=B000002MG1\">Automatic<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=r053e-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B000002MG1&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000001Y5Z\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=r053e-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369&#038;creativeASIN=B000001Y5Z\">The Downward Spiral<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=r053e-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B000001Y5Z&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> back-to-back a few times will give you an idea of the mood I sustained for long enough to not want to revisit it. Both great albums tho. (Great CD design on these too, wish I kept them for that alone but couldn&#8217;t even look at them anymore.)<\/p>\n<p>Whoa, half way through disc 2 I definitely do not give a fuck anymore. I&#8217;ll admit the late 90s stuff was still good, I just wasn&#8217;t feeling it at the time. But after that, oh no, not at all. This makes me want to buy a new copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000002UVY\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=r053e-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369&#038;creativeASIN=B000002UVY\">Eponymous<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=r053e-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B000002UVY&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> tho. I really recommend that one. All the best early stuff. I don&#8217;t even like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000002LFU\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=r053e-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369&#038;creativeASIN=B000002LFU\">Green<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=r053e-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B000002LFU&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000002LOE\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=r053e-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369&#038;creativeASIN=B000002LOE\">Out of Time<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=r053e-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B000002LOE&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> as albums, never bought them. Some great songs, but they are all played to death on radio. (They do not even include <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/xGXVyDsOV2w\">Radio Song<\/a> on here, which was kind of a hit, but was pretty annoying. [Sorry, KRS!] Not nearly as annoying as <em>Shiny Happy People<\/em> tho.) I think the only early song I knew when I got Eponymous was <em>It&#8217;s End of the World<\/em>, which is the last song and I decided pretty quick it was the worst of the bunch. Still like it but it&#8217;s that good of a collection. It also has the single version of Radio Free Europe, which is a better mix. It might have a couple different versions of other songs. All those songs have great production.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thepowerofindependenttrucking.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/rem-cassette-set-1981-demo-tape-rare.html\">REM&#8217;s demo tape<\/a> is now floating free. Worth a listen. Interesting back story on that tape going through a member of the Philly band <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/bunnydrums2\">Bunny Drums<\/a> at a gig in a venue in Cherry Hill, NJ <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin_Casino\">which I never knew existed.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s interesting. <b>%<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent breakup of R.E.M. didn&#8217;t get me too upset. I was going to say their last couple albums weren&#8217;t great but checking their wiki it turns out they did a whole 6 albums out after Monster. Wow. Right now I&#8217;m listening to their new best-of on NPR. No regrets, I think. I thought Monster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[436],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1m3oy-cU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimhaku.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimhaku.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimhaku.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimhaku.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimhaku.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimhaku.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimhaku.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimhaku.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimhaku.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimhaku.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}