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REM Split

  • 21-09-2011 07:07PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭


    Finally the "three legged dog" calls it a day, an amazing band in the 1980's and 1990's. They leave us with a number of stunning albums in their back catalogue

    http://www.state.ie/33929-news/rem-split


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭donfers


    the last album wasn't bad either although it sounded like a copy of the best tunes of their heyday, maybe they realised the inspiration was gone, at least we're going to get a few days of their songs on tv/radio which is no bad thing and many people will go back and replay some of their older albums and remember how great they were


    what was the reason given for split though?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,783 ✭✭✭handsomecake


    i dont know many who have a bad word to say about them.

    love their stuff


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,704 ✭✭✭G.K.


    Devastated.

    Now both of my favourite bands (Big Star ebing the other) have split this year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭BornToRun88


    I'm saddened. I got into them big this year and was really looking to a time when they would tour:( They should have at least finished with a Farewell Tour.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,407 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    I'm saddened. I got into them big this year and was really looking to a time when they would tour:( They should have at least finished with a Farewell Tour.

    No they shouldn't they can do whatever they want. Just as they always have.

    Saddened by the news but understandable.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,894 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    A sad day for inoffensive background music ;)

    Nah, I joke: they had a good run of it, well past their creative peak. I wish 'em well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,819 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    They were brilliant at Slane in '95 :)

    Gigs '24 - Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball (Gomez), The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, Pixies, Ride, Therapy?, Public Service Broadcasting, IDLES, And So I Watch You From Afar

    Gigs '25 - Spiritualized, Supergrass, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Queens of the Stone Age, Electric Picnic, Vantastival, Getdown Services, And So I Watch You From Afar



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭BornToRun88


    I wonder what they will do with themselves now?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,010 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    I wonder what they will do with themselves now?

    Bum around for 2/3 years then make millions on a 'Reunion Tour' ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭BornToRun88


    scudzilla wrote: »
    Bum around for 2/3 years then make millions on a 'Reunion Tour' ;)

    With Bill Berry I hope;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Dammmmmmmmn

    It's on their official website -

    http://remhq.com/news_story.php?id=1446


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 400 ✭✭Rafa1977


    Dont worry, they will be back in a few years doing a tour when millions of dollars are waved in their faces.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 360 ✭✭greenmachine88


    The Great Beyond is a cool song as is Ebow the Letter as are many more of their songs

    ♥ Losing my religion


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    Penfailed wrote: »
    They were brilliant at Slane in '95 :)


    ...yet already past their prime.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 257 ✭✭paulosham


    Go to 17:50 for left of reckoning.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,674 ✭✭✭Dangerous Man


    After Up I kind of lost interest but their stuff up until then was excellent. Still, it's a shame they're splitting up but I think in the long run it's probably the best thing; you don't want to end up like the Rolling Stones (if they're serious about their music, that is.)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,282 ✭✭✭bullpost


    Great band in their day.

    Saw them in SFX in '84. Very fresh and different to anything else at the time.

    Lost interest largely after Green but caught up with them again for New Adventures......


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,704 ✭✭✭G.K.


    Mills will have a solo career, he's said it himself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭Table Top Joe


    My favourite band of all time by far,no one comes close imo,15 albums,most of them great,some good and only a couple weak(yet still containing flashes of genius)


    Loved "Collapse Into Now",a fine album to call it a day with


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭Table Top Joe


    1.Automatic For The People
    2.Green
    3.Murmer
    4.Fables Of The Reconstruction
    5.Collapse Into Now
    6.Reveal
    7.Reckoning
    8.Lifes Rich Pagent
    9.Up
    10.Out Of Time
    11.Document


    The following were disappointments but had some crackin songs all the same(i know a lot of people who regard "New Adventures.."as their favourite and it has my favourite R.E.M song on it,"Electrolite" but i always thought it was a bit patchy )i love about half the songs on each
    12.New Adentures In Hi Fi
    13.Monster
    14.Around The Sun
    15.Accelerate


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,461 ✭✭✭Josey Wales


    ...yet already past their prime.

    Not quite. They still had New Adventures in Hi-Fi to come which in my opinion is not only their greatest album but the best I've ever listened to.

    R.E.M. have been my favourite band since I started to listen to and buy music. I'm saddened by the news as I know I will never see them in concert again. I think I've seen them about 13 times but it was great every time. I would have loved a tour for Collapse Into Now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    The band that stopped me listening to East 17 and ignite my love for alternative music. They had ran their course but their back catalogue is up there with the best of all time. Michael Stipe was always a hero of mine.

    Saw them live a few times. One of my first live experiences was REM touring UP in Landsdowne Rd. I gace that gig absolutely everything and so did the band. I was so exhausted I nearly vomited outside the stadium.

    Sad day but I'm happy to have grown up with REM.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    Saddened by this & the fact I never saw them live. Their 80s albums are all fantastic, 90s onwards was a bit patchy IMO. Reveal (2001) was a return to form, didnt bother with their last few albums though I felt they had lost their spark, so in that sense maybe the time is right to call it a day.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,713 ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Sad news indeed. Although I find it hard to believe this is the end. As said above, they'll almost certainly be back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 817 ✭✭✭mickeyboymel


    Sad day indeed...really thought they might tour next year....glad I caught them live at their peak in Torrevieja Spain 27th May 2005....great memories.....thanks for the soundtrack to my adult life REM


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 189 ✭✭WinstonOno


    great band, michael stipe was the voice of a generation, peter buck wrote some of the most memorable rifts of our time. they may have petered out of late, but it shouldnt be forgotten what they contributed to music, they invented indie, they will be missed.



  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,407 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    1.Automatic For The People
    2.Green
    3.Murmer
    4.Fables Of The Reconstruction
    5.Collapse Into Now
    6.Reveal
    7.Reckoning
    8.Lifes Rich Pagent
    9.Up
    10.Out Of Time
    11.Document


    The following were disappointments but had some crackin songs all the same(i know a lot of people who regard "New Adventures.."as their favourite and it has my favourite R.E.M song on it,"Electrolite" but i always thought it was a bit patchy )i love about half the songs on each
    12.New Adentures In Hi Fi
    13.Monster
    14.Around The Sun
    15.Accelerate



    Monster is their best album and New adventures a close second. Christ that list of yours is so arseways! Automatic? poppy crap all imo of course.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    whiny crappy people


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,945 ✭✭✭✭Skerries




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    WinstonOno wrote: »
    great band, michael stipe was the voice of a generation, peter buck wrote some of the most memorable rifts of our time. they may have petered out of late, but it shouldnt be forgotten what they contributed to music, they invented indie, they will be missed.


    Not so sure about this track.. It's a Country Feedback II. The spoken lyrics arwe even spoken the same way Stipe used to perform Country Feedback live. I thought it was lazy of REM and convinced me they had come to the end of the road.


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