I like REM, but all their songs sound the same to me. So I'm not motivated to seek them out.
River: You gave up everything you had. Simon: [Chinese] Everything I have is right here.
'Safe'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Sep 20, 2005 10:30:19 am PDT #9323 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Frankenbuddha - Sep 20, 2005 10:36:51 am PDT #9324 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I like REM, but all their songs sound the same to me. So I'm not motivated to seek them out.
This reflects something a friend of a friend said - that REM has been making the same album for however many years and it keeps getting less interesting each time out.
When I'm being REALLY snarky about them (aside from channelling Denis Leary's rant about Michael Stipe) I like to say they peaked with CHRONIC TOWN, but in reality I really like just about everything up through DOCUMENT without reservation. GREEN is where they seriously started to lose my interest.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 20, 2005 10:45:38 am PDT #9325 of 10002
What is even happening?
Finally Cindy has a music opinion that I can agree with.
I think we agreed on Brass in Pocket, as well. I think we largely agree on Prince, but your love for him is stronger, larger, and more all-encompassing, and possibly dirty.
Aye caramba, you're full of crazy notions today.
Honestly, I think they owe their entire careers to Radio Free Europe, which was a great song--twenty some-odd years ago. And probably It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine); The One I Love; Orange Crush; and possibly Man on the Moon (although I got tired of that one), are all that stand between them and irrelevancy. They make quintessential college music.
le nubian - Sep 20, 2005 10:52:21 am PDT #9326 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ita, did you and I graduate from high school in the same year? 1987?
beth b - Sep 20, 2005 10:53:48 am PDT #9327 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I watched the rerun of the pilot for Bones today. Watchable. no truely annoying moments and it distracted me from the floor cleaning I was doing. I will probbably watch tonight's in real time.
§ ita § - Sep 20, 2005 10:56:18 am PDT #9328 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
did you and I graduate from high school in the same year? 1987?
I know, I post young.
le nubian - Sep 20, 2005 10:58:27 am PDT #9329 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
actually, it wasn't a question of disbelief of age. I thought you were a 1988 grad!
P.M. Marc - Sep 20, 2005 10:58:28 am PDT #9330 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
When I'm being REALLY snarky about them (aside from channelling Denis Leary's rant about Michael Stipe) I like to say they peaked with CHRONIC TOWN, but in reality I really like just about everything up through DOCUMENT without reservation. GREEN is where they seriously started to lose my interest.
Yeah, you're me with this one.
There are a handful of songs from the post-Document era that I like, but I don't like any of them anywhere near as much as I like (insert almost any song off of any of those albums, especially if it's off of Fables of the Reconstruction).
I'm not sure why I haven't managed to replace my worn out tape copies with CDs, except perhaps a lingering distaste for the recent output.
libkitty - Sep 20, 2005 10:59:07 am PDT #9331 of 10002
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
I'm so sorry about your mom Polgara.
Kate P. - Sep 20, 2005 11:04:37 am PDT #9332 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I don't know much about REM's recent stuff, but I have a great fondness for Up. It's so shimmery and sad.