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.
ita, did you and I graduate from high school in the same year? 1987?
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.
actually, it wasn't a question of disbelief of age. I thought you were a 1988 grad!
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.
I'm so sorry about your mom Polgara.
I don't know much about REM's recent stuff, but I have a great fondness for
Up.
It's so shimmery and sad.
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.
Reckoning, honestly, is one of my favorite albums, ever ever ever. If I had to choose one album out of my Desert Island Discs, it would probably be that one. Susan was singing hymns to get Annabel to go to sleep, I was singing "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville."
And you skipped over it. Completely. Because it's irrelevant?
I'd think you needed re-education, but if after plentiful exposure to the good stuff you still didn't like it, I'd conclude you were just missing the right gene to appreciate it and not bug you as long as you were clear that Riverdance is Celtic very very Lite.
"Stand" is REM very very Lite.
