A well-considered list of hidden gems in the REM catalog.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
DavidS - Sep 23, 2011 6:21:36 am PDT #4730 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
flea - Sep 23, 2011 6:37:05 am PDT #4731 of 6436
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Ooh, Find the River is probably my favorite REM song. Something about the chords and the - I don't even have the musical words to describe it - just gets me. For some reason it reminds me of Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, which gets me the same way.
DavidS - Sep 23, 2011 7:24:38 am PDT #4732 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Ooh, Find the River is probably my favorite REM song.
It is playing on my iTunes right now.
Not quite coincidental since I just played the whole R.E.M. playlist, but statistically unlikely considering how much I have on my computer.
It is a gorgeous song.
DavidS - Sep 23, 2011 8:22:44 am PDT #4733 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
From an AVClub comment on fav REM:
Chronic Town. A dispatch from some alternate universe where the gothic South, the artier wing of the CBGBs crowd, and chiming folk rock all blur together. I want to live there.
Yeah.
Also, somebody noted, "Turns out I wasn't the only kid riding around in circles on his bike, listening to "Fall on Me" on his Walkman."
So Brian Krakowesque.
I think I need to go back to New Adventures in Hi-Fi and Monster.
le nubian - Sep 23, 2011 8:29:19 am PDT #4734 of 6436
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Dude.
I have been thinking about that show like nobody's business this week.
DavidS - Sep 23, 2011 8:31:46 am PDT #4735 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I have been thinking about that show like nobody's business this week.
That show is a constant in this house because it's JZ's All-Time Number One. She even participated in the campaign to save it when it was canceled. The lunchbox that came with the first DVD set looks down on us beneficently from a high shelf over the TV.
Jon B. - Sep 23, 2011 9:19:45 am PDT #4736 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
FAQWife has never seen MSCL. I need to correct that.
le nubian - Sep 23, 2011 9:25:58 am PDT #4737 of 6436
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Yes. It might still be on Netflix.
Tom Scola - Sep 26, 2011 7:29:39 am PDT #4738 of 6436
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Sly Stone is homeless. Sad.
JZ - Sep 26, 2011 8:30:22 am PDT #4739 of 6436
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Complete music-journalism novice/idiot question for the actually knowing masses:
For a blog tour project for our small press, I'm supposed to be making a list of the best, smartest and most-loved music blogs or journals or anything similar out there who have a particular soft spot for discussions and histories of any and all things Beatles/Who/Lennon.
I absolutely shouldn't have offered to dig up such a list, because, as much as I love all of the above, my knowledge of the whole vast field of critical/appreciative/analytical/smart fannish writing about them, or any music really, begins and ends with "Uh, there's a book series called 33 1/3, and also Hec and Hayden are terrifyingly smart and Jon B has a kickass radio show.
Which is, it turns out, not enough to generate a possible blog tour list. I'm shocked at the depths of my ignorance, and terrified at the prospect of failing a friend and semi-boss, and begging for help. If someone with more knowledge than me wanted to ping thoughtful bloggers about discussing/reviewing/highlighting a biography of a practically unknown but excellent studio musician who had played on probably half the best-known tracks of all the above folks, especially with all the musical milestone anniversaries coming up in the next few months, whom should that person be talking to?
Any guidance would be hugely, tearfully appreciated, because right now I feel like a badly flailing moron.