#494

Lifes Rich Pageant

  • “Begin the Begin”
  • “These Days”
  • “Fall on Me”
  • “Cuyahoga”
  • “Hyena”
  • “Underneath the Bunker”
  • “The Flowers of Guatemala”
  • “I Believe”
  • “What If We Give It Away?”
  • “Just a Touch”
  • “Swan Swan H”
  • “Superman”

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#495

Listening to Reckoning now, but not quite ready to share thoughts yet - later this week I reckon. That said, Camera is too quietly heartbreaking for words. You could parse this song in a dozen ways and reach a dozen different truths, and that’s the beauty of Stipe’s lyrics. Me? I listen to that gorgeous chorus and hear:

“You’re no longer with us, and it’s up to me to guard and treasure and preserve your memory forever and all. But without you here to inspire me, I can only ever fail”.

and it hurts so much.

#496

Based on a real life photographer and friend of the band who died tragically young iirc

#497

Yeah, she died in a car crash. I think she and Stipe were a couple too.

#498

This probably marks a good spot to ask DiS for your favorite song on Document

  • “Finest Worksong”
  • “Welcome to the Occupation”
  • “Exhuming McCarthy”
  • “Disturbance at the Heron House”
  • “Strange”
  • “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”
  • “The One I Love”
  • “Fireplace”
  • “Lightnin’ Hopkins”
  • “King of Birds”
  • “Oddfellows Local 151”

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#499

Actually, listening now, I think I misvoted. How the fuck does I Believe only have one vote?! It might actually be R.E.M.'s best song ever and that’s high praise indeed.

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#500

LRP is such a great record though, in their top three easily for me. I voted for I Believe but I could easily have gone for Begin The Begin, These Days, Fall On Me or Cuyahoga without thinking I was making a terrible mistake.

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#501

Hardest decision yet - love this record!

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#504

Gonna have to take umbrage with At My Most Beautiful bring merely “good, for post-Berry”

And, as much as I like Airportman it can’t surely be in the best post Berry stuff

#505

Fables is a weird one. I feel like it promises a lot opening with Feeling Gravity’s Pull with all it’s atonal sparse riffing and existential lyrics (wouldn’t sound out of place on some of Modest Mouse’s 90s albums), but then I find the rest of the record to be a bit run of the mill, and not as conceptual and experimental as I want it to be. I guess it’s the least ‘rock’ of the IRS albums. I do think I like the hooks on it better than the hooks on Reckoning though (Driver 8, Wendell Gee).

#506

oops, wrong thread

#507

I need to know what your favorite songs on Up and Reveal are

UP

  • Airportman
  • Lotus
  • Suspicion
  • Hope
  • At My Most Beautiful
  • The Apologist
  • Sad Professor
  • You’re in the Air
  • Walk Unafraid
  • Why Not Smile
  • Daysleeper
  • Diminished
  • I’m Not Over You
  • Parakeet
  • Falls to Climb

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#508

Reveal

  • The Lifting
  • I’ve Been High
  • All the Way to Reno (You’re Gonna Be a Star)
  • She Just Wants to Be
  • Disappear
  • Saturn Return
  • Beat a Drum
  • Imitation of Life
  • Summer Turns to High
  • Chorus and the Ring
  • I’ll Take the Rain
  • Beachball

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#509

At My Most Beautiful was our first dance!

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#510

Just drove from Huntingdon to Liverpool and listened to Lifes Rich Pageant, Out of Time, Green and half of Monster back to back :kissing_smiling_eyes::ok_hand:

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#511

So the last album to vote for your favorite track is Out of Time. Once it exceed 30 voters I’ll put together the final DiS REM playlist.

  • Radio Song
  • Losing My Religion
  • Low
  • Near Wild Heaven
  • Endgame
  • Shiny Happy People
  • Belong
  • Half a World Away
  • Texarkana
  • Country Feedback
  • Me in Honey

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#512

vote no.30, phew. tough choice between Low and Half a World Away

#513

You guys heard this? Better than the lp mix I think.

There’s been surprisngly little chat on this thread about the extras, demos, etc on the Deluxe editions. The AFTP one has a ton of stuff they never recorded, only demoed. They’re remarkably well-serviced by Spotify literally everything is up there.