Sigh.  Murmur and Life's Rich Pageant...those were the days.

Love it! Let's dance!

 Miksalml wrote: 
My thought exactly! A solid 9 from me. 

 waggpj wrote: 
That's cool..My story  is not as good as yours..I was working in Athens GA some 15 years ago. I went out to lunch, driving down the road and I saw Michael setting in his decked out Ford Bronco at a traffic light.

This has to be one of my most favorite songs ever.

 stockvc wrote: 


Yes, I agree...  this song is marvelous...

 

love that album.

Ahhh, the good 80's. . . 

 teapot wrote: 
Yep.
I remember at work straining to get KROQ-FM from Pasadena out here in the desert (geographical and musical) from my FM radio in my truck.
I would circle the house I was working on to get the best signal possible.
Drag my speakers, with long extension cords, into the house and turn up great New Wave "Rock of the Eighties" music.
It's when I first heard of REM.

Work almost became fun.

Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...


 

Oh my god they were good.

I don't know if I would even be the same person without this album.

This mesmerizing album once spent near-record time in my tape-deck (maybe only Dark Side of the Moon, Zep 4, Candy-O and Who Are You spent longer in there before this) and I'm kinda surprised how good it sounds just now...might have to dig out the old REM again!  Thanks, RP!

 Cynaera wrote: 


I hope you are dancing right now...  love this song...

 

 Cynaera wrote: 
Absolutely, me too!!

Takes me back to the early days of my marriage. 

I love this older R.E.M. stuff...

Why is the release date listed as "?"  The answer is 1983.  Do I win some AUX speakers?

Awesome album.  And "Pilgrimage" should be played soon ... 

New to me REM song. Like it.

We be dancing...  love it...

 

 meauclaire wrote: 

Yea, I miss them terribly. Oh well, all good things must pass and we do have the legacy of all their wonderful music from 79-91.......

Nothing better than old school R.E.M.

definitely takes me back —- they made you almost felt cool going to high school in Georgia.
after all these years, it's still fascinating to me that Stipe could manage to be so clearly singing in English and yet remain so nearly indecipherable.  But hey, that just made it all the cooler!
 

Well, since we're name dropping. I've been Michael Stype's server at a trendy Park Ave. eatery...twice, and he was a gracious host to his friends and business associates as well as being a solid tipper.

 waggpj wrote:  and I once played pool with him and Peter Buck at the Cubby Bear lounge in Chicago in 1989......they were there for a Robyn Hitchcock show, which was also a benefit concert, so good on them, and yeah, nice enough :)

I met Michael Stipe by chance, in Arles, France. I was with my wife and he was drinking coffee in front of the "cafe da la nuit". We went there and said hello, and we took a picture. He was brief, polite, and nice.

 Tosko wrote: 

Yes....and one of my favorite albums (did I just double-date myself).

Suddenly I am back in a dorm room, circa 1985 . . . .

Beyond awesome.

Early REM is so interesting to listen to all these years later. You can really see how unique they are even if they pretty much had the same musical and lyric pattern in every song back then. ;-) They changed the musical landscape.