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Artist:R.E.M. [ more ]
Song:Radio Free Europe
Album:Eponymous [ info ]
Released:1988
Last Played:May 12, 2013 - 20:31
Avg. Rating:7.9  (Total Ratings: 1246)
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1 votes: 21 (1.7%)2 votes: 17 (1.4%)3 votes: 35 (2.8%)4 votes: 18 (1.4%)5 votes: 30 (2.4%)6 votes: 47 (3.8%)7 votes: 173 (14%)8 votes: 341 (27%)9 votes: 373 (30%)10 votes: 191 (15%)
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jmkate
(nearly under a stack of books)
Posted: May 12, 2013 - 20:32 

-also getting up to dance...
.


Lazarus
(Bethany)
Posted: Mar 23, 2013 - 14:06 


Shazam!  Love it!  Everybody in my church be dancing...
 
Lazarus
(Bethany)
Posted: Jan 19, 2013 - 19:47 

 asilbuch wrote:

I am new to RP, but have missed your hotel room posts
 

We be dancing...  love this song... hope you are having a lovely day...

asilbuch
(way too close)
Posted: Jan 07, 2013 - 11:46 

 Lazarus wrote:


Everybody in my church loves this song...

 
 
I am new to RP, but have missed your hotel room posts
Lazarus
(Bethany)
Posted: Jan 03, 2013 - 09:04 



Everybody in my church loves this song...

 
Aud
(lost in lakecity)
Posted: Dec 07, 2012 - 02:45 

 jmkate wrote:
Who doesn't chair dance (or leap around the room) to this song?
 

445 AM and I am chair dancing!!
rdo
(DC)
Posted: Nov 05, 2012 - 17:14 

This is off Murmur...not sure we gain anything by this other version.
(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Oct 17, 2012 - 18:04 

 mrtuba9 wrote:

I have to say romeo, your tributes are touching...
 

Thanks, man...  miss her...

 
jmkate
(nearly under a stack of books)
Posted: Oct 01, 2012 - 06:14 

Who doesn't chair dance (or leap around the room) to this song?
max_p
Posted: Aug 03, 2012 - 08:09 

Good Beat and u can dance to it. 80's style
mrtuba9
(most likely near Normal)
Posted: Aug 03, 2012 - 08:07 

 Cynaera wrote:

I'm there, in spirit... Vegas loves its R.E.M......

 

 romeotuma wrote:

Miss you so much, Ann...

rest in peace... 
 
I have to say romeo, your tributes are touching...
ziakut
(Right Here)
Posted: Aug 03, 2012 - 08:07 

When R.E.M. was really good.
ick
(...out of the primordial ooze)
Posted: Jul 30, 2012 - 07:20 

 merkin_muffley wrote:
One the their best, but.... Whenever I first hear this start I always think of Tojo by Hoodoo Gurus. Very similar drum/ bass beat.
 
Hmm... never thought of that but now that you mention it they are fairly similar.  R.E.M. wrote this in '81, Tojo came along I think in '83 but a cool beat is a cool beat.
merkin_muffley
(Down the rabbit hole.....)
Posted: Jul 15, 2012 - 06:40 

One the their best, but....

Whenever I first hear this start I always think of Tojo by Hoodoo Gurus. Very similar drum/ bass beat.
(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jul 02, 2012 - 21:30 

 Cynaera wrote:

I'm there, in spirit... Vegas loves its R.E.M......

 
Miss you so much, Ann...

rest in peace... 
(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jul 02, 2012 - 21:28 



Everybody just jumped to their feet here and started dancing madly...  love this song...

 
(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jun 28, 2012 - 20:40 



This song puts a spring in my step this summer night...

 
rjewyo
(Ventura, CA)
Posted: May 19, 2012 - 08:27 

REM....Always think of our trips up to Chico to visit daughter at college and dancin at the bars with her crowd...😄
Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Apr 30, 2012 - 06:48 

 Blastcat900 wrote:
the 80's are over... this is dated now
 
This coming from someone who only has three or four "9" or "10" ratings for anything recorded after the 1975?
ScottN
(Condo in Gaza full time now. Thank TFSM I saw the divot where the landmine was placed.)
Posted: Apr 17, 2012 - 15:05 

 Blastcat900 wrote:
the 80's are over... this is dated now
For you, perhaps, but many others  including yours truly, would disagree.  Yes the 80' ARE over but this song is not "dated". imo.


Grammarcop
(Upriver from Zug Island)
Posted: Apr 17, 2012 - 15:04 

 ScottN wrote:
One of my favorite REM songs.  Like so many others Stpie sings, I wish I could understand more of the incomprehensibly sung lyrics.
 
Scott:

Heard a story about this song on the CBC the other day. The announcer said that Stipe's lyrics are intentionally incomprehensible. When he recorded the song he just strung together a bunch of stuff that he made up on the spot. When he sang live, he often changed the lyrics, but nobody knew because nobody knew what the actual lyrics were! The CBC announcer also that this was the song that changed the musical landscape, ushering in the era of "indie" rock. (That's debatable, I'm sure.) 

Best wishes. 
handyrae
(Zero Point Field)
Posted: Mar 29, 2012 - 13:15 

 Blastcat900 wrote:
the 80's are over... this is dated now
 
Nope. {#Naughty}
Jennif
(San Francisco)
Posted: Mar 29, 2012 - 13:15 

"Please don't wait for the quietest moment....in the quietest song.....to yell:  RADIO FREE EUROPE!"

-words scrolled on the big screen during R.E.M.'s Green tour. 
ycb661
Posted: Mar 29, 2012 - 13:14 

this song is from 1981 not '88 or '83, originally a single on the Hib-Tone label.
(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Mar 29, 2012 - 13:14 



This song puts a spring in my step this spring day...

 
Blastcat900
Posted: Mar 25, 2012 - 12:29 

the 80's are over... this is dated now
(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Feb 26, 2012 - 20:43 



This song is soooo exquisite...  love it...

 
(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Feb 22, 2012 - 20:00 



This song puts a spring in my step this winter evening...


 
(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 18:07 



marvelous...  love it...


 
R7-12
(Abbotsford, BC)
Posted: Jan 22, 2012 - 02:57 

A great old REM track originally from their first full-length Album - Murmur.
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