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rromulus May 13, 2013 - 04:43	Just Wiki it! " Driver 8 " was the second single from R.E.M. 's third album, Fables of the Reconstruction . Released in September 1985, the song peaked at #22 on the U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It was not released in Europe. The song refers to the Southern Crescent, a passenger train operated by the Southern Railroad until 1979, and continues today (with fewer stops) as the Amtrak Crescent . The music video shows Chessie System trains running around Clifton Forge, Virginia . Guitarist Peter Buck admitted in the liner notes for the band's 2003 compilation album In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 that the verse chords for the song " Imitation of Life " were unintentionally taken from the verse chords of "Driver 8." [ Reply ]
Lazarus Apr 13, 2013 - 20:49	We be dancing!!!! Love it!!!! [ Reply ]
rdo Mar 03, 2013 - 10:41	Misterfixit wrote: It's an allegoric and ironical poem. See, "train leaving the station" can mean many things: fleeing from bad things; the feeling of total evacuation after a healthy bowel movement; and so on and so forth. Now, when the song includes your mean old momma on board, wearing a cowboy hat, with a mullet, going across the Texas plains towards the Atcheson, Topeka and Santa Fe depot in Gainesville, TX, with you standing in front of the on-rushing train, holding your hands out in plaintive supplication, discovering you are naked as the day you entered this Veil of Tears from between your Crack-Addled Skank Mother's tattooed, pierced, and pendulous labia, hearing the sounds of the Grim Reaper fast approving you from behind using a diamond hard steel sharpening tool as Seen on TV on his razor sharp sickle, you finally realize that you have either reached the Coda of your Life and you are doomed to repeat this primal horror for all eternity ... OR you realize that you are actually at the Segue of a part of your life, whereupon you will reach out to destroy said demons and find True Peace in the Arms of Our Loving and Most Holy Baby Jeeeesus. Amen. I have noticed a certain, errm, scatological quality to your writing. Only on RP will you read something like this. Bravo. [ Reply ]
Lazarus Mar 03, 2013 - 10:36	rdo wrote: Thank you! Hope you are having a marvelous day... this song is marvelous... this whole album is marvelous... [ Reply ]
Antigone Feb 28, 2013 - 15:53	Takes me back to when I first heard R.E.M. Loved them then, still love them. [ Reply ]
rdo Feb 28, 2013 - 15:51	Lazarus wrote: Yes, it be me... I have been saved... I am a sinner no more... everybody in my church loves this song... [ Reply ]
Lazarus Jan 09, 2013 - 17:30	rdo wrote: Is that u??? [ Reply ]
rdo Jan 09, 2013 - 17:20	Lazarus wrote: Everybody in my church be dancing... love it... Is that u??? [ Reply ]
Lazarus Jan 07, 2013 - 19:28	Everybody in my church be dancing... love it... [ Reply ]
johnjconn Dec 07, 2012 - 10:31	REM seems to sound fresh , year after year. I think Peter Buck's guitar is the reason for this. Never gets old [ Reply ]
WonderLizard Nov 26, 2012 - 15:51	Of course this was from [ Reply ]
marcel Sep 27, 2012 - 14:07	Misterfixit wrote: It's an allegoric and ironical poem. See, "train leaving the station" can mean many things: fleeing from bad things; the feeling of total evacuation after a healthy bowel movement; and so on and so forth. Now, when the song includes your mean old momma on board, wearing a cowboy hat, with a mullet, going across the Texas plains towards the Atcheson, Topeka and Santa Fe depot in Gainesville, TX, with you standing in front of the on-rushing train, holding your hands out in plaintive supplication, discovering you are naked as the day you entered this Veil of Tears from between your Crack-Addled Skank Mother's tattooed, pierced, and pendulous labia, hearing the sounds of the Grim Reaper fast approving you from behind using a diamond hard steel sharpening tool as Seen on TV on his razor sharp sickle, you finally realize that you have either reached the Coda of your Life and you are doomed to repeat this primal horror for all eternity ... OR you realize that you are actually at the Segue of a part of your life, whereupon you will reach out to destroy said demons and find True Peace in the Arms of Our Loving and Most Holy Baby Jeeeesus. Amen. Please, go and write some lyrics for.... most bands anyway.... [ Reply ]
(former member) Sep 18, 2012 - 16:43	super marvelous... [ Reply ]
(former member) Jul 23, 2012 - 21:30	We be dancing... love it... [ Reply ]
(former member) Jul 17, 2012 - 18:36	bingo by jingo... this song rocks... love it... [ Reply ]
TerryS Jul 17, 2012 - 18:35	Misterfixit wrote: It's an allegoric and ironical poem. See, "train leaving the station" can mean many things: fleeing from bad things; the feeling of total evacuation after a healthy bowel movement; and so on and so forth. Now, when the song includes your mean old momma on board, wearing a cowboy hat, with a mullet, going across the Texas plains towards the Atcheson, Topeka and Santa Fe depot in Gainesville, TX, with you standing in front of the on-rushing train, holding your hands out in plaintive supplication, discovering you are naked as the day you entered this Veil of Tears from between your Crack-Addled Skank Mother's tattooed, pierced, and pendulous labia, hearing the sounds of the Grim Reaper fast approving you from behind using a diamond hard steel sharpening tool as Seen on TV on his razor sharp sickle, you finally realize that you have either reached the Coda of your Life and you are doomed to repeat this primal horror for all eternity ... OR you realize that you are actually at the Segue of a part of your life, whereupon you will reach out to destroy said demons and find True Peace in the Arms of Our Loving and Most Holy Baby Jeeeesus. Amen. Where can I buy some of that? [ Reply ]
Misterfixit Jul 03, 2012 - 05:14	cc_rider wrote: Does this song actually mean anything? Don't get me wrong, I like it a lot (not quite as much as Romeo), and I keep trying to make sense of it. I like the imagery though, maybe that's all there is to it. It's an allegoric and ironical poem. See, "train leaving the station" can mean many things: fleeing from bad things; the feeling of total evacuation after a healthy bowel movement; and so on and so forth. Now, when the song includes your mean old momma on board, wearing a cowboy hat, with a mullet, going across the Texas plains towards the Atcheson, Topeka and Santa Fe depot in Gainesville, TX, with you standing in front of the on-rushing train, holding your hands out in plaintive supplication, discovering you are naked as the day you entered this Veil of Tears from between your Crack-Addled Skank Mother's tattooed, pierced, and pendulous labia, hearing the sounds of the Grim Reaper fast approving you from behind using a diamond hard steel sharpening tool as Seen on TV on his razor sharp sickle, you finally realize that you have either reached the Coda of your Life and you are doomed to repeat this primal horror for all eternity ... OR you realize that you are actually at the Segue of a part of your life, whereupon you will reach out to destroy said demons and find True Peace in the Arms of Our Loving and Most Holy Baby Jeeeesus. Amen. [ Reply ]
BikeCoachDave Jun 25, 2012 - 05:31	In 1984 I started college. This was the first true college radio song I ever heard and it opened up a whole new world to me. Songs that dont find a place on commercial radio, and arent necessarily about a relationship (90% of all songs it seems). My first introduction to alternative music and I have never looked back. Like kids in the 50's who discover rock and roll, the world never looked the same again. [ Reply ]
hayduke2 Jun 22, 2012 - 10:33	stinkereeno quik mute [ Reply ]
LongGoneDaddy Jun 01, 2012 - 08:48	cc_rider wrote: Does this song actually mean anything? Don't get me wrong, I like it a lot (not quite as much as Romeo), and I keep trying to make sense of it. I like the imagery though, maybe that's all there is to it. It's a train travelling song. There are lots of trains running thru Athens, GA, and this song is just part of the local flavor. Seems to me alot of Stipe's early songs do conjure images, because very often you can' even tell what the hell he's singing. This imagery effect is particularly pronounced on "Fables of the Reconstruction", but the lyrical style greatly evolved with "Life's Rich Pageant". [ Reply ]