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Decide yourself if radio's gonna stay
Reason: it could polish up the gray
Put that, put that, put that up your wall
That this isn't Country at all
Radio station: decide yourself
Keep me out of Country and the word
Wheel of fortune's leading us: absurd
Push that, push that, push that to the floor
That this isn't nothing at all
Straight off the boat, where to go
Calling out in transit
Calling out in transit
Radio Free Europe (radio)
Decide: defy the media too fast
Instead of pushing palaces to fall
Put that, put that, put that up your wall
That this isn't fortunate at all
Radio station: decide yourself
We're calling out in transit
Calling out in transit
Radio Free Europe (radio)
Decide yourself: come in on a boat
Media's too fast
Keep me out of Country and the word
Disappointment into us: absurd
Straight off the boat, where to go?
Calling out in transit
Calling out in transit
Radio Free Europe
Radio Free Europe
Calling out in transit
Calling out in transit
Radio Free Europe
Radio Free Europe
| 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: 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.  |
| 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. |
| Phlegmaticman (270 miles south of Paradise, CA) | Posted: Jan 13, 2012 - 09:41 Back when this song was new, a friend's cover band performed it — but he had to learn some of the lyrics phonetically, because nobody could understand them and there was no lyric sheet. ;-) |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jan 13, 2012 - 09:40 Everybody in my hotel room loves this song soooo much!!!! |
| ScottN (Condo in Gaza full time now. Thank TFSM I saw the divot where the landmine was placed.) | Posted: Dec 25, 2011 - 09:59 One of my favorite REM songs. Like so many others Stpie sings, I wish I could understand more of the incomprehensibly sung lyrics. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Dec 21, 2011 - 09:16 Cynaera wrote: I'm there, in spirit... Vegas loves its R.E.M...... Everybody here is dancing on the tables... love this song, and hope you are having a lovely lovely day... |
| LongGoneDaddy | Posted: Dec 21, 2011 - 09:14 epony-moose!  |
| Cynaera (In a hammock under my own vine and fig tree.) | Posted: Nov 19, 2011 - 15:24 romeotuma wrote: Me and my womens put the speakers out on the balcony of my hotel room, and right this minute people in the streets be dancing to this song... love it... I'm there, in spirit... Vegas loves its R.E.M...... |
| terrapin52 (Terrapin Station, SC) | Posted: Nov 19, 2011 - 15:21 The real R.E.M. Nice! |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Oct 10, 2011 - 09:00 Me and my womens put the speakers out on the balcony of my hotel room, and right this minute people in the streets be dancing to this song... love it... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Oct 03, 2011 - 23:02 This rocks... love it... |
| scraig (Santa Barbara, CA) | Posted: Sep 21, 2011 - 13:45 Alexandra wrote: As of today, they are a past-tense band. It's been a GREAT run, boys——thanks for everything you gave the world of music.  sad news indeed |
| Alexandra (Here and Now) | Posted: Sep 21, 2011 - 11:07 As of today, they are a past-tense band. It's been a GREAT run, boys——thanks for everything you gave the world of music. |
| Shawnmcc (Victoria, BC) | Posted: Sep 21, 2011 - 10:14 Late 80's yet still the 80's Love it. Dance till you puke! |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Sep 21, 2011 - 10:12 rock on... love it... |
| bokey (Left of Centerfield) | Posted: Sep 17, 2011 - 10:28 I wish RP was REM free. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Sep 08, 2011 - 22:29 Everybody is dancing in my hotel room... love this song soooo much! |
| itaish (Berkeley, CA) | Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 13:08 AcesUp wrote: Great song, but the cover art should be from Murmur n'est pas? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murmur_(album) As far as I remember the version in Eponymous is slightly different than the one in Murmur. |
| rage | Posted: Jul 20, 2011 - 17:10 sooooooooooooooooooooo greeeeaaaaaaaat! |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jul 16, 2011 - 16:36 Sasha2001 wrote: (((((((( 10 ))))))) I agree... love it... |
| Sasha2001 (I can see Zabars from my window) | Posted: Jul 16, 2011 - 16:31 (((((((( 10 ))))))) |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jul 01, 2011 - 18:14 Volume just went wayyyy up... love it... |