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R.E.M. — Pretty Persuasion
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kingart
(Brooklyn NY)
Posted: Mar 06, 2013 - 13:13
 
Easily one of my fav REM songs. They *rock* instead of roll over some abstract (and way overplayed, and overpraised) notion of twister or religion. 

gvan
(From inside the house!)
Posted: Feb 21, 2013 - 12:54
 
Inner sense of hipness: "You should like this song."
The rest of me: "Right on!"

leafmold
Posted: Feb 21, 2013 - 12:54
 
Ah....memories of my 20s!

Lazarus
(Bethany)
Posted: Jan 02, 2013 - 21:08
 


Everybody in my church loves this song...

 

joelbb
Posted: Dec 02, 2012 - 12:33
 
The 12-string riff in this song is straight out of the Beatles' "And Your Bird Can Sing" on the album "Revolver".  Interesting that Bill follows it with "I'm only Sleeping", the song just before "Bird" on that album.

Cyclehawk
(Athens GA)
Posted: Dec 02, 2012 - 12:29
 
Memories of driving my '73 Buick with this cranked up on the long trip to Texas in early 1985. Cassette in the car with Reckoning on one side and Murmur on the other.  Good times.

R7-12
(Abbotsford, BC)
Posted: Oct 19, 2012 - 03:37
 
I remember getting turned on to this and Murmur in late '84 early '85. It was so different from everything else on the radio (except College radio of course). It was nice to have this band as sorta' your own in a way because they were quite obscure until the latter part of the '80s. It brings back fond memories.

itaish
(Berkeley, CA)
Posted: Sep 17, 2012 - 14:06
 
Lovely song.

WayUpNorth
Posted: Aug 30, 2012 - 04:58
 
Two 10's in a row!  It's gonna be a great day! {#Sunny}

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: May 27, 2012 - 11:26
 


marvelous...

 

KurtfromLaQuinta
(Deep in the heart of South California)
Posted: Apr 12, 2012 - 13:07
 
 R7-12 wrote:
Great song from their second full album! The third and final album done with Mitch Easter.
 
Love the Mitch.

Very Brydsy!

jagdriver
(Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: Apr 12, 2012 - 13:06
 
Look Through Any Window

Zydeco_Sue
(Lazin' on the bayou)
Posted: Feb 22, 2012 - 08:15
 
Sure is a good day to be listening to RP!


Elroweho
(Cheesehead in Paradise)
Posted: Feb 22, 2012 - 08:15
 
Can't rate any R.E.M. song lower than an 8! {#Yes}

R7-12
(Abbotsford, BC)
Posted: Jan 21, 2012 - 15:20
 
Great song from their second full album! The third and final album done with Mitch Easter.

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Dec 20, 2011 - 21:40
 

Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...
 

ick
(...out of the primordial ooze)
Posted: Oct 18, 2011 - 13:35
 
kinda timeless innit?

treatment_bound
(Duluth to Madison)
Posted: Oct 05, 2011 - 17:28
 
 Cynaera wrote:
Just bumped this from 8 to 9 - perhaps in light of their recent disbanding, but more likely because I just love the hell out of this song.  {#Dancingbanana}
 
Yeah...It's good.


Cynaera
(In a hammock under my own vine and fig tree.)
Posted: Oct 05, 2011 - 08:25
 
Just bumped this from 8 to 9 - perhaps in light of their recent disbanding, but more likely because I just love the hell out of this song.  {#Dancingbanana}

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Sep 03, 2011 - 22:26
 
 Snoopy2 wrote:
Love the beat
 
Yes, and that guitar twang is fantastic...  love this song...  it is from a truly great album...

 

Snoopy2
(A Snoopy Lovin' House)
Posted: Aug 03, 2011 - 12:39
 
Love the beat

drewd
Posted: Jun 14, 2011 - 12:28
 
This is when they were the bomb. good stuff


Typesbad
(Not quite Orange County CA)
Posted: Jun 01, 2011 - 12:18
 
My view on REM:  Fantastic when fast, sorry when slow.  Little question where this song fits.

Orodrigues
(Resende (RJ), Brazil)
Posted: May 13, 2011 - 21:44
 
One thing I've learned in Radio Paradise is hearing R.E.M. many many times a day without complaint (at least, not so much)...

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Apr 30, 2011 - 23:00
 
 Cynaera wrote:
I love it when this song comes up on rotation, so I can read all the hateful comments Papernapkin writes, and the rebuttals. I love this song - and I'm with romeotuma - we be dancin'...{#Dancingbanana}
 


Oh, don't listen to that dirty napkin... this song is incredible...  RP is awesome...  we be dancing...

 


superflyLD
(Boston, MA)
Posted: Apr 12, 2011 - 07:21
 
just upgraded from an 8 to a 9.  These guys were great up until the early 90's.  After that... meh.

appst89
(North Wilkesboro, NC)
Posted: Mar 30, 2011 - 07:34
 
9>10 in memory of a dear friend and times spent with REM.

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Mar 11, 2011 - 19:01
 
I love it when this song comes up on rotation, so I can read all the hateful comments Papernapkin writes, and the rebuttals. I love this song - and I'm with romeotuma - we be dancin'...{#Dancingbanana}

Sjaaks
(Horst, Netherlands)
Posted: Jan 21, 2011 - 05:09
 
There is only one thing that comes to mind when i hear this song:

A.D.D.

It's freaking me out!


(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Dec 23, 2010 - 11:00
 


Radio Paradise is awesome...  this song is incredible...  we danced...





unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Dec 23, 2010 - 10:57
 
 JamesB wrote:
When I first heard this song on what was then my favorite alternative radio station, WNCW in Spindale, NC, my ears pricked up.  What is THAT?  Michael & Peter and the boys endure and still sound fresh.
 
I listen to RP because I can't pick up WNCW here.  I do listen on the monthly drive to Charlotte to visit my younger son, and wonder what would get the FCC to up their power to 100 billion gigawatts.

"WNCW is a broadcast service of Isothermal Community College."  How could you go wrong with a name like that?



unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Dec 23, 2010 - 10:53
 
 WonderLizard wrote:
{in response to a less-than-complimentary comment by Papernapkin}
Aren't paper napkins disposable—y'know, use 'em once and trash 'em? Just asking.
 
chuckle, chuckle ...

WayUpNorth
(Windswept Exile)
Posted: Dec 23, 2010 - 10:51
 
Takes me right back to a mighty fine time ... {#Sunny}

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Dec 20, 2010 - 20:00
 
 peter_james_bond wrote:

{#High-five} Pretty persuasive ain't it!

 

Indeed...  well said!





peter_james_bond
(West Of The Burg)
Posted: Dec 20, 2010 - 19:51
 
 romeotuma wrote:
perfect...
 
{#High-five} Pretty persuasive ain't it!


(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Dec 20, 2010 - 19:49
 


perfect...





(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Nov 24, 2010 - 12:17
 
 CamLwalk wrote:
Always been nutsy for this song.  Crazy good.
 

Yes, that whole album is rock solid...





CamLwalk
(Albany NY)
Posted: Nov 24, 2010 - 12:13
 
Always been nutsy for this song.  Crazy good.

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Nov 21, 2010 - 17:40
 
 Bosami wrote:


LOVE IT 2
 

Yes, this song is fantastic!



phlattop
Posted: Nov 05, 2010 - 19:57
 
 ick wrote:
This is the song that personifies R.E.M. for me.  This is the song that made me like them, made me buy the next record in the hope that they'd do it over again.  Well... this and So. Central Rain.

 
Same here! Great album beginning to end.


vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Oct 18, 2010 - 10:12
 
 Papernapkin wrote:
Why does R.E.M suck so much?
 
Why are you such a troll?

{#Think}



WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Oct 05, 2010 - 05:53
 
 Papernapkin wrote:
Why does R.E.M suck so much?
 
Aren't paper napkins disposable—y'know, use 'em once and trash 'em? Just asking.


dolfan
(Kingsland, Ga./Jacksonville, Fl)
Posted: Sep 16, 2010 - 15:52
 
 ick wrote:
This is the song that personifies R.E.M. for me.  This is the song that made me like them, made me buy the next record in the hope that they'd do it over again.  Well... this and So. Central Rain.
 
Agreed.  This was the one...and "Can't Get There From Here."  I've liked them ever since.

ick
(S.E. La Jolla)
Posted: Sep 03, 2010 - 05:51
 
This is the song that personifies R.E.M. for me.  This is the song that made me like them, made me buy the next record in the hope that they'd do it over again.  Well... this and So. Central Rain.


Marcuse
(Ouilmette)
Posted: Aug 18, 2010 - 07:51
 
 Papernapkin wrote:
Why does R.E.M suck so much?
 
Well, they actually don't. They are an diversely creative original band. So sorry that you aren't able to appreciate them and the many many other bands that you trash in this forum.

rluking
(Underground)
Posted: Aug 18, 2010 - 07:48
 
Wish they'd remaster this.  It suffers under the mp3 treatment.

Tippster
(Washington, DC)
Posted: Jul 17, 2010 - 10:16
 
 Papernapkin wrote:
Why does R.E.M suck so much?
 
Why do you? {#Moon}

IMHO REM was the best American band going in the 80's and early 90's.  If you listen to their first 4 albums you hear where Uncle Tupelo got their inspiration - Gram Parsons not withstanding.

Papernapkin
(Mountain View, CA)
Posted: Jul 17, 2010 - 09:48
 
Why does R.E.M suck so much?

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jul 17, 2010 - 09:46
 


This is one of the best songs of the 1980's...  love it...

 

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jul 14, 2010 - 17:20
 
 peter_james_bond wrote:

Dancing yes! And this is also a  great song to run to!

 

Love the way the guitar twangs...  this song rocks!