Back in the early ‘80’s I asked a local record store owner for music recommendations. At the time I was listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Molly Hatchet, somewhat typical music for an early 20s Air Force guy. He recommended R.E.M. and Gram Parsons and I have him to thank for many hours of fine music listening.
As much as people are saying they miss R.E.M. - they wrote so many great songs that you can listen over and over again for a lifetime and it think it was the right move to end on a high note, "Blue" fading out on their last album was the perfect ending. Great band, great musicians!
its funny thing to think that young people and all these tic toc's ppl might not have idea who REM is. I grew up on them, listening them on the cassettes! Their music means so much to me...I remember...It was start of 90s, dont know like 1992 or 1993 I was in Italy, walking down the street and their song Shiny Happy People was playing on every corner...everything was so full of colours and happiness, people were wearing very colorful clothes, it was happy times...and this band was becoming one of the biggest bands ...miss those times...love their album Out of time and Monster. Iconic albums.
Mam I love this group of artists! After all the years, I believe I can still remember where I was each time I heard every REM song, for the first time.
REM in their best years I supposed...Specially Michael s performiance . I m still listening to them continuously and being moved with his voice,performace,inteligent way of presentation of bunch of senses. Thank you REM for your being. Thank you so very much❤
Stipe seems happy in life finally. Honestly always dreaded that we would get bad news on him b/c he seemed so full of dread and despair despite the amazing success of the band. Saw them first in ‘83 on a college campus then again in 85 in NYC at Felt Forum. Songs of my youth.
Someone in previous post said : "when Michael Stipe smile ; I smile" !! so true ! in his face, there is so humanity, he loves everyone, his yes tels it, his smile tells, his lyrics tells it... such a beautiful one... Love you Michael and either your group...
Mott the Hoople and the Game of Life Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah Andy Kaufman in the wrestling match Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah Monopoly, 21 checkers, and chess Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah Mister Fred Blassie in a breakfast mess Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah Let's play Twister, let's play Risk Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah I'll see you in Heaven if you make the list Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah So Andy, did you hear about this one? Tell me, are you locked in the punch? Hey Andy, are you goofing on Elvis? "Hey, baby" Are you having fun? If you believed they put a man on the moon (Man on the moon) If you believed there's nothing up his sleeve Then nothing is cool Moses went walking with the staff of wood Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah Newton got beaned by the apple good Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah Egypt was troubled by the horrible asp Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah Mister Charles Darwin had the balls to ask Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah So Andy, did you hear about this one? Tell me, are you locked in the punch? Hey Andy, are you goofing on Elvis? "Hey, baby" Are you losing touch? If you believed they put a man on the moon (Man on the moon) If you believe there's nothing up his sleeve Then nothing is cool Come on Here's a little agit for the never-believer Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah Here's a little ghost for the offering Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah Here's a truck stop instead of Saint Peter's Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah Mister Andy Kaufman's gone wrestling Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah So Andy, did you hear about this one? Tell me, are you locked in the punch? Hey Andy, are you goofing on Elvis? "Hey, baby" Are you having fun? If you believed they put a man on the moon (Man on the moon) If you believe there's nothing up his sleeve Then nothing is cool (nothing) Come on If you believed they put a man on the moon (Man on the moon) If you believe there's nothing up his sleeve Then nothing is cool (nothing) If you believed they put a man on the moon (Man on the moon) If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve Then nothing is cool (yeah) If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve Then nothing is cool Come on A toast To the fair of city To a beautiful monument To a beautiful people The end
Michael Stipe and Rob Zombie did the same thing. They quit at literally the peak of their performances so that people can always remember them for exactly that. The difference is Robert changed bands and, quite frankly, should have done what Michael did and make random appearances instead of just completely quitting it. Hopefully, Till and everybody from Rammstein does the same thing. Sucks growing up in this era of amazing music, but it's also completely mind-boggling.
even if the bibles explanation does not fit what we know now does not mean that we should just give up our faith in the great because there is more to life then just checkers and chess yeah yeah yeah yeah! god bless you all.
The live version of this song is so much better than the studio version. It's much better with a faster tempo. The studio version sound like something Jimmy Buffet would put out.
![R.E.M. - "Man On The Moon" [Live from Austin, TX]](/img/logo.svg){kind=logo}
