Usually I think politics and music is a bad mix, but this one has a haunted feel to it, and unlike Rage Against The Machine they don’t hit you over the head with the message. Really, it’s obscure enough to have multiple meanings, but I think is about commie Catholic priests fighting to overthrow legitimate […]
Browsing Posts in song of the day
Awwww, this month’s final song from Fables. It’s a gooder. Somehow the advice of “When you greet a stranger/look at his shoes” had somewhat deadly implications in the later 80s. Or maybe I’m the only one who remembers those stories.
R.E.M. doesn’t write enough dirges (see also Low and Country Feedback from earlier this month).
No matter what anybody says, Up was a really good album. It can’t touch the stuff they did in the 80s, but most music can’t…
One of those little heard songs from Out of Time. When I was younger the harpsichord thing kind of bugged me, but now I think it’s one of the better things R.E.M. has done.
In retrospect, Fables of the Reconstruction might be my favorite REM album. Here is Maps and Legends:
Along with Low, this seemed like an odd song out for an album like Out of Time. Hard to believe this song was recorded in the same session as Shiny Happy People. And really, the song begs the question, why don’t more country music artists put howling feedback on their records? Goes perfect with the […]
Automatic for the People was a surprise success considering it came out in 92 where only grunge was on the radio. Have I mentioned that the early 90s music scene has been overhyped by musical historians?
I kind of forgot about 4shared. Thank God, otherwise this whole REM month thing would have been canceled. I swear to god, you have no idea how hard it is to find REM studio tracks on YouTube. I can find any obscure indie band I want, but a million selling pop band? No no no… […]
Green is supposedly REM’s big dumb rock record. The one they recorded before they recorded Monster. But it also has a lot of dark, acoustic and mid tempo numbers. The steel guitar makes this song.
It’s amazing how difficult it is to find REM songs on YouTube. Goddamn EMI and Warner Bros. I mean that literally, God needs to send a few lightening bolts up their asses. I tried to find the slow version (that was on And I Feel Fine), but sadly it wasn’t on there. But this is […]
