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TooTough
They will re-unite in 5 years.
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Glam Descendant
Ethan Kaplan, owner of the R.E.M. fan community Murmurs and former Senior Vice President of Emerging Technology at Warner Bros. Records, says that the band's decision was influenced in part by label politics. "I suspected this was coming last fall," Kaplan tells Rolling Stone. "If you remember, they weathered a lot of storms in this business, and have always operated on their own terms. [Warner Bros.] changed starting last September, and I think the demands on a band now to get a record out were more than they might have wanted to commit. I can understand that after how hard they worked for how long, the thought of going back to 'paying dues' with new label staff, in a very weird industry, was too much."
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Jesse1960
Remember when they were playing fraternity parties in Athens back in 81. SAE and KA in particular. At the time most folks felt Pylon would be the next Athens band to break out. Liked the EP and the first 4 or 5 albums REM put out.As they moved from clubs and theaters into basketball arenas, I felt the band lost something.Plus around that time TGR&RBITW started touring again and I kind of lost interest in "local" bands.
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rangerdave
I remember a Keef interview in the late 80s, I think, where he dismissed REM as 'wimpy cult stuff'.. ha!
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rangerdave
I remember a Keef interview in the late 80s, I think, where he dismissed REM as 'wimpy cult stuff'.. ha!
lmao, Yeah that was before wimpy cult stuff and geeks became cool. REM is still kinda wimpy cult stuff. But songs like NightSwimming are so good I actually transposed the whole piano part to mandolin. Play it still. Besides Peter the guitar player took bands like Uncle Tupelo and recorded them properly and pushed them to become Jeff's Tweedy's Wilco and Jay's Farrar's Son Volt. Both these bands are spectacular live and still play what the Stones always wanted to play but couldn't because they were English, American Rock and Roll! peace.
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rangerdave
I remember a Keef interview in the late 80s, I think, where he dismissed REM as 'wimpy cult stuff'.. ha!
lmao, Yeah that was before wimpy cult stuff and geeks became cool. REM is still kinda wimpy cult stuff. But songs like NightSwimming are so good I actually transposed the whole piano part to mandolin. Play it still. Besides Peter the guitar player took bands like Uncle Tupelo and recorded them properly and pushed them to become Jeff's Tweedy's Wilco and Jay's Farrar's Son Volt. Both these bands are spectacular live and still play what the Stones always wanted to play but couldn't because they were English, American Rock and Roll! peace.
don't think those divisions ( American / British) matter much if it rocks.
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Silver Dagger
Loved them through the 80s but they struggled to find an identity in the 90s and noughties. Ironically their last album Collapse Into Now was the best thing they'd recorded since Automatic For The People.