The best recording I've come across of this song is from the BBC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-rJOFs6tgU

Anyone who grew up in the 70s can relate to this song, when we still played board games and life and human contact was still real.

It's a very soulful song with excellent lyrics, dynamism with the guitar work, tempo and changes of tempo, and harmonies.

REM at their best. They and U2 ruled the 90s.

And Van Halen was better with Sammy Hagar?

U2 fell off a cliff after Achtung, barely a 90's record. REM pre-Green > REM post-Green.

I can do everything up through Automatic for the People, but look out below after that one. U2 made it up through the Passengers album before they got to completists-only.

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I'm more of a Gary Cherone guy myself.

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I like Monster.

Fuck U2.

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For my money, New Adventures in Hi-Fi is R.E.M.'s best album. It doesn't have the show stopping singles, but it's solid from start to finish and has a sound that's pretty distinctive viz a viz their other albums.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

REM at their best is What's The Frequency, Kenneth?.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

fuck REM.

Theres no such thing as REM at their best.

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REM is at their best right now. They no longer exist.

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How much cough syrup did you have when you typed this? Ruled the 90s?

Let me through a couple of names out there for you:
Pearl Jam
Nirvana
Soundgarden
Beastie Boys
that's about it.



Um no.......................................





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METALLICA

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

"Man on the Moon" is a very good song, but "Nightswimming" is my favorite off Automatic for the People: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVT0S0j7F9Y

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What? They aren't faster than Slayer. They aren't faster than Disrobe. And they sure as fuck weren't faster than Hazardous Youth when we were in our teens/twenties.

https://soundcloud.com/joe-orr-road-rod ... ister-br-u

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General Jim wears Fort Bragg down... to get it!

The pre-eminent metal band being named "Metallica" really cemented metal's niche status to me. It's like the #1 polka band being "the Polka Kings" or something.

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whole lotta terrible takes in this thread.

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

Remember that time when we had a music discussion consisting of intelligent thoughts filled with real insight?

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“How do you get to be president and you’re stupid?” Donald J Trump - 4/10/25
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. - Turkish Proverb

We've had good music discussions here plenty of times, what's the joke?

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That U2 sucks.

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You know that's not true.

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

Aside from TM’s correct assertion about Nightswimming ( played on the same piano as the outro on Layla apparently ) being the best song off the album ( followed closely by Ignoreland) this is true .

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Ignoreland is absolutely a banger.
Someone also mentioned New Adventures In Hi-Fi. If you haven't heard it, check out "Leave".
That's a top 10 REM song of all time, IMO.

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

To me, Man in the Moon will always be the early 90s sappy teen romance first date movie I went to with some rich daughter of a Loyola doctor and nurse who was way out of my league.