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Dignified Rube

Post subject: Man on the Moon

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2019 6:23 pm

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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.

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Hussra

Post subject: Re: Man on the Moon

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2019 6:35 pm

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Dignified Rube wrote:

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.

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Curious Hair

Post subject: Re: Man on the Moon

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2019 6:37 pm

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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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Douchebag

Post subject: Re: Man on the Moon

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2019 6:40 pm

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Hussra wrote:

Dignified Rube wrote:

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'm more of a Gary Cherone guy myself.

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sjboyd0137

Post subject: Re: Man on the Moon

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2019 7:46 pm

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Curious Hair wrote:

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.

I like Monster.

Fuck U2.

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Warren Newson

Post subject: Re: Man on the Moon

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2019 10:06 pm

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Curious Hair wrote:

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.

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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Don Tiny

Post subject: Re: Man on the Moon

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 12:13 am

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sjboyd0137 wrote:

Fuck U2.

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newper

Post subject: Re: Man on the Moon

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 1:05 am

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

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whistler

Post subject: Re: Man on the Moon

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 3:58 am

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fuck REM.

Theres no such thing as REM at their best.

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Frank Coztansa

Post subject: Re: Man on the Moon

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 10:36 am

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

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chaspoppcap

Post subject: Re: Man on the Moon

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 1:27 pm

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Dignified Rube wrote:

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.......................................

Lest

We

Forget

The fastest

Band

In

The

World

METALLICA

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Tall Midget

Post subject: Re: Man on the Moon

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 4:52 pm

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Dignified Rube wrote:

"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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Joe Orr Road Rod

Post subject: Re: Man on the Moon

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 5:11 pm

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chaspoppcap wrote:

Lest

We

Forget

The fastest

Band

In

The

World

METALLICA

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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Curious Hair

Post subject: Re: Man on the Moon

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 5:15 pm

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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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shirtless driver

Post subject: Re: Man on the Moon

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 8:21 pm

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whole lotta terrible takes in this thread.

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Zippy-The-Pinhead

Post subject: Re: Man on the Moon

Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 11:27 am

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shirtless driver wrote:

whole lotta terrible takes in this thread.

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

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Curious Hair

Post subject: Re: Man on the Moon

Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 12:23 pm

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

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Molly Lambert wrote:

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

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sjboyd0137

Post subject: Re: Man on the Moon

Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 3:34 pm

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Curious Hair wrote:

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

That U2 sucks.

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shirtless driver

Post subject: Re: Man on the Moon

Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2019 12:57 am

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Curious Hair wrote:

U2 made it up through the Passengers album before they got to completists-only.

You know that's not true.

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badrogue17

Post subject: Re: Man on the Moon

Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2019 6:19 am

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shirtless driver wrote:

whole lotta terrible takes in this thread.

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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shirtless driver

Post subject: Re: Man on the Moon

Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2019 2:48 pm

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badrogue17 wrote:

shirtless driver wrote:

whole lotta terrible takes in this thread.

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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KDdidit

Post subject: Re: Man on the Moon

Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2019 3:16 pm

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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.

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