They meet up one day, fiddle with their instruments, play any old crap, and yet it sounds brilliant. I'm talking of course about that new "Bad Day" song. I thought this band would die, and yet they still go on, their new songs are still great. I cant really say the same for U2 or Bryan Adams.

I know I'm gonna get a'whoopin from 90% of massassi for saying the above, blessed as most of you are with the musical standards of a sick Badger with a lisp.
No offense.

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"I never dreamed I'd love somebody like you...
I never dreamed I'd loose someone like you."

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
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Damn straight.

Although Michael Stipe looks near dead recently.

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"This hole is octogo. Ogiganeel. It's Octa.. It's got eight sides."
"We interrupt this program again, A. to annoy you, and B. to provide work for one of our announcers."

I'm sorry, but Thelonius Monk is just awesome

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Shut up. I'm GOING to do this whether you like it or not.

U2 > REM. Always have been, always will be

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The Massassi-Map
There is no spoon.

*loads shotgun* Die spork.

REM > * > *

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

OMG EMINEM IS TEH ROXORS SO MUCH BETTR THAN AL OMG!!@3123!@#$#4

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There is no signature

um.... sorry to say but...

U2 > REM

but I still like REM, but the music just doesnt have as much emotion and energy that I get from U2.

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<< start the revolution >>

U2 sold out. they're all hollywood.
B.Adams wrote one too many love songs and I had to kill him..
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"I never dreamed I'd love somebody like you...
I never dreamed I'd loose someone like you."

[This message has been edited by clan ruthervain (edited December 20, 2003).]

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}

Count me in the REM>U2 crowd.

I think I'm the only person who likes the song Animal. I love that song.

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All you need is love.

Yeh maybe I've heard it once and it didnt really interest me


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"I never dreamed I'd love somebody like you...
I never dreamed I'd loose someone like you."

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}

Nice to see there are still a few people who like Jazz in this world.

Radiohead is leaps and bounds ahead of those two.

Infidels!!!!

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"I never dreamed I'd love somebody like you...
I never dreamed I'd loose someone like you."

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}

The Smiths>REM

Maybe Radiohead is a bit better than REM, but they're not as good as The Smiths.

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All you need is love.

Yeah they are.

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The Massassi-Map
There is no spoon.

Yeah, that makes about four of us at Massassi. Let's hijack this thread and talk about jazz.

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Shut up. I'm GOING to do this whether you like it or not.

REM is great.. I think that strange is one of my favorite songs EVER

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Happy "Diseased" dud: You said I'd be like this guy. Boycotting everything..
Happy "Diseased" dud: ted kazcnisky. That's who it was.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wait, That's the unibomer.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wrong guy.

So this one time I played a b9 #11 b13 chord...

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Shut up. I'm GOING to do this whether you like it or not.

I'm not the biggest fan of REM, but from what songs I've heard from them, Id have to agree that they are indeed awesome.

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My Daily Ramblings
"This world is made of love and peace!"
"Let's live today, let's live tomorrow, and let's live the day after that, even if it means living in eternal pain."
- Vash the Stampede

My mother bought my father an REM CD for Christmas.

They'll never find enough of her body to convict me...

I loathe REM. I'd like to slaughter a newborn baby for every bloody time I've heard Losing My Religion. Jesus, that song gets old faster than Stairway to Heaven, and it's not even half as good. Ugh.

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S51

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'

yeah rapid eye movments are cool.

whats that, you are talking about a band?



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your curiosity will get the better of YOU one day.
alpha1: winner of the 2003 tfti award.

I appreciate End of the World as We Know It, but otherwise I'm not to into them.

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I have a signature.

Quack! You've got to hear... Bad Day, it's pretty much the same song with different lyrics! Well, not really, but the choruses have very similar melodies.

And U2 didnt sell out, if they did then they were sell outs from the very beginning. They never changed their music to be popular. When they experimented, their album sales plummeted, but they still went ahead with it. Zooropa and Pop, their dance/experimental albums are the best 2 cd's they have, but they also got the worst critic reviews and bad sales. And then they returned to their roots with All That You Cant Leave Behind........ I think you mean by selling out they made massive amounts of money and by Hollywood I think you were referring to their massive stage shows with all the effects. So if you meant that, then yes they did sell out. If you meant they changed their style to make money, then no, they didnt sell out.

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<< start the revolution >>

There's probably a handful of R.E.M songs I like, just like mosts bands really.

I've never understood why everyone thinks they're so great, obviously i've only heard their not-so-good stuff.

Have you heard their early stuff? That's better than their more recent albums.

They pretty much invented alternative music. Their first few albums are so great.

Peter Buck is also my favorite guitarist. I dig his style.

But The Beatles > *

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All you need is love.

How about listing their 10 best songs?

In no particular order:
Losing My Religion
Everybody Hurts
Shinny Happy People
End of The World as we Know it.
Drive
Nightswimming
Sweetness Follows
Man on The Moon.
Bad Day
DaySleeper.


any disagreements?
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"I never dreamed I'd love somebody like you...
I never dreamed I'd loose someone like you."

[This message has been edited by clan ruthervain (edited December 22, 2003).]

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}

Shaking Through
So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
Near Wild Heaven
Radio Song
Shiny Happy People
Find The River
Man On The Moon
(Don't Go Back To) Rockville
Radio Free Europe
Gardening At Night

Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight
Imitations of Life
Electrolite
Near Wild Heaven
Laughing
Strange
At My Most Beautiful
The One I Love
Disappear
Don’t Go Back to Rockville

Hmm, I almost put Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight on there.

I need to listen to more of their albums between Reckoning and Out of Time, lol.

Music forum is over here please try to leave Discussion Forum for general discussion

This thread is incredibly early 2000s, and REM's talent for decent songwriting was hidden in Bill Berry's monobrow.

Orange Crush slaps.

Any Massassians up for organizing a bus trip to Mexico with Peter and I?