Good band. Good musicians. Southern. Niche?!?

Any love out there?

Catchy tunes.

Nothing exciting for me though.

Great band. An underappreciated foundational building-block for modern rock.

I've liked them since the late 1980s.

probably my fav by them.

Good music

Like Halestorm better

Love their stuff. Was listening to REM essentials when driving around today. Had forgotten how many good tunes they had written.


I was unaware of this song until Rick Beato covered it and said that he thought that this might be their best song ever.


Evidently Stipe wrote this song in relation to his grandmother who was dying. Beautiful melody.

Saw them on TV back n the 90s and thought they sucked shit. They suck shit.

saw them a couple of times in 1989/90

I like a few songs by REM, have from their beginnings. But when I saw the lead singer wearing an anti gun tee on an awards show one night I knew I wouldn't be buying their product.

Never card for them.

Don't love them but do like their songs.

Sorry bro Steve I’m with RR on this one.



Makes me want to buy inch BITCH SLAP that lead singer in the face just remembering it.

I’ve always liked “It’s the end of the world.”

Some of their others are good but do not really appeal to me. The overall persona of the band especially Michael Stripe was always off putting enough that I was never interested in listening unless a song came on the radio or MTV way back in the day.

I'm ok on their commercially successful songs but never really wanted to go down the rabbit hole of their work - B sides etc.

My Favorite - Tragic Ending

"Happy Shiny People Holding Hands."

They're worthy of euthanasia for that one.

Cool song

Yeah

aren't they on the Official Campfire Boycott List?

Nope.

Can't get there from here

Great AC/30 and Rickenbacker tones on most of REM's stuff. Never was a huge fan. Green was in the que for a good bit in junior high.

That video makes me wanna get out the old Powell Peralta and do some fakey hand plants! LOL

They were unique, I liked them....still listen to them on Spotify.

One of the REM songs that I found more appealing

Anti-gun lefties who made a few good tunes.

Michael Stipe tried to pick up a buddy of mine at a bar in Athens Georgia one night. We still give him [bleep] that he’s not gay but “experimented back in college”

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Great sounding guitars, don't care for the singer.

They suck, along with any grunge band

Lots of good music came out of that period in time.

They were a kind of an emo’ish, alt grunge thing. Not my thing. Don’t dislike them, and they certainly had some big pop hits in the early 90’s.

Living in Athens in the early/mid 90’s, give me some Jucifer or some Man Or Astroman. Those bands fugking rocked.

i never got into REM.

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Once REM sold out to pop to make money they turned to chit.

Orange Crush was their best IMO.

Quite a few good bands came out of Athens.

They are okay, but not really my style.

Automatic For The People ranks pretty high for me as does most of their work.

Nope

+1

It did. My kids are 29 down to 14. That era and earlier music is most of what they migrate toward.

I never thought much about them until “Monster” came out. Thought it was pretty good. “What’s the Frequency Kenneth”, “Crush With Eyeliner”, lots of good tunes. Roommate had the CD. Drank a lot of beer to it.
No. There probably weren’t a lot of hardcore Republicans preaching family and constitutional values on the alt./grunge scene back in the 90’s.

I keep my politics and music in different draws. Pisses me off when musicians try and disrupt my draws. I make sounds on a guitar and admire those who can actually play, unfortunately those types are often the artsy fartsy folks who hate my guns. When I find an artist who is a shooter as well, that just makes me like them a little more.

Michael Stipe was a woke, virtue-signaling asswhole before anyone had ever heard of that term.

At an outdoor concert in the late eighties, he saw an audience member drinking out of a styrofoam cup. He temporarily stopped the performance to lecture the audience on how styrofoam was destroying the ozone layer.

Virtue signaling, anti-gun, buttfugging leftist.

I’ll pass.

Troof

I was at a Collective Soul show last night and watched them perform a stirring rendition of The One I Love. It was the second time I've seen them play it and they always give thanks for all the artists that came from Georgia that paved the way for them.



The part about being from Georgia and the bands that preceded them and the REM cover start at 1:16:00.

^^^ This, but you forgot gun grapping, socialist POS.

So many really good songs.

No idea who they are.

Really don't like Michael Stipe so I'd only download their music for free.

Most don’t understand that influence and how broad it has been. They were pretty innovative.

R.E.M., have a few songs that I like. I was never really into them but, I have to give credit to them.

I think this was there first hit.

It's off Murmur, their first record. I saw them in a bar when they had just released Murmur, all I remember is that the crowd rushed and started slam dancing right out of the gate. I was in college, but it was still pretty weird. They were a punkier, edgier band in those early days.

I saw Collective Soul back in 93. It was their first tour, and they opened for Aerosmith.

Didn't like them then, still don't like them now.

End of the World is OK.