Bent Fabric on September 26 wrote:...a band towards whom I have an active and downright pathological antipathy...
I really hate to see Quaco taking the rap all by himself here.
Bent Fabric on September 26 wrote:...a band towards whom I have an active and downright pathological antipathy...
Diamond Dog wrote:...it quite clearly hit the target with you and your nonce...
...a multitude of innuendo and hearsay...
...I'm producing facts here...
Bent Fabric wrote:Bent Fabric on September 26 wrote:...a band towards whom I have an active and downright pathological antipathy...
I really hate to see Quaco taking the rap all by himself here.
kath wrote:Bent Fabric wrote:Bent Fabric on September 26 wrote:...a band towards whom I have an active and downright pathological antipathy...
I really hate to see Quaco taking the rap all by himself here.
... you BASTARD!!!
better?
clive gash wrote:The shit hits the fan
kath, please try and defend this.
kath wrote:i need a band, dammit.
Diamond Dog wrote:...it quite clearly hit the target with you and your nonce...
...a multitude of innuendo and hearsay...
...I'm producing facts here...
clive gash wrote:If only there was a band that mixed the clearly enunciated hustlin' street poetry of M Stipe with the always-tasteful instrumental tapestries of Deacon/May/Taylor. P'raps with a soupcon of Frippish good humour. Anyone?
Diamond Dog wrote:...it quite clearly hit the target with you and your nonce...
...a multitude of innuendo and hearsay...
...I'm producing facts here...
clive gash wrote:I worked in a record shop when "Monster" came out, this was just off the back of the knock-'em-out-the-park success of "Automatic...". In the lunch hour of that Monday we must've sold 200 copies of the damn thing and throughout the rest of that week they all came back as the bespoke orange-tinted CD tray in each one was brittle enough to lose teeth at the slightest touch and the replacement black ones we had just didn't have the necessary modish allure. God dammit REM.
Diamond Dog wrote:...it quite clearly hit the target with you and your nonce...
...a multitude of innuendo and hearsay...
...I'm producing facts here...
nathan wrote:In all fairness, I decided to look on YouTube for a contemporary video of when I saw them to see if my memory was playing tricks on me.
Nope. That is one uncool looking band. And sure enough, there was a podium with his lyrics. And I'm not sure if that is a Nudie suit or a knockoff, but Mike Mills has no business wearing it.
But Stipe's ironic detachment starts making me angry before the first chorus even hits. And then I see Buck jump up and down....
nathan wrote:True story: REM were the fist band that I saw live. They were touring behind Monster and clearly didn't give a shit. Stipe had to carry around his lyrics with him while running like a fucking moron from stage left to stage right consistently. He looked so stupid carrying around a bundle of papers everywhere. I think he painted his head too. It was totally dumb and the opposite of cool. The theme of the evening seemed to be these losers up on stage trying to be cool. Even when Stipe would put a foot up on a stage monitor to try and look cool, he would also be holding up his lyrics sheet and kill whatever shred of coolness he might have had. He also pointed the microphone at the crowd for half the choruses expecting us to sing them for him. Fuck you, you sing it! It's why I'm here for fuck's sake! And Mike Mills wore these godawful pants with a dragon on them. I was just embarrassed for him. He looked amazingly uncool. And I don't think I ever saw Buck. He was in the shadows duly playing along to whatever show Stipe thought he was trying to put on that clearly existed only in his head. Cool detachment? Incompetence? Boredom?
It certainly made me wonder what all the fuss was in going to see bands live in concert. Luckily, I soon went to see other bands and fell in love with music again. I have really hated REM ever since. Fuck them.
Diamond Dog wrote:...it quite clearly hit the target with you and your nonce...
...a multitude of innuendo and hearsay...
...I'm producing facts here...
clive gash wrote:I worked in a record shop when "Monster" came out, this was just off the back of the knock-'em-out-the-park success of "Automatic...". In the lunch hour of that Monday we must've sold 200 copies of the damn thing and throughout the rest of that week they all came back as the bespoke orange-tinted CD tray in each one was brittle enough to lose teeth at the slightest touch and the replacement black ones we had just didn't have the necessary modish allure. God dammit REM.
Griff wrote:The notion that Jeremy Corbyn, a lifelong vocal proponent of antisemitism, would stand in front of an antisemitic mural and commend it is utterly preposterous.
Copehead wrote:a right wing cretin like Berger....bleating about racism
The G Experience! wrote:Not as good as Bill Oddie.
Griff wrote:The notion that Jeremy Corbyn, a lifelong vocal proponent of antisemitism, would stand in front of an antisemitic mural and commend it is utterly preposterous.
Copehead wrote:a right wing cretin like Berger....bleating about racism