RIP, REM

Lily x

Lily x

Goodbye
Yep, they split yesterday, sad to see that one of my fave bands have ended :(.
 
And yet you post the absolute worst song they've ever composed, the one song the band themselves utterly despised.

why

Honestly, tho, it's a shame they've broken up, but I'm happy they've acknowledged when to call it quits. I'll always look fondly on everything they did in the 80s.
 
Lily--I love that song, don't listen to the haters!
Also, I'm sad they split up. I like REM and I grew up in the 90s listening to them as a little kid :) Such a nostalgic music group for me!
 
My French teacher told me, I was like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! But as noone else knew who they were we listened to eveybody hurts. I like SHP- its the song that made my parents together, it hurts if you say you hate it to me.
 
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I like SHP- its the song that made my parents together, it hurts if you say you hate it to me.
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You do realize "Shiny Happy People" is about the Chinese communist dictatorship, right?

But I mean you can like it if you want, it just seems weird to use that one of all songs as a tribute to them when the band really hates it. Michael Stipe has said that "Country Feedback" is his favourite of their songs. Actually...
 
Shiny Happy People and Losing My Religion are the 2 REM songs that I really like (they were the ones I listened to the most as a young child). And they are both now on my iPod :P

But it is sad to see them split up after so many years! :-\
 
IKR, first white stripes now REM, DAMOOONNNN, IF YOU DARE GIVE UP ON BLUR OR GORILLAZ I WILL KICK YOUR ASS.
 
Re: RIP, R.E.M.

R.E.M. were brilliant, so it's sad to see them split up.


Remilia Bloody Scarlet said:
And yet you post the absolute worst song they've ever composed, the one song the band themselves utterly despised.
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It gets better, when you find out it's supposedly a very ironic reference to a very roughly translated piece of Chinese propaganda about the Tiananmen Square protests in '89. The stuff at the start of the video seems Chinese-related to, so that's the genius behind that. But otherwise, a pretty wussy song.

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You do realize "Shiny Happy People" is about the Chinese communist dictatorship, right?
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dammit now i typed all that for nothing...

Otherwise, the Everybody Hurts video is my favorite, and it's especially powerful at the end.