Someone in one of those posts said REM is “self important and overrated”… don’t know about the self important part, I hear they’re very nice, but as for overrated:

You had to be a music lover in 1985 that liked rock but not hair metal or John Cougar to understand. It was like they singlehandedly saved your world and made you realize all the good records didn’t neccessarily HAVE to have been recorded before 1970. Sort of what Arcade Fire is doing for people that aren’t floored by Emo today.

REM and the Replacements were the only bands in the world to me in 1985. I wanted to like other bands, but they were phony by comparison. Listening to REM’s early work still makes me twitch uncontrollably.

One thing to note, though, is that r.e.m. chose John Cougar producer Don Gehman for Life’s Rich Pageant becuase they really liked the drum sound he was able to get.

You had to be a music lover in 1985 that liked rock but not hair metal or John Cougar to understand. It was like they singlehandedly saved your world and made you realize all the good records didn’t neccessarily HAVE to have been recorded before 1970. Sort of what Arcade Fire is doing for people that aren’t floored by Emo today.

REM and the Replacements were the only bands in the world to me in 1985. I wanted to like other bands, but they were phony by comparison. Listening to REM’s early work still makes me twitch uncontrollably.

Song: 9-9

GordonLamb @
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raven316 @
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Uh, the Allman Brothers were from Jacksonville, FL. From the official bio

” You can date it from March 1969, when Florida-raised guitarist Duane Allman left Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where he’d established himself as an in-demand session player on recordings by Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, King Curtis, and Boz Scaggs, among others. Seeking to form his own dream band, Allman recruited bassist Berry Oakley and guitarist Dickey Betts from a Jacksonville, Florida band called the Second Coming.”

Henry Holland @
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that Mills and Berry, both from Allman’s hometown of Macon, Georgia

Mike Mills is a Cali boy, born in Orange County. His family moved to Macon when he was young, but he’s still a Californian who left. So many people here are from somewhere else, we have to claim our own. :-)

Good timing this, I’ve been playing the first four REM albums in my car while going to and from work. Great, great albums.

Yeah, I debated internally about the Allmann Brothers thing but decided that, indeed, they earned nearly all their stripes here in Georgia and if they weren’t considered a Georgia band they wouldn’t even be eligible for entry into the Ga. Hall Of Fame. And Duane Allman is buried in Macon. And a whole bunch ‘o’ reasons.

Uh, the Allman Brothers were from Jacksonville, FL. From the official bio

” You can date it from March 1969, when Florida-raised guitarist Duane Allman left Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where he’d established himself as an in-demand session player on recordings by Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, King Curtis, and Boz Scaggs, among others. Seeking to form his own dream band, Allman recruited bassist Berry Oakley and guitarist Dickey Betts from a Jacksonville, Florida band called the Second Coming.”

Henry Holland @
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that Mills and Berry, both from Allman’s hometown of Macon, Georgia

Mike Mills is a Cali boy, born in Orange County. His family moved to Macon when he was young, but he’s still a Californian who left. So many people here are from somewhere else, we have to claim our own. :-)

Good timing this, I’ve been playing the first four REM albums in my car while going to and from work. Great, great albums.

Yeah, I debated internally about the Allmann Brothers thing but decided that, indeed, they earned nearly all their stripes here in Georgia and if they weren’t considered a Georgia band they wouldn’t even be eligible for entry into the Ga. Hall Of Fame. And Duane Allman is buried in Macon. And a whole bunch ‘o’ reasons.