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Favourite REM song 22:21 - Jul 25 with 6566 viewsFootballpete

Been listening to REM for the first time for years. Forgot just how good they are. Favourite tunes everyone?

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Favourite REM song on 22:38 - Jul 25 with 4975 viewsDubtractor

One of those bands I like without being encyclopedic about each album/song.

Just having a quick scan and Country Feedback on Out of Time is def a favourite of mine. Got a soft spot for wonky americana.

Also because it is wonky, I Took Your Name off Monster.

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Favourite REM song on 22:43 - Jul 25 with 4957 viewsFootballpete

Favourite REM song on 22:38 - Jul 25 by Dubtractor

One of those bands I like without being encyclopedic about each album/song.

Just having a quick scan and Country Feedback on Out of Time is def a favourite of mine. Got a soft spot for wonky americana.

Also because it is wonky, I Took Your Name off Monster.


I know it’s a later one, but I love Daysleeper. Just has one of those choruses I can’t get enough of.

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Favourite REM song on 22:43 - Jul 25 with 4951 viewsDebsyAngel

One of my husband's all time favourite bands. I like them too. I think Drive is my favourite and The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight, even though it still sounds like he is singing "calling Cheryl Baker" :)
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Favourite REM song on 23:03 - Jul 25 with 4917 viewsGuthrum



Saw them live at Glasto in '99. Outstanding, but by God Michael Stipe is wired.

Tho this always has a fond place in my heart, from dance floors in the early '90s:


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Favourite REM song on 23:16 - Jul 25 with 4890 viewsLankHenners

Top tier band for me, so many great songs and despite the overall quality of the albums declining from roughly late 90s they still managed to record great tracks individually. Their ability to adapt their sound whilst still being unmistakably *them* sets them apart from a lot of bands of their era and those that were influenced by them.

Could probably pick one off every album and spend forever going through each one but Sitting Still from Murmur is the 'gun to my head' answer for me. Fairly straightforward by their standards but in many ways shows what they're about - taking a pretty standard rock song formula and dropping in bits of beauty in the odd lyric or guitar riff. Pretty much everything from REM can be traced back to Murmur.

Honourable mentions to I Believe from Life's Rich Pageant, Near Wild Heaven from Out of Time, Nightswimming from Automatic for the People, What's the Frequency Kenneth from Monster and Imitation of Life from Reveal.

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Favourite REM song on 23:29 - Jul 25 with 4855 viewsHerbivore

Shiny Happy People.

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Favourite REM song on 23:34 - Jul 25 with 4838 viewsGlasgowBlue

At My Most Beautiful. REM do the Beach Boys.


From the earlier days it would be Finest Worksong or Fall On Me.

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Favourite REM song on 23:38 - Jul 25 with 4825 viewshoppy

Cant pick my favourite, as they've been one of my all-time favourite bands. Loved seeing them at Portman Road too. Here's a few I'd say were up there for me, although I could've added many more...











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Favourite REM song on 23:40 - Jul 25 with 4822 viewsRomeo4

Another vote for Country Feedback here. Beautiful song. It’s the End of the World As We Know It is a classic too.
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Favourite REM song on 23:46 - Jul 25 with 4803 viewsIllinoisblue

The Great Beyond

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Favourite REM song on 23:51 - Jul 25 with 4786 viewsThe_Last_Baron

Drive, Orange Crush, Fretless.

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Favourite REM song on 01:22 - Jul 26 with 4700 viewsbluewein


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Favourite REM song on 01:28 - Jul 26 with 4683 viewshoppy

Favourite REM song on 23:40 - Jul 25 by Romeo4

Another vote for Country Feedback here. Beautiful song. It’s the End of the World As We Know It is a classic too.


Beautiful live performance of it here...


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Favourite REM song on 02:46 - Jul 26 with 4662 viewsEnigma_Blue

I always liked this track because it was so different from their other songs.

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Favourite REM song on 07:23 - Jul 26 with 4592 viewsIPS_wich

They became my go to band for upper sixth and first couple of years at uni - which was 1990-94, so at their peak. Probably still one of 4-5 bands that I put on a pedestal of genuine greatness. In my mind they did one EP and ten albums straight all of which I would give at least 4 stars to - a remarkable run.

Would find it impossible to pick a favourite, but these would be #1 tracks off their albums whilst Bill Berry was in the band (for me they never really recovered). Murmur is without question the finest debut album from any band.

- Chronic Town EP: Carnival of Sorts(Boxcars)

- Murmur: Sitting Still (but jeez I could have picked any from 4-5 tracks)

- Reckoning: Time after Time

- Fables of the Reconstruction: Wendell Gee

- Life’s Rich Pageant: Cuyahoga

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- Green: the untitled 11th track (for reasons I have never been able to explain at the point 2:09 in when Stipe comes back in after the musical break literally brings a tear to my eye every damn time I listen to it)

- Out of Time: Country Feedback

- Automatic for the People: Sweetness Follows

- Monster: Let Me In

- New Adventures in Hi-Fi: Leave
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Favourite REM song on 08:49 - Jul 26 with 4507 viewsChrisd

Orange Crush

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Favourite REM song on 09:46 - Jul 26 with 4455 viewsLeoMuff

THere are many and it depends on your mood, but Try not to breathe has been a favourite consistently over the years.

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Favourite REM song on 10:01 - Jul 26 with 4441 viewsPinewoodblue

They did an album in collaboration with The Troggs, wrote and added backing, think it was called Athens to Andover. Very enjoyable.

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Favourite REM song on 11:45 - Jul 26 with 4386 viewsTrequartista

E-bow the letter.

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Favourite REM song on 12:09 - Jul 26 with 4339 viewsWarkystache

My favourite band. My four favourite tracks:








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Favourite REM song on 12:23 - Jul 26 with 4319 viewsAtmosphere

Fall On Me from Life's Rich Pageant, their best album.

Had the great pleasure of having a few beers with Peter Buck and Mike Mills in 1987 at a pub called The Shannon Arms in San Francisco... great fun.
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Favourite REM song on 12:25 - Jul 26 with 4309 viewsBlueyandCrazy

Favourite REM song on 23:38 - Jul 25 by hoppy

Cant pick my favourite, as they've been one of my all-time favourite bands. Loved seeing them at Portman Road too. Here's a few I'd say were up there for me, although I could've added many more...











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Indeed so many classics;

Losing my Religion is one of my all time top songs
Otherwise....
- Perfect Circle (indeed Murmur was a superb debut album)
- Immitation of Life

and yes, loved seeing them at Portman Road, so a mention for
"Electron Blue" the song for which Michael Stipe wore a Town shirt.

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Favourite REM song on 12:25 - Jul 26 with 4303 viewsWarkystache

Favourite REM song on 12:23 - Jul 26 by Atmosphere

Fall On Me from Life's Rich Pageant, their best album.

Had the great pleasure of having a few beers with Peter Buck and Mike Mills in 1987 at a pub called The Shannon Arms in San Francisco... great fun.
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Why was Mick Mills there? Or is that a euphemism for pills?

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Favourite REM song on 12:36 - Jul 26 with 4280 viewsBlueyandCrazy

Favourite REM song on 12:25 - Jul 26 by Warkystache

Why was Mick Mills there? Or is that a euphemism for pills?


and yes of course a namesake with our legend

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Favourite REM song on 12:48 - Jul 26 with 4260 viewshoppy

Favourite REM song on 12:36 - Jul 26 by BlueyandCrazy

and yes of course a namesake with our legend


Did he call himself Mick especially for you because of the Town connection, rather than Mike?

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