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  1. Originally posted by pleasegone:I admired them for the breakup at the time, but was very sad. After thinking it over. No band that good should EVER break up. They should record 10-30 songs a year, and just not release anything for years. They should do maybe 10 shows a year, just to stay in practice...and take maybe 100 days a year to be REM, and 265 days a year for whatever they want. And six years of that would produce 60-180 songs they could look at and release an EP of the best stuff...or nothing...and maybe every five years or so instead of 10 shows, do a short 50 date tour for five months...only about 5 a month.
    They broke up when the time was right. Maybe it's just me, but there was definitely a downhill slide towards the end... (and I worked those records I'm speaking of) But I do miss them also...
  2. Originally posted by blueeyedboy:[..]
    They broke up when the time was right. Maybe it's just me, but there was definitely a downhill slide towards the end... (and I worked those records I'm speaking of) But I do miss them also...
    Everyone has their opinions...which is great..boring if we all agreed. If you do not mind telling me what role did you have with the albums? I thought Around the Sun was the only weak album they ever made, though Collapse Into Now, and Accelerate seemed to travel roads previously traveled, but they were fun for me to listen to. They really should have said they were stopping and had a farewell tour...but oh well, I still love them.
  3. Two previously unreleased live albums have popped up on the official Spotify section, but no word on remhq.com or anywhere else. Anyone have any info?
  4. Originally posted by pleasegone:[..]
    Everyone has their opinions...which is great..boring if we all agreed. If you do not mind telling me what role did you have with the albums? I thought Around the Sun was the only weak album they ever made, though Collapse Into Now, and Accelerate seemed to travel roads previously traveled, but they were fun for me to listen to. They really should have said they were stopping and had a farewell tour...but oh well, I still love them.
    My role was promoting and marketing them to retail in the southeast (georgia, alabama, florida panhandle) sorry... just now seeing this post.
  8. Sad news, Scott McCaughey (unofficial 2nd guitarist in REM from 1994-2011) is in hospital after he suffered a stroke during the Alejandro Escovedo tour. We need you back on road soon Scott.
  9. Ohhh Walk On Scott!
  10. There was only one show performed in support of the 1992 release of Automatic For The People, on 19 November at the group’s old haunt, the 40 Watt Club in Athens GA. Today we celebrate the 25th anniversary of this performance with a “live” stream of this recently discovered footage. The audio is available on all versions of the 25th Anniversary Reissue of Automatic For The People. Special thanks to Dan Aguar & Todd Ploharsky for film restoration.


    https://www.facebook.com/REMhq/videos/10155294316492984/

    (LIVE as of Nov 19th, 21:25PM CET)
  11. Originally posted by LikeASong:There was only one show performed in support of the 1992 release of Automatic For The People, on 19 November at the group’s old haunt, the 40 Watt Club in Athens GA. Today we celebrate the 25th anniversary of this performance with a “live” stream of this recently discovered footage. The audio is available on all versions of the 25th Anniversary Reissue of Automatic For The People. Special thanks to Dan Aguar & Todd Ploharsky for film restoration.


    https://www.facebook.com/REMhq/videos/10155294316492984/

    (LIVE as of Nov 19th, 21:25PM CET)
    now that is cool!
  12. I'm not a Facenook user so I couldn't fire this up. Hoping the footage makes it online soon.