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By *agluvrMan
over a year ago
Airdrie |
Losing my Religion
Everybody Hurts
It’s The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
That last one was the closer at their gig in Hyde Park London in 2005, a week after the bombs went off. I still have the tee-shirt I bought that night. AND it still fits me  |
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This would be like asking me to pick my favourite child, if I had children. I mean, obviously I’d have a favourite, but I’m not so cold-hearted as to say which one it actually is, in case the others hear. |
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By *ykoCouple
over a year ago
york |
Everybody Hurts is one of my favourite songs all together but also like
Orange Crush
Whats the frequency Kenneth
and a lot of the early ones on the irs label
Radio free Europe
Fall on me
End of the world as we know it |
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By *olliPineCouple
over a year ago
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"XY you are wrong!
Everybody Hurts comes a close second to Losing My Religion"
Just browsing and saw this ridiculous statement on the thread.
I mean, they're great songs, but pleeeease...I must say XX, that you couldn't be more wrong.
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Driving home after a good friend had drowned while we were kayaking a tough descent of the River Lyn when it was in flood. Couldn’t save him despite all of us being medically trained, working on him where we managed to get him out of the water onto a sandbank at Lynmouth.
Part way into the long and seemingly impossible journey home I switched on my car stereo to ease a dreadful silence. R.E.M. Automatic For The People was in the CD player and Find The River came on straight away, from the beginning. The last track on the album. After about one minute of listening I had to swerve into a parking area at the side of the road where the 4 occupants of the car bawled our eyes out.
Even now having just cued it up, I can’t get past the intro where the accordion starts without tears streaming. Some of the lyrics hurt to listen to “The recklessness of water” is particularly poignant. Some of the group that day never paddled again.
Powerful stuff music  |
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"Driving home after a good friend had drowned while we were kayaking a tough descent of the River Lyn when it was in flood. Couldn’t save him despite all of us being medically trained, working on him where we managed to get him out of the water onto a sandbank at Lynmouth.
Part way into the long and seemingly impossible journey home I switched on my car stereo to ease a dreadful silence. R.E.M. Automatic For The People was in the CD player and Find The River came on straight away, from the beginning. The last track on the album. After about one minute of listening I had to swerve into a parking area at the side of the road where the 4 occupants of the car bawled our eyes out.
Even now having just cued it up, I can’t get past the intro where the accordion starts without tears streaming. Some of the lyrics hurt to listen to “The recklessness of water” is particularly poignant. Some of the group that day never paddled again.
Powerful stuff music "
Woah... 
Indeed. Music is tremendously powerful!
Mine is without a doubt losing my religion. I love the lyrics in this one; how they create a song about losing ones temper but make it so melancholy is just genius!  |
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"Driving home after a good friend had drowned while we were kayaking a tough descent of the River Lyn when it was in flood. Couldn’t save him despite all of us being medically trained, working on him where we managed to get him out of the water onto a sandbank at Lynmouth.
Part way into the long and seemingly impossible journey home I switched on my car stereo to ease a dreadful silence. R.E.M. Automatic For The People was in the CD player and Find The River came on straight away, from the beginning. The last track on the album. After about one minute of listening I had to swerve into a parking area at the side of the road where the 4 occupants of the car bawled our eyes out.
Even now having just cued it up, I can’t get past the intro where the accordion starts without tears streaming. Some of the lyrics hurt to listen to “The recklessness of water” is particularly poignant. Some of the group that day never paddled again.
Powerful stuff music
Woah...
Indeed. Music is tremendously powerful!
Mine is without a doubt losing my religion. I love the lyrics in this one; how they create a song about losing ones temper but make it so melancholy is just genius! "
Love that one too, never been one for hero worship or celebrity and not a fan of big live concerts but I took my sister on the 30 July 1995 to see R.E.M. on the last date of their UK Monster tour at the Milton Keynes Bowl. The support acts were Sleeper, Radiohead and The Cranberries. The show was broadcast live on BBC radio and it was amazing. Stipe stood on a front stage speaker and really delivered. It was a really hot summer day, no clouds and everyone around us was sunburnt, literally begging for sun cream - luckily our family go brown easily and we were okay with giving what we had away  |
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By *agluvrMan
over a year ago
Airdrie |
"It’s the end of the world.. closely seconded by man on the moon.
And if you haven’t seen the movie of the same name with Jim Carey you’ve seriously missed out! "
Man On The Moon is a brilliant song, and as a dedicated and longtime singer of karaoke I can tell you that it’s extremely easy to sing (unlike Its The End Of The World). Haven’t seen the Jim Carey film though. |
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