R.E.M. calls it quits

[retro]

To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band

http://scoop.today.com/_news/2011/09/21/7881235-rem-announces-theyre-calling-it-quits

 

[pjbleek]

they'll be back as the money dries up

 

[HK]

Have they done much recently anyway? I remember they released something about the end of the world a few years back, and even then I was thinking 'wow, aren't they done yet?'.


Not in a nasty way, just a 'everyone has to retire sometime' sort of way.

 

[porterjack]

thank fuck for that

 

[retro]

I remember they released something about the end of the world a few years back, and even then I was thinking 'wow, aren't they done yet?'.

They released that song when you were a year old.

 

[HK]

Shit.


Well, there was a huge gap between the release and when the radio acknowledged it's existence then!

 

[retro]

Shit.


Well, there was a huge gap between the release and when the radio acknowledged it's existence then!

That song has been playing on the radio for as long as I can remember. Hell, it was even on Independence Day, which was released in 1996.

It was released as a single in November 1987, reaching #69 US Billboard Hot 100 and later reaching #39 in the UK singles chart on its re-release in December 1991.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_the_End_of_the_World_as_We_Know_It_(And_I_Feel_Fine)

 

[HK]

All I know about REM is that one of them is bald and one of them is called Michael.

 

[retro]

Michael Stipe is the bald one.

 

[HK]

Now I know one less thing about REM!

 

[retro]

:24: :24:

Losing My Religion is also one of their songs... maybe that makes something else you know about them, to make up for it?

 

[pjbleek]

...............its the end of REM as we know it...and I feel fine...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY

 

[Rachie]

I was never into R.E.M. - but had started listening recently to their album "Murmur"...need to finish that ASAP. Good luck to them all

 

[Dana]

Have they done much recently anyway? I remember they released something about the end of the world a few years back, and even then I was thinking 'wow, aren't they done yet?'.


Not in a nasty way, just a 'everyone has to retire sometime' sort of way.

That was the early 90s... "It's The end Of The World As We Know It" came out around the grunge era. I think Man in The Moon is newer than that or Losing My Religion.

 

[pjbleek]

That was the early 90s... "It's The end Of The World As We Know It" came out around the grunge era. I think Man in The Moon is newer than that or Losing My Religion.

no, End of the world came out in 1987...do your homework!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Dana]

no, End of the world came out in 1987...do your homework!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dude, stop looking at wiki :24:

 

[pjbleek]

Dude, stop looking at wiki :24:

ummmmmmm...no..MP 3...Zune....discussion closed...you are the weakest link...goodbye!

 

[Dana]

ummmmmmm...no..MP 3...Zune....discussion closed...you are the weakest link...goodbye!

Sorry I didn't know you had a crush on Michael Stipe.

 

[Natasha]

PJ took care of it...but yeah, that song was earlier than the 90s. Anyway, I was in Athens the weekend that one of the members announced he was leaving the band (can't remember...the drummer, maybe???)...the whole town was in mourning.

 

[Zorak]

Everybody should listen to automatic for the people. What an album.

Their output after Reveal has been mediocre though.