Someday I’ll have the money to get this AND find one at the same time.
(via Post Marked Stamps 10x 7”The Get Up Kids Braid Jen Wood Rainer Maria OOP /300 | eBay)
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The true question, of course:
Did R.E.M. really write such an awesome song about…Courtney Love?
R.E.M. - Crush With Eyeliner (Video) (by remhq)
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Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.
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“Hey, why do you love reddit?”
Music revisiting day over here, apparently.
R.E.M. - What’s The Frequency, Kenneth? (Official Video) (by remhq)
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Seriously? Only the Kinks could make “I’m an ape man/oh I’m an ape ape man/ oh I’m an ape man” into something that feels like GENIUS.
The Kinks - Apeman 1970 (by fritz51177)
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Q:Thanks a lot for your post! I'll be posting some bonus Up (and Reveal) write-ups tomorrow on bugalu along with the Accelerate/Collapse into Now stuff on OW//OB, if you're interested. -Rafa
Hey, just saw this. No problem! Loved to read that stuff.
We are the Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium.
ALSO. I love that one of them can’t remember all the mini-tweaks to the words, and so he just stops singing. Rock Stars: Just Like Us!
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Holy hell.
This project was really fun to be part of, for many reasons. I enjoy trying to write something based on the music I’m listening to (remember?), and the creative rush of deadlines always produces something in a way that seems more mystical than creative. I learned that even during the Christmas season, I can get some work done.
I also had no idea that the album was to be limited in this way. I’m humbled to have been a part of that.
SO… I’ve been working on this for a while now… since September or so and this is the finished product. It’s called The Quiet Group and it features 1 very long seamless track on the CD, handmade artwork and design and two poems, one by me, and one by the wonderful and talented (and did I mention generous with his time) Jim Withington.
The Quiet Group is limited to 33 copies and will not be sold. Each copy is reserved for someone who was supportive, has inspired me creatively, or was formative in my creative development. I’m so excited with how this turned out, and I’m already dreaming up the next release.
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“This is a facsimile copy of a… ” by Nancy Holt
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I see today with the newsprint grey
I came to R.E.M. as a fan as many late 70’s kids probably did—when “Losing My Religion” was constantly playing And I hated that song. But my sister got the tape and I eventually got into it. But this also means that my knowledge of the pre-_Out of Time_ catalog is pretty spotty.
It also means that those later albums mean more to me than the typical music nerd (or the typical “I listened to Murmur when it came out” nerd). I’ve actually written about R.E.M. a few of times on Hard Like Algebra.
One Week One Band is currently being written by a guy who is only looking at the albums after the drummer left, which are almost universally reviled as terrible albums.In fact, other than Up, I barely gave those albums a chance myself. Here’s the thing though: I always find myself defending Up as a good, and maybe great, album. It’s the one that I irrationally fight for, the one that doesn’t make sense but I like it.
Anyway, dude nails so much stuff in his posts that I have to share them; I haven’t finished all of them, but these were great!
On what makes Up great
An intro to the breakup story (and so other pretty cool ideas about the band)
On “At My Most Beautiful”
Off to listen to Up, now!
